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EA staff threaten walkout over lack of statements during Pride Month (Up: cancelled as EA confirm they wont change logo for pride)
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DeepEnigma
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A Most Virtuous Cat
Banned
I am "proud" of EA for keeping it Halaal.
Dream-Knife
Banned
I've decided I'll never buy companies products that adopt the rainbow logo. Not hard with EA.
Cyberpunkd
Member
But, but, but how I will be able to go to work in a company that expect ONLY work from me, and not personal statements on everything?
VN1X
Banned
It's astroturfed nonsense facilitated by those who benefit from a society that is in a perpetual state of animosity over the most trivial things so as to divert their attention from actual important issues.
The Soros-Jugend and Alphabet People(tm) have been brainwashed into believing they are "fighting the good fight" when there's literally nothing to be fought for as their "message" is being parroted on the daily by every major corporate entity, government and media outlet around the world. If anything they've now become the majority but won't rest until any and all people adhere to their beliefs (religion) and they will pursue any means necessary until they've reached that goal (such as censorship, cancelling, etc).
But anyway back to you, Dave!
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Fake
Member
Decontamination Silo
Banned
This ideology takes far bigger leaps of logic than any organized religion.
chromhound
Member
Activision is taking notes for Call of Duty
MatrixReloaded101
Member
They should have just sent out a tweet, no point in creating drama with your employees over this.
EA already has a bad rep as it is
EA already has a bad rep as it is
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Or here's an idea. For political issues, how about video game companies and their employees send zero tweets.
I just checked my company's linkedin profile. No mention of Pride Month and the same logo as always. Our website is the same too. And we make consumer goods everyone uses.
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yazenov
Member
Yes getting hit by a rainbox bullet would damage my pride as well as my body.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
All those times EA got grilled worst company. Hell, maybe the whole time it were the regular employees pissing on things, not upper management .EA employees after EA being voted (more than once?) worst company of the year:
EA employees when logo is not changed:
jigglet
Banned
How long before that tool is used on their team photos? 5 years ago this would have been a joke post.
Probably both
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
For most people, they dont care or want it that way.
But some people take that sex/gender identity selling anything from video games to mosquito repellant to air filters as exceptional employee and consumer respect and recognition.
Dream-Knife
Banned
Imagine being killed by a gay bullet. Lmao.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
I can't say pretty much anything I believe in at work without being fired . . . they think they can force a company's hand to change a logo for what they believe in. Must be nice! Going back to not being able to voice any opinions now.
Stuart360
Member
The whole SJW agenda is like Nazi Germany in the 30's, just without the violence (so far).
Instead of trying to bring the masses around slowly, its you WILL like this, you WILL do this, you WILL think this, You WILL conform to out beliefs, 'or else' (being cancelled, being classed a bigot, etc).
Its the reason why i think the whole SJW agenda will do more harm than good in the long run. Its only a matter of time until the masses get fed up with all this constant bullshit from clown world, and press back.
Instead of trying to bring the masses around slowly, its you WILL like this, you WILL do this, you WILL think this, You WILL conform to out beliefs, 'or else' (being cancelled, being classed a bigot, etc).
Its the reason why i think the whole SJW agenda will do more harm than good in the long run. Its only a matter of time until the masses get fed up with all this constant bullshit from clown world, and press back.
Fredrik
Member
There was no pride parades when I grew up, came when I was already in the 30s. But I’m not in the US. Kids called each other gay and stuff like that, to tease or joke, but I saw no real aggression. Maybe it existed in the bigger cities I don’t know.
Anyhow I have a close friend who’s gay and have no issues with any of that, but I do think it’s odd to openly chant about your sexual preference in a parade, or even just talking about it with strangers on a board. Maybe I’m a dinosaur but this is personal things imo.
I understand the LGBT community’s struggle to be accepted but I’m not sure it’s the right way to scream from the roof tops and go parading. I find it odd tbh.
I mean imagine if your straight female coworker or boss or sister or neighbour or aunt or your kids teacher or whatever would walk around with a shirt saying they like to take it in the ass. Too much info perhaps?
ZoukGalaxy
Gold Member
The whole thing, to begin with, is pretty ridiculous and boring since it's "mandatory".
Give me a cat month instead please, much more funny.
Give me a cat month instead please, much more funny.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I blame social media. Everybody feels so entitled now as a result. Small groups are very loud and those small groups have a large following on places like Twitter.
I think of social media never happened we wouldn't have this woke craziness. Well, it would probably still happen but it wouldn't be as extreme as it is nowadays.
I think of social media never happened we wouldn't have this woke craziness. Well, it would probably still happen but it wouldn't be as extreme as it is nowadays.
AGRacing
Member
The Alien
Banned
Sad that a company won't pander for a month out of the year when they pander for the other 11 months?....or that bunch of crybaby employees for a company threaten to walkout of their place of employment over perceived lack of pandering?
Regardless, yes. A very sad time to be alive. If yiu are under the age of 35, I feel sorry for your current and for your future.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
I remember reading about the who Star Wars Battlefront 2 lootbox fiasco and one of the reporters said that the whole lootbox economy in the MP was DICE's idea, not EA's. The devs designed the progression to be tailored around microtransactions and RNG, and it was EA's upper echelon that had to step in after the outrage to completely remove lootboxes from the game.
Jason's Anthem expose was even more glaring. It took them 5 years just to get the fake E3 2017 vertical slice made. EA let them prototype for 5 years. Who does that? Not the worst company in the world who hates their devs. Then bioware lied to them and made them think it was a real game even though they had stiched together a fake demo. They literally had to start from scratch in June 2017 for a November 2019 release lying to both EA and their userbase about the game's progress. The reason why Anthem didnt have an end game is not because EA only gave them 7 years to make the game, it's because bioware literally didnt know they were making a GaaS game.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
I might actually buy Madden this year and I don't even like sports games, but I'm glad they had the balls to stand up to the nonsense.
Stuart360
Member
They will back down though i'm sure, unfortunately.
Funny thing is dont these loons realize that these huge companies dont give a shit about 'their cause', and its just pandering?.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
It seems to be a chain of tech companies putting in more corporate policies this year as they right the ship of pandering and politics.
Just like when they all leaned left, they all follow each other. Now if some are leaning right to even it out, more might do the same.
In just a handful of months, you got big tech companies like Apple, Google ad Tesla getting employees to go back to the office, Netflix telling workers quit if you dont like it, and EA not conforming to sex politics.
Like a new corporate world lately.
harry mason 1989
Banned
EA games are my favorite company now
Elginer
Member
My (male) penis supports this!Lack of support here is disturbing. Here's something for representation.
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
Corporations aren't people. They aren't LGBT. Stop being NPCs.
//DEVIL//
Member
Which is good thing. This woke shit needs to stop. It's harming the US economy when companies have to lose millions of dollars on hiring unqualified turds just because they feel entitled
ReBurn
Gold Member
Wow what a shitshow
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
Equal rights yes, equal value no, that's plain communism.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Social media has allowed every fringe group to punch far above their weight. There have always been isolated nutcases strewn throughout the country and these individuals could always be easily ignored (and secretly laughed at), but thanks to Facebook, Tumbler, Twitter, etc they now band together and present themselves as a movement. When these easily offended nutjobs find offense in something or other, their angry sputterings spread quickly on sympathetic progressive sites (who do everything for the clicks). A few tweets by a handful of blue haired idiots are presented as a tsunami of popular indignation and usually companies give in immediately in order to avoid a PR disaster. So now we have massive multi billion dollar companies bending the knee to fringe groups of progressive radicals while the huge majority of the population are now seens as archaic degenerates whose ideas, morals and politics can easily be ignored because the future is WOKE.
Exactly. Plus if it’s so diverse why do they only promote one point of view?
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Maybe EA needs to pull a Netflix?
Can't wait for July.
Can't wait for July.