Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada has criticised a fan, and “people like them”, for complaining about a returning character’s updated appearance.
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
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?
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.
For people like me who needed a “before” picture.
What are people even arguing about JFC
But they covered her left eye! Every Anna fan knows that’s the juiciest part! 🙄
I think they don’t like that her default outfit covers her tits and they’ll need to pay to goon
Hey if Gamers are going to be pieces of shit, they can take back some of what they’ve been dishing out.
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.
“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.
That’s a dev who’s tired of this fanboy shit.
Speaking on behalf of all fans, fuck anyone who claims to speak on behalf of all fans.
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.
If only people strove to being this expressive rather than using corpospeak, things would be much better
Well, there was the time that Tekken 7 was 3, though.
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.
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.
Beautiful response.
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
Yeah I thought that. It would have been quite funny if it insulted you.
New Animaniacs lyrics (no really):
“The trolls will say we’re so passé but we were meta first!”
Someone really should make the video game equivalent of Tool’s “Hooker With a Penis” someday.
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.
