Developer cancels contracts with publisher Tripwire following boss' anti-abortion comments

Oh, wow - can't wait to watch this dumpster fire...

Just lock it now, mods.

If you wanna be pro-life, that's your opinion and its fine. But to thank the Supreme Court for allowing bounties on pregnant women and women who have miscarriages is disgusting.

It is better not to have an opinion, in my opinion.

Kanchanaburi said:Being 'cancelled' is someone having an opinion driven right back against your opinion. If you want everyone to have an opinion, everyone can't win and be right.

I mentioned it before too, but I think you missed the point where a dev walked way from the publisher boss who made the comment. The only thing cancelled is the publishers chance of making money with the dev. They will both survive if they are truly right in their own view points.

I was raised to be a person to represent themselves professionally, political entanglement isnt professional, its driving an agenda.

I don't get it - are people no longer be allowed to be pro-life? Personally I'm pro-choice up to a certain point in a pregnancy, and pro-life after that point. As long as you don't impose these views on your co-workers in one way or the other, you should be free to express whatever view you wish. That's the entertaining thing about this topic - both sides (or both 'extremes' at least) are convinced that they hold the moral high ground over the other.

Gpapito#4922 said:Oh no, a private company with a forum policy is doing exactly what they have the right to do...

Bye!

seems you are not allowed to dissent from the approved opinion, and there are people unable to separate a persons opinions from a company.

isn't tribalism fun?

It might not just be a political comment but also a matter of religious conviction. One doesn't necessarily have to be a Republican or a rightwing conservative to espouse pro life views.

It is sad that nowadays one cannot publicly state their stand based on their religious convictions without suffering an attack from those who don't agree with those views.

I don't think that many on the left realize that they themselves have been victimized by this kind of behavior when they publicly announced their sexual orientation in the past, professed feminits, atheistic or secular views or when they publicly declared pro abortion stands during eras when such views were considered anathema by majority of the population.

By exhibiting this same kind of behavior, they are showing that they are nothing but hypocrites by boycotting and criticizing those who disagree with them.

Never thought I'd see this being covered on TA. I dunno i just always saw this site as one of those 'safe' - (probably not the word im looking for) zone. We get bombarded with these kind of stories all the time all over the Internet. I kinda liked that TA kept out of it

Reaper08R said:People are allowed to be Pro-life... but people who are Pro-Choice are allowed to disagree and walk away from those business relationship. I dont see what the big deal is.

I wonder why TA even bothers to make articles like this. They must enjoy watching the absolute worst of their community come out to spread their generic Gamer™ talking points.

There's too many people on the planet anyway. If one or both partners do not want to have a child then it should be dealt with and dealt with swiftly.

If people weren't so selfish and self-consumed then more people would adopt.

Regardless of political leanings we should just strive for less misery across the board.

yossariano said:Yeah Ronald Reagan was totally against "cancel culture" ... remind me, what did he do about supposed Communists in Hollywood again?

RevilingBirch3 said:True. The problem now is that they dig after old opinions that the world ignored 15 years ago, but suddenly matters for no good reason.
After all, people that were 20 years old back then usually don't have same opinion when they are as a 35 year old. Most people change.

Why did this have to happen during a world pandemic?
On top of it, a lot of children songs and books were banned because of BLM during same pandemic.
Third. All the sex scandals in game companies during the pandemic.
There is more than this, but i stop here.

Someone tries to make the world worse in every way possible now. Pandemic made many people weird.

RadiantViper said:Its funny, right before this story I saw this tweet by Microsoft...

https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1433903634727718915?ref_src=...

lol Youre right too, the worst of the community need to spread that hate.

Edit: Well it is industry news too, it likely wasnt made knowing it would blow up like this.

FireDrake007 said:Are you seriously trying to compare people facing oppression for their sexual orientation (ie. something they're born with) with being against abortion to the point of taking away women's rights? What a joke.

Sashamorning said:Not for nothing but the forum policy is for users, not necessarily news writers. Also, it IS industry news. It effects us gamers, devs and publishers all over even if not directly.

Perfect Year said:You can. Doesn't mean there isn't consequence to those opinions and to what you say.

Reaper08R said:I think the problem here is they have moved the bar significantly earlier for pro choice. You now cannot terminate after 6 weeks. Many/most people don't even find out until later than this.

TW. And if that woman is a victim of rape then why should she be forced to keep it. (One example).

What makes it worse is they have not amended any laws to do with rape. How can they adjust this law without increasing the punishment for the original crime in the first place. Makes no sense.

Apologies to anyone who didn't want to read about that subject in particular.

DarqStalker said:I too like to police peoples thoughts and opinions