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THQ Nordic holding an AMA on... 8chan (UP: website linked to multiple mass shootings) READ THREADMARKS
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You know you fucked up bad when even Boogie gets off the wall
Good thing I decided to check the forum today. I was seriously considering Darksiders III on this week's Xbox sale.
Fuck off, THQ.
edit: coming back to say what the fuck at everything
Fuck off, THQ.
edit: coming back to say what the fuck at everything
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Boogie is manipulative shit who is only dipping his toes in this to make himself look good.
when u fuck up so bad that boogie looks genuinely good by comparison
No, I just hadn't seen it, updated now.
I also added the CEO and developer comments as suggested by m_dorian and LewieP suggested.
As well, I missed the call with Reinhard from the Waypoint article, so I added that. It comes across as if both Reinhard and the CEO seem to be throwing Philipp under the bus here. Reinhard was posting in 8chan as well and he's on the board, so I don't think he should be getting away with it.
You're right. These are way too dangerous of subjects to risk associating with a potentially innocent individual.
Lmao, damn.
Yep, Cifaldi's right. Every office associated with THQN needs to be bombarded by journos right now.
So like, can the THQ Nordic Twitter get banned for linking to what is essentially a child porn site? Or is that asking too much of Twitter mods?
It took twitter years to ban Jacob Wohl. And they only did it today on account of him admitting to using fake accounts and announcing his plans to use fake accounts to influence the 2020 election. It is VERY hard to get banned from twitter because the higher ups are apathetic morons.
Real shit though anyone who's concerned about their career choices you should look at this and understand that if stupid pieces of trash like this can actually get into positions of power you can probably do all right.
This is insane. Mr. Cifaldi's on the money -- the industry owes it to itself to draw every last relevant eyeball here.
Is that a speck of self-awareness I'm witnessing here.
Is that a speck of self-awareness I'm witnessing here.
It's funny the longer I think about this the more flabbergasted I am. Like what in the fuck is the company culture like at THQ Nordic that this actually happened? So many red flags would be raised for me. Especially when I can't find the site through a damn google search!
When Mr. Both Sides actually picks a side, you know you dun goofed.
Yep. The fact that link is still up over 8 hours later is massive and unforgivable
Yeah, but dude almost always does the "both sides" everything, and I mean everything, so seeing him actually saying "you fucked up" without any reservations should be a sign that you, y'know, fucked up.
I guess you can say the opportunity presented itself. (Shoutout to Mark)
Wow. Mr. Contrarian, Devils Advocate, and Both Sides champion is even saying it's a bad idea? Now you know it's a bad idea.
"Hey, at least I'm not hanging out on a CP forum!"
It's pretty telling, to me, that this is something he feels is worthy of praise.
He's a scumbag and not really worth anymore discussion, regardless.
Raising a stink like we already do is good, I think. Like many has been pointing, I doubt Nicklodeon, or other THQ businesses partner are happy to be associated with this fiasco. So maybe put the pressure on them, rather than the unfortunate dev stuck under shitty publisher.
Never thought I'd be reading a 69 page thread on a company promoting its brand in a CP board. Fucking hell. The CEO didn't even have the decency to comment.
I hope every press member is bombarding MS, Nintendo, Sony, Nickelodeon and every partner they have until everyone responsible is fired. This shit cannot stick in twenty-ninteen. Good lord.
I feel bad for the devs who are probably losing their minds at even seeing the link still fucking up. Particularly at Remedy, who thought they had a good publishing partner with Deep Silver. I hope devs don't lose jobs over some imbeciles at PR who wanted to help their pedo friends.
I hope every press member is bombarding MS, Nintendo, Sony, Nickelodeon and every partner they have until everyone responsible is fired. This shit cannot stick in twenty-ninteen. Good lord.
I feel bad for the devs who are probably losing their minds at even seeing the link still fucking up. Particularly at Remedy, who thought they had a good publishing partner with Deep Silver. I hope devs don't lose jobs over some imbeciles at PR who wanted to help their pedo friends.
Unsurprisingly, Tim Soret is on Twitter attempting to downplay the whole thing (not going to link directly so to not amplify the thread, just know the worst are here to defend this crap)
They might never live this down if even Boogie is chastising you, wow. Fuck THQ, back to uDraw hell for you.
">Have a Mod account on the forum
>Well known personality On Discord server, well liked
>Currently stirring up the shit in the Discord, acting very, very concerned, and trying to get the police involved, and trying to get HR "Fired"
>They're eating it up
They're never gonna find me out either, it's hilarious, and it will bite them in the ass when the time is right."
wat
Never been to any of the chans as from the way they are described it seems like as soon as I click on a link to go to any of them the FBI would be at my door.
>Well known personality On Discord server, well liked
>Currently stirring up the shit in the Discord, acting very, very concerned, and trying to get the police involved, and trying to get HR "Fired"
>They're eating it up
They're never gonna find me out either, it's hilarious, and it will bite them in the ass when the time is right."
wat
Never been to any of the chans as from the way they are described it seems like as soon as I click on a link to go to any of them the FBI would be at my door.
Yeah Microsoft needs to end their publishing deal with these folks.
Yeah, definitely seems like this goes way too far up the chain. It's not just some random people, but very high-ranking people in the company that are responsible for this. It would be terrible enough if it were some random employee doing it, but people like that being the one's responsible? Definitely going to take more than a few apologies to make this go away, as it should (or at least I certainly would hope it would take more than that to just make this all magically go away).
I mean, just like looking at the homepage of 8ch for instance in some of the screens provided in this thread, just pay attention to stuff like the Navigation bars on the site, the stuff being linked to and the terminology being used on the front page of all things. Even if someone didn't know anything about 8ch at first, just even like looking at the front page alone should have clued one in that the site is bad news. And if one then wants to make the argument that they were just in a rush or something, that they just didn't do the research, like, how do you not at the very least check the homepage at least and scope the place out if you're going to do an AMA for it?
Because I'm sure they get all kinds of requests for AMAs from all kinds of random websites and obviously they don't say "yes" to each and every last one of them, so there must be some type of process to these things, tho how they decide which ones they do say yes to. So how'd they wind up to saying "yes" to something like this in the first place? Even doing the bare minimum amount of research, it's clear the site is bad news. So since they obviously don't say yes to each and every AMA request they must get as a publisher the size of THQ Nordic, that there's some kind of process there even if a minimum one, how'd they wind up saying yes to 8ch of all sites with even a bare minimum amount of research?
How would that make sense, or be believable in any way, that they were that far in over their heads, and didn't even check out the homepage of the site or anything, and were that clueless about the site and the kind of content involved? It doesn't pass the smell test at all, especially with the level of employees involved who certainly should not be making those kind of mistakes at that level.
Nothing about this truly just being an innocent mistake, that they just didn't have any idea what 8ch was, didn't scope it out in any way whatsoever, and yet approved that site of all sites for an AMA regardless, especially with the level of the employees involved makes any sense. At least some of these people had to know exactly what they were doing, if not all of them (and from the sounds of it they've already started the process of trying to throw each other under the bus and denying they personally did anything wrong), so it better take more than just a few apologies and nice words to make this go away.
Speaking of which, I can't deny that the ArenaNet firings went through my mind as I was reading through this thread and trying to catch up on everything, and wondering if the people that seem to think the THQ employees didn't do anything wrong and were just hoodwinked and were completely oblivious would have been so kind to people such as Price when that all broke. Maybe I'm just too cynical at this point, but for some reason I'm skeptical that the people being as kind and benevolent with their interpretations of the THQ employees' actions here would have been as kind to Price.
"I had what alcoholics refer to as 'a moment of clarity.'"
When even fucking Boogie of all people can't defend you.
Good lord what a fuck up of astronomical proportions.
What kind of stupid ass "PR & Marketing Director" would agree to something like this.
Like fuck, this is legit idiocy at the highest level. Bloody hell.
Like fuck, this is legit idiocy at the highest level. Bloody hell.
This isn't a CDPR situation at all. That was one idiot PR guy who was fired straight after, this was multiple important people in the company. Including their head of PR and marketing (Phillipp), and one of their senior executives and major shareholders (Reinhard) who is one of the top dogs at the company.
The direct link to a board hosting child pornography is still there 8 hours later, even after statements from THQ, including a non-statement from CEO Lars Wingefors himself. Nobody is doing anything about it.
So not even the CEO is doing shit about it? Seems a pretty easy (even easier now) boycott to me.
Fuck off, THQN.
Also, the thread title should be updated with the CEO's "answer" this is not a "one employee" thing, everyone involved seems to be ok with it, even the CEO.
Jesus Christ.
Fuck off, THQN.
Also, the thread title should be updated with the CEO's "answer" this is not a "one employee" thing, everyone involved seems to be ok with it, even the CEO.
Jesus Christ.
Ok wow I didn't know all the details this shit is even more batshit than I realised.