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Epic Games finally puts out toothless statement on current events
- Thread starter chubigans
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"These fundamentals are above politics?"
What the fuck does that even mean?
Bitch those ARE politics.
What the fuck does that even mean?
Bitch those ARE politics.
Give it a few years. That's about how long it took them to start removing white supremacist groups from Steam's communities.
So they went with one of these:
You know if they want to male a difference they should at least donate money instead of doing a simple "We care. See? Now buy our product.".
You know if they want to male a difference they should at least donate money instead of doing a simple "We care. See? Now buy our product.".
Valve PR is non existent.
They don't even promote their own stuff, don't expect to see a statements from them
To START removing them, they are still all over the damn place and half the ones I report are still there.
When has valve ever actively courted a white supremacist audience?
Will that statement be enough for them to make the list?
At this point it's safe to assume any company that hasn't made a statement is not going to give a strong one. We're almost 2 weeks into this now.
At this point it's safe to assume any company that hasn't made a statement is not going to give a strong one. We're almost 2 weeks into this now.
I feel this is aimed at people who flap about these subjects as if they are a political point scoring football. This is to say this isn't a political thing, it is a critical humanity thing. No left, no right, it should simply be the baseline for all.
Tecent has a huge stake in Epic, so I do wonder if coming out too strong would draw the inevitable 'what about Hong Kong' comparisons which has already happened to ActiBlizz and it puts them in an uncomfortable position. It's unfortunate really.
I would assume same issue for Valve, given Steam is available in China.
I would assume same issue for Valve, given Steam is available in China.
Depends on your definition of "actively", but they've allowed white supremacist and antisemitic communities to thrive on their platform for years and years despite being called out repeatedly about it.
I'd like to see an exception to that rule made for times like this. How does Infinity Ward/Activision have a better stance on this inside Call of Duty right now than Valve?
Yeah, same here. How is it different the the other companies posting similar sentiments?
I mean, they shouldn't be politics, they should be like breathing air, a normality.
Tim has majority share control so they wouldn't be able to do much (ban from China I guess) company wise.
This. I'm honestly suprised if that question was serious.
They don't actively court them, no. I also don't notice much action being taken against countless nazi/ SS-fetishizing user groups that have been there for years.
And I will say that Steam is the only gaming platform that has ever actively promoted a curator to me with a review calling Activision a "Jew company", which I certainly did not expect.
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Most companies at least outline what they plan to do, internally or outwardly with donations and such.
Police and the american justice system are the three words that give these statements any meaning. None of the big company statements have any meaning unless they mention the perpetrators of said injustice.
They had a ton of white supremacist groups until they were directly called out on it by a news outlet (and even then I'm not sure if they still have them now or not), and only pretty recently started putting a little effort into moderating their incredibly racist community. And even then, they haven't exactly been doing a decent job.
Even if they never actively tried to have a white supremacist audience, them historically having not been interested in taking action against the white supremacists that group up on their platform isn't much better.
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Nintendo is in China. They still said something. That's no excuse. Not a surprise from Valve, although a toothless statement like this one is just as bad as saying nothing at all.
Man, that is toothless. Didn't mention the direct issuesnof police brutality or the BLM movement as those are the message that's need to be signal boosted especially to not normalize garbage like "AllLivesMatters".
IDK, even though that's kinda better you can bet companies are looking at donations as a marketing move as much as anything else. I'm glad that they're making donations, but I don't particularly look more favorably on a company making donations than I do one that doesn't even release a statement. They're all in it to foster an altruistic image for marketing purposes IMO.
Roadmap is only updated monthly so we gotta wait until July to see.
Knowing Steam's history and current situation I thought that post was heavy sarcasm.
They couldn't even directly say Black in their message and specifically mention the race that's at the centre of all this at the moment. Still it's something I guess.
Meanwhile COD is putting this before every single match during loading in their F2P game mode with 50 million users.
And they wrote this statement
Meanwhile COD is putting this before every single match during loading in their F2P game mode with 50 million users.
And they wrote this statement
