Re Paypal: Linus Gustavsson: Half correct: "Sexually oriented digital goods or content delivered through a digital medium" are not allowed https://www.paypal.com/selfhelp/article/FAQ569 Physical items are fine. Please check with site policies before making blanket statements that could be misleading.
Re Censorship: " What bothers me is that the changes are done without valid arguments. Is loli illegal in some countries? Yes, SPECIFIC kinds are illegal. Mainly stand alone pictures, dolls, pure porn comis/videos. Is a scene in a 30+ ending interactive game illegal? No." <- What solid evidence do you have to backup this claim/are you a legal consultant?
"What happens when you are doing the safety changes is that you are broadening the gap. This makes the perceived laws (what people think) end up faaaaaar from what laws say (and what actually counts). In short, if you censor a 16 year old today, in 3 years you'll censor a 19 year old just because the padding distance to be safe has grown so much." <- the removal of content is a safety change based on how countries we have employees in and customers in interpret their respective laws. It is not a matter of us trying to change perceptions or making a bigger safe distance. We have only removed what could get us in trouble that we could not rationalize to a satisfactory extent, if the laws change to allow or restrict content, our policy will likely reflect that.
@Raf: 1. As with most releases of any media (movies, novels, art) is usually marketed with no mention of any changes made to the content (one example that comes to mind for me is the movie SALT which had 4-5 editions, and did not mention that the scenes and endings were changed in a drastic way that affected the perception of the movie's plot) Feature advertisement is usually inclusion based rather than exclusion.
2. Answered by sanahtlig, thank-you
3. There were 3 scenes (and flashbacks of one of the scenes) that contained content that could potentially cause some serious problems for our employees and customers in countries with laws against those sorts of scenes. Parts of the scenes have been removed so that the illegal aspect of it is ambiguous (so we could preserve the storyline).
People living in areas where this is not a problem will be able to find an unofficial restoration patch to restore the scenes to the original, but we can not include it in the release- the reasons have been posted more than twice please read the sites and links.
Edited for clarity --because its too early in the morning for this -_-;