Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-68.191.49.101-20160124031717

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Eguichi wrote: Why the hell people are so against allied stuff added in KC? :/ Because for the last two years, devs has been steering things all the way to Axis side, starting with Spring 2014 Event being based off the Battle at Wake Island, and are made even more blatant about USN stand-in as Abyssals with Operation AL/MI later that summer. This, combined with the fact that Abyssals uses imperial units in their equipment names and having radars twice as accurate as our fleet doesn't help their case. Now they decided to drop the bombshells and said "Here, have the 16" gun mk7 as your reward", which implies that the Iowa-class are coming soon. What about the events that arn't almost a year and a half old? You didn't find anything suspicious about Abyss bosses looking like evil IJN girls, having similar lines as them, and even having a similar historical armamen showing up after the Midway event? How does anyone look at Destoyer Water Oni and say, wow, look at that Allied ship carrying around Kaga's blue ribbon, that is obviously USS Maury. Not to mention that god awful anime, whose ending was as subtle as a hammer to the face.

As for the secound paragraph, well, forigners arn't the target audience, never have and never will. Guess Kadokawa and Tanaka believe Japan is ready for Allies now. I'm guessing this is both a means to introduce new equipment since the game as been really burning through the Axis tech, and to stirr up interest as more and more competition like Granblue Fantasy are starting to challenge KanColle's dominance in the web browser game market.