Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20160112020342

Qunow wrote: Actually, IIRC, game devs have already explained tha lt the idea of abyssals is about the negative emotion from sunken ship from both sides, even more clearer than that some individual working for the game said they personally believe dismantled ship just back to become civilian, but people simply does't listen.

p.s. Latest announcement made by someone involved in the conflict of that chinese game basically confirmed the renaming is requested by Chinese governmental department. http://www.p1p1game.com/a/xinwenzhongxin/2016/0108/385.html "幻萌抗拒监管未配合进行实质性修改"

I would say that this means the "correction" mentioned here is something that has not been implemented yet.

But that wouldn't change much, because it means that the authorities are still not satisfied with the game as it is. Maybe they want to remove the clothing-rupture feature? Or simply remove all IJN ships? I don't know.

I think further discussion about BG will lead us off-topic, even though it is, for now, somewhat related to the Allied-ship-in-KC topic. And I believe that you already know my attitude toward said topic too well.

Does people listen to the devs' beliefs? AFAIK such doujins saw a drop in numbers after each statements were made. We no longer see secondary creations broadly state that we kill ship girls by modernization or dismantle, they only use it as some sort of joke now. Although I think it still hurts the feeling of the most loving and delicate TTKs, it is at the very least a lot better than the time when Isuzu got her K2. Right after Isuzu K2 was introduced, there were a comic on niconico describing a second copy of Isuzu feared about being "executed" for modernization, by means of guillotine, circular saw, and others. Such works were very common at the time, but no longer now.

That's why I would say that having an official say is still better than not having one, albeit it is not expected to be completely effective.