There are two point I’m going to make. First is that I think it’s something the developer shouldn’t have to decide in the first place. They wanted to make a game with gruesome scenes and that’s the game they made. The only reason they’re making it less gruesome is because they want their game to reach a wider audience which is why they’re porting to console but they can’t release their game on console because consoles are a locked down platform and the platform owners are exerting power they shouldn’t have to force the developers to compromise on their vision. It’s absolute bullshit that Sony/MS get a say in how a game should be made.

The second point is that the developers did have to decide this, so it should be obvious why consumers are annoyed. They bought the product when it had one vision, and now the vision they were presented with is getting altered for reasons not at all related to their experience of the game and they’re not even given an option to retain the previous vision. Imagine if your favorite game was changed for some completely bullshit reason? Would you not get pissed?