Rebecca liked a tweet saying the EGS store was a free download, I think they were just looking for support to retweet. I think this is a bitch eating crackers situation, I really doubt she would knowingly support the message behind that offensive meme, isn't it more likely they were overwhelmed and looked for anything to defuse the situation?
That's entirely possible. But I think in that case, there's a serious error in judgement there which only exacerbated the situation. We've already had the discussion about how the Reee meme is harmful, and how it's hard to
not know it's harmful. For there to be no statement saying "We were ignorant in liking this tweet, and now we know its history we apologise" shows how out of their depth they are.
Which brings us back around to
I am absolutely against abuse of developers, but I'd also agree with that same indie dev who said that Epic need to stand-up and give devs/pubs assistance in handling the negative PR that accompanies taking EGS exclusive money.
The devs cocked-up (whether they meant to antagonise or not). Yet Epic could see it all happening in real-time, and didn't do a single damn thing to help, with Sweeney personally tweeting antagonistically, even. People complain about how Valve treat devs with the whole algorithm stuff, but Epic have behaved appallingly. No, extremist fringes of gaming shouldn't abuse devs, but Christ, where's the support behind the scenes (and in front of Gamers(tm)) from Epic?