I dont know much about ResetEra, but Im willing to bet this has a lot to do with the current political climate in America. People dont want to be seen throwing fellow 'liberals/leftists' under the bus because they know that right wing media will jump all over it.
I also think that more people are familiar with 8chan and whats wrong with it than ResetEra, myself included.
Different priorities, I guess.
You see, it's totally ok to attack and doxx people at Atlus or CDPR because they're "dirty transphobes" according to these people. As for their evidence for such claims?
A changed ending in the new Catherine release that was actually shown to not be "transphobic" upon looking into it further
A "transphobic joke" ("did you just assume my gender") that someone from CDPR's PR team made on the Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter
So basically, a couple of points that aren't a big deal when looking at them, but that ResetEra refuses to look past the initial concern on. Like they always do.
CDPR should definitely improve their development environment if they haven't already (some recent reviews have painted things as getting better in recent years), but threatening them does not help the situation and in fact could potentially make things worse for those in the thick of it due to causing more stress. Attacking them over a stupid joke that was made in poor taste though, and subscribing to the thought that EVERYONE at CDPR is a transphobic bigot because of it? Seriously, you're aiming for a gold medal with those mental gymnastics.
As for this whole situation with THQ Nordic, I legit know someone who said that they now plan to never buy a game published by them again, simply because they did an AMA on 8chan. Can't wait for them to yell at me about being misogynistic and supporting child pornography if I buy that new Destroy All Humans game they hinted at. Fun.
I don't think it was a good idea for THQ to host a AMA on 8Chan but if they decided to host one on ResetEra I don't think it would be a good idea!
I guess some people are trying to make a big scandal over this but hey I really just think this was hilarious fuck up.
Is sad that the industry is so full of double standards, where nobody cares if a company treats its employees like shit (Rockstar) but if a single PR employee says something "wrong" on some social network then they are the worse assholes of the world.
That's a shame, seems that people are using every excuse to start a fight with someone over nothing because they have different political opinions, even using irrelevant stuff like where a company does an AMA.
that's probably true. ResetEra hasn't been around as long.
neogaf on the other hand was around for a long time, which resetera basically is.
I don't know if I should make a new thread or not.
http://www.thqnordic-investors.com/en/news/?releaseId=3225942
THQNordic CEO Lars Wingefors has publicly denounced the AMA and the involved website.
oh fuck off. why do developers bend to the whims of people who dont even buy let alone play video games
What sucks is that I kind of understand this mentality. Serious stuff is going down in terms of American politics. The day after Trump got elected, we had the largest mass demonstration in our country's history in the form of the Women's March. Then theres all the recent violence/shootings from multiple groups of people. People are (imo, rightfully) upset about whats going on, but its not like they can just shout 'Fuck Nazis!' and then boom everythings fine. Theres all sorts of problems with tons of parties involved, and people just want someone to be held accountable for them
Up to you but this still fits within the original thread.
Side note this reads like a pretty damning P.R note.
Ouch.
How can this be true when the people calling you out are some of the people who have been here the longest?
Big think.
But if you're going to make a deal out of 8chan, shouldn't resetera also net the same level of "public outrage" as a place where pedofiles are relatively protected by the communities incredible insularity?
Sure, I don't give a shit about reset era.
pathetic
Now I'm gonna make a guess here that this will cause a shittonne of videos and posts about this being made either talking about angry leftists (or at least implying them) and stuff like that causing them to get tonnes of publicity and effectively (somehow) generating them money
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