That's pretty damned impressive. I can only think of a handful of developers who could inspire that kind of outpouring of loyalty (and, of course, money).
Watching the Kickstarter on this rocket upwards every few minutes has been a thing of joy. I really, really hope this works out well. This funding model obviously wouldn't work for every game, but it's fantastic to have it as an option.
And a cheerful sieg heil to you too.
No, you're right; discrimination and treating other people like second-class citizens is awesome and is 100% the route to a prosperous and successful civilization. My eyes have been opened.
So, so good.
I love "Objection" and "Cornered" so much that I turned them into ringtones for my old phone.
You'd think the BBC would be familiar with the Daily Mail by now.
You know, I -could- detail the ways that those things are different (while acknowledging the flaws in each), but I'm finding your apparent defense of discrimination so distasteful that I'm not sure there's really any point.
Oh, I don't doubt they keep their employees at work, but I'm also not necessarily comfortable assuming that simply because they've chosen to do something, it's a good decision. History is filled with game companies making bad decisions (I'm looking at you, SEGA.)
I mean, yes, we can assume that Capcom isn't just leaving employees sitting idly by; on the flip side, though, localization for an Ace Attorney game isn't all that hard. We're looking at, essentially, the work of a couple of translators. There's no need to do significant VO recording or anything expensive like that.
Not that I'm discounting the work of those translators, of course, but...still.
...have you played KotOR 1? Because Juhani is pretty clearly gay, or at least bisexual.
I actually believe there are at least a couple of other examples, though I'd have to go digging to find them.
Also, I'm not sure why that really matters. We DO have mention of romance, so...why is it so different to have same-sex romance? Are we assuming that the Star Wars universe is SO different that the possibility doesn't even exist? Or is it more likely that it's just a subject Lucasfilm has tiptoed around thus far for fear of alienating some portion of their fan base?
Right, I understand that, but I guess a lot of it comes down to speculation. I mean, unless one of us is actually inside Capcom and can see what use those resources are being put towards, it's hard to say how justifiable the decision is.
Personally, it doesn't seem to me like their localization schedule is so packed that they couldn't fit it in there without taking those resources away from a more profitable project.
Yeah, how dare those minorities stand up for themselves! They should just shut up, move to the back of the bus, and be THANKFUL for their second-class status!
There's...not a mention of a LOT of things in the original movies. Excluding stuff based purely on that would leave you with a really, really limited amount of material to work with.
(Hell, there's no mention of Korriban, or Taris, or a lot of other things in the movies, yet those are still in the game.)
That would be relevant...if they had to produce an entirely new game.
However, they already HAVE the game. The question is, how much does the localization cost?
If the localization + manufacturing costs less than what they'd make from even the small number of sales, it's still profitable. The fact that it's not HUGELY profitable is irrelevant; Capcom doesn't HAVE to survive on that alone.
In other words, it doesn't need to do triple-A numbers. It simply needs to make more money than the cost of localization.
Eh, they seem to make everyone else's business THEIR business, so...fair is fair, I guess?
Capcom, I swear to god, if you don't follow through on this one...
Nngh.
I'm still pissed off about Ace Attorney Investigations 2. Capcom has apparently decided they don't like fans or money.
You can be Republic or Sith, and there are four classes for each. Two jedi classes for the Republic, plus smuggler and trooper. For the Sith, there are two actual Sith classes, plus bounty hunter and imperial agent.
So really, only two of the eight classes are "jedi" classes, and even then, there's nothing that says you have to be a perfect jedi.
If that's your personal opinion, then...it doesn't really affect anyone. It's when you do things like, say, pushing for legislation based on those opinions that it becomes other people's business.
And, y'know, I doubt the Family Research Council is -really- operating from a Biblical perspective, here; where's their outrage over all of the murder/theft/premarital sex/lying/etc. found in TOR?
You know what does get you somewhere? Marginalizing bigots and making their views socially unacceptable to express.
The whole "If you're tolerant, you have to tolerate intolerance!" thing is nonsense, and it's based on a false equivalence.
One group is responding to a direct attack on them.
The other group is going after people who want to live their lives without other people telling them what they can and can't do.
Guess which is which?
"I wouldn't call tolerating gays a good thing"
Oh really.
Given that America no longer has the same degree of institutionalized racism and women are sometimes treated like actual people capable of making decisions now?
Yes, I'd say America is better off.
Also, I think it's silly to imply that those social customs, in particular, had anything whatsoever to do with becoming a superpower. Even if they did, though...so what? That's like saying that the British should try setting up some colonies and oppressing the natives because, hey, it worked before.
