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THQ Nordic Q5 earnings: full year sales of $596m, Op. EBIT of $93m, 80 games in dev, new AAA game by 4A Games coming
- Thread starter DarkDetective
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My opinion is that guilt by association is a shitty concept. They fucked up, Lars Wingefors, who has a very clean record, personally apologized for it. Whatever he did with those employees internally, thinking that he supports nazis/pedophiles because he didn't publicly fire them is dumb.
80 upcoming games?
which one talks about 'ceasing your faggotry'?
Imagine working on whatever game this is for years and some disgusting shithead in Austria irrevocably links it to 8chan and homphobia
Now they have that many through acquisitions but still compared to other publisher is still consider them small.
I would feel so dirty everytime I went to work if I was under the ownership of THQ Nordic.
It really is hard to fire someone over this in the EU/Austria unless they have hard proof that his behaviour did sizeable damage to their company.
It's not about "publicly firing" anybody, it's that one of the two dudes in that AMA and who said that a Meme picture with the text "Cease your faggotry! Cease!" could be "from one of our games" is still one of the top executives of all of THQ Nordic. He didn't even have to step down to another, less senior position from that role. The apology rings entirely hollow (for more reasons than that, Wingefors still tried to paint it like they just didn't know what 8chan was which is so obviously false) if that person can still represent your company as one of a handful of people as the top leadership team afterwards.
I sincerely believe an average Joe who sees a funny/cool Saints Row 5 trailer won't care or know about this AMA thing. I personally don't. People do dumb things on the internet all the time. There's literally a story on that here every day. Refuse to believe that every developer behind each and every game supports that kind of PR tactic. So I'll buy what game I want with no care in the world. I appreciate your morals though.
80 upcoming games?
which one talks about 'ceasing your faggotry'?
Yikes.
He said in his apology that 'Even if no one within the THQ Nordic Group would ever endorse such content, I realize simply appearing there gave an implicit impression that we did.'
They realized that appearing there gave the impression that they endorsed racism and pedophilia, plus they even interacted positively with users with such in their questions to them, for which Lars who wasn't involved in apologized and said they investigated and it wouldn't happen again. I don't know about public firing however for many, including myself, this response was not enough considering their willing engagement with that board. It publicly damaged their reputation severely and an apology several days later with no details about what their investigation turned up or what steps they were taking to address it other than saying they were felt too much like sweeping it under the rug.
He realized that simply appearing there, doesn't even mention the replies from them, gave the impression that they endorsed a site known for pedophilia. It deserved a stronger response than 'we investigated ourselves and have taken care of it'.
If they didn't want to seem like they're in support of their employees who did this something better than 'oops, it wont happen again'.
That's fair, I meant 'made by' in the grand sense, but I should have been more clear about who's at fault and who I'm mad at.
Dont let a stupid guy in austria destroy your work.
Experiement 101 is releasing their first game and need support.
It sounds like a lot, and..well it is, but they have a ton of studios and it's also a bunch of releeases for Switch and such.