The headline is true, despite how incredulous it sounds. THQ Nordic, a publisher largely known the past few years as the company who announces the acquisition of the rights to a new video game every few days, hosted a Q&A today on 8chan, the same 8chan that’s been involved in incidents regarding child pornography, swatting, GamerGate, and more. It has since apologized for the decision, citing ignorance over 8chan, but it remains indefensible.
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I mean, you would like to think right. I’m sure its going to be blamed on a hack regardless of the motive. I’m just baffled. Like they wanted to associate themselves with people who are too garbage for 4chan. 4CHAN! They literally are blacklisted by google for thier assosiations with child pornography. Like this is an instant no thank you, forever, for me.
Well, this sucks. My first thought that this was a horribly misguided attempt to drum up sales, but going by their twitter likes and posts the fact is they know what they’re doing here. They think they’re “ownling the libs” or whatever, but in fact they’re just showing everyone what awful human beings they are and very quickly they’re going to be wishing they didn’t.
I know of a few people at my last studio who would never stand by this kind of thing. Once headlines start rolling out about this, I imagine at least a few developers are going to pull out from their publishing deals with THQN (or start losing employees who rightfully don’t want to be associated with this).
update on this:
Sounds like they got some sternly-worded emails from business partners.
not knowing every corner of Our Terrible Internet is forgivable but not doing a little basic research about any platform that you’re going to use or endorse damn sure isn’t
The PR person in question was making some pretty goddamn disgusting posts on the AMA thread in question, if the screencaps people have been taking are any indication.
