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Two months after the release of “Fire Emblem: Thousand Blossoms,” a post on 5ch’s hardware/industry board (Geha) pointed out that “the negative-hype threads raging before launch went completely silent the moment sales figures came out.” Commenters quickly posted links proving that threads criticizing the game’s three-part scenario structure and the tedium of its exploration elements had genuinely existed, firing back with “Did they really disappear?” and “Isn’t this just people ignoring the inconvenient threads?” Others countered that “the period before financial results come out is just the most volatile — once a game’s reputation settles, it gets harder to bash,” and as comparisons with Wolverine’s sales figures got thrown into the mix, opinion split over whether the negative campaign had truly died down.
What people said
Running the whole workplace solo? That's some serious "black company" (Japanese slang for an exploitative employer) territory!
Makes sense — Zelda stans look down on every other Nintendo game.
Must be rough being such money-grubbing "piggies" (ゲハ-board slang for Nintendo fans).
Did you mean "infighting" (naigeba — originally leftist-movement slang for internal strife)?
If you forgot, I'll post the numbers again as many times as you need, piggy.
Wolverine
2.4 million units
Fire Emblem: Thousand Blossoms
1.34 million units
Trash that can't even outsell Wolverine by a million copies, lol
Oh hey, it's Mr. Guaranteed-Layoffs-for-Not-Hitting-6-Million, sup lol
https://www.gamevicio.com/noticias/2026/09/marvels-wolverine-6-milhoes/
Why did FE: Thousand Blossoms suddenly add a ton of Black characters?
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1794036958/
This Fire Emblem seriously has way too many Part 1/Part 2 route branches.
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1793937574/
FE: Thousand Blossoms has settled into a consensus that the exploration is a chore and Part 3 is just boring trash.
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1794396649/
And of course this isn't negative hype — it's criticism from people who actually played it.
These kinds of threads were blowing up before the sales numbers came out, and the moment they dropped, the threads just stopped growing entirely — that's exactly the point being made.
So Nishi-kun (derisive ゲハ-board slang for Nintendo fanboys) was lying again?
Why did Nishi-kun ignore this?
He's an old man, probably just forgot the whole premise.
Can't help it.
Huh?
What does that have to do with Thousand Blossoms being trash that can't outsell Wolverine by over a million copies?
He's from the Nixon generation, probably doesn't even know the word "multitask" exists.
Maybe back in his youth he was rooting for Betamax (the format that lost the home-video war to VHS).
If it already failed as a business before we even get to unit counts, none of that matters lol
Probably because complaints from people who actually finished the game started surfacing and Nishi-kun ran for cover.
Can't exactly argue back when people say Part 3 is trash.
Nah, that's not it — on Geha, complaint threads like that do get traction when a game is divisive.
But Geha is ultimately a sales-numbers board, so once the results are in, fanboys relax and the threads stop growing.
Makes no sense.
Ignoring legitimate criticism just because it's selling well is messed up.
You just can't argue that Part 3 is trash, so you clam up.
Nishi-kun never even played the game, so he just can't counter detailed criticism.
By that logic, games that flop should get defended to the death.
So who's out there desperately defending Wheelchair Basketball?
It's a new IP, so expectations were never on the same level as FE to begin with.
Remember the Wilds threads? On top of the content complaints, it got mocked nonstop for its sales dropping at record speed too.
The reputation has basically settled, which just makes it harder to bash.
Right.
Before financial results drop, when anyone can say whatever they want, that's when things get the most chaotic.
For Thousand Blossoms, the haters just lost this round.
Probably because the thread died off almost instantly.
That thread hasn't died yet, though…
There's a thread that's still been active for two days.
It's because it's a thread that's fine to just ignore.
Ignoring the inconvenient threads and then going "it stopped completely," lol.
Nobody's posting in it anymore, so it's basically dead already lol
The criticism was right on the money and Nishi-kun had no comeback.
Of course it died off.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Posts claiming a “negative hype campaign has died down” are a template-style topic that recurs on the Geha (hardware/industry) board every time sales figures are published, and there’s no objective way to confirm whether anti-fan activity has actually disappeared. Within the thread, links were posted to the very criticism threads pointing out the bloated three-part structure and monotonous exploration, and pushback emerged arguing that “it hasn’t really gone away — people are just ignoring the inconvenient threads,” which casts doubt on the validity of the original “negative campaign has died down” claim itself. The sales figures cited were also one-sided numbers posted by a single commenter, and since the tallying period or region may differ between them, simple comparisons should be treated with caution. While it’s hard to deny the general rule that criticism loses momentum once sales results are locked in, it’s worth keeping in mind that this doesn’t necessarily mean the criticism was actually refuted.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Good News] FE’s Negative Hype Dies Down Completely After Ocarina of Time’s Release 😄.”
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