So just four days ago, Nintendo Treehouse opened a tumblr blog. Their platform of choice is no surprise, of course, and this is not why I'm writing this post. You see, the blog has a "contact us" feature. This gives us a platform to send a message directly to Treehouse in regards to their pseudo-localization and censorship practices. Previously you could tweet at their PR guy or email their customer support, hoping that they would pass it on to their supervisor (not likely) who you'd hope would pass it up higher up and higher up until it eventually but unlikely reached the heart of the problem, the Treehouse localization team.
So. I suggest any one of you who was dissatisfied with their shit write them a message and let them know. I am proposing a peaceful protest because I believe that asking them kindly en masse will yield more results than screaming like a pack of niggers, but how and if you write them anything is up to you personally.
also the link to their tumblr https: //nintendotreehouse.tumblr.com/ContactUs
Thomas Jackson
On paper it's a lost cause.
IIRC, most (but not all) of them are SJWs and/or brown-nosing up to Bill Trinnan or Reggie.
Second, their target audience is kids. Reggie says he doesn't consider Sony or Microsoft rivals, but toy companies. Why listen to the older audience, when the hipster and younger audience is larger?
Finally; they know people don't like their work, thanks to Torrential Downpour and the comment sections of trailers for FE or the like. When 8-4 was announced for Nier Automata- they had to make an announcement saying they were under strict supervision. So if they know they are shit, they will either change, or they will carry on regardless. And that info sure as hell won't get to Nintendo Japan, let alone the US shareholders.
Ask in a GG thread, but we shouldn't have to ask them to do their damn job. Complain publicly and humiliate them. Shitpost and meme them in the comments IMO.
William Rogers
I just sent a question about why they are not doing Fire Emblem Echoes. I wonder if they'll say anything incriminating or something relating to people complaining. I hope they say something that'll make Holla Forums laugh their asses off.
Chase Baker
On one hand I'm getting sick of their shit writing and stale memes, on the other hand my dick swells for combat suits way more than bikini tiddies I've never found a leftist willing to listen to concerns but good luck to you
Liam Morris
FE# (or whatever the FE x Shin Megami game was) claims it was localized by Atlus, but everyone felt like it was written by Treehouse.
So some folks suspect 8-4 is doing something minor for Echoes, while Treehouse puts 8-4 in front of them while doing the rest.
Jeremiah Hernandez
Is a lost cause user, just emulate or wait for the emulation to be good
Jason Allen
Look for an address to send a physical letter IMO.
Pic related; while debatable for it's authenticity, is certainly something businesses consider. If 100 schmucks write to you saying you suck, and your sales are 5000 less than predicted- then the 1 letter = more than 1 person theory holds more water.
Jackson Morris
That GamerGate reference on the second picture is already dated.
Brandon Howard
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Jordan Carter
This. Writing in to their tumblr is like asking a fatty to please eat only salad from now.
Dominic Robinson
Or is it just a reference to the general tendency to lazily put -gate at the end of every controversy, rather than Gamergate in particular?
Dylan Morales
Fuck off, retard.
Gavin Baker
While this is true, I would like to keep fighting anyway. They can't ignore it forever, can they? (checked) Who is doing Echoes?
You play a video game console for children, of course they're going to censor it.
Evan Ward
Gamergate
Joshua Morales
Thanks for the bump anyway
kek
Justin Howard
Oh god yeah- always complain, refuse to buy, and warn others from wasting their money.
Eventually your wallet will be heard, but speaking out speads that process up, rather than waiting for the casual consumer base to get bored & crash the industry.
It wad a water-gate reference, but thanks to another reference in the same area (The 5 Shuffling guys. 5 guys, burgers and lies) triggered SJW thought it was a GG reference. So they altered it IIRC.
Oliver Rogers
Stop pretending, you fucking newfag. -gate as a suffix predates Gamergate and Shufflegate happened around the same time as this game. Have you ever heard of Watergate: Exposed? No? Maybe because you're 12 and need to get the fuck off this imageboard for 6 more years.
Brody Fisher
No dude it clearly is a Gamergate reference, you can't fool me you fucking JEW.
Dominic Wright
I don't want Treehouse to go away because Nintendo deserves the consequences involved with ever hiring these pieces of shit in the first place. There's also the pesky truth that getting rid of them will just make them shit up other company's games but I can't imagine there's much green left for these locusts.
David Ortiz
Was it in the original script? We can safely assume no. Therefore it's NoA once again rewriting stuff which is indeed "somehow bad".
Considering that most other companies nowadays listen, I wouldn't imagine them getting hired anywhere else in current year.
Sebastian Reed
So what, you want a literal translation of a Japanese joke that will fall flat? No English is present in the original script either, all the translations are now bad.
See how fucking retarded that is? It's not a meme on the internet, it's probably replacing a Japanese culture reference to a western one that overall makes no difference in the quality of the game, which is mediocre to begin with.
Oliver Peterson
Yeah the minigame that line appearing in being the Five Funguys is totally a coincidence right?
Dylan Diaz
Proof or fuck right back off to butchering games, 8-4
Asher Rodriguez
Yeah, totally not a reference to the Fungi Fun Guys in Mario Party 8 a game exclusively about mini games. Can't possibly be.
John Butler
Prove that it wasn't in the script in the first place. Otherwise, fuck off with your incessant retardation.
Parker Sanchez
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Cooper Murphy
Of course not
Joseph Gonzalez
Do the nips not know these people are doing this or do they not care? This is their work why is the localization for these games allowed to do this kind of shit?
Lincoln Wright
I've been thinking about this. Censorship is definitely bad, but they aren't doing it for a bad reason. Their target demographic is kids, and if they didn't censor pic 3 like they did, the parents would never let their kids near their games. HOWEVER, if the game was rated M, and they still censored it, that would be a clear case of censorship for the worst reasons.
Pic 1. No proof it's connected, also I think I read somewhere they themselves said there was no connection.
Pic 2. Definitely wrong. This one should be fixed. I could see how they may have taken it out to make it more kid-friendly, but that dialogue could have easily at least been euphemized. The translator/supervisor that approved this here is lazy, and neither deserves to work at Nintendo.
Pic 3. See first paragraph
John Morgan
What a load of bullshit.
FE is a series about war and suffering and permadeath. According to American (soccer mom) standards it should have never have been marketed to children.
Dylan Foster
Not care and in fact finding it hilarious since it's revenge for the nuclear bombs. This is worse than nukes.
Justin Allen
Troll them pretending you're children and/or tumblristas. Use weasel words and innocuous sounding shit to get them to make a mistake.
Logan Cox
The Wii U is a console targeted toward children. Every video game made on it is targeted toward children and young teenagers.
Ryder Morgan
Then why do they even allow T an M rated games on their hardware?
Thomas Phillips
Speaking of, /r/ing the pic of one of the shy guys shitting on people who liked action commands, or the koopas from the final level that complain about having to do work then start talking in nigger speak.
Thomas Reed
Little boy/girl mode sounds better. Use childish speak, no swearing, but ask them wht they included weird stuff (for sjw references).
"The boy said i love you to another boy, that doesnt happen!"
Thomas Brooks
You'd have more luck writing a google-translated letter and sending it to NoJ.
Grayson Sanders
In retrospect the Shufflegate thing is actually kind of funny. You people need to grow a sense of humor
Grayson Martin
they should have censored her ugly mug
Landon Watson
The job of a localization company is to bring over the game the original developers made. The whole "Gotta change it for western sensibilities" has always been a cop out.
Oliver Moore
Don't forget this one. Treehouse's cancer goes back decades.
Jack Wright
You've never seen that webm'd interview snippet where they laugh at people like us, have you? They know exactly what they're doing and they know people hate it, it's not a communication issue with the numales at Memehouse, it's a communication issue with the nips giving them free reign because they either think it's normal/necessary what they do or they don't give a fuck.
Landon Hughes
Actually I'm fucking retarded, that webm I speak of is 8-4. I still strongly believe they're the same way though.
Chase Wood
I actually prefer the localization.
Oliver Collins
Yeah, me too, that user picked a pretty poor example
Jeremiah Rodriguez
Every time.
Adrian Barnes
I wish I was a Nintendrone. Then maybe it wouldn't hurt as much…
Jordan Moore
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Cameron Gonzalez
No one cares about your garbage asian children's cartoon games.
Jeremiah Garcia
Hello my fellow user's I see you like to browse this board as well. Have you considered throwing reasoning and rationality to the curb because this one example out of the many over the years doesn't upset me as much as your claiming it to upset you all, oh by the way remember to Buy a Nintendo Switch Today!
Blake Kelly
Not surprising in the least Nintendo Treehouse is using tumblr as their main base. Most of those assholes are tumblrtards anyway. I wish the entirety of NoA would burn to the ground, and be rebuilt from the ground up with people who don't like to ruin things.
you have to go back
Henry Ramirez
From what I understand, the rumor is that they are paid on commission, which means that the more work they do, the more they get paid. If that's true, then it probably has less to do with ideology as much as just a desire for a bigger paycheck, if they can use ideology or "the american nintendo market" (a market they're clearly out of touch with) to justify this or that change, then that's fine as long as they get a check.
To be fair, it's been a thing for years. There has always been some sense that the average American consumer of said product might not "get it" or that this or that thing might not be suitable for the target demographic the foreign branch is looking to bring in. The problem though is that sometimes the company is not in good communication with their own consumers to know what they want and are operating on baseless assumptions. For example, the censorship of Tokyo Mirage Sessions did absolutely nothing except alienate the one niche market who would have probably bought the game (hardcore animefags, SMT and Fire Emblem fans) and yet the changes did nothing to bring in the other markets who had no interest in such a game.
I really don't think it's as much Treehouse's fault. i really think what we blame on Treehouse is really a problem with the entire American branch of Nintendo and its relationship with their customer base.
Xavier Rivera
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Evan Cook
And you wonder why nobody respects you.
Angel Wilson
Really now? You really think these circlejerking faggots would listen to any sort of feedback that isn't cocksucking praise? This venture is doomed to failure.
All you can do is not buy their products, shittalk them every chance you can, and slowly lose faith in humanity as shit-eating numale SJWeebs funnel money to them hand over fist.
t. anti-NISA brigadier
Cooper Long
Yeah, how dare they unsexualize that 8 year old? I bet these perverts want to see that 5 year old having sex! Fucking pervert virgins need to get a grown woman rather than lust after a cartoon 4 year old!
Ryan Jenkins
What was censored is irrelevant, all we care about is that anything was censored or otherwise altered in any way other than honest translation.
The killer argument, however, is the fact that games are interactive software, and as such can lock out arbitrary amounts of content with ease through censorship options in the game's settings or installer. This is more true today than ever before with online distribution and consoles with mass storage (and much the same argument applies to things like undubs). Even when this is not taken advantage of, Japan (as always) offers the alternative of literally offering versions of the same game that range from hardcore porn to kiddy fare as different physical SKUs.
Asher Cox
Why would a nintendrone defend Treehouse? Their aren't involved with designing or making the game at all. Their only possible input is making the game worse by changing shit around.
Camden Richardson
you're implying I still want to buy shit from Nintendo anymore
Samuel Howard
Denial, mr double dubs.
These shits are in denial that their great and mighty leader would ever stoop and pull some shit like this. After all they must be perfect and can do no wrong.
Juan Phillips
Because it's Nintendo.
Kevin Bennett
As much as I'd love for Treehouse to burn and/or get their shit together I really don't see it happening. Best chance I think is a bunch of anons gathering their autism to translate games at hyper speed and offering their services to Nintendo for less than what Treehouse costs.
That wait time they added for the online features is one of the most pointless I've ever seen, right after how they literally removed nothing with the silent option for the avatar.
