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Tekken boss Harada tells complaining fans to 'practice being an adult' and 'whatever'

Someone's being Mr Grumpy Pants

Words: on June 26, 2012
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  • soma9999 - June 26, 2012 4:30 a.m.

    I'm honestly glad he came out and said what he said. So many entitled gamers are so quick to go to action over anything they consider wrong with "their" games. Hell, back in the NES days, do you remember how many games had terrible endings? Even up to the 32-bit generation, sometimes your favorite series just kind of shafted you. Were there letter writing campaigns and protests? Nope. The whole Mass Effect 3 ending war was the most pathetic, self-entitled filth I've ever seen my community roll around in, and it makes me sad to be a gamer sometimes. So, yeah, I get it when developers just want to scream "grow the hell up!" because I think there a lot of very vocal gamers right now who need to do just that. Kudos to Harada-san, and hopefully somebody listens.

  • angelusdlion - June 26, 2012 10:06 a.m.

    I'm not trying to excuse the ME3 whiners... But you do realize that back in the NES days, they had no choice but to have bad endings? It was either cut the endings or cut the main game. Most people wouldn't even make it to the end anyway.

  • SiPod - June 26, 2012 10:40 a.m.

    Maybe, but we're not talking about people like that. The point of my comment, which I might not have articulated very well on account of not having enough caffeine in my bloodstream, was that it's unfair to brand someone as compliant just because they're speaking out in defence of a company. It's like calling someone a fanboy because they enjoy a particular game that you don't, it's meaningless (that's not aimed at you by the way). And I absolutely agree that anyone is entitled to complain about something they've paid for. If it isn't up to scratch, it's broken or isn't as advertised, then definitely. But creative control is another issue entirely, and whilst the better developers tend to have discourse with the community it isn't a prerequisite on their part.

  • mockraven - June 26, 2012 12:30 p.m.

    Over all I agree with you, there. When people complain that they're being screwed over by a company's business practice, others respond that they've got an "entitled" attitude. While there *are* people who nitpick at every little detail, the word "entitled" sometimes seems to encompass every complaint, whether legitimate or frivolous. Even constructive criticism is subject to the "entitled" attack, when the very point of constructive criticism is to help make an already loved game/franchise better. Also, there's a difference between complaining about creative freedom (which I wholeheartedly support as it gave us gems like Enslaved, Journey, Okami, etc.), and bad business practices -- releasing a broken game with the "patch-fix it later" attitude, pre-made or on-disk DLC, over the top DRM techniques, etc. Yet, somehow wanting a company to make better decisions in how they treat their customers tends to also fall into the "entitled" category. On topic: It sounds like the makers of Tekken are trying their best to accommodate the majority of their fans but are having trouble with the nitpickers. I kind of wish some of Harada's statements were kept in a more professional tone, but I also realise Twitter's a bit more of a casual environment for communication than an official announcement or interview.

  • ParagonT - June 26, 2012 1:55 p.m.

    I believe that if you do not wish for anything to change, your complying and content with the companies methods of development or content. It's not meant to be taken as an offensive term, but it's just how it is. I hate the word fanboy as well, people confuse that term with what I think to be compliant stances some people have. In the end, I think were roughly suggesting the same thing, I don't believe I was clear in my first comment. Compliance and contentedness is not a bad thing for people to have a mindset of, but I would much rather have people nitpick and criticize a game, than to be 100% satisfied with everything. The criticism pushes the game to new heights whereas the compliance keeps the games content and quality "standard" in regards to perhaps what they would have developed.

  • FOZ - June 26, 2012 5:14 p.m.

    Are you really going to compare Mass Effect 3, a lavishly-expensive 3 game series with countless multimedia tie-ins to some unnamed 32-bit games that might have had bad endings? That was nearly 20 years ago, is what some people are forgetting. The internet, media, communication from developers to everyone else, all pretty different now from what it was back then. Stop pretending everything prior to the present was some sort of peaceful, idyllic society where no one ever got mad, and that it's only the past 15 years that inexplicably transformed millions of people into crazed hatemongers.

  • SiPod - June 27, 2012 1:44 a.m.

    Yeah, you're right, I think we're actually on the same page.

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