Director of the tekken games talks about how to petition changes from devs:
"Let me tell you what is actually most effective for these requests.
First of all, as explained earlier, online petitions are not very effective. Compared to that, a large number of documents hand-delivered by fans with handwritten signatures is still more effective.
But in any case, the signatures are not authentic. because although they are numerous, their enthusiasm is not genuine.
In addition, demonstrations in front of developers' buildings and Q&A sessions at shareholders' meetings have had the opposite effect in some cases (setting a bad precedent if they succumb to such actions).
In my 30 years of experience in the gaming industry, I have found two things to be most effective.
One is to create a big fuss on the Internet and in magazines at a level that is picked up by media outlets outside the gaming industry. This is what I call a big flame war. When this happens, the management of the company has no choice but to take top-down action. However, there have been almost no community-based cases of such an uproar, so this is practically an empty theory.
Let's move on to another example.
In this case, we received multiple letters from multiple fans (unique users) on a daily basis. But they do not include e-mails, but old-fashioned letters by physical mail.
Having experienced this firsthand, I can assure you that a few letters in a postal envelope delivered every day sticks with us more strongly than 10,000 Online Petiiton results streamed to us on social networking sites.
At one point I received several letters a day about requests to reinstate some characters. Some of these letters were terrible, with razor blades in them, which I don't recommend because it is counterproductive.
However, receiving enthusiastic letters from all over the world on a daily basis has a significant impact on the awareness of the development team, making it easier to talk about within the company and attracting the attention of management.
On the other hand, as mentioned earlier, e-mails and Online Petitions no longer give the impression of being indistinguishable from mass spam advertising.
In other words, the ease and convenience of making requests in the online digital space tends to dilute their value.
So, let me just say that in this day and age, requests by letter are actually more effective than you might think.
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