MarsAtlas said:
They've had a year of response since they edited that, seeing that people wanted that feature. They decided to not include it in the US version,
That feature was also not included in the Japanese game either.
with over an entire year in which they easily could've fixed the problem with save file corruption and included same-sex couples. It appears very, very strongly that they have not. If they have, their response to the Miiquality movement should've been "Yes, we've included same-sex relationships", not what they actually said, which is:
"We have heard and thoughtfully considered all the responses... We're using this as an opportunity to better understand our consumers and their expectations of us at all levels of the organization,"
Yeah. And? By that time the entire dev team for that games is off doing other big projects for Nintendo. They fixed the bug after a couple of months after the games initial release, made a statement saying they aren't going to implement it in this title, but hinted that in future titles that can become a thing. None of that even remotely implies that Nintendo is against gay rights. All it implies is that they aren't doing it for this one particular game.
Why not? They did it to censor Animal Crossing, Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door, and all subsequent portrayals of Birdo in North America localizations.
Because every single one of those games had those audited out by the American branch of Nintendo. Not Nintendo of Japan. Not to mention that all of those games had an intended release date for markets outside of Japan months after the Japanese release. Tomodachi Life is not one of those cases in the slightest. This was a game that for the longest time never had a market outside of Japan and have just now decided to see how the Western Market likes it and as such gave the game to Treehouse to translate. That's all this game is. A direct translation port from the Japanese game.
Okay, so? They chose money over recognizing the validity of gay people's existence.
Yes. Let's ignore the dozens of other characters Nintendo have made queer/transgendered etc and claim that Nintendo doesn't exist gay marriage. Keep this up. They aren't even putting money before anything. They are taking a big enough risk already just porting this game because it was thought to be "Too Japanese"
Yeah, so? That still gives me and every other person every right to judge them for the actions they're committing in regards to this.
So basically your purposefully ignoring the facts right in front of you so you can continue to assert the false claim that Nintendo is against the LGBTQ+ community over a single bug that broke the game patched out over a year ago?
Like I said, they had a year,
They did not have a year. The original dev team for this game has long gone off to new projects months after the game's release.
and developers are already working on the game via localization teams. Its not unreasonable to say that they could've done so.
Nintendo Treehouse are not part of the development teams for Tomodachi life. Nor do they have the time or budget to go in to complete recode a game. They could of done so, but that would take way too many resources out of other games with tighter deadlines to implement something for a game that's a year fucking old. I can see no company big or small going back and doing that. I don't expect to see Nintendo doing that.
"The relationship options in the game represent a playful alternate world rather than a real-life simulation. We hope that all of our fans will see that 'Tomodachi Life' was intended to be a whimsical and quirky game, and that we were absolutely not trying to provide social commentary."
Sorry, but they are making a bit of social commentary. They're saying that non-heterosexuals don't have a place in this world, a world which already included sexual relationships.
That's not what they said. Especially when you just quoted them stating that they will do better on this issue in newer installments.
Yes. This is lashing out:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/a-shooting-at-family-rese_b_1789256.html
Saying you're not going to buy their videogames anymore because they did something you don't like is not.
And? The reaction to this is lashing out over a whole lot of shit that's a non issue. You aren't going out and killing people and I never stated you aren't allowed to not buy Nintendo products. But you have basically sat here and told me that while you acknowledge why they couldn't do it. Your still going to go out of your way and claim that Nintendo is against LGBTQ+ people because they didn't patch it into a game that came out a fucking year ago.
It was an un-announced alteration in a localization,
Do you really think it would of been important enough to announce?
and the only people who would've known about it at release are people who themselves localized the games.
And... you know, the people who own the Japanese versions of the game.
Also this http://kotaku.com/animal-crossing-characters-changed-sex-for-western-rele-554496463
In this instance, they're making a public press release.
In response to a well thought out and reasonable comment on the matter.
I never said they had anything against the community.
Oh my God are you serious now? Your entire post to me and the topic as a whole basically said that Nintendo made a stance on gay marriage and that stance is that they think they don't exist. Which in extension is them being against the LGBTQ+ community. Even your own reply on the matter to me says as much. Now your pulling out?
I said that they valued a safe, stable release and not pissing off any overly-conservative mom who notices that there's a queer person in their game than representing the queer community, especially for children. It doesn't necessarily make them an enemy, but it doesn't mean that they're an ally either.[/quote]
