Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada has spoken up the impact of trolling, revealing that even “silly threats” affect “everyone” in the fighting game community.
In a lengthy tweet earlier this week, Harada expressed his frustration at some of the messages he receives, appending an image of one which threatened to “hit [him] with a burning hammer” if Eddy isn’t in Tekken 8.
“When people make these silly threats, I and everyone at FGC suffer the following losses,” Harada said, and then detailed the impact “silly” threats have.
“The event operator overreacts and increases security, which increases operating costs and increases the burden on the players attending the event. In the worst case, the event management will request me to cancel my attendance at the event,” he explained.