Okay. If you want to talk about if I'm doing no more to help the situation than "the rest of us", then you might want to bear in mind that I compiled the summary of the situation that was posted in the original thread (I believe other members sent me some suggestions for edits via PM, but I won't share their usernames without permission so I won't bother digging them out) and that I was also the one who offered to start the copypasta that @Diggeh is unfairly being blamed for (specifically to reduce the amount of effort needed to communicate about this issue. I don't include the summary until I was asked to because I felt it might seem like I was seeking attention). If it's poorly worded, that's on me; his only crime is wanting to get others to appreciate the issue.
Now, I'm not trying to grandstand here. All I did in either of those cases was sit around, read the thread, and type. It's not significantly different behaviour than posting in this thread. Yet what I've done is still quite a bit more than condensing the situation into one dismissive post as your narrative here is pushing.
"the rest of us" generally haven't done as much about this as Diggeh or I. I shouldn't dismiss the efforts of the reporters who investigated the issue, those who posted about the issue, or those who hold off on buying THQ Nordic games either. But in fact, a hell of a lot of people are putting in more effort to defend the fine reputation of gamers, or to try to ensure that they never have to remember the existence of their conscience. They're responding to a polite request to just consider who you're supporting with open hostility.
Those of us who are "certainly not doing anything to help the issue" can't do it on our own power. We need the assistance of others.
So putting this all together, when I say gamers don't care, I say this because I'm aware of how little effort it takes to be informative and help at least spread awareness, and because I resultingly know how precious few are making any effort whatsoever and how that compares to what those trying to shut those efforts down are putting in.
I also say it because I've followed the issue closely - as evidenced by me writing a summary on it - and so have a good sense of the thought behind THQ Nordic's response. Numerous times, individuals at the company passed the buck, even the ones who we knew to be involved insisting that it was simply on their subordinate. I know that they were aware beforehand and not only went ahead anyway, but scoffed at criticism while they were being bombarded with Nazi posters. I know that they literally had to scroll past a link advertising a board that sexualized underage boys in order to even post the AMA. I know that they tried to bribe at least one journalist by sending them unsolicited Steam keys. Which is why I say confidently that their final disaster response plan was simply to switch from an active coverup to silence and then let the apathy of the audience take over.
If I recall, even Imran noted something to the effect of that there isn't a great interest in articles about this sort of thing from his audience at Game Informer.
THQ Nordic relied on the fact that gamers don't care to protect them. If worked because gamers don't care. If that wasn't true, they wouldn't have gotten away so neatly with no sign that absolutely any concrete measure has actually been taken in response. And that's why I'm unsympathetic to the gamer victim complex that you and people much like you are spouting in these threads. That's why I'm unsympathetic to people who see that nothing is done and say "haven't they done enough?"
