Originally posted by Takama:

I really love this game, it is in fact a great game, I know I've seen people complain that updates are too slow, I understand the criticism, I just personally don't mind because I don't spend enough time playing to be bothered by the lack of regular content, for my rate of play the rate of updates has been suitable and has kept me playing again when new stuff got released.

But alas I won't be playing any more, I have just uninstalled and hid the game news.

Now here's my main contention :

The latest announcement is locked, thus lacking any comments underneath.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/eventcomments/3378285310308463266/

I don't know why that is because it is simply not explained in the post why that is. So from my point of view this is a *restriction of speech*, plain and simple. Why ? Well because the usual system is : you make an announcement, and people can comment underneath, I don't care if it's hateful, irrelevant or non constructive, I like reading all points of views, and I find it dangerous to arbitrary restrict the ability of people to express their opinions.
Making an exception to the usual system has the clear and only consequence of preventing people from voicing their opinion.

My guess is that it is not even the devs fault since the announcement explicitly states "We’d love to read your guesses on what they’ll be used for!", yeah that will happen when you prevent anyone from voicing their opinion. it's probably some overzealous moderators at work, but well, if devs will not stand against this they will pay the price.

So, restricting speech is where you lose me.
I have a lot of things to do and even though I do love the game (if you cared I would tell you why I truly do love it a lot more than pretty much any other game on the market right now) I won't bother playing it again.
Loving a game is not enough reason for me to overcome real life issues like speech restriction, again, if you cared I'd be happy to have a conversation about that, but well, I am not fooling myself, this is the internet, I don't expect anyone disagreeing to be able to have a serious and thoughtful conversation about the issue.

Now what is the point of me saying this then ? I predict I'll get some usual colourful internet comments, go all-in, I really am bulletproof lol.

So why should you give a ♥this-is-not-a-bypass-of-the-censorship-filter♥ then ? Even I am pretty sure no one will formulate good arguments to justify restricting speech in this instance on a Steam forum Lolzzzz, and I'm pretty sure too that this post will in absolutely no way influence moderators behaviour.

Well,
1. a few people sharing my opinion about *Free Speech* (I know most of you have even forgotten how it's written, well it's like that, and no it's not written "First Amendment") will at least see they are not alone in the never ending struggle.
2. maybe the devs actually read that, in that case, you too know that customers are saying *enough* to the bullying, we value free speech, and if you want to keep selling stuff, you should give a ♥heart-heart♥.

You have a right to free speech that I would never diminish. You do not however have the right to a platform wherever and whenever you please. And you certainly have no right to my listening to your speech.

I hope we are clear on this.