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Developer Rejects Player Requesting Steam Key For Supporting LGBT Rights

The Hatred thing isn't that comparable as, even though Hatred sucks, it's at least competent. It's a functional game. This is not. It'll get a few edgelords probably, but that's about it.

Still more than they deserve though.
 
Bigoted, condescending, disrespectful and just plain rude to their fanbase.

Winning combination right there for a indie dev. I see them gaining millions of fans and followers with that attitude.

/s
 
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku! said:
Most people probably still think they are part of Russia (soviet union, whatever).
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Harlequin said:
Well, to be fair, Russia has done a lot in recent years to earn itself a global reputation as an especially homophobic place. It's far from being the only one (or indeed the worst one), of course, but I do think it's the one that has recently gotten the most attention for its homophobia in the Western media. It also does have a budding indie dev scene (I think?) so the assumption doesn't seem that outlandish IMO, even if it's wrong.
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maquiladora said:
I guess some people wrongly assumed Russian based on the title of the game and due to things like how the Russian parliament voted to impose a law which made "Homosexual Propaganda" a crime. A vote that passed with only one abstention.

I did guess the developers were from some Caucasus region myself. But mainly because of the game title.
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I understand, I just felt it's a bit too generalising. Russia's LGBTQ community faces a lot of issues due to Putin's anti-LGBTQ propaganda which has sadly been effective in creating a more hostile society than before the propaganda began. I suppose this is more consciously aware by us in the west so we may tend to think immediately of Russia but there's a lot of anti-LGBTQ propaganda throughout the world by other countries too, some even worse than in Russia.

Nonetheless while a lot of the west has good LGBTQ laws itself society is still way behind regardless. I mean if their English wasn't a give away that they're not from an anglo-sphere country they could've been like many conservatives in many western countries. We already have large and small business in general that have/are publicly anti-LGBTQ in the west and U.S society for example still has a lot of opposition towards gay marriage and right now transgender people using bathrooms. While the laws may be improving, society does so much slower, it's why I feel that assuming it's of any one particular country without much information can be generalising too much because they could be from a lot of places.

potatohead said:
The trend and support in Russia for anti-LGBT messaging is overwhelmingly higher than in places like Europe or even the US.

Like, they are so far from even American standards. There are businesses by the tens and hundreds who happened to pull out of states entirely just recently over stupid anti-LGBT legislations in the US. It's all over the news for the past months. US and EU are far more liberal when it comes to human rights, even despite differing opinions on the subject within all countries.

And yea, Caucasus? That sounds pretty Russian/Eastern EU. Just on the face of it.
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Yeah you're right, small tidbits of information like the game involving the caucasus can nudge one to make closer assumptions of who may be creating the game.
 
-duskdoll- said:
I don't know. The people who see this article and rush to buy the game are already homophobic jerks. I can't imagine a reasonable person wanting to support them after this.
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Semi-reasonable people get pushed over the edge every day. The number of undecided voters is always bigger than people with a set mind.
 
True Fire said:
Considering Valve discriminates against its own LGBT employees I doubt it gives a fuck
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1. Not proven
2. A single employee potentially, not Valve. Don't make blanket statements based on one event.

I don't really care about valve since they really contribute very little outside a platform anymore. But I feel that's a really unfair statement to make.
 
We don't have a problem with the fact you didn't give them a key dude. We have a problem with the fact you were a giant piece of shit about it.
 
Pyrokai said:
One less game I have to buy
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Pretty sure you wouldn't have bought this piece of shit anyway. I see that it is now in early access. When it came out it was sold as a "Demo" with the promise that the final Game is released a few days later.

Almost 3 months later and now it's in early access and they don't even know when it will be finished.
“Although we are not absolutely positive, it might take somewhere between two months and a year.”
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Yeah, it's your typical shitty early access scam.

Here's a video from Jim Sterling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmgQUrpjBhc
 
Lesath said:
Ugh, I am out of it. I initially read the topic to mean that a player felt entitled to a steam key because he or she supported lgbt rights.
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Yeah, that was my initial read and it's seem silly to be upset you weren't given something for free just because you supported LGBT rights. But seeing it was the inverse and... Shit.

Yeah, these guys sound pretty awful. Hopefully this doesn't garner any actual support, or it's flimsy support that will crumble away.
 
Taramoor said:
Maybe wherever they're from LGBT is an acronym for something else?
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Let Go of Banana Torpedoes?

Nah man, LGBT is a well known acronym all across Eastern Europe. So I'm pretty sure the shitheads know what LGBT stands for. They're just homophobic pricks, plain and simple.
 
The worst part isn't the shitty bigot devs, but the horrible people who will buy this game just to support them now because of this. Fuck them so much :-(
 
-duskdoll- said:
Yeah i guess you're right, i just like to think people are better than that.
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My home people are accountable for two world wars, and i read their comments for Battlefield 1. A political crisis like "Trump vs. Clinton" would be simple for once. People will never be good. You HAVE to influence them, for the better. I am so fucking tired, literally.
 
Like other people said, they won. The game was supposed to be buried soon, but they got publicity and some hate groups will support their game. They'd make a game in which player randomly shoots LGBT people and it would sell more than anything else they'd make. They only dare to say that because they know some people will support them.
 
Looking forward to watching these devs abjectly fail and close. Too bad if there are any employees involved that don't share these views, but at the end of the day, if this is your public face, you shouldn't be working there - you're guilty by association.
 
Everything they say reads like someone doing an impersonation of crazyrussianhacker on youtube out loud, and the name "Project Caucuses" seems so generically bad that it's almost satirical. The disdain for LGBT almost seems like it's just in "character" and the accidental demo explanation sounds like slapstick. The game also looks like an asset store, so I'm going to guess this is greenlight garbage trolling, they'll make maybe $1000 and laugh at being covered by any outlets or talked about anywhere.
 
I find it fascinating that people this blatantly and openly bigoted still exist in 2016. At least American bigots try to hide it behind, "Think about the children!" or something. But this is just straight up, "Fuck LGBT people!"
 
KevinCow said:
I find it fascinating that people this blatantly and openly bigoted still exist in 2016. At least American bigots try to hide it behind, "Think about the children!" or something. But this is just straight up, "Fuck LGBT people!"
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I don't understand the appeal of being on what will clearly be seen as the wrong side when the modern era is a historic event.

Like, do they really think they're going to stop acceptance?
 
The fact that he could have just simply ignored the request but instead went the extra mile to respond and expose himself as an homophobic mess to the masses.

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whatever, they're free to believe what they want...

all the person did was give them even more publicity and possibly even sales

ppl that are against lgbt that werent even into this game are gonna buy it just on principle
 
Story of the Operation Caucasus: said:
Since all of world's oil is going to run out by the middle of the twenty first century, world renowned oil companies are setting up bases in oil-rich countries without the knowledge of the states. Ever since the Caucasus became one of the world's biggest oil exporters, the United States launched the Operation Caucasus in order to bring the oil from that region to North America. The "butterfly" group is being payed to execute the mission, since the job must be clean and must be done instantaneously. The members of the "buttefly" group, Victor, Connor, and Chris, are ordered to go on the island and are told that the backup will arrive afterward. Chris and Victor were a part of the military until they decided to cross some borders without the permission of the country they were entering in order to fight certain enemies. In their attemp they were detained and sent to prison. After being deprived of their freedom for several years, the two friends escaped and dediced to join the "butterfly" team. The reason for them joining said team is because they have been promised new documents, which they can use to start from a clean page.
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Whaaaaaaat
 
Alienous said:
I don't understand the appeal of being on what will clearly be seen as the wrong side when the modern era is a historic event.

Like, do they really think they're going to stop acceptance?
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Do these people even realize they're on the wrong side of history, or are they delusional and/or ignorant enough to think that there's even the possibility that their opinions will win out in the end?
 
I don't use steamspy much but...this looks like it exploded their sales. Am I reading that right?

Alienous said:
I don't understand the appeal of being on what will clearly be seen as the wrong side when the modern era is a historic event.

Like, do they really think they're going to stop acceptance?
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Yes they, with absolutely utter faith, think they will stop acceptance.
 
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