They will replace it with something even lewder cuz treehouse logic.

Yeah instead of petting them you feed them sweets like the Pokemon Amie mini game. 

Unpopular opinion, I'm actually glad the mini-game is off. I tend to scratch my touch-screen covers way too much lately and I could use a game that doesn't require me to play that much with them.

What I don't like about it is the potential for missing out on extra dialogue with the followers; It's my understanding there were talks of extra dialogue, I feel like there should be some sort of compensation for its removal.

It all reminds me of Yakuza 3, which is the prime example of the worst kind of censorship-- Sega decides to remove integral content, like the hostess clubs and other 'japanese-related" material because it might go 'over-the-head' of westerner customers, forgetting the fact that Yakuza is solely designed/marketed aimed towards an audience that craves an accurate portrayal of Japan so the censorship was contemptuous.

The stupid mini-game certainly won't be missed--it's just a shame that it inevitably means lesser content is all.

I can't say as I am going to terribly miss the petting min-game or felt it was important to the game being enjoyable.

However I would have found it hilarious to keep in the game.

It seems to me that the issue is that they're changing too much of the game out of the fear that somebody might be offended by the content rather than any legitimate censoring going on, despite the fact that people love to throw that word around whenever content is removed or changed.

Which is still stupid that they're doing it. I want my waifu petting mini-game.

The only ones I could see being gravely offended are the SJW and the Feminazi's especially them raising hell over the fact you can pet/give affection to female characters and they'd probably call it exploitation and rape -___-

Quite a few devs are caving into the vocal SJW crowd :/ and it makes me sad.

In a nutshell this mass level of censorship is getting pretty silly but with this particular thing, its not so much we care about what's been lost(the whole mini-game is kind of creepy) its just the fact that its censorship in the first place because devs and publishers are getting too scared of what the people who won't even play this gave ever actually think. Rather than you know looking after their loyal fanbase.

There's no easy solution to this whole problem at all is there? :s :/ dunno how the devs can hope to win, either way someone is going to be upset it seems >___<;

I see this game is still a train wreck