Ultimate Fantasy makers Sq. Enix has shared a brand new Group Buyer Harassment Coverage which it hopes will assist its employees struggling abuse from poisonous followers.
Sq. says that ought to it discover that a person has engaged in harassment “we reserve our proper to stop offering assist companies or to chorus from offering our group’s services and products.”
The coverage reads: “There are situations the place sure clients take actions immediately or by way of our assist facilities, or in direction of our group executives, workers, companions who’re concerned within the creation and distribution of our group services and products, that represent ‘buyer harassment,’ equivalent to denial of persona, violence, defamation, intimidation, advance discover of wrongdoing, advance discover of obstruction of enterprise, harassment.”
It continues: “Such actions don’t solely stop our workers and companions from partaking of their work with a way of safety but in addition causes disruptions to different clients. Sq. Enix is not going to tolerate harassment and can take motion as crucial.”
Sq. Enix says its coverage covers, however just isn’t restricted to the next examples of harassment:
Harassment:
- Act of violence, violent conduct
- Abusive language, intimidation, coercion, duress, extreme pursuit or reprimand
- Defamation/slander, denial of persona, private assault (together with e mail, contact involved kind, remark or publish on the web), advance discover of wrongdoing, advance discover of obstruction of enterprise
- Persistent inquiries, repeated visits
- Trespassing by visiting or staying in an workplace or associated facility with out permission
- Illegal restraint together with by way of phone calls and on-line inquiries
- Discriminatory speech and conduct relating to race, ethnicity, faith, household origin, occupation, and so forth.
- Infringement of privateness by taking footage or making video recordings with out consent
- Sexual harassment, stalking, repeated stalking conduct
Undue demand:
- Unreasonable modifications or change of product or request for financial compensation
- Unreasonable response or request for an apology (together with face-to-face response or request for an apology specifying the place of our worker or companions)
- Extreme requests for the supply of services and products exceeding socially accepted norms
- Unreasonable and extreme calls for for punishment of our workers
Ultimate Fantasy voice actors have beforehand taken to social media to sentence harassment they’ve obtained within the wake of story decisions.
Brianna White, who voices Aerith in Sq.’s FF7 remake trilogy, posted on X to politely request that aggressive “shippers,” chill out.
Shippers are followers of characters who wish to create their very own most well-liked pairings in media. Whereas these can typically be innocent reinterpretations of the unique media, some followers take it too far.
Cloud, Aerith, and Tifa’s love triangle within the trilogy of remakes has precipitated some followers to reply with abuse when their most well-liked couple isn’t established as canon.
