{"id":87946,"date":"2016-04-01T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=87946"},"modified":"2016-04-01T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:00:21","slug":"play-asia-gives-social-justice-warriors-the-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/87946-play-asia-gives-social-justice-warriors-the-finger","title":{"rendered":"Play-Asia gives &#8220;Social Justice Warriors&#8221; the finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Play-Asia issued their April Fools prank today, but it was slightly\u00a0more pointed than others we have <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/87804-the-best-april-fools-jokes-in-gaming.html\">seen.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Announcing the &#8220;SafeGames initiative&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play-asia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Play-Asia&#8217;s<\/a> new project teases the site&#8217;s recent critics by &#8220;taking into account the precious feelings of every single person, even if they themselves have no actual vested interest in the game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, the company set out its &#8220;new mission statement&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/playasia\/status\/715844833210941440\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">in full:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>With great power comes great responsibility, and we&#8217;ve might have gone too far. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MakeGamingGreatAgain?src=hash\">#MakeGamingGreatAgain<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OMBeXvtvfw\">pic.twitter.com\/OMBeXvtvfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Play-Asia.com (@playasia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/playasia\/status\/715844833210941440\">April 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The hoax announcement was directed towards several complaints Play-Asia had received regarding the upcoming Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, after they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/read\/retailer-play-asia-labels-dead-or-alive-xtreme-3-saga-sjw-nonsense\/0159600\" target=\"_blank\">lambasted<\/a> its developers Team Ninja for not bringing the title to the west.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DOAX3?src=hash\">#DOAX3<\/a> will not be coming to the US due to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJW?src=hash\">#SJW<\/a> nonsense. However, we will have the English Asia version available: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u03t7NC3RU\">https:\/\/t.co\/u03t7NC3RU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Play-Asia.com (@playasia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/playasia\/status\/669343456423100416\">November 25, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 broke sales records when it released in Japan earlier this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playstationlifestyle.net\/2016\/03\/29\/dead-alive-xtreme-3-sets-sales-records-play-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\">month.<\/a> There is currently no scheduled release outside of Japan and several Asian markets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Hottest gaming deals this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/87870-hottest-gaming-deals-this-week.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hottest gaming deals this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to HP release upgraded, powerful desktop workstations\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/87920-hp-release-upgraded-powerful-desktop-workstations.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">HP release upgraded, powerful desktop workstations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The best April Fools jokes in gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/87804-the-best-april-fools-jokes-in-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best April Fools jokes in gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play-Asia issued their April Fools prank today, but it was slightly more pointed than others we have seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":87952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[17728,2390,17724,17726],"class_list":["post-87946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-bikini","tag-dead-or-alive","tag-sjw","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87967,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87946\/revisions\/87967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}