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Allow me to adjust: he showed a Japanese classroom a picture of cookies, and an American classroom a picture of cookies, and a snotty girl in the USA classroom was obnoxious. But not just a little obnoxious, very rude and she hurt his feelings in front of everyone. And so when he baked the cookies, he brought them to the Japanese classroom.
That does fly in the real world, because you shouldn't have to stay in a place where your feelings get hurt. Even if it's just a few people. He obviously didn't get this treatment from the non-USA audiences, so why should he cater to the many of us who are polite and have to grin and bear the few that piss him off, when he can give a character to markets that appreciate him completely?
It only takes one bully to ruin a kid's school year. If there was just one person who made me feel shitty like this at work, I'd probably want to switch locations too.
If we want to adjust, we can adjust all night.
I think it's important to define the 'Class' in this situation. The Class, of course, should be North American Tekken players or fighting game enthusiast. Now I don't go to NeoGAF. Any of these other forums. I come here. And even then, not even all gamers come to some type of forum. You might love tekken or fighting games, but you don't spend your time in forums.
so to fine tune this analogy, That picture you talked about was not in front of the class. It was on a Bulletin board that the entire school can look at. That is literally all a forum is. A Bulletin Board that even a fraction of the internet traffic happens to walk upon. And Harada just happened to be walking by and saw that snotty girl from the American Class leaving a stupid note under Harada's picture at that Bulletin Board.
Not in the class. Not as the entire class was gathered. One girl. Saying something. at the Bulletin Board. Now, yes, that might be embarrassing. But it is one girl. And just because she belongs to a group, doesn't mean she represents the group. That's the same kind of thinking that leads people to believe all Muslims are terrorists because there are some Muslim Terrorists, and all blacks are criminals because there are black criminals.
Back to the analogy. I'm walking by the Bulletin Board, as a part of the American Class, and I see that under the cookies picture that the baker Harada says left another note: "Fine, all you American people don't like my cookies, you can only have them if you beg for them!"
Because that's literally what Harada did.
Recently, others have tweeted to Harada asking him not to exclude Lucky Chloe from the U.S. release of the game. Harada has clarified that he does see both positive and negative feedback to the character.
"If you need = I release. If you don't need = I don't release," Harada said.
So. In the end. As a fighting game enthusiast. As a Tekken Player...
who said nothing in Lucky Chloe's supposed hate parade by North Americans, I need to rally other fighting game people not to be shafted for something I didn't do. To sate a man's ego. Which I did nothing to offend but I have to suffer his ire because of my location on this planet.
And lastly, and I really want someone to try to figure this out... The Escapist to me seems like it's at least 30 percent European, maybe 40 North American and 30 the rest of the world. Harada has NO IDEA the Ethnicities or the location of those posters. I went to NeoGaf and took a sample to find out. Most people don't even have their profile filled out.
So... What, because it's in english it has to be North America behind it? I saw people saying things about Japan in the forum, I'll give you that. But very few
if any posters saying "As a North American, this offends me."
But no. It had to be all from North Americans. For reasons.