Square Enix now threatens to send players to jail for criticizing their employees

[Drimn]

"You can't criticize employees anymore!!!"

- The article is talking about employees receiving death threats and harassment

If you think this is about "criticism", or that SE would in any way shape or form have the power to send you to jail just over "criticism", I think you need to take a step back from the game and re-evaluate how you interact with people.

Considering we're talking about a company whose response to a fall from grace is to mimic a toxic 2010s Western development studio, yes, it is about criticism, since the kind of toxic developers we're talking about take any response other than gleefully facediving into whatever slop they present us and giving thunderous applause as harassment. None of this would be a big deal to anyone if it wasn't for the behavior of a few of SE's employees post-DT release, Yoshi-P included. We've seen how dev teams that behave like they have been interpret what's harassment and what isn't, and their definition is very broad.