Players who send "silly threats" to Harada about Tekken 8's roster have a bigger impact than you think
Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada has spoken up the impact of trolling, revealing that even «silly threats» affect «everyone» in the fighting game community.
In a lengthy tweet earlier this week, Harada expressed his frustration at some of the messages he receives, appending an image of one which threatened to «hit [him] with a burning hammer» if Eddy isn't in Tekken 8.
«When people make these silly threats, I and everyone at FGC suffer the following losses,» Harada said, and then detailed the impact «silly» threats have.
«The event operator overreacts and increases security, which increases operating costs and increases the burden on the players attending the event. In the worst case, the event management will request me to cancel my attendance at the event,» he explained.
«Company founders, board members, and lawyers 'don't like to be intimidated', so they ask me to cancel [that character's] inclusion in the game, even though, for example, the specification or character under threat 'should have been included in the game in the first place'.
When people make these silly threats, I and everyone at FGC suffer the following losses (See attached image). --- (1) The event operator overreacts and increases security, which increases operating costs and increases the burden on the players attending the event. In the worst… pic.twitter.com/21dfMItVKe
»If the person making these threats uses the word 'we' instead of 'I' to represent the fans, the probability of the two aforementioned disadvantages occurring is increased," he continued, highlighting that those who use the term «we» are not speaking for an entire community. He then added a tongue-in-cheek example, saying that just because a troll insists «everyone around me
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