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A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by r00fus »

jimmydroptables wrote: post #3

Lovely story. Wouldn't call this taunting a hater at all, if I had to guess I would say that the person was happy that the magazine acknowledged him and created an inside joke together with him. This is how you make super fans for your brand. I wish more brands interacted with their audience in this human-like, friendly banter, playful sort of way, instead of the sterile corporate happy-speak as if the reply is a way…

Blame our litigious society for making this kind of interaction impossible. Plus when is the line crossed between "friendly banter" and straight-up harrassment?

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by flyingfences »

r00fus wrote: post #21
jimmydroptables wrote: post #3

Lovely story. Wouldn't call this taunting a hater at all, if I had to guess I would say that the person was happy that the magazine acknowledged him and created an inside joke together with him. This is how you make super fans for your brand. I wish more brands interacted with their audience in this human-like, friendly banter, playful sort of way, instead of the sterile corporate happy-speak as if the reply is a way…

Blame our litigious society for making this kind of interaction impossible. Plus when is the line crossed between "friendly banter" and straight-up harrassment?

> when is the line crossed between "friendly banter" and straight-up harrassment?

I don't think he could call it harassment if he were still buying the new issues.

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by mrobins »

jimmydroptables wrote: post #3

Lovely story. Wouldn't call this taunting a hater at all, if I had to guess I would say that the person was happy that the magazine acknowledged him and created an inside joke together with him. This is how you make super fans for your brand. I wish more brands interacted with their audience in this human-like, friendly banter, playful sort of way, instead of the sterile corporate happy-speak as if the reply is a way…

I think this sort of thing is much harder to do in the modern digital world.

It’s one thing when it’s one-way, magazine -> audience, and the current edition is off of newsstands in a month or two. Once you throw in forums and social media then the public gets to shape the narrative.

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by bloomingeek »

ilamont wrote: post #5

Viz in the UK had a long-running single frame comic called “rude kid” depicting a mother asking her son to do something and his response was some variation of “bollocks” or “fuck off.” https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6e8c819a630d1523&hl=en... Went on for years and for all I know still continues today.

Glitter Shitter, OMG!

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by bloomingeek »

swayvil wrote: post #9

I've seen similar in forums. A couple of diligent haters, posting frequently, can supply enough drama-energy to keep the forum active for years.

Yes! As a victim several times of "nitpickers" on posts I've replied to on different sites, it's absolutely bonkers how far they will go to prove a point that wasn't ever brought up. After patiently explaining what I had written, usually several times in a variety of ways, some will contact the administrator and have the entire thread removed!

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by neogodless »

mst wrote: post #8

The gag with the spine art reminds me of this (video boxed sets of the series Monk): https://trout.me.uk/monk.jpg

The slanted text comments on this reddit page is extra infuriating!

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/ro5e6r/t...

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by vehemenz »

Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists.

Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Here's my list (B tier and above):

1. Tactics

2. FFVII

3. Chrono Trigger

4. FFV

5. FFIII

6. FFVI

7. FFIV

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by pfdietz »

vehemenz wrote: post #28

Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…

No one has anything good to say about FFX2.
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