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THQ Nordic holding an AMA on... 8chan (UP: website linked to multiple mass shootings) READ THREADMARKS
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Disgusting. I don't think this was accidental either. I'm beyond the reaction of "wtf were they thinking haha all it takes is 5 seconds of Googling". I feel it's no longer applicable for million dollar companies.
I'm glad they seem to be cleaning house by firing one (if not more) of their PR people responsible for this mess, but the only way I'll buy one of their games again is if they go scorched earth.
I'm glad they seem to be cleaning house by firing one (if not more) of their PR people responsible for this mess, but the only way I'll buy one of their games again is if they go scorched earth.
You're a Detective. Do some detective work and maybe you'll see WHY people are NOT happy about this for freaking sake.
You're still going trying to tone police how people should react to a company associating with and straight up linking to a website that hosts child porn, doxxing, hate speech, white supremacy, and a whole lot of other shit?
I love how you wrote two damn paragraphs to tell people they should stop being mean to a company who willingly associated with a site filled with child porn and hate speech. Shows what your priorities in life are at least.
Because it's something we hear every other week, and I don't know how many people actually enforce the boycotts they announce on the internet, but I don't see what's the point.
damn i just wanna know how it's childish to ensure you don't support a company that advertises and caters to pedophiles and racists
Why do you care so much that people don't buy a game that financially benefits a company they don't like? Calling people childish, fuck off with that nonsense.
the funny thing is that this guy apparently thinks there's a massive boycott switch where once a company fucks up in "resetera's eyes" it gets flipped and the company will die no longer being able to provide joyous video games to the masses. or, you know, singular people are just fed up with bullshit and don't want to buy a company's products any more. or that, you know, one possible way to see results, i.e. people being fired for screwing up this bad, is by "voting with your wallet" which is apparently a good thing when it comes to microtransactions but a bad thing when it comes to promoting a platform associated with child porn and white supremacy
"This is the reason era is just as bad as those other places."
Right, but what I'm saying is let's at least give THQ's partners time to respond before writing them off as complicit. Like I said, it has only been a few hours.
So your point is you don't see the point of people complaining and so you're complaining about it.
Did you see all the posts pointing out that multiple people at the company harbor horrible views yet?
I'd like to consider myself internet savy and didn't know 8chan was that bad, I simply knew it as the 4chan where anyone could make a board. I think MOST people dont realize that 8chan is that shitty (probably on it's fringes) and if I'm reading right they came to THQ asking for the AMA, so it's not quite like they chose the website specifically.
Though of course I understand the feeling that companies and PR should be held to a certain standard and should have looked into it further. But it's not like they defended the website at all, I think they gave a pretty satisfactory apology for the situation. If I'm going to join in on cancel culture I'd at least like there to be a more easy decision to make than doing it because of some PR mishap with some naive or stupid individuals. But I wont judge how much others can take offense to something, I just kind of expected to be more infuriated than I ended up being. Just disappointed.
Same boat. It was one of the few games I had put off from last year that I was genuinely looking forward to.
It sucks, but there's no way I can willingly give money to Nordic.
Oh, well. Plenty of other games out there.
Fuck that. They shouldn't legitimize a place like that. Shit is too serious out here to just let stuff like this go.
i'm going to whine about this thing i don't think even exists
only in relation to development?
but.but. faggotry can be shortened to fag which in britain can mean cigarette,which is used by smokers which is now uncool.
so faggotry = fag = smokers = uncool
cease your faggotry = stop being uncool,there see ?*
*/s just to be clear,there seems to be some burner accounts i really don't want to get lumped into with a joke.
That's not how boycotts work. You can't wait for sales or borrow a friends or wait till it's games with gold. To buy used you are just making sure that THQ got the original money but a reseller got profit on it also.
Absolutely disgusting the amount of apologists in this thread shit like this always brings you people out of the woodwork smh
So fucking what? Why would you want to just come rushing in here and defend a publisher?
I(now regretfully) decided to actually look at that thread. Who the fuck do they think they're fooling by saying they had no idea about the site and condone child pornography? Beyond the previous mentioned comment on the "big tittie lolis" post, there's a picture of an effectively nude prepubescent girl in one of the first replys and one of the THQN people was having a waifu coversation about the underage NGE characters.
Obviously more of a jokey comment, but they very clearly knew what they were doing.
Thqn Fabian? How many thq people were in this AMA?
Dear God, I swear you'll get apologists for anything. Gaming side was a fucking mistake.
Out of curiosity, how many of these "every other week" incidents involve a game publisher knowingly promoting a child pornography website?
I don't think you understand how boycotts work. Nobody "enforces" anything. You say, "I don't want to support a company that panders to child predators and nazi's", and you don't support that company. It's clear you don't see the point. You seem incapable of even understanding the basic concept of a boycott.
It's child porn, if you don't think that's infuriating perhaps your account should be canceled.
Especially given that this wasn't "just" an official PR event, but involves upper-level figures in the company, why are you so against the idea of people boycotting in response to THQ Nordic co-promoting and directly engaging with a blacklisted site focused on sharing child pornography (among other actually vile topics)? That their reps engaged with in those terms?
They have a history of similar behavior on the website that shows that they know what kind of website it is.
So since presumably some of the marketing staff didn't suddenly have a break from reality, there is a company culture in which this was seen as okay enough to be pushed forward and actively openly promoted. That means some other sketchy shit is going down at Nordic.
if you still visit /v/ in 2019 as an individual that's worth some side-eye
holding an official ama while not pushing back?
lol
holding an official ama while not pushing back?
lol
The backlash could easily cause them to lose the Microsoft and Nickelodeon deals. Actual boycotting is just for personal reasons. The former is what kills the company.
I'm certainly not going to defend anybody, but keep in mind they're located in Vienna/Austria and it must have been between 8 and 9 pm local time when the AMA started. Not a whole lot of people in the office around that time, I'd assume. Still baffled by this whole thing though.