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THQ Nordic announces SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated (PS4, PC, XBOX ONE, NSW) [See Staff Post]
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Well, you always have to consider that maybe Mark did do a good job of taking care of the nasty stuff
Who in this thread is advocating that you should buy the game new even if you're taking a moral stance?
The show is still running with episodes hitting a million+ views, there's another film scheduled for 2020, merchandise still sells, and the original release of the game was well received. Not to mention that nostalgia is a huge cash cow.
As someone said in an earlier thread European employe rules makes it hard to fire him, also he is a major stockholder.
No, you don't understand, I love this game, I own this game, and I'm telling people to buy it used instead, because it's very good but THQ is very bad.
My heart is broken because if THQ wasn't so bad, I would be telling everyone to buy this, because I've wanted this for a long time, but I can't in good conscience recommend giving money to a company that's willing to legitimize this.
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2019/2/26/18241827/thq-nordic-ama-8chan-apology-backlash
Videogames are not more important then human lives, and legitimizing 8Chan puts more and more lives at risk, while providing them social cover for all the disgustingly evil stuff that's propagated over there.
Don't buy from THQ!
The former is absolutely overblown. The real issue is the latter.
Not someone who works in PR or marketing and decides to represent your company on a pedophile message board. I've seen people with similar job titles fired for much smaller public fuckups in 4 different western European countries.
I wonder how extensive the remaster is going to be. The graphics weren't that good, even when the game came out, and I can't imagine that translating to HD without a lot of reworking. The dev having made one (supposedly not good) game so far also doesn't give me a lot of hope.
And god damn the 8chan stuff. That's a whole other can of worms right there.
And god damn the 8chan stuff. That's a whole other can of worms right there.
Find it hard to believe someone who willingly, with the intention to provide exposure, linked to a website where child pornography is exchanged regularly and attempted to legitimize it as a point of engagement for their company/brand would be hard to get fired. Come on. They didn't even try, they published a lazy ass "apology" and called it a day.
Little hard to find but it's actually more of the crash/Spyro treatment
Oh I did see that. I didn't know if that was in-game or promo art though.Little hard to find but it's actually more of the crash/Spyro treatment
THQN humored actual nazis and pedophiles and signal boosted a site that's so bad it was blocked by Google but apparently that's not as big of a deal as microtransactions or lootboxes.
Presumably, you think the people who care about THQN's accountability for legitimizing a pedophile website would feel bad about a game they published being successful.
So what you're saying is you want to see people that care about companies being responsible for their own actions feel bad.
Why? Can you help me unpack your post please?
Sorry Ninja but NO! Who said you have to stop discuss the issue? Me not for sure. My english is not perfect but what I wrote was far away from this. I said a more complex thing, and I said that over multiple posts. I really hate when I spent time to write an articulated opinion, and the response is right/wrong, white/black. It's not that you have to agree with me, of course, but not reduce my opinion in "don't face the problem means don't talk".
And me too. And like many others, I choose PS4. I wrote about the problem, AND THEN, I made my (little) action. And this without spreading my thought over the internet, over and over and over.
... and again, to my response, which you don't have to agree with, you choose to reduce everything to "shut up". Again I read the same argument, "if you are not against them, you are with them". Sorry but at this point this is not a problem regarding me.
I think people who complain about using multiple threads to talk about THQ AMA are not the target. Or they are?
Me too.
And where do you stop? If Twitter would not have given Donald Trump a platform, the USA would maybe not have an alt-right president.
In 2014, Reddit users began sharing a large number of naked pictures of celebrities stolen. Some of the images may have constituted child pornography. The /r/pizzagate subreddit, which spun off from /r/The_Donald hurt the Clinton campaign with spreading fake news. Is it still ok do an AMA on Reddit?
Of course it was a very bad decision, even if you are not a native English speaker and not familiar with US politics. Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.
From 4chan, the place where 8chan members feel like they're being censored. The censored words are as incredibly hateful and offensive as you'd expect:
Why do you even bother hanging out in such a horrible place? I avoid that place like the plague.
It would be cool that the developers made a great game that got recognition. It would suck that it's tied to THQ.
There's your reaction.
I don't hang out. I think it's important to acknowledge the product of THQ Nordic hosting its AMA on 8chan. So many people here dismiss it without looking at the reality of the situation. Hopefully, a look at the reality of it will change some minds. That AMA doesn't exist in a vacuum. It had consequences. And part of that is a cloud of hate and harassment following their products, targeting vulnerable communities and those who would call out THQ Nordic's actions. And at this point it's unlikely that even a meaningful effort by THQ Nordic to condemn this will change things.
English is my second language so you kind of lost me there can you resay what you mean?. I wasn't saying we shouldn't talk about what THQ because we ABSOLUTELY should. Just why would you go and browse 4chan. I've tried once and couldn't stand it.
I went there specifically to see its reaction to the THQ Nordic SpongeBob announcement. I think it's important to see and share the results of THQ Nordic's 8chan AMA.
It's important to know what bad people are saying, so we can fight it better. Ignoring 4Chan is fine, (and good for your health) but sometimes you need to know something awful, even if you can guess it.
Nobody should have to go to places like 4chan, or be expected to do so to help. That's why it's good that one or two people can relay info without everyone needing to get it and risk helping those bad people with more views.
They could have fired them easily, "serious or gross misconduct" would have easily stood up against those people holding an AMA on 8chan under the companies name. To suggest it's hard to fire people in Europe is a nonsense.
More that you assumed that it was licensed and garbage. I'm surprised by the reception to this, too. I'll probably check it out.
Which i hope is the extent of the thread's reactions, but we all know that won't be the case.
Idk, it's just kind of depressing to see every THQ published game thread that should be a celebration or criticism of said game just desolve into madness with everyone at each other's throats regarding the 8chan incident. I definitely understand where the anger is coming from but it's just a bummer to witness all the tension stemming from it all.
I may be reaching, but it's kind of an interesting analogy to how really divided society is in 2019 imo.
Hell, Era isn't that politically diverse and it's still one of the most aggressive places to talk in.
I would say it's regarded as one of the best licensed games ever made (certainly the best Nickelodeon game) and is seen as a classic to anyone who grew up watching Spongebob, a remake like this isn't unwarranted. I have very fond memories of playing this when I was little, as this was basically my crash bandicoot.
That will be the vast majority of the reactions that would take place and then, as happens in every THQ thread, somebody will complain that people are bringing up the 8chan incident and things would get derailed.
Everytime a THQ thread gets away from the actual game being discussed it's because of people can't help but express how annoying they find posts about THQ signal boosting 8Chan. If those people could just learn to ignore the posts they don't want to engage with then they could quite easily just discuss the game and the threads would be just fine and would continue as any other thread does.
I too am depressed that a company with IPs I enjoy did an AMA on 8chan and did mostly fuck all about it aside from a weak ass half apology where they failed to detail any reprocussions or changes to ensure that they wouldn't ever appear to be willing to positively engage with bigotry and child porn again.
It sucks but that's the path they chose, not the fault of anyone pointing it out.
I think the biggest takeaway of this outside of the obvious THQ fuckery is that so many folks are proclaiming "OH MAN MY CHILDHOOD IS BACK" and it's making me feel super old.