There are always side effects of any action. There are always innocent people involved, because corporations are made of many people. If we follow this logic to its conclusion, then we arrive at a place where we say that we cannot ever do anything to a company because there may be effects on people who were not involved.
I think everyone would be in a much better position if they never uttered a word about it or even stopped interacting with Star Wars ever again.
But is banning discussion the right thing? Putting a disclaimer in a OT makes sense. But stopping all discussion feels like short sighted anger.
Non-gaming media, and a couple of outlets like waypoint did well.
Punishment? Why do you consider it punishing an author, a director, a developer if you don't buy their work? Choosing not to buy or support something for your own individual reasons, whether it's for lack of interest or feeling negatively about their decisions, isn't punishing them
Oh good, so we can have more threads like Kingdom Come: Deliverance, The Last Night, and Cyberpunk 2077 where people piss and moan because the actions and stances of people involved with those games are dragged into the light and they have to confront that they are helping to give their bigoted stances a larger platform by supporting them.
I'm not going to give my money to a company that condones Nazis and child porn just so that developers under their umbrella can continue making games based on THQ Nordic's IPs. Any boycott will affect innocent people. That's how boycotts against large companies work. That does not mean that I am punishing the developers. They aren't getting my money either way. It's the Nazi lovers on the board that gets the money.
No? because not talking about 8chan here doesn't affect that web and people in any way or form.
Which is unfortunate that so many people are willing to overlook (at least) the marketing arm of a publisher/developer actively being transphobic on social media several times, and then delivering a non-apologies, because of "muh vidyagames".
Really glad this is getting mainstream coverage I hope this isn't just swept under the rug what they (intentionally) did is horrible and should not be without consequence. Also really disappointed in most major gaming outlets letting them off the hook like wtf? They should be ashamed of themselves buying into this whole bullshit narrative of "Guys they made a MISTAKE they had no idea what 8chan was" yea ok buddy
