Fighting Asshole-ism with being an asshole just makes you an asshole. You want to fight ideas, take the fight to those who voice the ideas. Punishing an entire community for something that they, by and large, didn't do and saying that now you can all show me your worth... is a terrible, terrible strategy for making money.144 said:Exactly (more or less). A few bad apples in the Tekken community ruined it for everyone. If you see my first post, I'm glad that for once, a developer has said "I've had it with you assholes." For too long, the gaming community has had a stigma of being made up of jerks who throw bile with no consequence. Maybe now the gaming community has the chance to prove that it's also made up of nice guys.
If that were true, the next thing that would happen would be a bunch of feel-good messages to Harada, asking politely that he change his mind, and that the mean people don't represent the Tekken community. Nice people would recognize that his feelings were hurt, and try to make him feel better.
Instead, the Tekken community is just being more rude to him. I don't think that's the way to get what you want.
Also, I've decided to leave your analogies alone. They don't work so well.
You can Alanah Pearce [http://jezebel.com/video-game-reviewer-is-contacting-the-mothers-of-her-on-1664381934/+Fahey]'d the situation. Make the actual commentators and abusers look stupid, and I'm right there with you. They were assholes. Go after them.
Nuke everyone from orbit and, as being apart the Tekken Community myself, I wonder what the fuck did I do.
Equating all of the Tekken Community to a few threads in maybe four sites is wrong. It's Fox News Wrong. It's wondering if violent video games lead Adam Lanza to commit the Sandy Hook tragedy [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/violent-video-games-and-mass-violence-a-complex-link/] wrong. It's taking a imperfect, damaged fraction of the whole and saying that fraction represents everything you ever need to know about the whole.
And guess what. I can take your comment about analogies to be rude. You can support it with "Well, they don't" or "It's my opinion". And you're right. In your mind, my analogies don't make sense. And It is your opinion. And I can handle it with maturity and respond in kind. Or choose to just address the issue instead of making another derisive comment back to you. I'm not going to the Mods and complaining that you said something that made me feel bad so there needed to be action taken, since I'm a grown man.
You said something I didn't care for. I stuck to the matter at hand. I got my feelings out and no one had to suffer. That's my point.