Sorry, long and tedious rambling incoming. I'm still turning things around about all this Goemon 3 mess, so I'm mostly writing this for myself rather than for anyone else to read it, but I decided to post it anyways, lol.
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I think that quitting because of that proto-human scum behaviour, only makes them stronger and more entitled. I understand feeling disgusted by these angry mobs, but that has nothing to do with oneself or the way one performs his/her hobby. As they say, haters gonna hate, no matter what you do. So if some people want to be angry because of a single word that their "Disneyworlded" minds can't accept, it's their problem and theirs alone.
To tell the truth, I have mixed feelings about this recent incident with Goemon 3. As a big fan and supporter of the fantranslation scene for about 20 years now, I take abandoning the scene over reasons like this like a double kick in both the balls and the mouth. For instance, I've been cheering any team or individual involved in translating classic jrpgs, have bitten my tongue every time I grew impatient and was tempted to ask for any project status or updates, have reported any bug found when playing, done publicity in all the places I know whenever a new translation was completed (in fact, many friends nick-named me "the fantranslation evangelist"
), etc.
But in the end, all this care to the scene seems to amount to zero when incidents like that of the Goemon 3 occur and the translators end up deciding to quit despite having lots of people who supported them, expressed that they were right and defended them. I know they were doing it for free and nobody can force them to continue if they don't want. But regardless, it makes you feel like if all your efforts to contribute to the scene in one way or another, even if it's only being grateful, making publicity and reporting bugs, had been meaningless in the long run. I don't want to sound ungrateful, simply I'd preferred that Tom and DDS departing from the scene would have been a bit more "natural" (they deciding to end on their own volition rather than pushed by a hateful mob).
In the end, the only thing I've got from this is a renewed motivation to take up the Japanese again as I see that one cannot rely 100% on anyone else apart from oneself.