I'm out on all future projects he's involved in, but that's been the case since I first heard about his war crimes denial bullshit years ago. It's a shame because DQ8 is one of my all-time favorite games but it's tainted as a result as is the rest of the franchise.
We'll see how much of a soapbox SE continues to give him. For me personally they're on a thin line between me just not buying anything SE makes until he's gone.
As a german I would definitely instinctively oppose this statement. Don't know what to make of it.
As bad as Nazis is debatable, but both regimes were among the most deplorable examples of ethnic discrimination as government policy as you'll really be able to find. There's a reason why events like the
Rape of Nanking are named what they are.
I love his music. He can be an ass. But I want his music on a new dragon quest. I like to separate the artist from his work. I love Michael Jackson music. And don't like him as a person for example. Everybody has flaws. Look at James guun. I love guardians of the galaxy. But the guy is nuts
Michael Jackson - accused but never convicted of pedophilia. Problematic to be sure. He's dead now and his work is owned by a faceless megacorp, so there isn't much to decide here.
James Gunn - made a few shitty edgelord jokes on Twitter nearly a decade ago. Apologized for it a little over half a decade ago and hasn't backtracked on that apology.
Koichi Sugiyama - actively funds war crime denier propaganda and openly enjoys the idea of disenfranchisement of people based on gender identity and sexual preference as public policy.
Nice false equivalency you've constructed there.
You mean like the trade war the biggest man in the US started. Or the shit he talked about mexicans. Or that to this day nobody talked about how shit it was to use a nuclear bomb.
Wishing this man death is too extreme.
1. I think a lot of people having issues with Sugiyama also have issues with Donald Trump.
2. How was using a weapon that ended the worst war in history more expeditiously, employed by one of the aggrieved parties, "shit"? Maybe in the context of "don't start shit, won't be shit", but that's about all I got.
As for "too extreme"? I'm personally a strong believer that a life is worth only as much as you do with it. Most people wind up on the positive side of the ledger because the personal relationships they have put more good into the world than passively being shit in other ways.
Sugiyama actively pushes a net negative value out into the world. He makes some catchy video game music and I'm sure has people who love him. Meanwhile he actively funds and promotes hate speech towards tens of millions of people. I don't see how those scales balance or tilt to the good there.
That doesn't mean someone should go looking to take matters into their own hands, but it's simple empirical logic to say that if just the top 10% of net negative actors up and died of natural causes tomorrow the world would be a better place for it.