Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-27330118-20160407232923

72.145.249.222 wrote:

That being said, the hypocrisy in this thread is appalling. So many people complain that introducing American ships will attract hyper patriots that will chant "USA!" every third sentence, but the hyper Japanese patriots that have been a part of the fandom since Day 1 are somehow acceptable. Hyper Japanese Patriots aren't as noisy as any other US Patriots (This is MY OWN opinion, from what I saw with my eyes) or they can control themselves more than the americans who will everytime be ready to shoot "MURICAAA" at any occasion when the japaneses will add any reference to an US thing in their pure japanese games. Iowa and his gun wasn't the first thing that come to mind, there was Clownpiece from the last Touhou game, and the reactions on the imageboards were the sames as Iowa.

But yes, knowing on how some noobs french players just want to play Kancolle from being  "SO HYPE WITNESS ME !", I can easily imagine US players who want to play Kancolle just for shooting "MURICA" and drop Iowa just for the sake of it, because it's the hype.

I wasn't there when they implemented Bismarck and other Kriegsmarine members, but does the Germans patriots went "Hail Hitler and Nazis" at that time ? Don't think so. Same for the Regia Marina, does the Italians patriots went "Mamma mia ! We are fascist !' ? Neither. And thoses hyper japaneses patriots, did they get a boner and start shooting anything that can be japanese patriotism when Yamato was implemented ?

And as many others have early said, this is a japanese game, for japaneses peoples to begin with. Why we play it ? Because - In my case - I want to learn more about the japanese navy during WWII. Before I began to play this game, I didn't even know what was Yamato. If I want to learn about the US Navy, I'm pretty sure there is some games specially dedicted to US Navy (Like... World of Warships ?).

In my case, I have confused feelings about the upcoming implementation of Iowa, because as many said before, it's all about the japanese fleet to begin with, foreigns ships were added to bring more heavy ships to the game. If the US Navy is only represented by Iowa and his sister ship, then fine by me. If they bring more ships from other countries as well (We can dream for some french ships as well, we had some good carriers in the WWII for example) and don't bring too much Allied ships, it will be OK too. If they start to add too many Allied ships, then I will start to ask "WHY ?!", but I can also play the game and just ignore thoses ships too. (Calm down Graf Zeppelin, I don't hate you but you're not the kind of ship I want to raise in the first place)

Thing is, some (SOME, not ALL) americans players just can't control themselves and they are so noisy they are immediately spotted by everyone else.