Bandai Namco EMBRACES DEI! VOWS To TRANSFORM Japan Into DIVERSE DYSTOPIA! Blue Protocol SHUTS DOWN?!

so ever since an employee from sweet baby Inc tried to cancel a guy from Brazil for having an opinion Gamers have become a lot more aware of what gaming consultancy agencies and corporate heads are trying to do in pushing diversity equity and inclusion into all facets of the gaming industry gamers in the west have become a lot more receptive to when Dei is being pushed in a video game they're able to pick up on it a lot easier because of how mainstream it has become to search for Dei in a video game however in other countries not everybody is up to speed specifically Bandai Namco who apparently love the idea of diversity equity and inclusion as per one of their panels in which they preach to a bunch of people about their future plans with Dei at the Computer Entertainment developers conference on the 21st to the 23rd maybe you have not heard of this conference well you're not the only one this is my first time hearing about it and I had a similar sentiment when I had heard about the GDC the game developers conference in 2024 in which Kim Belair of Sweet Baby Inc started preaching about how EV white people are and how important diversity is the difference I'm seeing so far between these two conferences however is that one is in Japan and has a lot less people standing in a field screaming about how evil they think gamers are but that doesn't change the fact that Dei is making its way across international waters at warp speed as you can see from this article that was machine translated to English from Japanese for gamer covered this panel in extensive detail diversity that does not properly take into account the worldview and setting can make make the content unnatural the significance and importance of Dei representation in games and what to keep in mind when introducing it so these people want to introduce Dei into the future development of their Games Hardcore not just through English localization which we'll get into but they want to start adopting it in Japan so much so that they've been developing in-house training for their departments in band damco for the last year using about 10 years of data from what western partners are saying to them and surveys that they have conducted in my opinion they're looking in all of the wrong places because they've come to a very interesting conclusion that we're going to go over but I want to break this down for you guys so that you understand what's been going on and just so you know all of this information has been verified from multiple co-pilots that I have on my computer that translate this stuff I've translated the images and the text to verify that the information is being disseminated in this article and other news outlets are also confirming this information as well so let's read this together in this session miss Miki Okuma of the quality assurance Department Bandy Namco online business division introduced the knowledge of Dei expression that she gained an aiming for overseas expansion of the company's online game project and the efforts she made to disseminate it throughout the company it's always business Executives isn't it it's always quality assurance Department Representatives it's never the people that are developing these games that say these things that are pushing these initiatives it's never the people that are actually playing the games that want to do this and it says why did we focus on Dei expression at the beginning of the session Mr Oka explained why band damco online placed importance on Dei representation in order to broaden the scope of content and expose a wide variety of game players it's very clear that they're being influenced by the West whatever they've seen happening in the west they've taken it the wrong way and they're saying wow this is very popular very talked about very controversial in the west maybe we should start considering implementing this stuff into our video games which is a terrible idea obviously because sweet baby Inc games Dei infested video games do not do particularly well in the West Allen wake 2 which has yet to make a profit Spider-Man 2 which I believe either has yet to make a profit or has barely made a profit and other Dei games like dustborne and flint loock and Studios that have shut down because of these gaming consultancy agencies and their activities Within These companies Gamers have become very aware of what happens when Dei is involved you basically see failure across the board while other games like black myth Wukong that have zero Dei in them or Stellar blade are doing phenomenal in the games Market millions of copies have been bought for black myth Wukong over a million people were playing it on the first hour and how much Dei does it have in it zero so why aren't they using these examples to include in their data they want to share their findings with the world and make this a global thing M Oka says that in order to expand overseas it's necessary to open the door not only domestically but also overseas as in the past however no matter how much you try to open the door if the content is not attractive people will not pay attention to it in my opinion that's a universal truth if it doesn't look attractive people probably are not going to buy it I agree but this is also a red flag this is dangerous because if you're going to start implementing Dei into future games you're probably going to try and implement it subtly which means it's going to be harder for people to pick up on if they're more clever about it we definitely don't want this kind of brainwashing nonsense in video games so I disagree with their take on implementing it at all but they do say that it is also true that not all people in the world have the same tastes and I agree with that many people do have different tastes so they'll definitely have a subjective Viewpoint when it comes to Beauty so they're definitely weighing their options here they say in the process of thinking about the appeal of content to be picked up the word Dei emerged this is because some of the feedback from overseas Partners was related to Dei so their Partners were like hey this stuff is real good even though they're outright lying to Bandy Namco Miss Oka reiterated that Dei is an acronym for diversity equity and inclusion which means to create a situation in which diverse personalities are respect and can demonstrate their abilities under an equitable environment and conditions man these people need to look at how dustborne is doing maybe they'll change their mind I don't know maybe not in particular since the black lives matter movement became popular in the United States the momentum for Dei in terms of race and ethnicity has been increasing in public opinion and it has become a trend to demand it not only in real life but also in entertainment which has led to the above feedback but I don't think that black lives matter is the best example to use in convincing people people to adopt this sort of thing feedback on Dei includes a variety of factors but most of it related to appearances which is particularly noticeable so they do go over how they're going to work appearances into injecting this stuff which we're about to go over but I found what they said right here very interesting they said this may raise the question of whether people really want Dei elements in game content in the first place or whether it is not the preference of the person who sent the feedback however in a survey conducted by nuu a game Market research company on gamers in the US and the UK 55% of respondents answered strongly agree or somewhat agree with the question is Dei important to me so that's a very fascinating result 55% about half of the people who took the survey said oh we strongly agree we're we're totally in agreement with Dei being important to specifically me well that's usually the case is it not Dei is important to individuals but to the collective of Gamers across the world it doesn't seem to be that popular most Dei games are failing right now so who are these 55% of people who are saying oh yeah it's totally important this thing should absolutely become even more of a thing that it already is they're clearly lying to band damco in their surveys because even though corporate heads are pushing it everywhere that doesn't mean that it's popular if it's popular or being talked about a lot it's because of the fact that it's so controversial and so many people are pushing back against it not because it's being widely accepted and maybe that's what band damco thinks their localization team certainly think so bounding in the comics pointed this out in January band damco localization teams admit they order Japanese devs to censor their female character designs we tell them that the cleavage is a bit too exposed or the skirt is a bit too short and how many times have we seen that kind of thing in game development it seems like most remakes or most remasters that these game companies make censor a bunch of crap in their games things that are completely unnecessary to censor but seemed to be there for warping the perception of the game to match what modern audiences W so the localization teams of bti Namco are already on board with this they've been doing this for quite some time so let's go over what made them start to feel this way an episode in which dreadlocks one of the hairstyles that can be selected in the character creation of blue protocol which by the way has just been shut down in Japan and the Amazon version of it for the West has been outright cancelled which I'll touch upon but this was added in response to feedback from overseas Partners Miss Oka said that she was shocked by the feedback that there is no such expression in the game for the first time and that that is what diversity is all about yeah it's all about dreadlocks quote not being represented not only does not meet the need for self- expression but it may also mean that we are not Imagining the identities of many players he said adding I realize that not expressing oneself May nullify the existence of a person in the face of discrimination so it's all about being seen in the face of discrimination discrimination from who you don't mean white people right who's being discriminated against for you not including dreadlocks in your game that's that doesn't make much sense but it says originally Moka wondered if there was a need for diversity in game content while you were on the right track when you were questioning it your conclusion should have been no I think we're not going to put Dei in games that's a terrible idea all of these companies have shut down they're being roasted to death by Gamers and their reputations are being ruined this is a terrible idea but for some reason they're going off of information that is not relatable at all to whether this stuff is actually necessary obviously from a moral standpoint this stuff is absolutely not necessary because of the intent behind it and who is pushing it and why alas they do reiterate that he came to believe that in order to realize online games from Japan to the world it is necessary to understand Dei and consider Expressions that's just not true black myth Wukong has no Dei and people in the west absolutely love the game they don't see themselves in the game you play as a freaking monkey dude and this monkey fights a bunch of non-white non-black animal creatures with magical powers and kung fu fighting and this game has made millions of dollars what does it have to do with EI absolutely nothing no one's being represented in this game except for Chinese people and hundreds of thousands of people in the west are playing it right now so again where did band damco go wrong here on the other hand Miss Oka points out that if there is a lack of understanding of Dei it will not be possible to correctly select the Expressions necessary for the content will then by all means scrap the idea all together I know that me saying that is pointless because they've been creating in-house training for over a year based on 10 years of information missak also points out that there are situations where it is not always necessary to express Dei and in particular there are cases where it is better not to express it in order to protect the worldview and setting of the content and that is a universal truth I feel like that should be adopted across the space Dei really is not necessary video games became popular all on their own without pushing a bunch of that political nonsense they were doing just fine for years and years and only now diversity equity and inclusion is being pushed in video games and it's being met with hatred it's being met with animosity and push back every single minute of every single day so I would really love to know where they're seeing the positive results from Dei being included in other games I I would really love to see it because I'm not seeing it are you guys seeing it I'm not they said they understand that in some cases it's necessary to not include Dei so that you can respect the source material or respect the original art form or the world view of the content itself you know and that's what they were saying so they understand that pushing Dei like this or ham fisting it can have disastrous results but when you're making that the Forefront of your video game when you're manifesting Dei physically as a visual for people to see and that is the visual of your video game that's when the game is met with failure look at dustborne that game is full on Dei in fact Dei is tailored into the mechanics themselves where you can get devices that are called cancel and Bully and you can call people racists for no reason at all other than to just call them racists because they're white preparation for internal dissemination I have deepened my understanding of Dei and this has happened over the past year but it is very difficult for me to reflect it in the content of band damco online on my own Miss Akuma thought about how it would be desirable for the staff involved in the project to handle Dei while having the knowledge so she decided to disseminate Dei through in-house training as I said however since she had never experienced such a task she did not know where to start at first it keeps saying he I think they're trying to say she but it's translating wrong here even when inviting an outside lecturer she had no idea what kind of knowledge was required or what format to use for the training and she didn't even know who to ask so what kind of consultation is this person getting and despite having this consultation she had no idea what knowledge was required so they're basically relying on second and thirdhand knowledge is what I'm seeing here they don't really have firsthand knowledge they're not seeing what's actually happening with Dei and how much of a Ruckus it's causing therefore she started by gathering information first of all we checked all the feedback of our overseas partners of course why wouldn't they tell you that Dei is good they're trying to push Dei themselves absolutely they're going to encourage you to do it although the project had already considered whether or not to respond in priorities she said that she had once again grasped the factors and confirm that they should be considered as a priority in addition I read as much as possible about Dei news from overseas General Media from about 10 years ago to the most recent time as well as Dei related articles in the game industry they also compared how a particular particular title featured in an article was rated in other articles and checked how it was treated in Japan this seems like a terrible way of going about Gathering all of this information just look at the financials look at what game is making money and what game isn't shouldn't that tell you what you need to know or at least point you in the right direction what is all of this overthinking with articles and surveys and overseas General Media from 10 years time don't look at what the articles are saying look at what video gamers are saying and as it says here they spent about a year preparing for in-house training so they've been at this for a year they've been putting together this in-house training session where they will teach their employees about diversity equity and inclusion and how they can go about implementing it in the near future some of the things they talk about are characters hair although the shape of human hair is greatly affected by racial and individual differences in the humidity of the country or region in which the person lives it was shown that it can be broadly divided into three types straight hair wavy hair and curly hair who cares one if Gamers ever made these types of complaints think about the amount of money that's going to be pushed into programs like these or training like these it's insane what does this have to do with making the characters look interesting and making the games fun the second is about the character sexuality oh here we go it was shown that there are four elements of human sexuality by the way this is part of their in-house training that they themselves band damco have developed biological sex gender identity sexual orientation and sexual expression where have we heard these things before and that each person's sex sexuality is expressed by a combination of these elements this is just neck breaking it's insane I hate it I absolutely despise this stuff and right here here's an image lesbian gay bisexual heterosexual asexual transgender cisgender xgender X and queer SL questioning not sure what that means but these are all considerations that they want to make and they're trying to get their employees up to speed on this crap the third is differences in culture and values for example Firefly light is a song played at the end of the year such as graduation and the end of the year in Japan while in the United States it is played in The Blessing scene such as weddings and New Years therefore if we send our common sense and values overseas as they are they may be perceived as strange so we need to carefully consider them well where are you getting this information from wouldn't that mean that black myth Wukong would be met with controversy and not be widely embraced by customers okay in terms of differences in culture and values differences in contextual culture were also indicated this is crazy stuff man but this was the information that was revealed at this conference and it was hard to believe when reading this Bandy Namco really needs to go back and do some more research before trying to push this stuff throughout their departments because if this is being pushed out by the quality assurance Department then you can bet your sweet Bottom Dollar that they are already well on their way to doing this now my big question is how much does this have to do with blue protocol shutting down because blue protocol is indeed shutting down worldwide release cancelled for Amazon games live service MMO blue protocol so this game was already out in Japan but apparently it was not that popular it says that Bandy Namco has confirmed today that the Japanese version of its anime inspired MMO RPG blue protocol will be discontinued on January 18th 2025 as a result Bandy Namco also clarified that this also means any plans to release the game outside of Japan have now been cancelled how much do you want to bet that this shutdown will be factored into future band dynamico products this is a band damco collaboration with Amazon is it not well if this game fails they're probably going to factor this into their data they're going to say well this non Dei game blue protocol cuz from what I'm hearing it's not Dei at all and a lot of people were excited to play this then I guess Dei really is the best way to go this non Dei game clearly failed right now I will say though they're behind the curve they're coming late to the game because gamers are rejecting Dei big time so I would like to think that Bandy Namco still has a window of ab solution they still have time to reject this stuff they still have time to say hey you know what this stuff really is not showing to be profitable in the west maybe this isn't such a good idea and we should focus on putting our money into other things like actually developing fun video games and putting Western localization teams in their place so that they don't continue to ruin the localization of our games when they're shipped here but if they really are planning to continue training their employees on this crap then you can expect that future band dynamico projects are going to have these things in them 100% they're saying it to your face they had an entire conference about it now they did say they're going to be careful when implementing Dei but what does that matter we don't want that stuff in there anyway they're like well we're going to be really careful we're going to make sure that we don't just hamfist it in we're going to make sure that it's natural and subtle or clever whatever but that's just going to make it harder for people to pick up on in the future so this is a red flag this is not a good thing so keep your ear to the ground and one eye open stay vigilant and vote with your wallet voting with your wallet is the best strategy of all because it is just you as an individual making the financial decision not to buy a product and there really is nothing they can do about that at the end of the day the only thing they can do is use the shill media to attack you and call you racists and bigots for whatever reason but at the end of the day you're still a winner because it was your decision and decisiveness is exactly what we need in Gamers these days especially if we want to push back on diversity equity and inclusion from having a continuously established presence in the industry that being said that is all I've got 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