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Game Company Square Enix Threatens To Sue Customers For Criticizing Their DEI Practices
posted 1 year ago by redneonglow 1 year ago by redneonglow +74 / -0

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/game-company-square-enix-threatens-sue-customers-criticizing-their-dei-practices

https://archive.ph/6j6UE

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– SoctaticMethod1 25 points 1 year ago +25 / -0

They're mixing harassment with opinions yet still demanding customer feedback because they're shit out of ideas.

I wouldn't hold your breath of another Kingdom Hearts game from them anytime soon...

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– stalememes 11 points 1 year ago +11 / -0

It's gonna suck anyways, considering their track record. :V

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– SparkMandrill83 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

You mean the track record of Kingdom Hearts games being shit right?

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– stalememes 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

I was actually still lowkey seething about the disaster that is FF7 Rebirth when I made that comment, but yeah, the KH Franchise is a disaster as well. The story gets more convoluted bullshit with each new entry. And if I'm being perfectly honest, even the old games (that I loved and still have a lot of nostalgia for) are kinda retarded.

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– Adamrises 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Anyone who still wants another Kingdom Heart after the disaster that was 3 isn't smart enough to spell DEI.

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– XBX_X 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Pfft. KH3 came 15 years too late. The season passed on that franchise long, long ago. Everything has changed.

Square needs to explore new ideas because Final Fantasy isn't the franchise it once was, either.

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– powerneed 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

with how dogshit the 3rd Kingdom Hearts game was im fine with that god i still cringe at the trash that was the 3rd game opening

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– stalememes 16 points 1 year ago +16 / -0

The company defines consumer harassment as:

[...] excessive pursuit or reprimand.

So, telling them to shut the fuck up, when they insult the customer base on twitter.

[...] denial of personality, personal attack

Cry moar, faggot.

[...] advance notice of wrongdoing

Threats? You mean threats? Fucking weasel ass language.

[...] Persistent inquiries

Asking why a bug hasn't been fixed yet three times in a row, gets your ass sued lol.

[...] Unlawful restraint including via telephone calls and online inquiries.

How do you restrain someone via an online inquiry? Just close the tab nigga.

[...] Discriminatory speech and conduct regarding [...] occupation, etc.

Games journos still don't deserve human rights and neither do localizers. Sue me, fag.

[...] Unreasonable response or request for an apology

Lol, if you want some twitter dipshit to apologise to you for throwing around anti-white/male slurs, you're gonna get sued.

[...] Unreasonable and excessive demands for punishment of our employees

And also, when you want aforementioned dipshit to be fired.

Ay lmao. What a clown show.

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– fauxgnaws 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

[...] advance notice of wrongdoing

Threats? You mean threats? Fucking weasel ass language.

I don't think it's weasel language, I think it's just weird because it's translated from Japanese.

To me this reads like Japanese subway signs with 'no breakdancing' graphics.

I'm not even sure if this is DEI or against. Who is calling up support and bitching at staff? It's not the sane people that just want to play the game.

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– stalememes 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

I skimmed too much and missed the translation part. But now a couple of the weird phrases make more sense. I assume the part about restraining someone via e-mail is also due to quality translation.

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– Socalwackjob 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

I consider most of the big Japanese game companies to be unsalvageable. Square Enix in partiicular I feel strongly certain that they drowned themselves in cool aid, the old Square isn't coming back. From the longest time, I began to suspect Naoki Yoshida's becoming too much of a westaboo. Once an influential figure in big Japanese companies become westaboo, the internal structure of the companies almost always end up subverted and get infiltrated by the marxists. Sad I was curious about the rumour of them remaking FF9 but if this news today isn't a big red flag of them doubling down then, I guess I shall ignore their products like I have been doing.

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– 1776ReasonsWhy 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

FFXIV has been slowly warping into a tranny paradise for a while, all but officially. They've been gradually removing gender-locks on clothing and outfits, so now men can wear maid dresses, wedding gowns, and bikinis and force you to look at them as you play.

Meanwhile, class- and role-locked armor is still important enough to keep rigidly in place, even though there are all sorts of class-irrelevant costumes that anyone can wear, such as the maid outfit. Is that a Warrior or Mage in that dress? Who knows, but at least it doesn't matter if it's a man or woman!

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– Telia 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

The more you say that i can't critisize you the more i shall critisize you.

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– ParadigmShift2070 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Cool it with antisemitic remarks

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– ernsithe 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/19A1LUyEp7/niche-gamer-bashes-critics-of-ge/c/
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/19A1LW5nnR/square-enix-adopts-new-customer-/c/

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– Ferretman 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Well now, glad I don't buy anything from them.

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– JustHereForTheSalmon 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Square Enix is a shit company that makes shit games and can never live up to the former glory of either constituent company.

There, now sue me so I can get awarded treble damages with my state's anti-SLAPP statutes.

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– Nohomo 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

I wonder if Square Enix suing people for boycotting them due to DIE is going to be next?

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– realerfunction 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

do it faggot

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– nuggetpatrol 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Have you noticed that gaming has always been toxic and has had a toxicity problem and it's been there forever and ever, even though no one flung around phrases like toxicity problem until absolutely vile toxic people began infiltrating the hobby?

You're only hearing about how much of a problem you are ever since the thin skinned people who see and hear things they hate everywhere are here who point out everything they hate.

Remember, everything must change because I'm here now and you can't act that way because I don't like it. Oh my god, where is all this hate coming from? I just want you to change to a way that I want, and not what you want.

I know what's best, and what's best is what I want. It changes from day to day, and is generally impossible to follow. But I simply wish to control you, and the easiest way to do that is to force you to do what I want, while I destroy the thing you like.

So just sit there and take it, while I go ahead and add more rules, and burn the institution to the ground.

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– ParadigmShift2070 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Saar have you tried turning your ps5 off and on?

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– You_Are_Based 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

I hate youtubers but I will throw an idea into the ether for them:

Call square enix by phone and tell the customer service representative that you have feedback regarding this policy. Go down the list of banned acts one by one violating them over the phone with hilariously un-prosecutable phrasings (i.e. "no intimidation, duress"... "sir I am big and strong and therefore you must ungay the game")

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– deleted 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0
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– ActiveLurker 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Square has been a shit company for at least 20 years or more, but like a helpless slave, I still gave them money to see FF14's Hydelyn arc to its conclusion in Endwalker. Endwalker was, in hindsight, a pretty great expansion and I enjoyed myself quite a bit through the whole 14 experience.

Then Yoshida went to FF16, saying he wanted it to be grimdark and mature (two things FF has never been). Then he said he wanted to ape Game of Thrones for fuck's sake. Then he added fags to the story. By the time Dawntrail was announced, it was easy to see the writing on the wall for 14, but I went ahead and bought it anyway. Probably the worst $80 purchase I ever made in my life, because I thought, "surely they won't intentionally fuck up their cash cow, right?"

Dawntrail is horrendous even beyond the EN tranny. He's bad enough, but the overall quality of the story (ie, the only real reason to get invested in 14 aside from sweaty raid content) is so shit that it's actually laughable. The worldbuilding is childish nonsense. Literally everything that made the Heavensward/Shadowbringers/Endwalker good was subverted by incompetence with no signs of recovery.

14 is dead and shit like this afflicting the management is what's killing it. Square itself is a walking corpse. It won't be much longer now.

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