THERE’S NO “I” IN COMMUNITY... ER...

Hello, Dina. We've just met, as I haven't been on these forums actively.

I see your image, while the pieces go together, the image is certainly a heavy deviation from the style that is being used. Though, a female representation of Beck, it is not. It's simply curly hair sneaking out of his helmet, a drastic change to the weight of lines and colors, a different pose. and pouty lips...

From my patrol of these forums, and the information provided by the community and my own digging, I am.. nonplussed... When I first got my NES, it wasn't that red clad mustache wearing plumber, it was Mega Man that gave me hours of entertainment. From the first, to the eighth, to Rockman and Forte, to 9 & 10, The original X to X8, to The zero series, Battle Network, and ZX Series. I've read about the process to make the games, I participated in the 1992 "Design your own robot master" contest in Nintendo power. Keiji's style of art has had a meteoric impact on my artistic process. All of this, to give you an idea of what the kind of people who are invested, emotionally and financially, in this game.

My fellow Numbers have strong faith in the Inafking's judgement, and those of his close peers. I will continue to hope. Study hard, Prototype Dina. Go back to the year 200X and walk the path of the Blue Bomber from his origins, and you might find the passion we show for this game.

I have read and heard of agendas, I will not go into this "Debacle" they are calling it. We all can set this aside... Just remember, do not.. I cannot stress this enough.. do not lose sight of what this game was dreamed by Inafune. If you push it over some boundry due to your beliefs, that unravels the hopes of the Mighty Numbers of our ranks, you will live on in infamy. You will not be forgotten.

-MISSION START-

So, I just found out about this thing called the "Mighty No9 Controversy". Sadly it does look like people have had time to build up many overreactions to this but to be fair this does deserve some kind of reaction. 

 With all the facts about the twitter thing and the agenda Dina seems to have in her personal life coupled with how she got the job etc. something fishy does seem to be brewing at some small level in some small part of the project (even if it's just in one person's head). Weather or not that agenda or idea comes to pass is of course going to have to wait to be seen. It's also highly unlikely that the major changes suggested would ever occur because Beck and the majority of the game are already in place and certainly would not be transformed by one community director with some kind of feminist angle or idea about what should or shouldn't be a problem for the game and it's gameplay.

 Ok, so, She did post some feminist tweets in the past but that was her personal life and it's doubtful that anything related to that ideal would appear in the final game, but of course she never really played Mega Man in the first place according to those tweets and spoke of insane things that really don't reflect the views of anyone who knows and loves the Blue Bomber and it's theme directly to the community in a formal update. I can see why people got upset. It felt like the thing they swore they had a great influence on was being threatened by a non fan who slipped into that field of influence unnoticed by anyone who should know better.

 Imagine you hire someone to manage your tuxedo party for your tuxedo business and they show up in board shorts and a Hawaiian t-shirt and start telling people they ought to consider changing everything to fit their ideals etc. These tuxedo fans who donated their money, time, and childhoods to support the tuxedo franchise they love and have loved for many years would probably lynch that person. As we see here that is exactly what happened.

 On the issue of Beck being made into a female character... Well, Beck isn't even technically a gender anyway. Beck is a robot made in the likeness that of a man and of course the same could be said about Call being made in the likeness of a woman. In the end if we want to break it down as far as it seems to have already been broken we should at least recognize this fact and maybe then we'll realize just how far things have been over blown.

 The only thing I have to say about it in the end is this. If the community manager that is supposed to be the bridge between the U.S. and Japanese communities is hated by the majority of that community then perhaps this person is not right for the job. Maybe it wasn't meant to happen this way and Dina really thought she would be accepted in the end. That's fair enough but people didn't agree with her in the end. People then dug deep to find out why they don't like this community manager and they found some pretty decent evidence to prove they might not have a true fan managing the community! Much higher ranking positions have been lost in vastly more important jobs for extremely less when the community voiced their opinions. If the people have spoken then maybe it's time to re-hire?

 These are just my thoughts and most likely will not be read by anyone! So, thanks for reading if you did. I'm still excited for the Mighty No9. I'm still glad I backed and was a part of this amazing project. All my best wishes and highest regards to those involved! Time to go vote on the Call design! See we still have great influence in this project! We are the Backers! (or the Beckers if you prefer) So, lets just continue to grow together!

//Mattstadon