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Kaboom, do games w It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users

So customers are now informed? And this is a bad thing?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

“This employee took screenshots of ABK wide discussions about the safety of our protected information (like name changes and visa statuses) and sent them to an an extremely racist, sexist, and transphobic individual on Twitter who has over a 100 thousand followers,” they added.

icecreamtaco,
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck off; this is doxxing and mass harassment. If you want social change go ahead but do it peacefully.

BehindetheClouds,

^ This right here, what happened to their rallying call “Go Woke, Go Broke” ? I guess it’s not working, so they’re going to harass people instead.

No one will stop them from not buying something. But forcing people out of jobs via threats is another level of fucked up.

Kaboom,

What happened to Concord? And what happened to Marvel Rivals?

BehindetheClouds, (edited )

Like really? Concord went bust because of woke? It can’t be an overused genre and a bad game? It has to be “wokeism”?

Like, please think.

And ask for marvel rivals I think you’re confusing that with multiverse.

Edit: like I’m not even against a game that is just trad wives and big tits or whatever, it’s up to the customer if they want to buy that. And if they do there will be a market for it.

Edit 2: didn’t notice the poster deleted his comment, here it is:

“What happened to Concord? And what happened to Marvel Rivals?”

ocassionallyaduck,

There is. Plenty of giant titties on trad wives in the Steam category for porn games. Oddly that seems to overlap with this audience strongly…

DreamlandLividity,

Seems to me like names were censored in the released slack screenshots (except the CEO). Were there uncensored screenshots that I missed or that were deleted?

icecreamtaco,
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

The Jan 20 tweet linked in the article is uncensored

DreamlandLividity,

Ah, right. Thanks.

RageAgainstTheRich,

Informed of what? The next target of right wing shitheads on youtube and twitter? Use your brain.

Edit: see you’re a right winger yourself. So using your brain will be difficult. Asshole.

Kaboom,

That it’s a lefty company with a lefty culture?

ocassionallyaduck,

Stop buying their shit then. Leave the people who make it the fuck alone.

“Go woke go broke” vote with your dollars and let their “wokeness” fail in the free market. Don’t fucking harass people.

Kaboom,

Easy there, I’m already planning on not buying it, just like I’m sure plenty of others are planning not to. Just need to get the word out that the company isn’t one to buy from.

With any luck, it’ll be the next Veilguard.

ocassionallyaduck,

Good, now you just have to avoid buying from…

checks staff lists

Every single major publisher.

Good luck. Don’t play that woke Call of Duty or that DEI Fortnite while you’re at it. And avoid the mind virus of Elden Ring and Bandai Namco.

Kaboom,

I was already not playing AAA, if only because of MTX. I’ve been playing games like Mullet Madjack lately.

RageAgainstTheRich,

They are not doing anything wrong, dipshit. What is the horrific thing they are doing? Protecting trans colleagues? Protecting people of color they work with? Just because your fuhrer wants a white straight male environment, does not mean everyone else does. Go outside for once in your life. Maybe you will gain some empathy for your fellow humans.

Kaboom,

Being left wing is not wrong, just like being right wing isn’t wrong. Further more, nothing wrong with customers being more informed about the company they’re buying from.

What, are you upset that the multinational corporation might lose out on a few sales?

Whateley,

being right wing isn’t wrong

Lol, yes it is, you brainrotted simpleton. Your continued attempts at normalizing psychotic behavior under the auspices of consumer protection proves as much.

Go do a few cartwheels through a busy intersection, chud.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Activision is a lefty company with a lefty culture. Dear fucking lord, that has to be one of the worst takes I’ve read on lemmy. What’s next, Mark Zuckerberg is a deep cover lefty librul?

inclementimmigrant,

Come on, she’s too Republican to ever admit she’s wrong. Just down here, block and move on since she just craves attention that Daddy never have her.

Old_Yharnam,

Stupid take

Squizzy,

Bootlicker

Jaderick,

Give us your name and address so we can be informed. That’s not a bad thing, we’ll be better informed.

Kaboom,

Donald. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500

(Hint, we already know who works where, via LinkedIn.)

butter, do games w It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users

Something something hilter youth

Katana314, do games w It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users

As depressing as it is to ask, I feel I should kick off the brainstorm: Given that this personal information has been doxxed, is there anything that individuals could do to help the affected developers in any way?

Adalast,

Send them a check? Money always helps.

AlecSadler, do games w It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users

Hope they catch them and I hope those individuals lose their jobs.

swordgeek,

Not good ennough. Doxxing should carry criminal charges.

SkunkWorkz, do games w It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users

I’m surprised that people feel safe to discuss those things in a Slack of a company that creates American Imperialistic propaganda. It’s a certainty that crypto-fascists are among them, no matter how progressive the companies policies are. The stuff they make attracts right wingers.

ampersandrew, do games w It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

gross

entropicdrift, do gaming w Crush 40 singer sues Sega over Sonic Adventure 2's 'Live and Learn' theme song
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Poor guy. I mean he’s ridiculously lucky to be as famous as he is and to have been compensated fairly for the rest of his Sonic/SEGA music but it sucks that one of his most famous works has effectively been stolen by a corporation’s sense of entitlement.

Quazatron, do games w Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
@Quazatron@lemmy.world avatar

Excellent that they don’t engage in Nintendo level community hostility and at least let people who care about old games preserve them.

Stream goes one step further and actively maintains their legacy games playable. That is commitment.

FinalRemix,

Gog goes another step and provides a guarantee on stuff they’ve modified to ensure it works, and provide an offline installer that’s entirely self-contained for archviing purposes.

Quazatron,
@Quazatron@lemmy.world avatar

I prefer to buy GOG when possible, Steam second. I even have some duplicated titles across vendors.

Nuke_the_whales,

Every dev and game company is out for your money. They all suck not just Nintendo.

DacoTaco,
@DacoTaco@lemmy.world avatar

Eh, i wouldnt say they are better. They explicitly pulled all unreal games off all stores ( steam, epic store, gog, … ), killed all servers and when asked acted like unreal never existed. They are pieces of shit for doing it and they had no real reason in doing so imo…

scholar, do games w Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

Still weird that they stopped selling them on steam and gog…

Glide, do games w Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

While I don’t approve of Epic’s stabs at exclusivity, Steam needs a competitor to keep it in check, and one that is making some efforts to support the preservation of art is a welcome choice.

HakFoo,

But GOG is alresdy the Steam with Principals.

echodot,

As much as I like them I don’t think you can call them a competitor.

I’ve seen games that are available on both platforms that sell hundreds of times more copies on Steam simply because of steam’s reputation.

A competitor actually has to be able to compete.

szczuroarturo,

Im pretty sure gog is more popular than epic games . Alghtough i might be biased due to my country of origin.

Glide, (edited )

My experience with GOG is that it is a fringe option, at least in the combined North American (USA+Canada) culture. Plus, the unfortunate reality is that in many cases GOG’s principles preclude it from being a genuine competitor to Steam. Insisting on being DRM free means half of released games never go to the platform, so it will always be the secondary “better if” option.

I worry about Steam’s functional monopoly on PC game access. It hasn’t been an issue so far, because it has remembered that it is, first and foremost, a service, providing consumer protection through a generous refund policy and supporting devs with easy access to simple matchmaking and anti-cheat systems. But without a healthy competitor, it would be easy for Steam to start milking it’s users and developers alike.

szczuroarturo,

Im pretty sure gog does have some games with drm.

otp,

Really? I thought their whole thing was that they sell DRM-free stuff exclusively

stardust, do games w Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

Winning move from Epic. Showing what should be done for abandoned games. Give it back to the people so it can continued to be enjoyed by the community that will continue to care for it.

echodot,

There’s literally no reason not to do that. The game has long since made money and keeping it out of public ownership is now not doing anyone any favors.

Some studios are just intransigent.

Zer0_F0x, do games w Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

Oh man, UT2004 was my fave arena death match back in the day, so much fun. Hope they release more!

3laws, do games w Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

Every 10,000 cycles Epic has a small w. I’ll take it.

Rin, do games w Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

Sussy, but i’m glad

thejevans, do gaming w Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
@thejevans@lemmy.ml avatar

Why the hell aren’t UT2004 and UT3 in there as well?

realcaseyrollins,
@realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club avatar

In the Epic Games Store? They removed them some time ago. Not sure why.

thejevans,
@thejevans@lemmy.ml avatar

I know that. I mean why are they not part of this agreement with the Internet Archive.

barsoap,

Hmm it also got pulled from gog.

UT2004 Onslaught is still the best game mode ever btw. Haven’t played in a long while but like ten years ago there were still a good number of servers around. Not enough players for the big maps, though, those need like 20 people per team and good luck convincing a server full of deathmatch players to play as teams.

thejevans,
@thejevans@lemmy.ml avatar

HOLY SHIT Onslaught was definitely WICKED SICK

bjoern_tantau,
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The agreement wasn’t made with the Internet Archive but with OldUnreal so that they can distribute an installer that automatically downloads the games.

But hopefully it can be expanded to the later games as well.

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