How can THQ Nordic be held accountable for the 8chan AMA? (READ OP)

[Shelbyville Milhouse]

So what do you actually want? The company to go under? To no longer exist? Do you think your boycott will make that difference?

Your boycott is about you feeling good about yourself for no longer supporting a company you don't agree with, but as the previous source I quoted, and pretty much everything else on the subject, points out, a boycott alone does not make a company change policy

https://www.rewire.org/our-future/boycotts-actually-work/
So what are you hoping for? The outright destruction of THQ Nordic? Other than your boycott how are you going about realising this goal?

Personally I would rather they accept responsibility for what they have done, refuse to do anything like that ever again, and make a gesture that acknowledges the harm they have done

I have no idea what you want, I have no idea what positive change you want, or how just boycotting them as a single gesture goes about this

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My boycott is about not supporting a company that is fine with child pornography dude, how the fuck is that so hard to understand? Like seriously, what the fuck?
Is supporting child pornography now a "I don't agree with you" issue? Fucking hell.

No I don't think my boycott will do anything, does that mean I now should do your "Well, I might still buy their games but I will think about it really hard before doing so" approach because technically it might force them to say "Okay, pedophilia is bad..." at some point? At this point firing two guys and saying "sorry we made a whoopsie, we promise to not support child pornography from now!" on Twitter is fucking meaningless.

I don't give a fuck what they do from now on if it's not a major restructuring (which won't happen) and I don't give a fuck whether my approach does anything to them (because I know it won't, I'm not delusional). I do not want to give money to people who promote sites like this and don't react to it I-FUCKING-MMEDIATELY and if you genuinely cannot understand that then any further discussion with me is pointless.

 

[SantaC]

By putting em all a year or so in jail.
(The people involved with it)
Gotta give harsh punishment imo.

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Uh yeah lets put a whole company in jail for two people posted on a forum.

 

[Roytheone]

So how are the employee protection laws in Austria? A lot of people here talking about firing like it is an easy thing to do, but in many European countries this will lead to Court cases that will probably be very hard to win for thq. Wouldn't be surprised if that's the case for Austria too.

 

[Deleted member 9971]

Uh yeah lets put a whole company in jail for two people posted on a forum.

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The 2-3 people involved with the 8 chan mess not the whole company ofcourse xd now that would be a bit much.

 

[FrostyLemon]

All games published by THQ should be banned from discussion on Resetera unless it is to discuss this issue. We should not promote their products or give them a platform. They should join the list of banned individuals on this site. Regardless you should ignore any threads about games associated with THQ. *

 

[oni-link]

My boycott is about not supporting a company that is fine with child pornography dude, how the fuck is that so hard to understand? Like seriously, what the fuck?
Is supporting child pornography now a "I don't agree with you" issue? Fucking hell.

No I don't think my boycott will do anything, does that mean I now should do your "Well, I might still buy their games but I will think about it really hard before doing so" approach because technically it might force them to say "Okay, pedophilia is bad..." at some point? At this point firing two guys and saying "sorry we made a whoopsie, we promise to not support child pornography from now!" on Twitter is fucking meaningless.

I don't give a fuck what they do from now on if it's not a major restructuring (which won't happen) and I don't give a fuck whether my approach does anything to them (because I know it won't, I'm not delusional). I do not want to give money to people who promote sites like this and don't react to it I-FUCKING-MMEDIATELY and if you genuinely cannot understand that then any further discussion with me is pointless.

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I can understand that

Read the thread title though

That is not holding them to account, that is you making a personal choice that makes you feel good about yourself

You might as well be happy to let them continue to post 8chan AMAs as long as you feel good about yourself for not giving them money

I know that's not how you feel, I'm just twisting your words, which is what you did to me earlier

Now let's assume you actually want them to be held to account, and you actually want to stop them from causing further harm, how do you go about that? What are your suggestions?

I'm not saying you should buy their games ever again btw, and I might not buy their games ever again too (which I also said in my first post) I'd just rather look into things that will make positive change beyond just what I can do personally

It's possible to both boycott them and be vocal about wanting them to admit responsibility and fire those responsible

Should they do that, in the future, I can see myself buying their games again. If they don't, then I probably will avoid their titles or get them second hand. I agree they've made a bad start by not firing those involved already, however if they were to make a whole host of positive changes in the next few weeks, I'd see that as a positive

So what are your suggestions for holding them to account?

 

[weekev]

I'll be boycotting unless everyone associated with this decision and follow up no longer works for the company. Them and GOG are the only ones on my list. Still got plenty of amazing games to play without supporting assholes.

 

[Shelbyville Milhouse]

I can understand that

Read the thread title though

That is not holding them to account, that is you making a personal choice that makes you feel good about yourself

You might as well be happy to let them continue to post 8chan AMAs as long as you feel good about yourself for not giving them money

I know that's not how you feel, I'm just twisting your words, which is what you did to me earlier

Now let's assume you actually want them to be held to account, and you actually want to stop them from causing further harm, how do you go about that? What are your suggestions?

I'm not saying you should buy their games ever again btw, and I might not buy their games ever again too (which I also said in my first post) I'd just rather look into things that will make positive change beyond just what I can do personally

It's possible to both boycott them and be vocal about wanting them to admit responsibility and fire those responsible

Should they do that, in the future, I can see myself buying their games again. If they don't, then I probably will avoid their titles or get them second hand. I agree they've made a bad start by not firing those involved already, however if they were to make a whole host of positive changes in the next few weeks, I'd see that as a positive

So what are your suggestions for holding them to account?

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Don't support them in any way shape or form.
Continue to talk about this.

That's it.

 

[Poison Jam]

I hope that the media, and social media, will keep the heat on THQ for long enough to force action and reprimand the involved. Break their customer and influencer relations, and threaten their brand. Problem is, it seems the story is already dying out.

People talk about boycotts, but I don't think that'll result in much damage on its own. I don't believe it'll become widespread enough to have an effect unless the media does its part.

Fuck, it's such a shame seeing THQ Nordic go from being a well liked and exciting publisher to an absolute trainwreck in just a few months.

 

[GhostTrick]

If the gaming press wasnt for the vast majority a bunch of spineless cowards there wouldn't need a boycott from us and the whole thing would be resolved in a week.

All it needed is the biggest websites and medias out there to declare they'll stop covering THQN games and stop reviewing them until actions are taken. The pressure would be so strong that no devs would be hurt.

But no, save for a few writers, the gaming press left the pressure go down.
Hence why I can never call them gaming """journalists""" since they're more like glorified PR making promotions for big publishers, scared to be blacklisted.

We're talking about members of a board of direction from a mid tier publisher that decided hosting an official PR event on a website hosting child pornography.

And our dear spineless medias decide to report it in a soft way, yet decided no actions should be taken.

If it was your regular press, that shit would make the headlines and THQN would be pressed every single day about it until a proper answer happened. Shameful.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

I'm not sure what they should "held accountable" for.
They made a bad, inconsiderate PR move, they got some understandable backlash out of it, they looked like fools in the process and they are most likely regretting it now.

For how I see it that's pretty much the end of the story.
I won't go around demanding a tribute in blood to make up for what in the end is a quite harmless PR fuck up.

 

[Ms.Galaxy]

I'm not sure what they should "held accountable" for.
They made a bad, inconsiderate PR move, they got some understandable backlash out of it, they looked like fools in the process and they are most likely regretting it now.

For how I see it that's pretty much the end of the story.
I won't go around demanding a tribute in blood to make up for what in the end is a quite harmless PR fuck up.

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It wasn't harmless.

 

[GranddadFreeman]

If the gaming press wasn't for the vast majority a bunch of spineless cowards there wouldn't need a boycott from us and the whole thing would be resolved in a week.

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I mentioned this in another THQ thread but, it was disheartening to hear Austin Walker talk about how terrible that Kingdom Come dev was then, mention how much he loved playing it. People just want to play games and pretend to care. The games writers are bad.

I'm not sure what they should "held accountable" for.
They made a bad, inconsiderate PR move, they got some understandable backlash out of it, they looked like fools in the process and they are most likely regretting it now.

For how I see it that's pretty much the end of the story.
I won't go around demanding a tribute in blood to make up for what in the end is a quite harmless PR fuck up.

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Also this shit right here. People don't care because it doesn't affect them. Like, "harmless PR fuck up"? Yeah, they "fucked up" because they were caught this time. It doesn't matter to people like this, they will buy the next terrible THQ NOrdic game. There will be a thread about it. People will say how much they like it. Gaming has a looooong way to go

 

[Baccus]

They need a management shake up, but it would suck to punish the devs for the sins of the suits.

 

[Deleted member 59]

PR staff behind this whole debacle should be fired asap.

That said, i am not going to boycott THQ games. The developers will be the ones hurt by that in the long run, and they've done nothing wrong.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

It wasn't harmless.

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Ok. But they are not responsible of what happened to you. Not even "by association".
They just accepted to be circumstantially hosted for an AMA by a community that incidentally seem to be ALSO known for hosting CP.
Which I'm going to hope they weren't aware of to any extent.

They probably thought about it as "another non-moderated and politically incorrect board" like 4chan.
Which is stupid, because they should have researched the topic better before exposing themselves, but not exactly criminal in itself.

 

[Ms.Galaxy]

Ok. But they are not responsible of what happened to you. Not even "by association".
They just accepted to be circumstantially hosted for an AMA by a community that incidentally seem to be ALSO known for hosting CP.
Which I'm going to hope they weren't aware of to any extent.

They probably thought about it as "another non-moderated and politically incorrect board" like 4chan.
Which is stupid, because they should have researched the topic better before exposing themselves, but not exactly criminal in itself.

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They knew what they were doing, the site can't even be normally accessed by Google, some ISPs even blacklist it, and looking it up will tell you what the site is about in a snap. These things aren't just done on a whim, they're planned, weeks and sometimes months in advance, they have to get approval from the higher ups. Discounting that, you don't just go on with the AMA when the headline of the image board talks about "trapshotas" and people going "Heil Hitler" at the start of the thread. And you definitely don't respond to people asking where the "big tit lolis" by saying they already have them and jokingly reply to a homophobic post.

Also, no, they linked a site and kept that link open on their twitter for almost a day, hours even after they "apologized". They advertised the site, they linked it, they increased traffic to the site, and if there's just a small chance of what they did caused more people to have access to the porn of my child self, they are responsible for that. How do you think I fucking feel that there's a chance more people have access to those videos? How do you think I feel that it was the fault of a video game publisher trying their hand on being edgy or doing the outrage marketing tactic that's all the rage right now? I have to live with those thoughts, more over this entire shit show reopened a lot of old wounds that's keeping me awake at night.

 

[Deleted member 43077]

By putting em all a year or so in jail.
(The people involved with it)
Gotta give harsh punishment imo.

That or being fired from the board as in their job.

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lmao

i love the jump from going to jail (for a year!) to losing your job

 

[Nuclear Muffin]

You know what would be a good incentive for THQNordic to clean up their act? Not only by boycotting their products, not only by brandjacking them and attaching the label of child porn supporter to them, but also by actively promoting their competitors who fight against the alt-right.

Actively damage their brand and promote their competitors. That's the best thing you can do.

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

Ok. But they are not responsible of what happened to you. Not even "by association".
They just accepted to be circumstantially hosted for an AMA by a community that incidentally seem to be ALSO known for hosting CP.
Which I'm going to hope they weren't aware of to any extent.

They probably thought about it as "another non-moderated and politically incorrect board" like 4chan.
Which is stupid, because they should have researched the topic better before exposing themselves, but not exactly criminal in itself.

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Yeah it seems like they really didn't do any research into what 8chan actually was, like you say, thinking it was probably like 4chan.

I'm pretty sure THQ management don't support the things that go on over there (at least I would hope) so unless evidence comes up saying otherwise, I'll put it down to an extremely bad decision and they will hopefully be much more careful about these things going forward.

 

[GhostTrick]

Ok. But they are not responsible of what happened to you. Not even "by association".
They just accepted to be circumstantially hosted for an AMA by a community that incidentally seem to be ALSO known for hosting CP.
Which I'm going to hope they weren't aware of to any extent.

They probably thought about it as "another non-moderated and politically incorrect board" like 4chan.
Which is stupid, because they should have researched the topic better before exposing themselves, but not exactly criminal in itself.

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They were aware. And even in the 0.01% chance they werent, they saw it on the front page.
They knew what they were doing. We're talking about a board hosting child pornography.
We're not talking about a PR guy who lost his mind but people in responsabilityw thinking that "it's okay to make promotion where child pornography is hosted".
They're associating themselves with pedophiles and doubled down on it.

 

[Valdega]

Not only by boycotting their products, not only by brandjacking them and attaching the label of child porn supporter to them, but also by actively promoting their competitors who fight against the alt-right.

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Out of curiosity, since when was the alt-right associated with pedophiles..? I thought it was mainly associated with racists and sexists. It seems like people are just throwing the label onto anyone they find offensive.

They were aware. And even in the 0.01% chance they werent, they saw it on the front page.
They knew what they were doing. We're talking about a board hosting child pornography.
We're not talking about a PR guy who lost his mind but people in responsabilityw thinking that "it's okay to make promotion where child pornography is hosted".
They're associating themselves with pedophiles and doubled down on it.

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I find that very hard to believe. Ethics aside, associating yourself with pedophiles is just bad for business. Pedophiles are not a large demographic and they are viewed negatively by both sides of the political spectrum. The AMA had to be the result of ignorance and stupidity because no one with any business sense would willingly associate themselves with pedophiles.

 

[mutantmagnet]

Pretty much this, boycotting games is not the solution, it's going to suck if peoples lose their job because of those shitty higher up.

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Boycotting is perfectly fine because devs aren't beholden to THQ. They can and should find another publisher.

 

[Capra]

Look at all the people coming out of the woodwork to defend a company endorsing a site known for hosting child porn.

All because you wanna play video games.

 

[Harry Potter Obama]

Out of curiosity, since when was the alt-right associated with pedophiles..? I thought it was mainly associated with racists and sexists. It seems like people are just throwing the label onto anyone they find offensive.

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i think it's more that freaks like pedophiles are joining the alt right because they feel attacked by "politically correct" people on the internet like the rest of them. Well, that and they've always flocked to imageboards like 4chan to begin with and just jumped aboard the train when everyone else did. The QAnon branch of the alt right on the other hand is staunchly anti-pedo, oddly enough.

 

[Ms.Galaxy]

Out of curiosity, since when was the alt-right associated with pedophiles..? I thought it was mainly associated with racists and sexists. It seems like people are just throwing the label onto anyone they find offensive.

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It's actually not uncommon for them to be associated with pedophiles. We had Milo saying some disturbing things about priests and young boys, Roy Moore and the things he did to a 14 year old, and 8chan which hosts the gamergate crowd (who were basically the proto alt-right). The alt right is a mass of people, some are okay with pedos while others are not.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Look at all the people coming out of the woodwork to defend a company endorsing a site known for hosting child porn.

All because you wanna play video games.

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Yeah, it was a mistake to post in the first place, because it's pretty hard to have any rational conversation about any given topic with people who seem to be completely antithetic to the so called "principle of charity".

When for every possibly questionable thing that is said or done the first instinct is to immediately assume the worst possible motivation out of any part involved, arguing becomes pretty pointless. What's left is a lynch mob.

 

[herminihildo]

As some have stated, boycotting is not enough but with enough awereness we could make our stand possible. Banning OT for will just make us forget. Someone already posted to add the 8chan debacle in OP for game threads. Inform your peers, tell other people (including non-gaming ones). Share the links of those journalists/personalities who follow-up on this story, show your support.

BTW, I'll boycott THQN until address this or make a sincere effort to show that they do not condone this shit.

 

[Deleted member 5334]

Look at all the people coming out of the woodwork to defend a company endorsing a site known for hosting child porn.

All because you wanna play video games.

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It's also incredibly upsetting seeing people also handwave one of our members experiences what happened to them as a child. Like, this is so fucked up in so many ways, I can't even begin to describe how I feel about it.

I'm going to make it a rule of thumb to avoid to the best of my ability THQ Nordic's games going forward. I don't want to punish the smaller developers signed under this, but at the same time, enabling this shit is far more vile, I just can't do that.

 

[Chairmanchuck (另一个我)]

When for every possibly questionable thing that is said or done the first instinct is to immediately assume the worst possible motivation out of any part involved, arguing becomes pretty pointless. What's left is a lynch mob.

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They literally respondoded to "Where the big tit lolis are" "You seem to already have them".
They announced it with "And we dont know why lol" which means they knew what 8ch is.
They responded to "stop your faggotry" to "Could be from one of our games."

And they responded to "please dont pander to the SJW crowd" to "we will always stay true to ourself".

Im not quite sure what else you could read into it other than they knew what they were doing.

 

[mutantmagnet]

As I said in the previous thread I believe what was conducted was a terrible PR move and an even worse result for THQ showing who is behind some of the strings. Does that mean accountability? Yes. Does that mean a boycott? No, I personally don't believe so because boycotting works in certain scenarios but I don't believe this one would.

What I do believe in is that this was an all out atrocious decision and those accounted for it to be made clear of their disregard for fact checking if that's even plausible and if not shown that their beliefs are not socially acceptable. I believe the developers under the umbrella of THQ do not represent the views expressed and they should not be punished for something they can not control. They should be judged separately as has been the case with things like Warhorse and Kingdom Come.

At the end of the day awareness is the best tool, because seeding thoughts and questioning opinions is how we better our community and how we better to understand those who are actually affected. As was seen in the last thread someone was victim to what goes on in 8ch and that is irreparable. They deserve support and care for the acts they experienced but it does not come from boycotting a range of gaming titles. It comes from showing who is behind the curtain and that they are not what the gaming community nor society are okay with.

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Even with the most flattering interpretation all the mattered to THQ was their bottom line. THQ wanted more money and was ok with associating with and raising awareness of a website that has members that openly and actively SWAT people (so THQ is tacitly condoning manslaughter and aggravated assault by proxy), doxxing (so THQ is tacitly endorsing erosion of individual privacy) and on the down low shares child porn (you know what I would say here).

Due to their greed they decided to trade away the safety and piece of mind of their majority customers to elevate the worst members of our society in order to gain more publicity and attention. Now they got it they should know that this behavior won't be tolerated.

You can make Steam hide and stop recommending you anything THQ Nordic makes. If you do this and then directly search for their games, they'll appear dimmed.

https://imgur.com/a/pNlgwde

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Thanks for the tip.

Since you didn't mention it, You can directly ignore THQ here.

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/THQNordic

You have to click on the gear icon near the right.

 

[herminihildo]

Pretty much this, boycotting games is not the solution, it's going to suck if peoples lose their job because of those shitty higher up.

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As shown by Activision, you can still make a lot of money and fire a lot of people at the same time.
All you need to have is a shitty higher up.

 

[Ms.Galaxy]

They literally respondoded to "Where the big tit lolis are" "You seem to already have them".
They announced it with "And we dont know why lol" which means they knew what 8ch is.
They responded to "stop your faggotry" to "Could be from one of our games."

And they responded to "please dont pander to the SJW crowd" to "we will always stay true to ourself".

Im not quite sure what else you could read into it other than they knew what they were doing.

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To add to this: Even after people called them out on it and they "apologized", they still left a link to the site on their Twitter for almost a full day before removing it.

They knew what they were going.

 

[GhostTrick]

To add to this: Even after people called them out on it and they "apologized", they still left a link to the site on their Twitter for almost a full day before removing it.

They knew what they were going.

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Dont forget that, shoutout to Mark, the "nasty stuff" will be handled.

 

[It’s Time To Go]

I am going to put THQ on the list with activision of developers whose games I will now avoid no matter how much I want them. This shit is not acceptable.

 

[Roshin]

Look at all the people coming out of the woodwork to defend a company endorsing a site known for hosting child porn.

All because you wanna play video games.

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Yes, what this boils down to is let's do nothing and pretend it was an "Oops, I stumbled and accidentally found myself surrounded by neo-nazis and pedophiles!". Bring it up whenever THQ releases a new game and get banned, because you're derailing the thread.

 

[Capra]

Yeah, it was a mistake to post in the first place, because it's pretty hard to have any rational conversation about any given topic with people who seem to be completely antithetic to the so called "principle of charity".

When for every possibly questionable thing that is said or done the first instinct is to immediately assume the worst possible motivation out of any part involved, arguing becomes pretty pointless. What's left is a lynch mob.

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It's their fucking job to do the most basic level of research before agreeing to an AMA on a website. A website you can't get to if you Google it. They knew what they were doing.

You have, on this very page, downplayed the experience of a member who was a victim of child pornography in favor of defending a video game company. You have demonstrated quite clearly that your preferred media is more important to you than exhibiting basic human empathy. What is the best interpretation of your priorities?

 

[TheHighMarshal]

At the very least the dude who suggested the idea of an AMA on 8Chan should be fired and his PC should be looked at by authorities.

I am instantly suspicious of people that go on/Talk up websites known for being a hub for CP

 

[Valdega]

Boycotting is perfectly fine because devs aren't beholden to THQ. They can and should find another publisher.

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When you sign a contract with a publisher, backing out of it is neither easy nor cheap. Depending on the stage of development, it could cost developers a huge sum of money or possibly even a lawsuit. After all, publishers pay the developers to make games. If they've spent millions on a game and the developer tries to back out, you can bet the publisher is going to do everything in their power to make that difficult.

I also don't think you realize how hard it is to actually secure publishing deals if you're an indie dev. For example, Nordic is publishing Desperados 3 which is an entry in an extremely niche genre that the vast majority of publishers won't touch. Biomutant is a weird action game where you play as a mutated animal and fight other mutated animals. Darksiders 3 is the third entry in an IP that literally no publishers other than Nordic wanted to buy after THQ died.

 

[Deleted member 12867]

Ok. But they are not responsible of what happened to you. Not even "by association".
They just accepted to be circumstantially hosted for an AMA by a community that incidentally seem to be ALSO known for hosting CP.
Which I'm going to hope they weren't aware of to any extent.

They probably thought about it as "another non-moderated and politically incorrect board" like 4chan.
Which is stupid, because they should have researched the topic better before exposing themselves, but not exactly criminal in itself.

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I'm normally willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but how do you associate your brand with something without even checking it out. It's incredibly difficult to believe that they are that stupid and it wasn't done with malice in an attempt to be edgy.

 

[Ms.Galaxy]

It's also incredibly upsetting seeing people also handwave one of our members experiences what happened to them as a child. Like, this is so fucked up in so many ways, I can't even begin to describe how I feel about it.

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Imagine how I feel. I told my story so people can understand how this effects at least one victim of child abuse and pornography, meanwhile people just care more about the potential and theoretical harm a boycott might do to the devs. It feels like another fucking Nana Ruth scenario, where real victims are ignored in favor of theoretical ones. I like ERA, I really do, people here are friendly and kind a lot of the times, some are my friends, but things like this really disappoint me and depresses me. I took the time to speak out something personal to me, to help people understand from the perspective of a victim, and to see it be handwaved and people looking for any excuse from "the devs" to "maybe they didn't know" to defend THQ is just, well, yeah, I don't feel good currently.

 

[Deleted member 12867]

We have no obligation to the developers to do anything. I'll stick with my morals and do the right thing.

 

[ArjanN]

I find that very hard to believe. Ethics aside, associating yourself with pedophiles is just bad for business. Pedophiles are not a large demographic and they are viewed negatively by both sides of the political spectrum. The AMA had to be the result of ignorance and stupidity because no one with any business sense would willingly associate themselves with pedophiles.

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I think the most likely possibility is that the PR dude probably knew and is just a shitlord. The rest of the company got confronted with this mess after it happened, and is probably hoping the whole thing just blows over, but it'd be smarter to be more proactive about it and actually show some contrition.

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

To add to this: Even after people called them out on it and they "apologized", they still left a link to the site on their Twitter for almost a full day before removing it.

They knew what they were going.

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I think it's important to note that THQ Nordic did not send out an apology on behalf of the company, the employee made a insincere twitter apology after he saw this backfired. The leadership of THQ Nordic has not taken any actions, made any statement, or responded to any questions.

This takes away the "rogue employee" excuse, the leadership of THQ nordic has supported the actions of the employee with their lack of action and silence on the matter.

 

[TheMrPliskin]

How are there still people crawling out of their holes to talk about how THQ didn't know what they were getting into.

Maybe read the OP and actually understand situation before tripping over yourself to defend a company that willingly associated itself with child porn. If you're going to excuse their actions at least try to come up with some other bullshit that hasn't already been covered numerous times.

It's also incredibly upsetting seeing people also handwave one of our members experiences what happened to them as a child. Like, this is so fucked up in so many ways, I can't even begin to describe how I feel about it.

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It's disgusting.

 

[RoninStrife]

Somehow.. I find it interesting that THQ would do this... and acquire Warhorse Studios where Im sure Daniel Vavra made a ton of money in the process. They were well aware of his racism controversy and were perfectly fine acquiring his studio. From what I hear Vavra is seen as a hero figure on the 4Chan/8Chan boards.. and so all their bullshit comes full circle.
Im staying away from EVERYTHING they touch. Everything.
To me their company endorses everything thats wrong in the world today, rising white nationalism, rising nazi ideology and everything 4/8Chan stands for.

Sorry Elex 2, you're getting a pass from me.

 

[Igniz12]

By circumstance, THQ have insulated themselves from being forced to bear any repercussions because they don't actually make any games but they have a lot of devs that do. Convincing people to boycott so many devs and games would have been a hard task even if the gaming community at large was not already such a cesspool. I think the best hope is to keep bringing this up and hope the bad press and association with such a vile site will force their hand or never let this stink die down until they take appropriate actions.

It is difficult to get any of their games now in good conscience after what happened. It is not just the manner of the incident but the whole way they went about things after the fact. Other companies have hired entire PR firms for less fuckups but THQ's attitude to the whole thing of associating with a know CP posting site is "yeah w/e...."

 

[VideogameVices]

yeah nah. also that ms galaxy post is horrible and I think the worst thing about this whole fiasco is that I didnt know about 8 chan before and I'm sure a lot of people didn't. Now the right, pedos, perverts have found a new playground.

Personally, fuck THQnordic. Boycott. There's plenty of people out there with games to buy. It's just fucking videogames guys. vote with your dollar.

 

[herminihildo]

I'll buy multiple copies of THQ Nordic games and throw them in the garbage. I'm done with them.

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Please don't. That's what they hope when it comes to shock marketing as the video Holundrian posted. You'll just be putting your money in pockets. Save it. Better yet, just donate it to a child abuse foundation or any charity institution.

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[ArkhamFantasy]

I see alot of people talking about how boycotts aren't the right way to go without actually telling us what the right way to express our frustrations are. THQ won't talk about this or respond to questions, they've shut down communications, so what do we do?

Choosing to buy a game or not buy a game is a consumers biggest point of leverage and sometimes that leverage needs to be utilized for the greater good.