Tekken 7 Director Expresses Frustration Against “Smash Bros. Spam”

The director vocally called out multiple 'character request' campaigns and will request Bandai Namco to not include any in the game.

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;super-smash-bros-ultimate-for-switch-announced-at-e3-2018&sol;">Super Smash Bros&period; Ultimate<&sol;a>&&num;8216&semi;s roster is one of the largest crossovers we could ever see in a video game of this caliber&period; However&comma; the endless demand for more and more characters never seems to end&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s no secret that many sub-communities which demand the appearance of a particular character have appeared since the concept of third-party DLC characters was announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While it is nice to speculate about which character should appear in Smash Bros&period; next&comma; it can get draining for the game&&num;8217&semi;s developers to hear <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendolife&period;com&sol;news&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;super&lowbar;smash&lowbar;bros&lowbar;fans&lowbar;are&lowbar;harassing&lowbar;masahiro&lowbar;sakurai&lowbar;over&lowbar;waluigi&lowbar;snub" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">people shouting a character&&num;8217&semi;s name for the 20&comma;000th time<&sol;a>&period; The Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has seriously had enough of this kind of behavior and has quite recently vented his frustration on Twitter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">You guys are a spammer&period; I talk with Mr&period;Sakurai &amp&semi; BandaiNamco&&num;39&semi;s Smash development team so that your request will NOT be approved as much as possible&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And &ast;Muted&ast; bye&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&commat;Alberto72892547 <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;JonesyForSmash&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;JonesyForSmash<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;SoraForSmash&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;SoraForSmash<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;DoomSquidKid&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;DoomSquidKid<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;PutCrashInSmash&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;PutCrashInSmash<&sol;a> &commat;ArleForSmash <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;HaloGuyForSmash&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;HaloGuyForSmash<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Katsuhiro Harada &lpar;&commat;Harada&lowbar;TEKKEN&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Harada&lowbar;TEKKEN&sol;status&sol;1185053442563162113&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">October 18&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The industry veteran had a small rant on social media this morning&comma; accusing several Twitter users of being &&num;8220&semi;spammers&&num;8221&semi;&comma; making a point of muting them&comma; and going on to say that he&&num;8217&semi;ll be personally talking to Smash director Masahiro Sakurai to make sure their requests aren&&num;8217&semi;t approved&period; As such&comma; perhaps we can make the case about how Jonesy from Fortnite has just been de-confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;harada-requesting-localization-project-zon&sol;">Harada<&sol;a> went on to talk about why this kind of &&num;8220&semi;Spamming&&num;8221&semi; bothered him so much&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">If you are still relentlessly spamming&comma; that just means hampering the work of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Sora&lowbar;Sakurai&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;Sora&lowbar;Sakurai<&sol;a> and Bandai Namco&&num;39&semi;s Smash development team&period; <br &sol;>Just One Tweet is enough for request&period; DO NOT SPAMMING to us&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Developers don&&num;39&semi;t negotiate with Spammer and terrorists&period;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;zbaoIqyViW">https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;zbaoIqyViW<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Katsuhiro Harada &lpar;&commat;Harada&lowbar;TEKKEN&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Harada&lowbar;TEKKEN&sol;status&sol;1185058018477559809&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">October 18&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t seem like the community has caught a hint about Harada&&num;8217&semi;s warning because even now some members of the community have started to bombard this tweet with several character requests for Smash and&comma; in the case of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;negan-clobbers-the-competition-in-tekken-7-this-month&sol;">Tekken<&sol;a>&comma; the inclusion of Snake which is <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;an-evo-2019-joke-had-fans-thinking-snake-would-be-in-te-1836971892" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">a joke that has stopped being funny<&sol;a> long ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Father&comma; could you please tell Sakurai to add Hatsune Miku as punishment for the spammers&quest; This is the one time I&&num;39&semi;ll mention it&period; 🙏 <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;yHh1AQc5A5">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;yHh1AQc5A5<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Styx &lpar;&commat;&lowbar;StyxXIII&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;&lowbar;StyxXIII&sol;status&sol;1185060768301174789&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">October 18&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"nl" dir&equals;"ltr">Put Snake in Tekken<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; HMK &lpar;&commat;HMKilla&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;HMKilla&sol;status&sol;1185064371766153216&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">October 18&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harada has since made a few ammendments to the statement&period; First stating that he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t like the fact that he &lpar;and other members of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;dark-souls-3-breaking-records-bandai-namco&sol;">Bandai Namco<&sol;a> staff&rpar; like to be constantly tagged about character requests for Smash and that Bandai Namco appreciates feedback and requests&period; However&comma; there must be a line drawn in the sand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Huh&quest;<br &sol;>A boycott by spammers is welcome&period; Most people are decent so no problem&period; <br &sol;>We are not saying we don&&num;39&semi;t listen to opinions&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Spam is not accepted”&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Can you read the letters&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Katsuhiro Harada &lpar;&commat;Harada&lowbar;TEKKEN&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Harada&lowbar;TEKKEN&sol;status&sol;1185104336512143360&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">October 18&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">We listen and value opinions&comma; requests and feedback&period; However&comma; spam due to a large amount of tagging and replying interferes with normal communication&period; <br &sol;>I always listen to opinions&comma; but spam and tagging are not welcome&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It ’s simple&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;lpDTDv58Eg">https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;lpDTDv58Eg<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Katsuhiro Harada &lpar;&commat;Harada&lowbar;TEKKEN&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Harada&lowbar;TEKKEN&sol;status&sol;1185107871203131392&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">October 18&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What do you think about Harada&&num;8217&semi;s opinion on the Smash Bros&period; Ultimate community&quest; Are there any characters you&&num;8217&semi;d like to have as part of the official roster&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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