I'd like to remind you all that THQ before being bought by Nordic Games released 10,000 balloons near San Francisco during GDC to promote Homefront. Naturally, most of these fell into San Francisco Bay angering a lot of people.
Dumb as fuck publicity stunts ain't nothing new to them.
Honestly I could see there being lawsuits against those involved. The damage done by this stunt is going to haunt the company and frankly anyone involved in the departments that would have had a say in it for years.
Yeah, I saw that, but I'm grasping at straws here. Just boggles my mind.
Dear videogame industry:
"THE OPPORTUNITY WAS THERE AND WE TOOK IT!!!"I legit did a double take when I saw the title of this thread and thought I was actually going blind for a hot second. I mean...what the actual fuck was going through these peoples heads when they approved this? Coupled with this fact...
All I have to say to THQ Nordic is...
there's no way any company on the face of this or any other planet would be that hard up for marketing
The tweet about the AMA was framing it in a "look how crazy and edgy we are for doing this" way. This wasn't someone at THQ being tricked by 8chan, they knew what the place was and promoted the AMA as a wild stunt
I'm a cynical fuck, so here goes.
Dunno man. A story about this made it's way to the IGN homepage. IGN is one of the most visited sites in the US, so this is hitting a lot of people.
That post was pointing out that even if you somehow give them every benefit of the doubt, that they still come out looking horrible.
just googling 'THQ Nordic' right now pops up a bunch of news stories with the words 'child pornography' right next to their company name
The fact this was a direct quote from them is even more telling.
Then do something to make sure the consequences are major instead?
Edit: This was NOT incompetence if you read through the read it's pretty obvious they knew what they were getting themselves in to. One of the seven board members was actively participating. This was VERY much intentional. To what end remains to be seen but I wouldn't put it past any company from trying to make money off of gamer outrage just look at the lack of responses to gamergate. It's really pretty pathetic
Holdings in the Company: As of the date of the Prospectus, Reinhard Pollice holds, through companies, 115,681 class A shares and 655,524 class B shares in THQ Nordic AB (publ).
i don't know if it's feasible, but they should force him out. he may be too far up the food chain though
Nothing cynical at all, this is exactly how it's gonna end. Hell, by the next two days no one is gonna be talking about this and that hellhole of a website is gonna still be there like nothing.
