The French publisher’s April 3 update did not go the way Ubisoft expected… but the problem was quickly fixed.

Older games are not easy to maintain. For developers, it’s a minefield of updates. If they fix one thing, five other things can go wrong, which can spiral out of control… and when that happens to a game that not many people play, a lot of people might wonder what the point of it all is. But Far Cry 4 wasn’t like that, and it was discovered on Reddit that a woman wearing nothing on top and a man naked from the waist up were censored after the patch was released on April 3.

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On Reddit, it’s fair to ask why this is happening more than ten years after the release of the original. According to the poster, this is not a hoax and not a mod, as Lord_Antheron is a Far Cry 4 modder himself. On SteamDB we can see that Ubisoft updated the game on Thursday, and there is no official information about what was changed. After the sudden censorship, the public speculated that the French company changed just that in Far Cry 4 and that it might have something to do with the Chinese tech giant Tencent.

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Yesterday, a statement from Ubisoft revealed exactly what happened. The patch was not for the international version, but for the Japanese version. The CERO, the age rating committee there, is a bit strict about nudity and sexuality, and covering up intimate parts of the body is common practice in games there. Ubisoft quickly restored the international version of the game, so once again, what goes around comes around…

It’s a bit unusual that Ubisoft could make such a mistake, but at least the public noticed it quickly, so the fix was quick. Fair enough.

Source: PCGamer