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Not necessarily, but they could have an interest in spotlighting death threats written by individuals not in the industry (gamers) to showcase how everyone rall
by davikr 3y ago
Not necessarily, but they could have an interest in spotlighting death threats written by individuals not in the industry (gamers) to showcase how everyone rallying against one of their actions is bad: which is precisely what happened to the OP of this chain.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> they could have an interest in bringing death threats written by individuals not in the game development industry Sure? It’s still a death threat. Sending employees home has a real cost. The existence of death threats, moreover, is unlikely to change developers’ hearts and minds. The nuttier ones will write it off as a conspiracy theory. Most will see it as irrelevant to their interests. People who make death threats don’t need to underwrite their insanity. Their incoherence doesn’t make them less dangerous.
- davikr 3y agoI don't think there is any conspiracy or "psyop" involved in writing fake threats or sending people home for PR points in this case, but I'd be pressed to change my opinion over nutjobs (in this case, probably gamers) being violent.