SE, don't invite that journalist to Fanfest... ever.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

He still had a choice to stay neutral and distanced to all topics. He chose not to be and insulted likely everyone who is enjoying this game. It takes some guts to go to the director and producer to ask him about how players are erp'ing in a game. Its like the same going to your boss and ask him if his employees pay for "fun". Its everyones own business, and definetly not his. It was disrespectful against everyone who was sitting in that hall, yoshida and his team.

I fully agree to that. My point isn't "that guy is a good guy". It's just "That's what journalism is nowadays, I expected nothing more, so I am not disappointed."

[Nalfein]

To be fair, I don't find it THAT bad. Sure, he's a jerk, he doesn't understand a thing about it, and he lacks respect for cosplayers and RPers... but then again... that's what most people already think.

But then again why would one invite someone like him? I don't get it, I thought the fanfest was about tease and promote the game. There was so much to say then the guy chose te report garbage.

[LZero]

Just want to chime in to voice my support for never inviting RockPaperShotgun and this guy to any future FFXIV events.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

But then again why would one invite someone like him? I don't get it, I thought the fanfest was about tease and promote the game. There was so much to say then the guy chose te report garbage.

They probably thought he'd write something better. Then again, it's not as bad as you all tend to make it. The guy just said "that's not for me, but some find it cool" in a quite disrepectful way. He's disrespectful, he lacks a lot of skills that make a good journalist, and yeah, rock paper shotgun could have send someone that's more fitted for the game. They didn't, and that lead to that mess. You can't blame SE for inviting a medium that's quite popular (for reasons unknown to me, but still). Alexa ranks it 2500ish, so sure, it's not IGN, but it has an audience. It's about video games, and they might have made some good avertisement for the game. They didn't, because they sent a jerk. There's no need for an uproar, in my opnion...

[jameseoakes]

They probably thought he'd write something better. Then again, it's not as bad as you all tend to make it. The guy just said "that's not for me, but some find it cool" in a quite disrepectful way. He's disrespectful, he lacks a lot of skills that make a good journalist, and yeah, rock paper shotgun could have send someone that's more fitted for the game. They didn't, and that lead to that mess. You can't blame SE for inviting a medium that's quite popular (for reasons unknown to me, but still). Alexa ranks it 2500ish, so sure, it's not IGN, but it has an audience. It's about video games, and they might have made some good avertisement for the game. They didn't, because they sent a jerk. There's no need for an uproar, in my opnion...

I can't see how this is advertisement for the game, the article seems to go to great effort to make the player base look as weird as possible, it's nothing more than a hatchet job at best.

[Kallera]

They probably thought he'd write something better. Then again, it's not as bad as you all tend to make it. The guy just said "that's not for me, but some find it cool" in a quite disrepectful way. He's disrespectful, he lacks a lot of skills that make a good journalist, and yeah, rock paper shotgun could have send someone that's more fitted for the game. They didn't, and that lead to that mess. You can't blame SE for inviting a medium that's quite popular (for reasons unknown to me, but still). Alexa ranks it 2500ish, so sure, it's not IGN, but it has an audience. It's about video games, and they might have made some good avertisement for the game. They didn't, because they sent a jerk. There's no need for an uproar, in my opnion...

I don''t think people are blaming SE for this. more like asking SE to disallow RPS from attending after this article.


It wasn't even about being disrespectful to SE, but being deceitful and disrespectful to the fans and cosplayers(who had a cosplay contest as part of the events, which was convieniently left out in the article.)

[Bellsong]

I fully agree to that. My point isn't "that guy is a good guy". It's just "That's what journalism is nowadays, I expected nothing more, so I am not disappointed."

I always found apathetic stances like this to be really pointless to bring to a discussion. Also from what I'm seeing no one is blaming SE for this, it's not odd for companies to pay for coverage, but the company could have sent someone with at least a hint of knowledge about the game.

[Sorimachi87]

I know this has been said multiple times already (probably). And i didnt read any of this thread yet.

But this article is disgusting. Please SE i hope you learned from that.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

I always found apathetic stances like this to be really pointless to bring to a discussion.

I always found people that do an uproar for nothing to be really pointless to be in a discussion. Different point of view, I guess.

That's an article like there are dozens everyday that says nothing more than what most people already think. Get over it, that kind of attitude will not help anyone.

[CosmicKirby]

"“Huuuhh!?” says director Naoki Yoshida when I ask about this during a press Q and A. He seems surprised,"

You don't say? I wonder why he would be surprised being asked a question that most people would consider not only in poor taste even outside the context of a press conference, but also completely irrelevant to the event in progress and the big announcements that were made? Truly the great mystery of our time.

Who in their right mind would think that would be in any way appropriate, interesting or even profitable for their outlet? What journalistic value does it have?

He clearly asked the question on the small chance he'd get a juicy click/bait or outrage answer. If Square had said something like "It's ok" in any capacity, the hounds of outrage journalists would jump in.