FGC and Sexism.

This is probably a reminder that if we really want to expand the reaches of the SC community and make it a suitable place for everyone, it is important to vocally oppose racist, sexist, etc acts by anyone in tournaments.
 
There is never an excuse for harassment of any sort, especially sexual harassment. By tolerating harassment of any sort, you're just going to end up with a community of like-minded unpleasant individuals who think that sort of behavior is acceptable, and drive away everyone else. Such behavior should see you kicked out and banned from any future events (sadly that starts getting into objectivity issues from whoever is making the decision of when someone crossed the line or not).

Keep it civil and friendly, we're here to play a game ultimately.

And shame on Capcom for not immediately booting this guy off of their show and terminating their contract with him. If this is the kind of stupid unacceptable behavior that he'll display on live camera, how much worse is he when he's not in the public eye? By not doing so and just issuing a "its not our opinion" cookie-cutter public relations response, they are in effect validating/promoting this kind of unacceptable behavior. Shame on any of the other sponsers too associating theirselves with this.

Despite some opinions here, the mere term Fighting Game Community includes us as a whole. Someone hearing something atrocious like this about the FGC is going to immediately lump us in with it as we're also a fighting game community. Yes its unfair.
 
WARUI_NE said:
NO Soul calibur IS NOT tied to the rest of the FGC
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I think that's just wishful thinking. Soul Calibur just isn't big enough to survive on it's own. Right now, the best you get is when it's featured like it was at WGC and like how it will be featured at EVO. It hasn't managed to get itself featured as the only thing like Starcraft managed (KeSPA events, GSL, NASL, IPL), gotten significant support from it's producing company (Valve's DOTA 2 or Riot's LoL) or gotten into a non fighter-centric event like MLG.

It helps when you get community folks doing things like Maximillion's youtube and Cross Counter's Asian Adventures as you bring in more folks, but you're still just getting fighting game people. To get away from the FGC, you need to get non FGC people in.
 
Soul Calibur is a fighting game. The people playing it, by definition, is part of the FGC.

Let alone the main focus of this article, Aris, is already associated with SC5. Let's not kid ourselves that we're not cast in a bad light by this.
 
Women should stop complaining about sexism and prove the sexists wrong. Complaining isn't gonna help anyone, so just prove them wrong and embarrass them. That is the ultimate revenge.
 
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