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Im... Really bothered by all the people writing off everyone's complaints about the Mighty No. 9 issue the same way they wrote off incredibly legitimate claims against Sarkeesian and her credibility as a 'journalist' and 'activist'.

Actually, if you look at this informal survey that was passed around to various forums, including those 4chan and Reddit places you seem to complain about a lot her being a woman ranks as the bottom of the list. It's her being unfit for her position and lacking in qualifications that seems to be the highest..

You have enough people pull funding out of outrage, roll back the funding goals, then it all collapses while some Capcom executive laughs and orders SFIV, slightly altered costumes edition.

I think this should be apolitical, and bemoan both sides. But given what's at stake, having her on board is bad for business.

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Im... Really bothered by all the people writing off everyone's complaints about the Mighty No. 9 issue the same way they wrote off incredibly legitimate claims against Sarkeesian and her credibility as a 'journalist' and 'activist'.

I'm actually more bothered at the dismissal of nepotism being a problem. I mean, sure, if we're talking working as cashier or some other menial job then it doesn't mean much but in this case nepotism is a pretty bad thing when you get hired only because you're shacking up with a guy already attatched to the project and have flat out said you think said project is dumb. This ain't some Burger King job your dad got you, this is something with people's Kickstarter moolahz attatched to it. My own thoughts? Well the girl has clearly shown herself to be untrustworthy, biased, and has flat out said she thinks MN9 looks boring and doesn't care what the community thinks of her. That's not exactly the best person to have acting as some kind of liason between the community and the developers I'm personally against anyone in PR/community-esque position deleting tweets and posts and trying to cover stuff up and lying.. that just makes things worse.

[quote="Chagen45']I feel that the intense backlash is actually proof that the a person I disagree with politically types are losing however--they're scared, and fear turns to rage quickly. Before they were so assured of their privileged positions that they found even getting mad at any feminist efforts to be beneath them, but now they're legit terrified of the possibility of losing their privilege (as most of them are pathetic people who hold on to their privilege as it's the only way they have for denying their own patheticness) so they're freaking out and going on the defensive. Hopefully they'll lose. Hopefully.

Well, I don't believe the game ever specifically states what form the dragons are in when the... er, relations occur, so you can imagine. But unfortunately the latter is not an option. I get why I guess, with a big focus in FE:A being on the pairings resulting in children you can recruit, but they could have had same-sex couples adopt children. (Or in the case of Tharja, perform interesting magical experiments. )

its dishonest to assume that there isn't legitimacy to some of the criticism or grievance over this.

The creative industry is all about knowing people. She got in because she knew someone. Thats not an issue at all.

Also she speaks Japanese and English and lives in Japan. I'm sure those qualities helped regardless if she played a MM game at all.

I'm sure there are legitimate concerns, but I'm also sure a lot of it has to do with her gender and feminist views.

I think it's pretty funny anyone thinks she's going to push an agenda on this game, this game that already has no real sexualized content. She's not any creative director and the game seems to use many designers. She's just one cog on the art side. Bedsides what agenda could she push in a cartoon game like this? Having a female robot as playable character? Oh no!

I'm sure she locked her twitter for good reasons, this is the internet. No doubt she got some nasty messages.

She obviously funded the project and the posted video makes it like she started the entire thing all for attention. Except that she was seemingly responding to someone else post on the MN9 kickstarter. How dare she make a post while on the internet while on a page she was watching because she was baking it.

This has been a real sh!t storm and it's really over nothing. That's how silly it is. The game is going to get made and be fine. The people against Dima have really blown something out of porpotion. So she hasn't played a MegaMan game maybe, who cares? Why would that effect her job? She's not making the game. So she is a feminst? Ok so?

The whole thing is really stupid.

No, it really isn't.

It's a little more nuanced than simply knowing people. It's about knowing someone who is qualified for the job. If I were bring in someone for a storyboarding job simply because they're my friend, intimate life partner, or guild mate, and they aren't suited for the position, it would reflect poorly on me. Smaller, indie companies are usually more willing to put up with hiring less qualified people out of necessity.

Community managers are often the face of the dev team for the online community.

I've only seen 2 of her responses to questions, so maybe she already has this in spades, but unless you want only general answers to general questions (or require lots of go-between), the job demands an understanding of the content. By association to Mega Man, Mighty No. 9 has big, complicated history.

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It's a little more nuanced than simply knowing people. It's about knowing someone who is qualified for the job. If I were bring in someone for a storyboarding job simply because they're my friend, intimate life partner, or guild mate, and they aren't suited for the position, it would reflect poorly on me. Smaller, indie companies are usually more willing to put up with hiring less qualified people out of necessity.

What you're saying is understood. We're beyond that.

She was qualified. If the point of the community manager is to be bridge between the developers and the community she is perfect for the job as she is bi-lingual and located in Japan. Looking at that it makes since why she was offered the job, plus she had an in. What happen after that dosen't change that it made sense for her to get the job.

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Community managers are often the face of the dev team for the online community.

Are they, I have never seen anyone talk about the community managers for either a big say Bioware game or a small kickstarter game like say Shadowrun Returns. I've never seen anyone really talk about a developers community manager like this before, as if their views will screw with the game. Now the fact that this is a community funded game brings in a special context, but I still find it hard to believe this statement. At most a community manager is a special forum mod.

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I've only seen 2 of her responses to questions, so maybe she already has this in spades, but unless you want only general answers to general questions (or require lots of go-between), the job demands an understanding of the content. By association to Mega Man, Mighty No. 9 has big, complicated history.

You're telling me it requires deep history and knowledge for her to report to the people making the game that "hey the community is responding to this!" "the community wants this" "the community dosen't like this". Is it going to stop her from modding the forums?



Somehow I doubt it.

Actually, if you look at this informal survey that was passed around to various forums, including those 4chan and Reddit places you seem to complain about a lot her being a woman ranks as the bottom of the list. It's her being unfit for her position and lacking in qualifications that seems to be the highest..

http://strawpoll.me/865387/r