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The company provides the following examples of customer harassment and socially unacceptable behavior:

Harassment:
Act of violence, violent behavior
Abusive language, intimidation, coercion, duress, excessive pursuit or reprimand
Defamation/slander, denial of a person’s dignity, personal attacks (including email, contact in contact form, comment or post on the internet), advance notice of wrongdoing, advance notice of obstruction of business
Persistent inquiries, repeated visits
Trespassing by visiting or staying in an office or related facility without permission
Unlawful restraint, including via telephone calls and online inquiries
Discriminatory speech and conduct regarding race, ethnicity, religion, family origin, occupation, etc.
Infringement of privacy by taking pictures or making video recordings without consent
Sexual harassment, stalking, repeated stalking behavior

Undue demand:
Unreasonable demands for changes or exchange of product, or unreasonable requests for monetary compensation
Unreasonable demands for responses or apologies (including face-to-face responses or requests for an apology from an employee in a specific job position)
Excessive requests for the provision of products and services exceeding socially accepted norms
Unreasonable and excessive demands for punishment of our employees

https://automaton-media.com/en/news...-harassment-of-their-employees-and-executives

 

[ReyBrujo]

Level-5 announced the same recently. And Sega did win a lawsuit against a troll last year. Guess that's trending up there now.

 

[Nankatsu]

You're telling me we will have to stop meming Hermen Hulst eventually too?

 

[Myths]

Seems a little left field, what’s the reason? Guessing when some YouTubers run their mouth?

 

[MALpractice311]

Speaking as a former attorney, good luck enforcing that.

 

[Kronark]

I reserve my right to strongly dislike Tetsuya Nomura and associate him with Square's inability to tell a coherent story since Final Fantasy X.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Better watch out making fun of their absurd sales expectations of their games. They're taking us to court!

 

[ssringo]

The person or persons who wrote that policy are all massive idiots with tiny penises and/or loose vaginas. They should be publicly shamed and then put in a padded cell to be forgotten.

In my opinion.

 

[Cornbread78]

Good, fuck them keyboard warriors in mama's basement

 

[Aion002]

"S-E is dumb..."

S-E:

 

[The Cockatrice]

Slowly but surely big companies will make it legal that youtubers and other sites wont be able to criticize their work. Cyberpunk world here we go.

 

[justiceiro]

Oh boy, square enix about to learn about the Streisand effect...

 

[Sophist]

Speaking as a former attorney, good luck enforcing that.

it's mostly intended at Japanese people.

 

[FoxMcChief]

 

[willothedog]

Fuck em

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Seems a little left field, what’s the reason? Guessing when some YouTubers run their mouth?

There's been a lot of backlash against a transgender voice actor utilized in one of the Final Fantasy XIV expansions, I think it was.

 

[RoboFu]

Maybe if they would make a decent Final Fantasy game again they wouldn't need to.

 

[Killer8]

 

[Hudo]

Fuck you, Square. I will continue to call Nomura a fucking cringelord who has seen too many Marvel movies.

 

[Holammer]

This is mostly Japan only, but it's possible they're going to use it to have critical content blocked for Japanese users. Like YT & social media posts.
The "Unreasonable demands" bit feels like it's aimed at South Koreans. They love demanding apologies and people to get fired.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

 

[IAmRei]

I reserve my right to strongly dislike Tetsuya Nomura and associate him with Square's inability to tell a coherent story since Final Fantasy X.

enemy of my enemy is my friend

Fuck you, Square. I will continue to call Nomura a fucking cringelord who has seen too many Marvel movies.

don't forget akatsuki in kingdom heart ... : ))

 

[Buggy Loop]

Takashi Kiryu

 

[360fps]

"Unreasonable demands for changes or exchange of product, or unreasonable requests for monetary compensation" Who decides what is unreasonable here?

 

[ReBurn]

"Unreasonable demands for changes or exchange of product, or unreasonable requests for monetary compensation" Who decides what is unreasonable here?

Arbitrators or a court depending upon how far you want to take it.

 

[Thebonehead]

Speaking as a former attorney, good luck enforcing that.

Username checks out

 

[360fps]

Arbitrators or a court depending upon how far you want to take it.

So glad Lord Gaben protects us from such malice.

 

[fart town usa]

Can we take legal action against Square when they subject us to trash like FF16?

That game is a crime against humanity. Sorry West Texas CEO

 

[squidilix]

Square Enix: "Make bad Expansion"
Players: - Man, FF14 now sucks and WTF this tranny voice?
Square Enix: - Legal actions in court to this man.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

hope they don’t sue me for saying FF VII Remake sounds like gay porno

 

[MALpractice311]

Username checks out

Let me clarify. I'm still an attorney. I'm still in good standing with the state bar association. I'm just not working as an attorney at this time, nor do I have any concrete plans to return to law.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Seems a little left field, what’s the reason?

Fabricated outrage.

 

[hemo memo]

You're telling me we will have to stop meming Hermen Hulst eventually too?

You're right

 

[Boss Mog]

Good for them.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Seems a little left field, what’s the reason? Guessing when some YouTubers run their mouth?

JP grifter accounts slandering developers
Toxic FF7 shippers slandering Voice Actors
I think some shady stuff with the Aerith English VA, Patreon drama I think
XIV and Dawntrail drama, Voice Actor stuff here too(death threats, doxing)
maybe the DEI undertones in both Dawntrail, Dragon Quest and more recent offerings having extreme reactions

Probably a few of those. I think it's the FF7 and FF14 stuff. Primarily about extreme attacks on the VA.

With a great many recent games from SE the best thing to do is either not buy their games or buy on a deep sale.

 

[kiphalfton]

Brb trolling SE
Brb get served
Brb "It was my cat, I swear"
Brb get thrown in jail
Brb...

 

[Rush2112]

Sue for what? I have no money.

 

[Krathoon]

Well yeah. You can criticize, but not harrass.

There is a line, you know.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

heard square enix like truck stop poo poo hole

 

[Barakov]

Hey S-E :

 

[Zacfoldor]

 

[Puscifer]

You're telling me we will have to stop meming Hermen Hulst eventually too?

I think it's different than these bed rotting internet psychos who seemingly live to fuck with people.

I say more power to em, far too long have these types of people been allowed to run rampant. No way would they do the same behavior in person

 

[onQ123]

Seems a little left field, what’s the reason? Guessing when some YouTubers run their mouth?

It's because of all the dog whistling going on lately people finding individuals at companies & posting stuff to rally the troops.


The stupid stuff that's going on right now is actually dangerous because it will trigger a weak minded person to do something stupid hoping to get praise from the crowd.

 

[GrayChild]

PISS OFF NOMURA!

 

[BacklashWave534]

Defamation is incredibly difficult to prove. How about telling your employees to not engage with the trolls? Also, it almost sounds like they are willing to take legal action over contructive critisism. Good luck with that.

Customer: Please release a game without woke nonsense.
Square: That's an unreasonable demand. See you in court!

 

[BacklashWave534]

Sue for what? I have no money.

They have to prove damages. Hyrt feelings don't win a lawsuit. At least not in the USA.

 

[poodaddy]

Tetsuya Nomura's a goddamn hack who's single handedly responsible for Square's decline as a publisher/development house since the 90's.

Come at me.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

 

[T4keD0wN]

Cool, i was skipping the middle-man and directing all my slander straight to Square Enix like a reasonable person that i am anyway.

Now as far as twitter users are concerned:

 

[Perrott]

Poor Square Enix executives making millions a year and giving us crap games.

Insults are the least they should take for releasing that piece of shit that was Forspoken, among countless other terrible titles.