Torrential Downpour: Tactical Customer ActionS

OPERATION TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR: TACTICAL CUSTOMER ACTIONS

 

This arm of the OP is something everyone has a chance to make a difference in.  The goal is simple: We want the investors and executives in Nintendo of Japan to sit up and pay attention.  We want them to understand that the story they're being fed, or that the business path of altering they believe in is unnecessary and obtrusive.  We want to finally begin to repeal the years and years and YEARS of unnecessary, over-sensitive edits of material made to projects in post-development, and for those developers to generate content with as little so-called "cultural" obstruction as possible.  In a land that is hailed the world wide as a melting pot, such a trivial barrier shouldn't exist in communications, particularly in the land known as the USA.

 

And for all of that, we need to START with executive officers and investors paying attention to their profits.  And for that to happen, we need numbers.  We need you.  All of you.

 

If you are slighted by Nintendo's decisions regarding not just the alterations of Fire Emblem, but also that of Xenoblade Chronicles X, Fatal Frame 5, Bravely Default, Pokémon, and over two decades of video games, then we want your help.  You, as a customer, deserve to be heard.  And right now, the biggest, loudest message we can send directly to Nintendo with no filter is altering how their profits are going to sit at the close of these next two quarters.

 

What you'll need to do buy your copy of Fire Emblem if online.  NOT the EU version, and NOT the US version.  Buy the Japanese version, and buy it retail if possible.  Next, photocopy or print a copy of the purchase invoice.  Afterward, write a small, polite, personalized letter to Nintendo of Japan conveying the message that you, as a paying customer, want the full and unedited experience the game has to offer.  As an extra step (do so if you can—there are resources that would help), make a copy of this message in Japanese.

 

On an envelope, stuff your two message copies (English & Japanese) and pic of the game invoice (and even a pic of the game and invoice, if you feel like), and send your letter to the following:

 

Tatsumi Kimishima, c/o Nintendo Corporation

Nintendo Company, Ltd. 11-1 Kamitoba-hokotate-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto 601-8501 Japan

 

Send your letter as Certified Mail, and be sure to request  a sign-on-delivery ticket so you know the letter was delivered.  Then, post the send off and any results on social media.  Tell your friends, tell your forum haunts.  Tell anyone willing to listen.  You have a power as a customer, as we all do.  And if we all combine that power, we can make an impact that will finally start the conversation that the media is too cowardly to mediate or initiate, and the executives are too anxious to try on their own.  As customers, it is now up to us to use that power to tell the merchants what we want, instead of having a filter team do it for us.