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TheValkyrieAsh
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Really? Just be glad your religion is getting mentioned at all. Religion is kind of on its way out in first world countries.
Personally I'm waiting for a game where Jesus and the 12 apostles become Moe girls and you have to win them over by taking them on dates. |
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Aquamine-Amarine
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It's fiction. Get over it. People need to stop being offended by things that don't exist.
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SilverTalon01
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Say what now? I think they may have forgotten to send that memo out to everyone else...
Well, I think part of it is profit rather than being offended. Such as the shrines not wanting to be associated with bad luck due to the game website's fortune drawing. |
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Yuvelir
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Quite more tolerant and rational than I expected.
Nobody wants to see their passion being oversimplified and nobody wants their source of income being tied to bad luck. They're not even asking to get the game removed or saying it's all negative. That man is just like "hey, be more careful". Not like it would be bad if all gacha games just vanished though. |
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PotatoGirl
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I wonder if this means the shrines are going to want a more active part in the project, to attract more people and make themselves look better. If they don't ask to be excluded that is.
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Shar Aznabull
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All very reasonable complaints. Hopefully the developers take the criticism to heart and work towards making the game more authentic to its subject matter.
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FenixFiesta
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When someone is so behind the times, it simply isn't funny. Pop media using historical or even religious references is nothing new, the only "difference" is that the target of this particular media is real world Shinto holy locations. What can be said that supports the worries is that there DO indeed become spikes in popularity where tourists that otherwise would have no interest in the location would want to visit with the usual expected Otaku mentality and treat the sites like they would a theme park, there have been a fair number of anime series that would prominently feature some sort of shrine and within a year of premiere the hardcore of fans MUST see the real world location it was based upon. There MIGHT be future issues, but it is likely an exaggeration of the potential problem (unless this Shrine Maiden app somehow usurps Kancolle, which then yeah otaku visiting places will be like locusts swarming your holy grounds). |
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Hoppy800
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At least the response was better than the BBC. However, I don't think have too much to worry about, the Otaku and others playing these games aren't dummies.
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H. Guderian
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If anything they should look at this as a chance to ensnare interested youngsters to educate them. I mostly think they're upset they didn't think of it first.
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Yuvelir
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I don't know about that last statement. These are the people spending hundreds on randomized cards, resources and lockout removers with the odds severely stacked against them. |
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SilverTalon01
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I don't see how spending money on a hobby that you enjoy makes you a dummy. I wouldn't spend my money on that, but I'm sure I spend plenty on things some people wouldn't want to spend money on. So what if the odds are stacked against you. Plenty of people find gambling fun while knowing full well the odds are stacked against them (not talking about dummies / addicts that gamble more than they can afford). |
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FenixFiesta
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The idea is that people that don't have patience and spend several months of worth of whatever money they muster up on digital goods may have entitlement issues.
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SWAnimefan
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First off, given certain comments above, I feel I need to say this: Please be respectful of others, even if you don't believe in a deity or have faith in a religion.
As for this game developer, who knows what's their true motive. But I have to side with the priests. Even if the motives were pure, those gamer / fans / otaku very likely would be coming to the shrine with non-religious motives to pay omage to that character than the shrine / deity itself. Which devalues the shrine as a site of worship / or as a site of historical value. Which very well could be the "bad luck" the priests in the article was indirectly referring to. Then there is the games profit itself. I don't see anything that the game developers are planning to share their profits with the shrines themselves. Which in a way is taking advantage of them. And these shrines aren't exactly rolling in the money. So I can't in good faith side with this company. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Well, we've already got Jesus and Buddha as roommates (which was great, btw). So that wouldn't surprise me. What did surprise me was that what they took issue with was the fortune telling and not the sexualization of the shrines. If this takes off, I would not want to be a shrine maiden at one of these sites. |
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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Kind of. An 6% drop in seven years is eyebrow-raising, but there's no indication of whether it'll be a continuing trend or not. |
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