For the last couple of weeks, Ready or Not developer VOID Interactive has been unable to escape the community's ire. After announcing that it would be tweaking certain elements to retain the game's ESRB rating, fans kicked up a fuss about 'censorship', claiming that VOID had ruined everything that made Ready or Not so gritty and realistic.
While the (very few) changes were minor, giving female hostages underwear and swapping a convulsing child for a sleeping one, the backlash was fierce enough to spark a widely successful review bombing campaign (and a much less successful boycott).
Censorship hardly matters when a game like Ready or Not shouldn't exist to begin with.
However, one glance at the subreddit and the community appears to have moved on already. Sure, the game still sits at 'Mostly Negative' on Steam, and there's the odd comment here and there (often heavily downvoted), but it still enjoys an active playerbase, while most forum posts are from newcomers eager to get stuck in with the console launch.
"ONLY 1 MORE DAY," u/Fit-Internal8550 posted, counting down the hours on PS5. "Just pre-ordered today," u/Lagoon2024 said, attaching a screenshot of them installing the game on Xbox. "We are sooooo...
