Then any fuck konami, fuck capcom, ea, Ubisoft, etc post should be bannable too.
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CONFIRMED: Pokémon Sword/Shield Dropped GTS; Contains Multiplayer Code From Let's Go
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I'm convinced the ladder freeze thing is a quick and dirty fix to a terrible game breaking bug lol
Not that it excuses it, but that has to be it
Not that it excuses it, but that has to be it
Nintendo can't force Sakurai to come to work, nor can they force him to stay at home when he is unwell. He's not an employee of Nintendo.
The Tomodachi Life issue was fucked up, but they admitted they fucked up and promised to rectify it. Same sex representation is an issue in a lot of Japanese games and culture in general. Not saying that excuses it, but the fact they immediately recognized their mistake and promised to do better speaks for them. Compare that to how Atlus reacts (or rather not reacts) to the same criticism.
Is that even confirmed?
I know someone tried to accuse Masuda of rape but death treats to entire company? I never read that
Is #FuckKonami intended to pay respect to devs who are currently receiving death threats? :P
People do that all the time though. BioWare, BGS, Hello Games.
Me neither. I actually haven't seen these death threats. Mind you I'm sure some subhuman garbage have probably done it.
I've come to peace with the fact Pokemon just isn't for me anymore.
I think people don't need you to tell them that.
And "hijacking" a hashtag isn't harassment.
I guess they missed the Nintendo Switch online topics and Reggie's bulky headset replacement
I haven't seen one of these supposed death threats here at all that people say. There should at least be receipts for a claim like that.
You don't think Konami got death threats over Chapter 3 or their falling out with Kojima?
Wasn't the hashtag created due to morale being low, not the death threats?
Fair enough. Just wanted to point out that the comparison with EA (which I myself have made in the past), Konami, Capcom, etc., is not really accurate.
*Claps* My points exactly!!! They aren't special and shouldn't be shielded away from any kind of criticism. On top of that, yes, harrassing devs are obviously not anything anyone should do, but these same company's that people who are Pokemon fans would normally say fuck you too, don't ever give af about the devs for those companies being harrassed. So yeah, this has been grinding my gears since I seen that hashtag go up.
Except it is accurate. People say gamefreak as a whole. Not attacking the individual devs working.
Please don't criticize the mods I've heard morale has been low already.
#ThankYouEraMods
The political situation of The Pokémon Company, Gamefreak, and Nintendo is an odd one. They're mostly independent, but Nintendo also has partial ownership.
Something like Nintendo taking Pokémon away from Gamefreak would be a major coup and the fallout would be insane.
I think most people who are critical of the game aren't harassing the devs, and criticizing the devs doesn't make someone (or a whole fan base) intrinsically toxic. I don't understand why some people think GF needs to be treated with kid gloves.
It's not, because a publisher and a dev are not the same thing, and it's much, much easier to personify one over the other.
Mind you, I'm just explaining the thought process behind the hashtag. I find it naive and corny myself.
I can understand the thankyougamefreak meaning to be a boost to the morales of the developers of the games. It's a nice gesture.
Funny how we don't have any actual GF devs talking about their experiences with death threats but random twitter nobodies. Then treat hashtag sarcasm like it's an actual problem.
When did "fuck *insert company*" become harassment? This stuff is posted en masse for any company. Bioware with the Mass Effect 3 ending or Anthem, Bethesda with Fallout 76, EA with Battlefront II, Warner with the shoddy Arkham Knight port, I don't think I have to mention Konami...
Nobody ever interpreted these comments as slights against regular devs working at these companies. Only with Gamefreak it's now suddenly harassing devs. The only reason why that is reads to me like an attempt at silencing criticism, because the avalanche of fuckups with this game became too much to rationalize for people trying to downplay criticism.
I'm still waiting on the receipts of these death threats by the way. They get brought up again and again but nobody can point to them. The only time someone tried, it turned out to be an article about another company where Gamefreak was just mentioned out of context.
Oh, truth :( but what about a helping hand then? Or a director from nintendo?
man i was hopeful about this game, but now im sad, first 3D game and look what we got
People mostly group tpc and gamefreak as one in the same. Regardless, there clearly is a mega defense force for gamefreak.
They can't. I wish they can. Surely it'll not be the PR disaster that is now.
As someone without a living dex and who hasn't tried to complete a pokedex since gen 1 I could at least understand both sides of the nation dex cut. Obviously the people upset by that were right to feel that way, but I had also been thinking something like that might be inevitable as the total number of Pokemon becomes unfeasibly large.
On the other hand removing GTS without some kind of close equivalent is completely baffling, like I'm at a loss.
I think Nintendo could send Monolith Soft to help with development if Game Freak needs help.
The whole thing was based on a rumor and those receiving cherry picked death threads are the higher ups, not random programer or random 3d artist number #11 who are the ones dealing with a shitty management. Masuda and Ohmori don't deserve death threads but they don't need to get their egos inflated.
I just think it's hilarious we're letting a company like Game Freak, who can't even manage to make routes without pokemon and npcs popping in like Superman 64, decide what's feasible or not.
People also said there were threats for federation force, but it was like just a couple 4chan troll posts.
I know that, but it does support the notion that GF is in severe need of changing their development process.
If you're expecting to avoid crunching, then you'll have to abandon the yearly release schedule. That or employ more.
It's funny because I doubt GF devs read english twitter.
The difference is in other cases the publishers are in control and is the reason for the issue such as ports, mtx and firing kojima. I don't think this is the case with GF.
They are still light years behind most western companies, companies that had hear the #FuckYou tag more often than Nintendo ever will.
anon threats on chan sites have turned into tragedies in recent times so I don't really think this is the right thing to scoff at.
If I'm honest, the moderation of this site leaves a lot to be desired. You can't even know which things are ban worthy and which aren't, because it's so inconsistent.
We even had a thread where people were basically saying it was okay if Blizzard developers were harassed, even though they had nothing to do with what happened.
And now using a hashtag sarcastically is a reason to get a warning, because Gamefreak.
It's weird to me people can't understand the difference. When people are mad at a publisher, they boycott their products and business, it's all faceless. When people get mad at devs specifically, it usually has a much clearer human cost. Hello Games, mentioned above, is a pretty good example of that, those people fell off the face of the Earth after NMS launched for a reason.
People love not to make important distinctions when they feel wronged, I've come to learn. I find the defense force annyoing as hell as well, but let's try to understand why people on the other side do what they do without assuming the absolute worst about them, ok?
Never thought I'd end up batting one out for GF of all devs. These threads sure are something.
It blows my fucking mind that they actually locked the sound options to an NPC
People will bring up the false rape allegations against Masuda but I think it's worth quoting this:
Miller said:
I'm not scoffing, but the metroid fanbase was made out to be like evil scum because of a small group of trolls and it discounted legit criticism.