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So basically, I live in the Middle East and although the Witcher 3 is not censored when I downloaded it from GOG, I'm concerned about Cyberpunk2077. Are there certain countries where the game will be censored in, or are they going to just censor it for every country in the Middle east? the last question is, can I find a way around the censorship if it happened? There's no way I'm playing the game censored.
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It's such a big release that the gaming news will talk about every aspect of it, don't worry.
Some possible types of censorship would be:

1) self-censorship from the developer (like CDPR deciding to not say something, or saying something they don't want to say)
2) censorship by platforms (Steam, Stadia, Xbox, or Playstation deciding to modify files for their platforms)
3) governments and zealots try to coerce the developer or platforms to block or ruin the content for everyone.
4) a government which retaliates against its citizens who obtain the content: they find a PC with Cyberpunk, confiscate it, and criminalize the users. Maybe the government thinks a cartoon bear is a threat to national security (oh bother). Maybe being caught with a 3d simulation of a bottle of whiskey and a nude dancer is a jail sentence somewhere.

1) not much to do other than encouraging freedom of expression and association for all publishers, 2) in this case GOG would be the solution: if it's censored on GOG then that's basically the same as 1 since GOG is related to CDPR, 3) I don't know, I consider this too soon to know since the game is not released yet. I'm certainly going to keep an offline copy in case there are any future shenanigans, 4) what to do when you don't think the laws are just?

You could find other examples and try to figure, with the content known to be in Cyberpunk through "Night City Wire" and other released footage, have other games had similar things which are still available to you? Was "Witcher 3" censored on any other platforms, or did the censors issue any warnings about it at the time?
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Hamood-Shinobi: So basically, I live in the Middle East and although the Witcher 3 is not censored when I downloaded it from GOG, I'm concerned about Cyberpunk2077. Are there certain countries where the game will be censored in, or are they going to just censor it for every country in the Middle east? the last question is, can I find a way around the censorship if it happened? There's no way I'm playing the game censored.
I know, Oman isn't part of the UAE and/or Saudi-Arabia, but..:
CP 2077 in UEA and S-A
Post edited October 18, 2020 by BreOl72
One country that is officially confirmed to get a heavily censored version of Cyberpunk 2077 would be Japan.
Across all platforms (and not just for Sony's) too.
https://www.gamesradar.com/cyberpunk-2077-to-be-heavily-censored-in-japan/

Hard to imagine CDPR won't have to cut, at least all the sexual and especially the homo-sexual bits and pieces for the Middle East.
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Hamood-Shinobi: So basically, I live in the Middle East and although the Witcher 3 is not censored when I downloaded it from GOG, I'm concerned about Cyberpunk2077. Are there certain countries where the game will be censored in, or are they going to just censor it for every country in the Middle east? the last question is, can I find a way around the censorship if it happened? There's no way I'm playing the game censored.
See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIofGlikGs0
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M3troid: See this: (youtube video "Here’s Where Cyberpunk 2077 Will Be Censored" by "Censored Gaming")
I hadn't thought to check the ESRB rating summary, as they show in the video. It'll be interesting to see these summaries from the different censorship bureaus around the world. Some countries also summarize films this way.