Katsuhiro Harada was forced to delete his Tekken 7 bikini joke?

I (Robin Ek, TGG) was quite surprised to see that so many people got upset over one single "Tekken 7" bikini joke by Katsuhiro Harada (we might not even get bikini costumes in the West...). Well, this is my take on the matter.

[NotEvenMyFinalForm]

Same thing happened to Tecmo and DoAX3 yet they don't want to admit that there is a censorious cabal in the west that many call Sjw's. This is just more prove that no matter how much they want to deny it Sjw's are a thing and they do exist.

Just take a look at the twitter of this dude from IGN. https://twitter.com/cymroga...

He is mad.

[TGG_overlord]

Exactly! And more and more Japanese developers are telling it like it is (the real reason behind why some of them don´t even bother with the West anymore, or why they are forced to censor their own games). Ah yes. IGN´s Gav, what a nice lad he is...Any ways. I´m going to update the post just now, since more stuff has happened since I published that post.

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

I have a feeling that the Western version of "Tekken 7" will be censored on release.

[donthate]

I'm fanning the flames here, but why shouldn't this cr@p be left out of gaming?

The game will still be great without bikini clad women intended to appeal to pubescent kids. Japan does a lot of great things, but this simply isn't one of them.

[rainslacker]

Maybe if enough of them keep mentioning it, gamers will finally get fed up enough to become a louder minority than the SJW do, and actually try to convince these devs that we want this kind of stuff, or at least some of the stuff that we do want.

For the most part, when it comes to being an activist to get our voices heard outside of forums, we don't do that, and the SJW types do. They know how to work the social media aspect better, and make it so even the non-gamers suddenly care about it because it's tantilizing. We say we want it, and we're accused of being perverts. They say they don't, and they're praised as being saints.

personally, I'd prefer these game developers start listening more to their consumer base, and stop thinking they can grow their sales if they cave to the whims of a easily triggered society which will simply forget about whatever scandal-du-jour happens to cross their plate long before the game ever releases, and won't actually do anything beyond a tweet or maybe a rogue article decrying the travesty of it all the day it releases.

Sadly, what I said above is something that even gamers can't manage to do, and they will complain about it, but not go to any lengths to actually try and get it. Our voices can be louder, but we choose to bicker and blame the SJW.

Me, I will go to a publishers forum or send them an email requesting they simply release the game the way it was meant to be, because as a paying customer, that is what I want. Believe it or not, it's actually gotten to the point that I have a kind of form letter saved on my computer to make it easier. Sad...ineffective...but at least it's more than complaining about it on the forums, only to forget about it when the next article about what can trigger the fan boy wars crops up.

So, my point is. We don't have to beat the SJW. Let them have their say. We just have to be louder in what we say so the publishers and devs will start to notice their customers, and not someone who targets them to place all the worlds problems on.

How about you(Robin Ek, TGG) actually do an article on what gamers can do to stop this crap, instead of just saying that it's happening? Lead a movement that actually achieves something. Being informed is great, but it doesn't mean anything if people don't do stuff with that knowledge. Gamers are terribly complicit in so many things, but get them riled up enough, and they can make a difference. See X1 DRM policies for examples.

[Simon_the_sorcerer]

Gav is full of bs, and if you have the time for it. Then check out some of his previous tweets and whatnot...

[TGG_overlord]

Well, you might want to check this out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ka...

[Hold_It]

Good thing Tekken 7 is going to be on PC as well as PS4, and Xbox.. Someone will make mods on PC to bring the game back to what it was supposed to be.

[Deadpooled]

A nobody IGN journo calling the developer of one of the most influential fighting series ever 'garbage' (or probably he (and I use that pronoun very loosely) was with Kotaku before they were bought by the owner of IGN Ziff Davis? Would explain why the serial SJW disease has been floating around IGN in recent weeks)

[donwel]

@TGG_overlord
That first comment though.

[Segata]

What kind of shithead is named Gav anyway? Why doe she look homeless if he works at IGN?

[Angeljuice]

*Proof

[fei-hung]

It feels like SJWs like him hope that by talking shit they will get laid out be seen as the saviour of all these helpless women. What they don't get is women are fully capable of standing up for themselves, they are perfectly capable of getting a joke and they don't act like an idiot like these SJWs do.

[IamTylerDurden1]

I can't wait to play as Akuma and to play in PSVR.

[Warpaint]

Wow, that guy is such a douche. And I don't toss that word around. Someone set his beard on fire!

[TGG_overlord]

***UPDATE 1***
IGN´s Gav Murphy trash talks Tekken 7 & Katsuhiro Harada http://thegg.net/opinion-ed...

[ZaWarudo]

MY HIPSTER DETECTOR IS ON FIRE!!!!

[DragonDDark]

DIO CALM DOWN!

[gamer7804]

This is extremely unprofessional on IGN's part. This is now gaming news, maybe they should feature this on their site... It's this kind of talk that makes me never want to visit their site again. Regardless of how you feel you just don't make personal attacks like that.

[OB1Biker]

Agreed that was pathetic.
Was he drunk or what?

I realized long ago how useless iGN guys are and not wasting my time there. Its as if they mirror their comment section XD

[Dixiedevil]

I stopped going there quite a while ago. They're more about a SJW agenda than games.

[Deadpooled]

Well the parent company did acquire Kotaku recently....

[Rachel_Alucard]

"IGN"
http://i.imgur.com/NkNR0yr....

[rainslacker]

On the plus side, twitter has been known to ruin many people's careers when they decide to use it to speak from the hip. He probably thought he was being funny, but it's amazing how quickly that can turn around to bite someone in the ass.

Unfortunately for him in this case, I can't see how his tweet could be considered as a joke. Even if it was a joke, it was extremely unprofessional for a gaming publication. This is a guy who is supposed to be reporting on the industry, and he's already proven bias beyond doubt. He's supposed to be there to serve the interest of the readers and community in providing accurate information, not personal opinions on who he thinks is a good or bad game developer. You just don't insult stalwarts of the gaming industry while working for a publication of that industry like that and expect to get away without a scratch....although that seems like it happens more and more lately...which is utterly pathetic and shows a marked lack of respect from the publications that put up with it.

Sadly, if IGN does something about it, they'll just get attacked for being misogynistic sexist pigs....which in itself is stupid, but that's the cancer that has infected our community and press as of late.

[MainstreamGamer]

SJWs are the scum of any industry they are in. I don't understand why developers cave in to very loud minority like them.

[annoyedgamer]

Why would someone half a world away delete a tweet because a hipster got mad? That's my question.

[DragonDDark]

Because that girl may send more SJWs to him? Lol

[Deadpooled]

SJW in a nutshell, thanks to Bill Murray... https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[donwel]

That's exactly why, because they're the ones shouting the loudest.
And the only reason they're the ones shouting the loudest is because they shut down any opposing viewpoints with accusations of sexism/racism/whatever is the current most popular-ism.

[Rachel_Alucard]

They plant themselves into the industry into these high up positions, then they hire only other SJWs. This way they have direct influence over the areas they bitch the most about. Localization studios are chalk full of them and that's why companies like treehouse, NISA, and a few others have gone to hell over the last few years. Then it doesn't help you also have that handful of people that shout "NO I DON'T WANT SEXUAL THINGS IN MUH VIDYA" further harming the general opinion. You're not supposed to refuse content regardless if you like it or not, people act like by removing things like that it automatically means something else will replace it but it doesn't work like that in the industry. When something gets removed, it's gone.

[rainslacker]

I don't understand why we can't be louder. it's not like many of us don't use twitter, or have the ability to actually convey our thoughts.

We're actually paying customers. All we have to do is make the fallout from their SJW pandering less comfortable than the fallout they get from the SJW pandering they do to avoid scandal from a group of people that aren't even interested in buying the game.

Publishers are avoiding controversy. It's as simple as that. You speak to a publishers wallets, and you'll quickly see who their loyalties lie with. Gamers, so far, aren't causing controversy with enough fervor to get the publishers attention.

More off topic, but I can say that there are many developers out there who are just as tired of having to check their creations to make sure they aren't controversial out there. But ultimately, it's up to the publisher to decide what they're willing to spend money on, and what they will release.

@donwel

We could still be louder. unfortunately, that would mean ignoring all these claims of sexism and misogyny, and not feeding them when they come in to derail the whole vocal outcry. Something that most people can't do, and it only takes one person to bite to ruin everything. The SJW know the game well, and they tend to be much better at working social media to get more people involved....even if those people they bring in have zero interest in gaming.

[Rachel_Alucard]

The reason our side isnt louder is because we don't care enough to make a career out of being a professional victim like they do. Our side is less concerned with what other people think and instead focus on the subject . The problem is unless we work in the industry we have no sway to these people. By default unless your verified on twitter and you make nobody will listen to what you have to say and they'll just see you as another parrot spouting the same as the rest of the crowd. It's a shame because there's some very intelligent people that don't have anything going on at all online and nobody cares what they have to say. But the second you get a check marked twitter account everybody cares.

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

NeoGaf had an absolute meltdown over this hahahahah. That site is so cancerous.

[Hold_It]

Yep. It's easily tumblr tier.

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

If anyone dares to have a different opinion than they do about this stuff than you are banned instantly with no warning and reason given. They are authoritarian as hell and are completely toxic. Go look at the comments from the people who are banned. They are so mild yet they get banned instantly for them. Fu** those people seriously. I can't stand it. It is just one big fu**ing safe space.

[Segata]

Funny how that works when the owner himself is rapist.

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

@Segata: Really?. Do you have a source for that?.

[TheTwelve]

NeoGaf = sjws touching each other and making each other feel good.

[pompombrum]

Bwahahahaha just look at the message that got it deleted, this snowflake generation's bubble will burst one day, they'll open their eyes and realise they're in the real world and will have a nervous breakdown if something as silly as Harada's tweet offends them.

[Hold_It]

Pretty much, lol. I just want to know what allowed them to have the weight that they have now behind their rants. Who gave them this power?

[rainslacker]

The gaming press. At least a group of people within the gaming press with an agenda to serve. It was the catalyst that actually started gamergate, although the specific details about that back end came out after the fact. The SJW stuff wasn't specifically part of gamergate to begin with, but was associated with it due to this shady behind the scenes dealings, and those people still hold their jobs at some rather influential gaming publications for the most part. The SJW turned gamergate into something it wasn't, even though GG did have some of it's roots due to SJW tampering within the press itself.

[CrimsonWing69]

Whelp looks like we aren't getting this costume pack. Thanks SJWs for controlling what content I can get in my games through your agenda and ideals.

It would make more sense if they just didn't buy stuff that offended them and let the people who like it do as they please. But no, they have to be selfish and controlling with this self righteous manifest destiny mentality. Why don't you go and tackle bigger issues than sexiness in video games you freaking losers!?

[HawaiianDreads]

Oh? Just another story of a SJW crying about a game he had no intention of playing but just want to bitch. Honestly is this even considered news anymore, I mean it's so common nowadays. I have to say though that this generation is a bunch of pansy, I mean every little thing can hurt someone feelings.

[rainslacker]

While it's not really news anymore, it's not something I want to just see go by the wayside of people accepting it as a norm. I want to still see people pissed off about it, because I have a bit of hope that one day, that proverbial straw will break the camels back, and gamers will finally be incited enough to make a bigger fuss than the SJW do.

If that day comes, I'm hoping it's meaningful enough that the publishers realize it's their actual customers making the fuss in a big way, and decide to maybe start listening to us, instead of pandering to a vocal minority for the sake of avoiding negative press among those who are not customers of theirs.

[Yi-Long]

Every time a Japanese game gets censored (butchered), it surprises me that there are still people jumping out of the woodwork to defend it, as if it's somehow no big deal. Most recently Tokyo Mirage Sessions for WiiU for example.

Since when are bikinis objectionable content!? And even if some people find it offensive; SO WHAT!? DON'T BUY IT THEN! IT'S NOT FOR YOU!

The whole idea of this kind of censorship to please some very loud conservative minority, is beyond ridiculous to me. And to see reviewers actually defending that kind of practice is absolutely despicable.

[Dixiedevil]

I agree with you but it's not the conservative minority, it's the left.

[annoyedgamer]

the words "conservative" and "liberal" have completely swapped places now. Its insane.

[Lordani66]

I love comment section right now :D. People 100% agreeing with each other, basically you can't see a single dislike/tumb down on this matter because everyone is against SJWs, no matter what :D. I LOVE IT!

[rainslacker]

Would be nice if the publishers would see it, or at least realize that we've grown tired of our voices not being heard.

We can pat ourselves on the back all day long, and live in our content knowledge that we are all mostly united on this subject, but ultimately, the SJW's are still making more noise, and that noise is something the publishers don't want to deal with. We just have to give them something more uncomfortable to deal with, and nothing speaks louder than wallets closing or the actual customers being pissed about their decisions.

These companies aren't like EA which can ignore any discontent. Their games require the fans to be successful. Tekken 7 is more separated from this, but the majority of games these things get ascribed to are not games which you want to have the customer angry about when they release. But to date, how many times have we actually made a fuss, and kept that fuss going long enough to actually make our own news on the subject?

[q8kik]

Welp T7 is going to get a 6/10 from IGN now

[Kallisti]

A 6.9/10 would be better ;)

[AHall88]

Would not surprise me.
SJW, and other likewise bullshit, loves to run their mouths about stuff they will never buy anyway, the sooner devs and pubs figure this out the better.

[NotEvenMyFinalForm]

That's the worst part of all. They complain about games they don't even play but they do claim to be HUGE fans of everything they criticize tho.

[rainslacker]

pubs already figured that out. They just want to avoid the "scandal" that these SJW types keep making every time something displeases them.

[blackblades]

Japanese devs needs to stop being afraid sfw and just bring them over. America devs have no problem putting nudity in there games and theres plenty of them out there. Instead of censoring there games over here you'll think they'll de-censore there games considering there censorship.

[ginganinja]

Maybe if you made a better fighting game, people wouldn't give a s**t about what the fighters are wearing?

Or maybe, since more allegedly 'objectionable' content has come out unedited, he should look to his own publisher for censoring him (or more likely, adding it later as paid DLC and using this to drum up publicity by winding up the whiney-kids who think someones stealing their cartoon boobs)

[NotEvenMyFinalForm]

Tekken is the biggest and most popular 3D fighting game since like the PS1 dawg. None of the games have been flops in sales nor review scores. So I doubt you have any idea about what you're talking about.

[ginganinja]

Or, you could say, the previous games were good games and considering bikinis and suchlike weren't a major factor in that success, why is not having them in this game causing him such a concern ?

Is he really worried about 'SJW's, or is he trying to get publicity for a franchise which has fallen out of the public eye since its peak in the PS1/2 era ?

[q8kik]

"a franchise which has fallen out of the public eye"

That's not true T6 sold more than 4 million copies which is still more than any version of SFIV and MK9.

And are you saying that by adding Bikini's in the game it means that the game's quality is questionable?
Do some research before making ridiculous assumptions. T7 FR is already out in the arcades in Japan and Korea. The feedback is overwhelmingly positive.
Also, previous Tekken games had Bikini's so why are you suddenly worried about the quality of the game when you already acknowledged that the previous games were good?........It's because you know shit about this franchise and just want to talk smack for the sake of talking smack.

[mochachino]

I think it's horrible that an employee of an alleged journalistic site is lambasting a game as garbage before it's released and calling a game developer garbage.

Regardless of what he thinks personally, he should show a modicum of professionalism when publicly discussing members of the gaming industry and keep his commentary civil and free of petty childish insults.

Gav Murphy should be fired. People like him are why I never visit IGN anymore. It should just be removed from metacritic at this point. It's run by tantrum throwing children.

[Lukejrl]

These people just don't seem to understand that when you shoot a character in the face it is just as objectifying as looking at a character sexually. If the sole purpose of that character was to walk into line of sight and start shootin at you And you shoot at them the character is simply an obstacle(object) for you to overcome. It is no different except purpose (instead of obstacle maybe titilate) that you have sexy characters. A character in any game is an object. Saying that sexually objectifying a video game character is the same as objectifying a real person is akin to saying that violent video games cause violence. And I call bs.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Call it what u will, but censorship in the west is real, and it's scary.

Our notion of what is and isn't acceptable is backwards.

Decapitation, suicide, burning alive, and curb stomping one's face into a grotesque smattering of blood and brain bits - OK!

Anything that shows the female form, or commonly known as "boobies" - NOT OK.

[KilluaX3]

PC mods will add full nudity.

[Kallisti]

PC mods will have Gav Murphy in a bikini

[KilluaX3]

Every developer that bows to SJW's will get their game pirated by me.

[scark92]

Wow... I personally do not care for bikini costumes... but seriously... this angered me.. People boycotting a game for such nonsense.

We need to bring back gamergate, SJW's are scum.

[Hold_It]

SJWs came from Gamergate lmfao.

[rainslacker]

No, they just latched onto GG to make a name for themselves. Press was complicit, because it took the heat off them, which GG was applying, and made it seem like those complaining were just a bunch of purile hateful minority who didn't hold onto traditional respected beliefs.

GG started, in part, due to actions by those who were complicit in sponsoring an extremist feminist agenda that was actually harmful to something that would have brought constructive inclusiveness to the industry, and because that happened, it actually allowed a rather toxic self serving interest group capitalize on the gamers for their own self interest, with very little to no interest in actually bringing inclusion to the industry or games themselves beyond their own selfish narrow views of what inclusiveness means. That's what people were pissed off about....and GG started having nothing to do with any feminist agenda whatsoever, outside the corruption between the press and certain other self serving "feminist" groups.

Make no mistake. GG was derailed by the SJW, and the press being implicated was more than happy to discredit GG as a misogynistic hate group because if GG had been allowed to run it's course without interference, it's likely that many of those people would be unemployed today as their parent companies would not be able to withstand the scandal. As it played out though, the rather serious scandals that actually did happen, and not those manufactured SJW ones, went under the radar, and gave the parent companies a way out from having to deal with the issue.

[Blacklash93]

Can we all just stop rabidly pointing fingers at SJWs, feminism, sexism, racism, etc and hating each other over these issues? All this unconstructive "culture war" and name-calling crap does is make people feel angry, provoked, and too resentful to be respectful and reasonable. This stuff has been going on for years and the situation is only getting worse for everyone, if anything. At this point, I'm not sure if this toxic back-and-forth will ever end. :-/

I'm also not seeing how Harada was "forced" to delete his tweet. People complained, but people get mad and insulting all the time on Twitter. Free speech isn't about how people react to what you say, it's about having the right to say it; as far as we know Harada took his tweet down voluntarily. But apparently the perception seems to be that the integrity of free speech rests solely on SJWs ability to kindly shut up and make things less inconvenient for us.

I think too many free speech advocates (free speech being something I wholeheartedly support) have become way too eager to victimize themselves and sensationalize these incidents for the sake of reciprocating the bitterness and hate-mongering coming from their opposition.

[rainslacker]

Who else is to blame then? He made a comment about SJW being the reason the bikini's weren't coming, and then took it down. Maybe he wasn't forced, but still, he took it down to some sort of pressure.

Personally, I'm with you, and don't agree with anyone who says these SJW(which I use to classify a group, not as a derogatory) need to be silenced. But at the same time, I want our voices heard as well. Too many instances of groups who aren't actually interested in the game, the industry, or even the consumers right to choose being pandered too have made their way into our culture and news to ignore as it being some sort of unjustified finger pointing campaign.

All gamers want is for their games to not be censored, and for others to stop deciding what the devs should and shouldn't be making. We don't ask that others like, purchase, not discuss, or consume the content. We ask that they leave their own personal beliefs out of our lives, so we can get products the way the developers want to make them, so we can enjoy them as such, and while we enjoy them, we won't bother them at all.

I'm sorry, but the SJW crowd injected themselves into this community and expected us to conform to their wishes, and when that didn't happen, they went after the devs and pubs to get them to comply. They have been more successful there, because the devs and pubs try to avoid scandal, whereas the average gamer on the internee doesn't give two sh*ts what other people think of them. We just want our games as close to the developers vision as possible.

You are right, the "culture war" is not constructive, but it would be nice if the part of the culture that actually made it into a culture had a say in how the war goes.

I don't speak as a victem of this nonsense. I speak as someone in the community who is tired of not being heard. If I was actually being victemized, I would address that to the individual or group who was doing that to me, and their default hidey hole of "you're a sexist" isn't going to stop me from dismantling their inept arguments from beginning to end....and that will not matter, because they will ignore it and run back to their safe space like they always do.

I encourage them to come here and speak their mind. Free speech for them. But they better understand that free speech isn't speech without consequence, and that free speech isn't a one way street. The day I see the SJW as a majority be willing to speak openly and with constructive discussion, is the day the SJW will go away, because their arguments are mostly too frivolous to stand up to even the most cursory of scrutiny.

[Blacklash93]

Why do we need to point fingers at anyone so zealously? All it has done is create a cycle of demonizing and name-calling that we clearly aren't going to win (if anyone "wins"). The moment people start throwing out deconstructive labels like "sexist" or "SJW" at developers, groups, games, and forum-goers is the moment discussion spirals into a toxic flurry of distrust and disgusted insults. I think the best route is to respectfully inform developers and others about our point of view, and leave the bitterness and blame-game out of it. Any that comes our way we should not reciprocate and add to.

I also don't like these types who over-analyze everything to be sexist or racist and get too worked up over it, but much of their opposition hasn't generally been adequately civil and level-headed either. I know - I've argued my opinions that I believe are fairly moderate with zealous, antagonistic anti-SJWs only to be patronized, name-called, and labelled a pro-censorship SJW myself.

I'm just sick of hearing about the sexist gamer bully as I am about the fat blue-haired feminist, as well "prejudiced games" and "SJW games". People can have their opinions, but the culture war is far too centered around hate-mongering and regarding people with contempt rather than constructively engaging their arguments. Partisans on both sides just want to feel self-righteously outraged and are determined to hate and rant about the culture they live in - even though things are pretty good right now overall - trying to make everyone else feel the same way. And it's very often over the pettiest stuff in gaming like outfits and weekly Twitter drama.

I stand by my point that if Harada's tweet being deleted was his decision, his free speech was not violated. What we say can be inconvenient, and when that happens we choose to stick to our guns or not; that doesn't change that we had the right to say it and keep it out there. I'm not sympathizing with the individuals who freaked out on Harada, but I'm not going to act like they took down his tweet by force either because that's not actually true.

[rainslacker]

I can agree with you on principal, and feel much the same way to be honest. But realistically, those of us who do try to speak to the devs leaving the politics out of it still go unheard. I routinely send emails to developers, publishers, and localizers when these issues come up due to the pressure they get from this vocal minority, yet it seems that the censorship keeps getting more and more with each subsequent release. Even when I get a email back from these companies, it's usually just a form thank you letter saying they appreciate my input, and hope I enjoy the game, as if they didn't even bother reading it.

It's quite insulting to me, as an actual purchasing customer of their product, that anything I have to say on the matter goes unheard by those who actually have the power to do something about it.

I'm not suggesting that they do cater to my requests, but it would be nice if they could respect me enough as a customer, and their other customers, if what we often say we want in forums or twitter, or in the article actually willing to talk about this stuff, is what they'd provide us. We aren't even asking for them to change the game, rather give us the game the way it was meant to be....and I don't think that's asking too much.

The thing is, when you see these discussions in these forums, and some others around the net, the demonizing and name calling is borne from the discontent that we have to put up with this stuff because of this marginalized group of vocal individuals.

To me, I am not that interested in what they think about me. They can say whatever they want about me, and the entire community for all I care. My problem comes in when they then go out and start to affect the products that we want to buy with their rhetoric. Both sides have their hate flung at one another, but from the gamers side of things, we aren't asking that developers change their creation to suit our needs, rather we ask the developers to bring us their creations the way they wanted to make it, because that's what we want.

Personally, I'd love for the topic of inclusion or sexism to go back to a more civil state that existed before Leigh Alexander decided to demonize an entire community, and the SJW hijacked gamergate for their own purposes. Sarkeesian was even tolerable back then, despite being off base on some things, and the overall discussion which was going on was much more productive. But that isn't possible now, and it has nothing to do with people flinging names at one another, it has to do with the fact that one side won't listen to the other, and no reasonable discourse can take place because one side in particular is completely unwilling to accept that their point of view may be wrong, or at least not entirely accurate. There are some gamers of course who will take this same approach, but outside the trolls, I feel there are plenty who would approach the subject much more openly, without the instant defense, should the SJW crowd actually be interested in positive discourse. I've seen reasonable people make reasonable comments or pose reasonable questions to what I'd consider reasonable SJW, and more often than not, it's the SJW who goes flying off the handle at any kind of dissenting opinion.

What I see now, and what I've seen grow over the past few years, is that gamers are growing more and more tired of it, and are resorting to the basest way they know how to combat this movement, because we have been bullied and made to be less than human by another group who forced their way into our community with no real interest in being part of it. We fought back, they are winning.

I can't say why Harada removed the tweet. Only the publisher would have been likely to "force" him.

[Bass_fisherman]

Arrogant prick IGN should fire him.

[Segata]

Fuck SJWs and Harada is base.

[Germany7]

It's scary how the SJW's are ruining games, not even Jack Thompson was so dangerous for gaming like these people, journalists are also the problem here.

[hazelamy]

could be worse, just imagine if this guy from ign started a campaign to get somebody fired for a tweet, i mean, how unprofessional would something like that be for a so called journalist.

that "journalist" would be a right arsehole wouldn't he?

http://thegg.net/opinion-ed...

and it's funny, how devs should be given free reign, so long as they don't plan to have gay or trans characters, then it's ok to attack them.
yeah, that fucking hypocrite site has done exactly that.

grope a child minigame?
sexual assualt simulator?
don't censor the devs.

gay character?
sexuality has no place in videogames, ban this filth.

yeah, the guy from ign is a dick, but then that response from harada, that was a pretty fucking dickish.
and attacking somebody on twitter, that doesn't even compare to creating a whole fucking hatchet job article to try to get somebody fired because they said something you didn't like.

oh, and where was the article about the BF1 devs who wanted women in multiplayer but were stopped because it would upset the boys.

isn't that censorship as well?

don't cover that though.

no, because you have just as much of an "agenda" these "SJWs" you're always attacking.

and frankly, it's clear that original tweet is just to rile you guys up as promotion for the game.
you fell for it with doax, and you're falling for it again.

in fact you're the ones who should be offended here, because really, he's showing how little he thinks of you guys that he thinks he can manipulate you that easily.

but then again, it seems to be working, so...

[GameBoyColor]

Uhhh, as far as im concerned doax didnt gain anything from the way it was handled, and it still isn't coming to the west. I don't see how that's promotion...

[Fierce Musashi]

Still peddling that nonsense about DoAX being a "marketing ploy"? smh Why in blazes would Harada need THIS of all things to help promote one of the biggest fighting games\THE biggest 3D fighter of all time? At best, it's just a joke.

[thelaughingwiseman]

Keep being over sensitive assholes in the West and we will continue to get a watered down version of games. I am not going to be surprised when Japanese Developers just abandon Western ports of games that have to meet the sensitivity level of the west. I would not blame them one bit. Look, I am not upset at the lack of nudity or sexness in the games, it goes beyond that. As soon as these people find something to complain about in a game, they come out in droves to the point where the developers have to erase what is deemed too harsh for the common consumer to view/hear. This is a terrible fucking trend that has been occurring in the game world in recent years.

[Hoffmann]

I remember the really cool Tekken games that did not need swimsuits etc to be great games.

Tekken 3 will always be the best one.

[Kallisti]

Something tells me he got his ass whooped one too many times in Tekken. F**king Noob

[Teflon02]

Thing 1.
IGN can shut up.
2.
Clearly Capcom is a bunch of bosses because they're releasing bikinis soon and ain't no one stopping them (No, they did not censor Mika, they just wanted to change it).
3.
Tekken 7 will almost surely have it, it's just bikinis
4.
The sjw thing was a joke, don't get why people cry over jokes, like they've never watched a comedy before.
5.
SJW has nothing to do with Japanese developers. The people who localize these Japanese games are 95% of the time, an entirely different team that does check ins with the original devs. Also censorship almost always hits as a issue with rating, not because complaints, unless it's Nintendo lol