NIS America Pulls GaymerX Sponsorship, Devolver Digital Steps Forward - Update

[Lightknight]

with only 5% or so of the population being...not straight...and being a self styled "gaming" being a subset of that...and being the kind of self styled "gaming" that would travel to go to a con being a subset of that...

not wanting to be down on anyone but i think the audience for this has gotta be rather on the small side...

It doesn't really matter what size this is. What matters is that the company promised it. So them deciding that the demographic is small would be irrelevant. FYI, 4% of the US population is LGBTQ. Don't know if that matters.

What's funny is that no one said that were with-holding the committed money because they got a case of the gay fears. Merely that they didn't contribute. Somehow, just because this conference was related to LGBT we somehow assumed that that meant the company was gay bashing and that's bullshit to assume when there's no reason that's related at all.

That'd be like saying the utility company shut off power to a gay person's house as if they did it because the person was gay and not because they failed to pay just like the company would do to any other non-paying customer.

Holy yellow journalism Batman (whichever source thought this was newsworthy to begin with). I mean, the money is going to fund a bar that the VIP members had to pay to get into. I wouldn't want to contribute money to that either if my goal was to help members of the LGBT community in some meaningful way.

That wold be Polygon

http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/28/5946619/gaymerx-nis-america-gaymerx2

which had this line

Conn noted that he felt NIS America's actions denote a poor attitude towards queer people. "I feel awful and betrayed," he said.

He apologized quickly afterward admitting the line was said out of anger

http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/30/5951691/nis-america-pay-gaymerx-apology

Gotta love how a funding snafu resulted in free press and more donations.

Hah, thanks.

It's remarkable how even if they had failed to come forward with the donation that the reason had to be that they dislike gay people and not that they could possibly have other reasons for not wanting to fund a VIP bar with money that could have been much better spent (like oh, funding the travel expenses for a gay gamer public speaker or something). Nope, had to be because they hated gays.

If I'm a children's charity and a company backed out of a donation, I'm not going to assume it's because they hate children. At worst I'd assume it's because they're greedy or stingy. But no, because it's a pro-gay organization then whoever fails on commitments to the organization must be against them.

 

[RaikuFA]

Wow, just wow. I'm a bisexual and this is just sad. Love to see them try and pull this with Atlus, the Atlus with three homosexual characters in their Persona games.

 

[NiPah]

Once again NISA shows how horrible they are as a game company, being the face of everything terrible involving Japanese gaming from pandering to creepers to localizing shovelware that should stayed in Japan while good games like Yakuza 5 never comes over.

NISA have been responsible for bringing over some of the best (critically) games out of Japan that many other publishers would not bother with. Also, Yakuza 5 is SEGA, not NISA and if you've seen the trailers for that game you'd see that it also appeals to the creepers.

TL;DR: You're talking out your arse.

IGN and Gamespot will gladly disagree with you. I may agree with you if you are talking their games back then but nowadays all I see from NISA is creeper trash.

It's really quite depressing when I read your posts, while I admit it's inevitable that as time progresses the quality of the Escapist will decrease but have we really reached the level of Youtube?
It's not that I even disagree with you, I'm just depressed that a posts like your own exist on the Escapist in the first place.
Although its reassuring that your two posts are the only disappointments in this thread.

 

[Dragonlayer]

It is quite hard to keep up with who we're supposed to hate these days for social justice outrages.

No it's not. Everything is offensive to someone so just hate everything and you'll be OK.

But I have things to do! Like live my life!

*Sigh* Fine.

Fucking _ists and their _ism, it sickens me!

 

[Dragonlayer]

That's brilliant! We just need to establish the relative worth of actions and TumblrBux: should there be a set price for outrages, based on the degree of their exclusion - "Didn't include a playable female character in your upcoming game? Hundred TBux please. No transethnic vegans? Ten thousand Bux." or should it fluctuate in response to whatever objective is currently "In" for the social justice crusaders crowd?

I'm now imagining them as a Social Justice protection racket, old mob style "What's this? A skimpy outfit on a damsel in distress? That's gonna cost ya twice as much as last time. Not trying to be pushy, but accidents do happen... Say, that's a nice forum you got there. Would be a real shame if it burned down in a flamewar."

I'm imagining some of the historically minded ones proposing that idea, only to be screamed down for perpetuating negative stereotypes about Italian Americans/reinforcing sexist normalisation about the lack of women with agency in crime/being ethnically exclusive towards non-Italian Americans/*Well, you know how this shit goes.*