I hearby officially and formally apologize to Square Enix for having pointed out their falling sales, their dying shares and their failing Final Fantasy series.I am sure I will be Having a Blast™ with their next smash-hit Killer Inn.Please do not kill 4chan.
why did you put the trademark symbol on 'having a blast' and not one of the actual registered game titles?
>>734249481Are you not familiar with marketing lingo Anon?
>>734249636the forced meme is not copyrighted. sorry but you're sort of bumbling through this, and it's coming off as pretty unclever.
>>734249697Are you okay? Is this your schitzomelty?
>>734249012qrd
>>734249697sorry my Epic™ Redditor™, i'll make sure to use our code so you know when i'm being Sarcastic™ /s™you're a retard
>>734249972Famous Japanese FF14 blog was taken down by SE for having a comment section that laughed at how shit the game is now. The owner was bullied and fined by SE directly.
I would also like to apologize for being gay??? I am deeply sorry for the inconvenience it caused
>>734249012Why don't other companies just sue their critics when they get negative press?Are they stupid?
>>734249972according to jap law videogame criticism is hate speech and you are liable to legal action if you own a website where the users say a game is bad
>>734250195This shit only flies in Japan because anyone without a journalistic licence aren't allowed to share criticism that might damage a company's reputation. No I'm not kidding.
Remember that these are a people who intentionally stayed stuck as rice farming swordsmen for a thousand years until they got musket'd into industrialism, who then were so violently chaotic against outsiders for a period of about 80 years it culminated in they needed to be hit with the largest bombs the world had seen not once but twice.
>>734250159The inconvenience is still in effect Anon. Stop shoving dicks in your mouth!
>>734250364honestly and unironically industrialization might have been a mistakethey might have been right to resist it for as long as they did and nuking them into submission was a mistakemankind has become slaves to endless growth and we're nothing but a cancer upon our world now
>>734249012Over/under on how long before Takashi Kiryu is relieved of his services?
>>7342520123-6 decades
>>734250364>who then were so violently chaotic against outsiderswell, one of the outsiders just happened to be the jesuits who were threatening by death for japs to mass-convert and abandon all their ways.Subsequently, Christianity spread like a disease and did nothing but cause ruin.So yeah, the japs had a bit of reason to be upset over gaijin
>>734250114no fucking way
>>734252423Oh yes. Japan has good things and bad things going for it but their legal system is absolutely the latter.
Too bad Squeenix can't do shit to 4chan. We live. We destroy. We make them die (in video game). Attack!
Why do they let simple words get underneath their skin so much? Words through a computer screen no less. This is literally the "how are you getting cyberbullied just turn off the screen" meme except its a corporation doing it.
>>734253176These tards think that removing public criticism will also remove the sentiment.People who find something they don't like in a video game might do a quick search to see if this is somethong others have ann issue with, and SE wants thst to turn up blank. They want you isolated and thinking you're the only one who doesn't like what you don't like.
>>734252374>That one rapier incident>Some cocky Samurai tried to berate missionary for their sissy weapons, tried to force a duel and got clowned on by the superior weapon and fencer>Die>Enraged by the death of the so called Honorabu Samurai over the Dishonourabu Gavin, Samurai after Samurai challenged rapier fencer nonstop hoping that eventually the fencer will get killed by one of them>This lead to a mass Samurai death incident instead because they all jobbed to the rapier>The "honourable" Samurai started riling up and angry mob to burn down all missionary ships and lynch the rapier fencer due to shame>In the future, they pretend that this never happened Pre-missionary Japan stories are pretty funny
>>734253176Their skin are non-existent. Their director made a big deal about this shit a while back, calling them malicious slander>"Even so, Final Fantasy is the one thing I won't buy on release day. For my own protection.">"Maybe I'll play it when it goes on sale. Lost trust isn't something you can get back easily, right?"
>>734253427Based Rapierchad.
>>734253176Nothing scares shareholders and CEOs more than people having the freedom to call their products shit.
>>734254196well no, mass union movements and legislation with bite scare them a lot more.
>>734249972>Yesterday, Square posted an announcement to its Japanese Twitter account (translated through Google Translate). “[W]e have received notice of some excessive harassment,” the company says, stating that “a post containing content that lowers the social standing of the Final Fantasy XIV staff has been publish [on] Netoge News (formerly FF14 News).” It sounds as if the company requested admin information through the site’s host, then reached out with some sort of legal demand or threat, as “a settlement was reached, with the site being closed, an apology being posted, and a settlement being paid” by the operator. The rest of the memo reiterates Square’s commitment to the dignity and working environment of its staff.>Perhaps the weirdest part is that neither party actually specifies what the toxicity tipping point actually was. Japanese players on Twitter suggested it was doxxing or longstanding harassment of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director Tetsuya Nomura; they even began posting more sites and YouTube channels that could stand a takedown. But the English-speaking Reddit points out that the offending article and comment section was likely a financial report and its ensuing unmoderated comments, as it was wiped from the site, though people on parent blog ff14net.2chblog.jp dispute that and still other folks say it was harassment of Naoki Yoshida or corporate rivals spilling tea.
>>734254258None of those exist in Japan though, so this is the next best target.
>>734249012thank you for your apology bharat nationnow fuck off
>>734249012>3 fan sites now have closed down due to thisImagine the Highguard devs being able to dox site admins and force them the publicly apologize, close their site and pay them money for publishing articles that might be defamation of their company and product or have anonymous user comments that shit talk the company. That is quite literally what happened here.
>>734249697I hope they’re paying you, man.
>>734254359Japans defamation laws are surreal. People on this board and on this site seriously don't understand how dire this shit is.There's a very good reason anonymous text/image boards began in Japan.
>>734254258Not really. Unions are always in bed with the corpo to begin with. And legislation is bought and paid for by them as well.
>>734250364Yeah, and now your country is owner by kikes who actively make your cities unlivable, want to displace you in rural areas with foreign niggers, are poisoning your food while making it cost more than ever, have made owning a home prohibitively expensive, and expect you to die for israel’s forever wars, so who actually got hit with a nuke?
>>734249697SE shills really do be like this
>>734254442Are you describing modern Japan or some other country? Because Japan does all that.
>>734254359Protip: these 5ch blogs are maintained by (marketing) companies, not individuals.
This guy got off easy. There are people in Japanese prison for shitting on Nintendo.
>>734254496Doesn't matter who ownes them or if they make money. If you are not allowed to say>Dawntrail is a terrible product and here are their earnings reports reflecting just thatThen something is seriously wrong. What is even worse is that SE felt the need to actually crack down on it. Again, imagine a western studio doing that in any capacity.
>>734254435>Unions are always in bed with the corpoyou are glowing rn
>>734249012They harassed the employees. No matter how many times you pretend they were merely pointing out the sales, it won't change the fact that harassed them. They fucked around and found out.
>>734254442(((They))) did?
I hereby officially and formally make fun of Square Enix for losing their JRPG cred and losing to some random team of stray french people that pooped out a better game in 5 years when SE can't make one good game in 20 years because making the fucking thing takes at least 10 to 13 years by itself lole. I hope the existence of E33 haunts them forevermore. Niggers.
>>734254568You can say that though, what you can't do is let your community dox, harass and brigade company employees so that you can rake in advertisement money, which seems pretty reasonable?
>>734249697S E E T H EEETHE
>>734254570No. I'm just in the US. That's how it is here. Unions are all fucking trash.
HAHAHA so instead of a mount if you get the 12 paths in the variant dungeon you get this
>>734255090You're pulling my leg right? I saw there was a genie mount and a carpet mount. Are they both locked behind savage or something?
>>734254820if you're actually an american you would know the strategy is busting unions before they form at all, because historically trying to infiltrate or puppeteer union is very risky and has backfired constantly throughout history, galvanizing unions that might otherwise be placid.
>>734255181i believe carpert is savage and genie is normal criterion
>>734255267If YOU were american you would know how fucking corrupt our unions are. you are either a delusional thirdie or a union/corpo shill.
>he made the thread>againI wonder how many days he's going to be milking this one this time
What's going on in this thread, chat?
>>734255457did you actually read the whole post and come to the conclusion "this guy must be a corporate shill or a third worlder who is nefariously trying to win me higher wages" because if so that's baffling. or i'm a "union shill" in the pocket of big union. what on earth bro
>>734249012>actual discussion instead of the thread being that one dude calling everyone retards for not believing his claims of doxxing when asked for proof
>>734255457Anon, unions are apparently so beneficial for employees that you can get fired for mentioning unions in a company that does not have one.
>>734256204Nta but there are plenty of Unions that use their size to effectively just be legal mafias. A good example being SAGAFTRA. Smaller ones are usually fine.
>>734256189What you didn't like the>Retard>Retard >RetardSpamming FF14 schizo? It feels like that is the only insult he know lol. It was so obvious
>>734249481>>734249697
>>734250364Nobu!
>>734254296Real 'Hurting the Feelings of the Chinese People' type of shit
>>734253167>Too bad Squeenix can't do shit to 4chan.Anon, 4chan was proven to quite literally be an Epstein adjacent honeypot. All Square Enix needs to do is subpoena Hiroshimoot for the data of posters who make threads like OP, and especially if this person has a history of inflammatory statements towards SE (and lets face it, we all know he does), then that's a lawsuit depending on the particular language he has *ever* used in *any* of his posts in *any* thread that is even remotely referencing SE or people at SE.
Barry and Ba7ry must be delighted that criticizing SE products is becoming illegal at last
>>734257312Only in Japan, I'm still going to criticise the fuck out of FF14.
>>734256892>All Square Enix needs to do is subpoena Hiroshimoot for the data of posters who make threads like OPNigger where are 4chan sites hosted?
>>734256892They can't. The US would legit tell them to fuck off. 4chan is an American entity owned by a Jap.
>>734257573I guess you're right, they'd probably go after Hiroshimoot himself for facilitating the website that allows inflammatory statements about Square Enix and its employees.
>>734249636Honestly as someone who liked to use having a blast unironically I'm still mildly peeved at this fad.
>>734256892>>734257641They can go after Hiro all they want, he doesn't live in Japan and the website isn't hosted in Japan. He's already got a bunch of lawsuits against him because he's been sued so many times in Japan and he said he's never paying anyone in Japan a single cent. He moved to France and told them all to suck his cock. You're running up the wrong tree here if you think Square Enix can do anything against anyone here.Then again there are a lot of reddit tourists here who thought Square Enix could shut down all criticism because of what happened in Japan, coming here to gloat. You really showed yourselves to be fucking retarded.You love to see it.
>>734257816>Then again there are a lot of reddit tourists here who thought Square Enix could shut down all criticism because of what happened in Japan, coming here to gloat. You really showed yourselves to be fucking retarded.I've been here longer than you have, anon. I didn't know that Hiroshimoot lives in France. He's apparently done an interview with Yoshida, I just assumed he lived in Japan.
>>734254680Based
>>734257915>I've been here longer than you have, anonNo you haven't. Trust me, no you haven't. You don't believe in free speech and if you ask why that's relevant that tells me everything I need to know when you came here.>He's apparently done an interview with YoshidaYes, the interview that was widely posted on here and had thread after thread covering, if only there was something, something about that was strange about Hiro interviewing Yoshida, oh yeah they did it over video link as he's done with every single interview. Why? Because he can't enter Japan for the reasons previously stated.
>>734249012Did people forget what happened when Rebirth's ending was leaked here? Square Enix had the threads nuked. They have had their tentacles in /v/ for ages
>>734258148>No you haven't. Trust me, no you haven't.I've been here for 20 years. There's like a 99% chance that I've been here longer than you. >You don't believe in free speech I understand that you're upset about something, but I never said this. I do believe in freeze peach. I also would love to see certain people (who I'm not allowed to name, because there is not actually free speech here) get nuked. I think that would be pretty funny. The fact that the blog that did get nuked was just ragebait posts from 5ch is pretty funny. >and if you ask why that's relevant Now you're arguing with people you've made up in your head or people from other websites you are currently arguing with. >Why? Because he can't enter Japan for the reasons previously stated.Yeah, you already said that. I didn't know about it. I don't have my finger on the pulse of what video game developers are doing and thinking and saying like some people do. I literally don't know about any of this shit unless I happen to see someone shitposting about it on 4chan.
>>734258348>Yeah, you already said that. I didn't know about it. I don't have my finger on the pulse of what video game developers are doing and thinking and saying like some people do. I literally don't know about any of this shit unless I happen to see someone shitposting about it on 4chan.Are you a retarded? Are you some kind of retarded? You said all of that in your post trying to say you've been here for 20 years and then trying to classify Hiro as a video game developer, because it was his request the interviews were done by video link, so again are you a retarded?
Thread is made by a mentally-challenged underage user.
>>734258442>You said all of that in your post trying to say you've been here for 20 yearsI have been. Which is almost definitely longer than you (or anyone else, at all) have been here. >and then trying to classify Hiro as a video game developerNo, you're the one being retarded. Obviously I would be referring to Yoshida. >because it was his request the interviews were done by video linkOkay. You're the expert on interviews with game developers. I'm not. I don't know anything about any of that unless I see someone shitposting about it on 4chan. Like the Japanese blog being taken down, for example.
>>734256880>they even began posting more sites and YouTube channels that could stand a takedownNips really are the biggest corporate bootlickers.
>>734258541Ok you are a retarded. You don't know anything about the guy who owns the website you've currently spent 20 years of your life on. Why would you assume I was talking about Yoshida when I said multiple times I was talking about Hiro? You're a dumb boy.
>>734255365There's no savage, carpet is from advanced (new, extreme difficulty), genie is from criterion (same old criterion difficulty).Savage criterion was just the same as regular criterion with a 5% bump to hp and dmg and no access to any resses.
>>734258635>Ok you are a retarded.Nope. I thought the conversation was done here >>734257915 when you provided information I did not know. You got triggered somehow though, and you started a new argument where you're now being stupid on purpose and doing pic related. >You don't know anything about the guy who owns the website you've currently spent 20 years of your life on. Well, 20 years off and on. And yes, I don't know anything about him. I didn't really know anything about moot either. Why would I? Why would I know that he (Hiroshimoot) lives in France? There's no reason for me to know where the person whose website I use lives. I didn't even know he did an interview with Yoshida either until I read about it here at some point in the past couple years. But again, I'm not the type of person who keeps tabs on what other people are doing all the time, that's what people like you do. >Why would you assume I was talking about Yoshida when I said multiple times I was talking about Hiro? What does this even mean? Why are you being stupid on purpose? What is this semantic bullshit? This is what I said:>>"You're the expert on interviews with game developers. "I was simply referring to the interview, anon. Obviously, interviews necessarily must involve at least 2 people. We have both established that those 2 people are Hiroshimoot and Yoshida. One of them (the one being interviewed, the interviewee, according to you) is a game dev. I obviously have no idea anything about Hiroshimoot, and there is no reason I would ever know anything about him. There's really no reason I'd ever know anything about Yoshida either, but he seems to be a pretty common topic of discussion on /v/. I don't know how else to characterize an interview between Hiroshimoot (interviewer) and Yoshida (interviewee) besides it being an interview with a game developer. Please refer to the image attached to this post.
>>734259306Yeah the guy who says he's been here for 20 years knew nothing about Gookmoot and thought I was referring to YoshiP having to video link interviews. What are you a retarded? Some kind of retarded?
>>734258656>no access to any resses.the absolute laziest way to add 'difficulty'
>>734259426>Yeah the guy who says he's been here for 20 yearsCorrect. >knew nothing about Gookmoot Also correct. I don't think I really know or knew anything about moot either. Why would I?>and thought I was referring to YoshiP having to video link interviewsI still don't understand what you're failing to understand here. Please refer back to this image: >>734259306If Hiroshimoot did an interview with Yoshida, well, Yoshida is a game dev. That's all there is to it. I really don't understand how this is so difficult for you. I suppose I did assume that you commonly keep tabs on what game developers are doing and thinking and saying, which might not be the case... though I doubt that. It seems like you are the type of person to be concerned with what game developers are doing and thinking and saying, which is why I assumed it in the first place.
>>734259634You've already convinced me beyond all reasonable doubt that you're a retarded retard, there's no need to keep doubling down on trying to convince me, job done I believe you that you're a dumb dumb. >Been here for 20 years knew nothing about the website ownerJesus Christ dude, Jesus Christ.
>>734249012How embarrassing. Have they even announced the next xiv expansion? Wheres the fucking trailer yoshit piss?! Maybe thats what they should be doing instead of frivolous lawsuits. This is why xiv is fucking bleeding players.
>>734254470True
Still waiting for you chuds to challenge me on X with a debate on the state of the game.
/v/ is so fucking retarded.Unhinged morons from 5ch were posting threats and dox in the entirely unmoderated comments sections.Especially against Nomura for some fucking reason. JP gamers were really upset about threats Nomura kept getting.
>>734260259>Unhinged morons from 5ch were posting threats and dox in the entirely unmoderated comments sections.Prove it
>>734250201The new Reiwa libel laws actually are insane shit out of some corpocratic nightmare. Like if an author used them in a cyberpunk dystopia setting they would seem heavy handed. I’m just surprised it’s taken this long for companies to actually use the insane mallet the government has given them.>t. Work here and educated myself on them because an old boss threatened to sue me when I told him he was a retard. Luckily it was a one to one conversation in a private area which is still outside the bounds of the law. But if there had been a single member of the public there or even a coworker he would have had a case. It’s also handled under criminal, not civil law here.
Shame deleting the blog won't "un-shittify" the game or make it suck any less. But hey, at least someone at Square "earned" their pay for once by engaging in official censorship, and that's one less pair of hands making the game even worse.
>>734259903>You've already convinced me beyond all reasonable doubt that you're a retarded retardPlease once again refer back to this image: >>734259306Your entire current diarrhea hinges on you purposely playing stupid and misunderstanding the fact that I referred to the Hiro/Yoshi interview as an interview with a game developer.>>Been here for 20 years knew nothing about the website ownerLike I said, I'm not the type of person who keeps tabs on what other people are doing all the time, that's what people like you do. I think I'm just gonna have to let you get the last word in on this one because you wont even explain what you're pretending to misunderstand or what you're pretending to be upset about, and I've tried my best to help you understand regardless, yet you're still trying your damnedest to pretend that you can't understand. Really it's a miracle you even found a way to misunderstand something so simple in the first place. Refer to this image once again: >>734259306
>>734260325You'll let me have the last word? No way, if only a 20 year chan poster knew who Hiromoot was and why he didn't live in Japan then you wouldn't have made yourself look so much like a retarded dumb.
