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THQ Nordic holding an AMA on... 8chan (UP: website linked to multiple mass shootings) READ THREADMARKS
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Alt-righters are so fucking dumb, I can imagine the "masterful plan" being brainstormed like:
"Hey guys, we should do an AMA right now, you know?"
"Now? Alright... where are we doing it? Reddit, right?"
"Nah... everyone is doing in there, you know there's this site called 8chan and nobody has been doing AMAs in there, we should do it"
"8chan? Never heard of it, how's this site?"
"It's a website blacklisted by Google because it was accused of child porn, they also have a bunch of Nazis, white supremacists, and anti-SJW"
"Man, this is awesome, we can capitalize on that market, everyone is catering the SJW's these days, you know? Also, every publicity is good publicity, right?"
"Yea, you get it, man, if this go wild we just say that we didn't know about the accusations and what the site was about"
"Sounds like a plan, then"
"Yeah, gonna post on Twitter so everyone sees it, also, we need Mark"
"Hey guys, we should do an AMA right now, you know?"
"Now? Alright... where are we doing it? Reddit, right?"
"Nah... everyone is doing in there, you know there's this site called 8chan and nobody has been doing AMAs in there, we should do it"
"8chan? Never heard of it, how's this site?"
"It's a website blacklisted by Google because it was accused of child porn, they also have a bunch of Nazis, white supremacists, and anti-SJW"
"Man, this is awesome, we can capitalize on that market, everyone is catering the SJW's these days, you know? Also, every publicity is good publicity, right?"
"Yea, you get it, man, if this go wild we just say that we didn't know about the accusations and what the site was about"
"Sounds like a plan, then"
"Yeah, gonna post on Twitter so everyone sees it, also, we need Mark"
Gunfire has nothing to do with this.
THQ Nordic owns the rights to the Darksiders franchise and contracted Gunfire to develop the new game. It is published by THQ Nordic, and the people who decided to traffic in hate speech and child pornography are employees of THQ Nordic alone.
So I've been catching up on the thread and this went exactly how I expected it to. The second I saw the announcement about this AMA being on 8chan I was like "this is going to be a disaster."
Why? Unless you're buying the physical version, THQ isn't getting any money from you buying Ori.
Why? Unless you're buying the physical version, THQ isn't getting any money from you buying Ori.
You'll have to find it in your hurt to forgive Era for not *reads notes*
Seeing a company say COME JOIN US AT THIS NAZI PEDO WEBSITE to be very funny
Yes, let us laugh at signal boosting a site known for posting vile shit. YAY!
He had the tag. He just didn't have it from the start.
Looks like Kingdom Come 2 is coming along nicely
That twitter thread makes absolute sense and just makes me feel worse.
"Sure they possibly made the worst decision a pr team could've done in the history of public relations BUUUUT you people are just being a bunch of mean poo poo heads so really who is worse?"
This is a long ass post about nothing.
It was a corporation holding an event at a forum for pedophiles and child abusers. Think about it and then come back.
Well it's certainly better than being ok with that there "resetera" website. I hear those people don't allow slurs!
The other thing that really boils my wig here is that a marketing guy coming in and saying he will dictate content decisions in the games they publish is not realistic at all. He cannot challenge "censorship" and he cannot suggest to developers to include phrases that are homophobic. That's up to developers and not him.
This guy is on a selfish powertrip, dragging the brand name (and all the development teams associated) through the mud. This is not how you Market effectively. It's also just incredibly disappointing and disgusting behaviour.
This guy is on a selfish powertrip, dragging the brand name (and all the development teams associated) through the mud. This is not how you Market effectively. It's also just incredibly disappointing and disgusting behaviour.
This stunt won't sink the company. Watch the usual stream of non-apologies, and the news cycle move on before the end of the week.
You can call me cynical, but this is our terrible terrible world we live in.
So we know for a fact that poster truly was Reinhard? This whole situation is just crazy, and I agree that anyone involved with this needs to go.
When your head is so far up your ass that you're more bothered by forum reactions than by a game publisher using the biggest cesspool on the internet as a promotion platform.
Sometimes I wake up sweating and screaming because I had this dream that people will not simply accept endorsing child pornography hubs.
That dream still haunts me to this day.
Read some of the replies... the very first response to their thread was "Heil Hitler!" Now ask yourself, if you were representing your company, brand, or even yourself in a place where your greeting was Heil Hitler... would you stick around?
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it's not just here on ResetERA, that's pretty much what happens over most anything in society these days
8chan is awful and deserves to be burned down but they aren't well known so it's entirely plausible that PR didn't realize
now if they did know then they deserve to be fired and frankly companies should just stick to Reddit for AMAs
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If they're willing to associate with THQ, they deserve neither my time nor my money.
It's ok, I'll be fine there's a thousand other games to try and they have plenty other customers willing to overlook their moral failings.
I mean, if you're a PR guy, and you make a decision that drags the entire company's name through the mud, you deserve to be fired. There's no two ways about it.
Yup, that's why I'll fucking hate this company forever.
I was actually rooting for this company upon their return, if you can call it that. This though, this ruined everything.
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.
Obviously more of a jokey comment, but they very clearly knew what they were doing.
it's not just here on ResetERA, that's pretty much what happens over most anything in society these days
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Maybe read the posted images and the replies from the guy before agreeing with someone who's 100% in the wrong.it's not just here on ResetERA, that's pretty much what happens over most anything in society these days
This sounds like it was done on purpose. Any normal interview about THQ would have gone under most people's radars, yet here we are talking about this one.
Suddenly THQ and Darksiders has been on all of my social medias. That's PR and Marketing for you, and outrage works wonders. I really don't think for a second that this was just a lack of "due diligence".
Suddenly THQ and Darksiders has been on all of my social medias. That's PR and Marketing for you, and outrage works wonders. I really don't think for a second that this was just a lack of "due diligence".
hahahahait's not just here on ResetERA, that's pretty much what happens over most anything in society these days
people here off their whole entire ass. it's a child pornography site, it's not the deep
I really think it would be different if this were a Take 2, Sony, Ubisoft or Nintendo that did this. They have great IP's that top the charts consistently and can bounce back from bad PR with a huge hit game. THQ Nordic doesn't have any of those in it's stable. I'm not saying THQ Nordic won't survive this, but they are a niche publisher appealing mainly to people who actually follow the games industry. This is going to lose them a lot of customers and it's going to hurt them more than it would a lot of bigger AAA publishers. And I hope it does.
it's not just here on ResetERA, that's pretty much what happens over most anything in society these days
what do you feel is inaccurate in this story
It's almost of this these things were planned. It's like the flipside of Hbomberguy's woke brands tweet: baiting racists and the alt-right into supporting them.
