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THQ Nordic holding an AMA on... 8chan (UP: website linked to multiple mass shootings) READ THREADMARKS
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THQ Nordic AB is a rich guy with bottomless pockets in Scandinavia somewhere.
THQ Nordic publishes video games in Austria.
THQ has no other option but to fire their PR team, if there is one thing I don't want my brand to be associated with that's pedophilia
Is the Twitter account responsible for both? Would be news to me.
Every single person involved in this AMA and the approval process needs to be shitcanned.
You performed social media outreach on a delisted child porn forum. If Ubisoft or Square Enix went on Tor, found a place where hitmen advertised their services, and held a Q&A regarding AC or Hitman, it still wouldn't be as big a fuck up as this.
You performed social media outreach on a delisted child porn forum. If Ubisoft or Square Enix went on Tor, found a place where hitmen advertised their services, and held a Q&A regarding AC or Hitman, it still wouldn't be as big a fuck up as this.
Well, there's no point holding a vote for the ResetEra gaming fail of the year this year seeing as we've already got the winner
News has now hit Newsweek and Variety
https://www.newsweek.com/thq-nordic-ama-8chan-games-twitter-mark-1345068
https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/thq-nordic-holds-ama-on-8chan-1203150074/
https://www.newsweek.com/thq-nordic-ama-8chan-games-twitter-mark-1345068
https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/thq-nordic-holds-ama-on-8chan-1203150074/
Showerguy is probably trying to get in touch with that PR dude to host another AMA.
too fucking late! you just sent your company into a fast grave!
I'm laughing because I don't want to cry. How fucking stupid can you get? I'm guessing the CEO or someone found out about this and flipped the fuck out. That PR guy just destroyed his career.
I agree with you, and as I've said, I'll never buy a THQ Nordiq game, full stop. Having said that, EA was "voted" "Worst company in the world", how many years running?, and yet continues to increase in revenue and value year after year, so even that kind of PR is not necessarily bad for a company. But yeah, like I say, NOTHING...absolutely NOTHING EA has ever done has even come close to promoting their company through a site set up for child predators and nazi's to share images. Yet, will THQ Nordiq get voted "Worst Company of 2019"? Nah, it'll probably be EA because Anthem didn't turn out as good as people wanted. Gamers, especially on other parts of the internet, are among the worst people out there, and some of them probably only like THQ Nordiq because of this.
The THQ brand is cursed and you can't change my mind y'all.
Just what were the chances anyone sane thought this was a good idea at all.
Just what were the chances anyone sane thought this was a good idea at all.
I won't be buying another product from them again in the future that's for sure. People blaming the PR guy, but I feel this stunt goes higher up the chain.
edit: Just saw the Kingdoms of Amalur pickup, and now I'm bummed.
I'm still going to hold onto to a fragment of hope that this was an independent action. It's bad enough 1 person thought this was a good idea.
"I don't fucks with child porn but I do ride with dudes that fucks with child porn"
The "apology" is one of the most bullshit things I've seen in quite some time.
They knew exactly what they were doing. You can't say you didn't know and then have the type of replies that you did in that AMA.
Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, it takes literally one Google search of the site's name to give you even the smallest taste of why that site for ANYTHING is a bad idea.
Fuck them.
They knew exactly what they were doing. You can't say you didn't know and then have the type of replies that you did in that AMA.
Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, it takes literally one Google search of the site's name to give you even the smallest taste of why that site for ANYTHING is a bad idea.
Fuck them.
The association is there and will still remain. For the whole brand, the company and all the devs that are bought by that company with the same name or whatnot.
This was one of the first replies to the announcement tweet
Even if you didn't know what 8 chan is, when you see something like this, you nope the fuck out and don't continue to answer questions on that site. I also didn't know about 8chan and clicked the link. And one of the first replies there was HH and some half naked girl. How can you be so dense?
I'm not the smartest Genji on the block but even I know that I research a site and find out if it's a good place to plant a flag and begin a conversation.
But 8chan??? Really? He's honestly telling me that he didn't think this through at all??? I don't buy it I'm sorry. I don't.
More than one person from THQ was posting in that AMA...
THQ Nordic is about to be Gamers (capital G) favorite studio. They understand that Gamers say Gamer-words. lolol 2019.
Has Devolver ever done anything heinous? I've always assumed they were weird and edgy the way Adult Swim is.
Yeah that's not how it works just because the names are almost the same. Deep Silver/Koch have nothing to do with this besides them and THQ Nordic being owned by the same rich guy.
I refuse to believe how someone can go on to that site for more than a few seconds and think "This is a good place to do an AMA".
There will be some serious restructuring down below coming in the next days.
I'm not feeling like looking at the threads, but if they wanted to confirm their identity, they should be able to add something to the hashtag field, which produces a unique scrambled set of letters depending on what they type. It doesn't confirm your identity 100% because someone who figures out your code can enter the same thing, but if they used that feature they can generally be identified.
Oh please experiment 101 (biomutant) has nothing to do with this.