Granted, this is all what I'm assuming, and I'm not a mod, so who knows. :D
I think t's not so much a matter of having the "required" impact as it is having more impact that not banning it, which would pretty much have zero impact.
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CDP tweets trash tweet about trans people AGAIN this time from GOG (Read OP)
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Granted, this is all what I'm assuming, and I'm not a mod, so who knows. :D
I think t's not so much a matter of having the "required" impact as it is having more impact that not banning it, which would pretty much have zero impact.
Maybe if I was saying this in response to defending the tweet, sure. Unlike her I actually give a fuck about people different from me.
Shrug nothing of value would be lost.
Posting does not equate to caring, not sure what you think youre getting at here but the two are not synonymous with eachother.I care, and since you posted here, you care too.
Yep, it just sounds completely hostile and like a cheap "gotcha" tweet with the second sentence..
Even just the first sentence itself is shitty for co-opting an important hashtag for their game marketing in itself.
Worse, as normally companies will fire anyone for doing something like that. Sometimes even for less than that if they see that it could seem as offensive to some group.
I'll take microtransaction over transphobia.
Well the next Waypoint is going to be flame_emoji discussing how this is now a pattern.
Well the next Waypoint is going to be flame_emoji discussing how this is now a pattern.
i'll preface this by saying that yes, i'm aware you weren't asking this question of me:
i'm not sure i want to play the game in general at this juncture, but i see absolutely no issue with it being pirated by those who still want to do so
How CDProjekt can be okay with being represented this way is completely beyond me. Oh wait, it's not. They're likely just as transphobic as whoever are making these tweets.
So does being bigoted pieces of shit.
I'm glad Twitter exists in cases like this, so these dumb asses can out themselves for who they really are.
I'm really baffled why this is a public thing at CD Project Red specifically.
They were fairly adamant about how they will carefully handle body and soul identity in Cyberpunk.
It doesn't automatically have to have any stories about the transgender experience but you have to be totally tonedeaf and braindead to not realize how much it bears introspection on what we perceive about our forms and spirits now.
They were fairly adamant about how they will carefully handle body and soul identity in Cyberpunk.
It doesn't automatically have to have any stories about the transgender experience but you have to be totally tonedeaf and braindead to not realize how much it bears introspection on what we perceive about our forms and spirits now.
I'm a straight guy so having this should not affect me personally. But it still does. Why? Cause I'm not the only person living in this world. There are people out there who are fighting for something that we as human beings all deserve. The right of representation. The right to be happy. The right to live without fear of being shunned for being different. Why should I just shrug my shoulders and just plug my ears and whine about my video games?
It doesn't matter. This is more than just video games. What that Twitter post did is trivialize something that a very bad person is trying to do against millions of people. Even more in the USA here. Politics will be in video games whether you like it or not. Don't be offended that someone is upset at something that you don't care about. I didn't know much about the hash tag myself but that gives me no right to make a joke about it and then wag my fingers at the people who are mad. If I want to take something like that, I better do my freaking research beforehand.
I feel so bad for those who are suffering for being different. They didn't ask for that lunatic of a president to take their rights away. They didn't ask for this moron on Twitter to make a joke about a serious situation. And they certainly didn't ask for members of this very forum to get upset at them for bringing this to light.
It doesn't matter. This is more than just video games. What that Twitter post did is trivialize something that a very bad person is trying to do against millions of people. Even more in the USA here. Politics will be in video games whether you like it or not. Don't be offended that someone is upset at something that you don't care about. I didn't know much about the hash tag myself but that gives me no right to make a joke about it and then wag my fingers at the people who are mad. If I want to take something like that, I better do my freaking research beforehand.
I feel so bad for those who are suffering for being different. They didn't ask for that lunatic of a president to take their rights away. They didn't ask for this moron on Twitter to make a joke about a serious situation. And they certainly didn't ask for members of this very forum to get upset at them for bringing this to light.
I have seen no shortage of people claim that arguments about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. are somehow some uniquely American series of complaints, acting like everywhere else in the world has figured their own shit out without a problem.
What? All two tweets, made by twitter reps? The tweet in question seems tone deaf to me rather than an outright mocking, reminds me of that really stupid Pepsi commercial with Kendall Jenner.
I don't know about Eastern Europe but different countries are absolutely at different points in terms of progress towards tolerance.
Poland, currently governed by a far right authoritarian party on the verge of a dictatorship.
CDPR's been showing their true colors. Each time makes me absolutely sick. I don't feel at all comfortable supporting their games.
If its the same person: Why didnt they fire them?
If its a different person: Why did they hire them?
- both options are bad at this point.
How does that saying go? Once is chance, two times a coincidence, three times a pattern? Like maybe the first time was just a dude who doesn't represent the company's ideals. Maybe the second time meant there were more than one. Now we're seeing there are either a good number of people who would make transphobic jokes or they really don't care if their CM is transphobic. Either way.
It's a common thing corporate twitter accounts love to for pr. It's harmless for the most part, because usually the hashtags are harmless.
Some times you get instances like this.
When they put microtransaction and/or lootboxes into their games.
Seeing as it's the 3rd time this has happened and if all 3 were posted by the same person it seems like CDPR are quite ok with the opinion of said person.
When you dont fire him after TRHEE FUCKING TIMES, its a company problem.
Yet the company allows that dumbass to post shit like this. For 3rd times. Yeah
That dumbass is the public-facing voice of the company. And considering their history of similarly shitty (if not worse) behavior, it stops becoming the fault of one dumbass and instead a reflection of the company at large that they don't see grounds to remove him for it.
PR 101 - one dumbass can easily equal an entire company in the eyes of the public. And that's been so for a long long time. Like, at this point, CDPR are either just bad at business, or are fully aware that the trans-phobic community is a big pile of cash, and like dog-whistling to them.
The Witcher 3 is one of my favorite games of all time. It's super disappointing to see these unacceptable comments come from this company.
That said, I'm not convinced boycotting their games and banning discussion of their games is the answer. That's punishing a group of individuals who had nothing to do with the tweets. I sincerely hope that whoever has made the tweets (and whoever allowed it to happen 3 times) has been fired. I respect people who decide to boycott them, but that won't be me.
That said, I'm not convinced boycotting their games and banning discussion of their games is the answer. That's punishing a group of individuals who had nothing to do with the tweets. I sincerely hope that whoever has made the tweets (and whoever allowed it to happen 3 times) has been fired. I respect people who decide to boycott them, but that won't be me.
It sure is weird that said dumbass has done this kind of shit three times
If its not the same person, then its a trend of dumbasses, how many more could there be? Why do they keep popping up?
If it is the same person, why havent they been fired yet?
Thing about businesses that are much bigger and yet they havent had this kind of disgusting behavior, isnt that strange? Its almost like CDPR doesnt punish people that do these things, and not punishing is enabling their toxic attitude.
And when that entire company has fuck all to say about that one dumbass...?
Then you forgive that company because you really want to play Cyberpunk.
Is this guy a relative of someone high up on the dev team or something? How many chances do you give a guy?
Since this has now happened thrice? I'm extremely curious how Era feels about supporting CDPR future games?
Nah fam, it can. I'm sure there are some devs at CDPR that are progressive but strike three, they are out. Watch this video to find out about Poland a bit.
When someone at my company did something dumb, and not to mention they were one of the best salesmen we had, they got fired. Then they proceeded to join a competitive company, became a salesman there, and swung $10MM+ worth of business from us to that company (which was 40% of our revenue). Definitely showed our company had morals. Should be easy enough to fire this guy.
This is a good point. Not sure how easy it would be to get devs to pull their contracts. Fullbright seems like a good starting point given they were the first (possibly the only?) to pull out of PAX one year over similar events.
I didn't realize this social media rep was such an integral facet of CDPR's games. Can't risk losing such a valuable person!
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