While it's weak, it's still better than any German gaming outlet I know and unlike with DerStandard, you'd assume it's their job to report on this. I checked pcgames.de, 4players.de, gamestar.de and computerbase.de (not strictly gaming but they do report gaming news) and none of them had anything to say about this. The only article that shows up on Google News is from Eurogamer.de.
That's a good article as well, good headline how it should be.
I think the PR guy, Reinhard, and Fabian are all 8chan natives considering how they were all taking part in talking about "lolis" and "faggotry" with all the rest of the scum that hang out there, and making off the cuff quips like "we work it like an alien prostitute" with no provocation.
And if you thought there's nothing worse than lolicon
Fuck they even joked about the gross reputation of the site by going "we are doing a AMA there and we have no idea why" like "isn't absolutely craaay how we are doing a Q&A on one of the worst places of the internet? Aren't we just so kooky?"
I disagree. I think if one was familiar with the site beforehand, they would precisely know what kind of backlash to expect.
Then how do you explain the "and we don't know why" thing?
There are people going "it was just a PR guy making a mistake, he probably didn't know what 8chan was", "I didn't know 8chan was a thing", "Can't be worse than Reddit", etc.
Yeah, you would believe a lot of right-wing youtubers would be defending THQ Nordic and getting them sweet ad revenue from edgelords. Wonder why.
Probably to sound funny. Either way, it's not exactly a phrase with much substance. Also, maybe mixing it up with 4chan? Who knows. I am not saying it was competent, because it wasn't. I am just not convinced about malicious intent.
make sure every single thq nordic game thread has loads of reminders about this.
Again, it wasn't just one dude. They quickly made Phillipp the scapegoat, ignoring the fact that you had upper management (Reinhard Pollice, Director of business and production development, and shareholder of THQ Nordic AB, the parent company) in there taking part and making homophobic jokes.
That still doesn't explain their "joking" behavior while answering disturbing questions on the AMA itself.
Or because I have reason to believe otherwise, which I trust more than internet strangers' emotional judgement.
I agree. Idiocy would be my guess, but it's just that, a guess.
And if you thought there's nothing worse than lolicon
To sound funny? I mean, yeah, obviously.
Maybe out of context, you could make that arguement. In the context of the sentence, it's clear "and we don't know why" is referring to 8chan's notoriety and framing the act of doing an AMA there as a reckless edgy thing to do.
I think that line can easily have a more innocuous explanation -- "We don't know this site and despite that, we're doing an AMA on it".
Mixing it up with 4chan actually does, I think, because none of the posts in the actual AMA would be out of line there.
Why... why... fucking hell why? WHY!? Why are these people such fucking losers and downright scary.
And if you thought there's nothing worse than lolicon
What the fuck..
And if you thought there's nothing worse than lolicon
Marketing people don't generally fly solo in bigger companies with whole teams handling these things. I very much doubt this was the doings of a single person. And please, I'm throwing no one (in particular) under the bus. I'm not pointing fingers at any specific people (other than the head of marketing & that other dude) and I'm not saying everyone on the team is such. But the culture would seem to be the kind that (not enough) people aren't the kind that they would go "hold on, maybe we should rethink this whole deal"
doesnt Deep Silver publish all physical Sega releases on Europe? Will the disclaimer about 8Chan be a permanent fixture in Sega threads?
