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‘There will always be people like you’: Tekken boss blasts ‘disrespectful’ fan for criticising character’s new look (www.videogameschronicle.com)
from villainy@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 00:48
https://lemmy.world/post/26099843

Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada has criticised a fan, and “people like them”, for complaining about a returning character’s updated appearance.

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villainy@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 00:49 next collapse

“While 98% of the fans are welcoming this, there will always be people like you,” Harada replied. “I understand and sympathize that it may not suit your personal taste, but if you prefer the old design, past works already exist. I am not taking those away from you.

“Also, you refer to yourself as ‘Anna fans’, as if you represent all Anna fans, but you should express your opinion as an individual.”

“You threaten to quit if she isn’t brought back, you complain the moment she is brought back,” he explained. “You demand that she be reverted after she has been completely redesigned from scratch, including her model and framework. And if she actually were reverted, you’d just say, ‘that’s recycling’.

“Either way, your method of expressing your opinion and the content of your argument are entirely unconstructive, utterly pointless, and, above all, disrespectful to the other Anna fans who are genuinely looking forward to her.”

I appreciate you Harada.

embed_me@programming.dev on 27 Feb 02:06 next collapse

If only people strove to being this expressive rather than using corpospeak, things would be much better

ampersandrew@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 03:58 next collapse

Well, there was the time that Tekken 7 was 3, though.

MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Feb 06:48 collapse

It gives me hope that someone can be so elegant with (I assume) a language that isn’t native. Call me out if I’m wrong/racist. I was always a soul calibur fan anyway.

The cold hearted bastard in me thinks this was set up to sell more games.

Duality I guess.

Deceptichum@quokk.au on 27 Feb 02:21 next collapse

That’s a dev who’s tired of this fanboy shit.

metaStatic@kbin.earth on 27 Feb 02:34 collapse

Speaking on behalf of all fans, fuck anyone who claims to speak on behalf of all fans.

SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip on 27 Feb 13:50 collapse

I feel like this doesn’t get called out enough, “as an X fan…”, and?!? Do you represent the guild? Did you take a vote? Are you Professor Xavier? You being a fan doesn’t mean anything if you opinion is not constructive at all.

OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Feb 01:44 next collapse

Beautiful response.

WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 04:06 next collapse

I don’t even play tekken. I might start playing just because of this response. F anyone who shits needlessly on someone’s hard work.

Don_alForno@feddit.org on 27 Feb 05:43 next collapse

So, let me get this right, there’s been a shit storm about… A slightly different haircut?? They couldn’t even find a boob or butt that looks smaller than before?

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Feb 13:21 collapse

I played Tekken all growing up, and my brother and I would have been ecstatic to hear that Anna had a new outfit, as that was a pretty rare thing that only really happened with new games. We never even played as Anna, but that doesn’t matter.

brsrklf@jlai.lu on 27 Feb 06:09 next collapse

All that for a new haircut? Doesn’t even look like that out of place of a style change to me.

I mean, look at what Castlevania Judgment did to its characters back then if you want terrible redesign. Most of them were unrecognizable. Simon, Maria and Death became Death Note cosplayers, others like Grant and Carmilla went full SoulCalibur knock-off.

Along with bad anime trope personality graft for half of them.

EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works on 27 Feb 07:12 next collapse

For a second I thought they went full meta and made an in-game mini boss or final boss that talks directly to that fan

echodot@feddit.uk on 27 Feb 09:10 next collapse

Yeah I thought that. It would have been quite funny if it insulted you.

Katana314@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 11:51 next collapse

New Animaniacs lyrics (no really):

“The trolls will say we’re so passé but we were meta first!”

ampersandrew@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 14:16 collapse

Someone really should make the video game equivalent of Tool’s “Hooker With a Penis” someday.

echodot@feddit.uk on 27 Feb 09:14 next collapse

your method of expressing your opinion and the content of your argument are entirely unconstructive, utterly pointless, and, above all, disrespectful

That could be applied to so many random Twitter complaints. Just generally whiny, and completely lacking in any kind of understanding of how the process, in this case game development, works. Nevertheless they are confident in announcing their opinion to the universe. As if anyone cared

Katana314@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 11:56 next collapse

The world has gone too long without game developers returning criticism to fans. Some game devs don’t serve their fans well and deserve a blasting, but that’s generally a minority. Most of the time, gamers in online spaces are the same sort of Karen at the register saying “The customer is always right” every single day, and they‘ve needed to take a step back for a long time.

Corollary: I play an online game that’s full of glitches. I’m upset at the dev about it, but also patient because I know programming is hard, and I’m sure they get frustrated at those bugs too.

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 14:26 next collapse

Hey if Gamers are going to be pieces of shit, they can take back some of what they’ve been dishing out.

criss_cross@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 16:49 collapse

For people like me who needed a “before” picture.

What are people even arguing about JFC

villainy@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 17:25 collapse

But they covered her left eye! Every Anna fan knows that’s the juiciest part! 🙄

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Feb 01:22 collapse

I think they don’t like that her default outfit covers her tits and they’ll need to pay to goon