Playtonic celebrates diversity, yet did the opposite by removing the lines of someone who made a personal remark.

Goddamn, that is a stupid argument.

Your cancellation inspired me to not only upgrade to the digital deluxe edition of the game, but also to negate your cancellation by finding one of my friends who wasn’t gonna buy the game, and buy a copy for them as a gift in support of a fantastic group of game devs with a great deal of integrity.

And I don’t want to hear a voice that reminds me that the actor thinks my race is inherently violent and criminal.

Sorry, but removing someone from your project because he promotes literal Nazi viewpoints isn’t blown out of proportion.

This is a perfectly reasonable response. Others have already made the point that severing a professional association != censorship, so I’ll only add the following:

While it is exceptionally uncommon (and in some cases, even illegal, depending upon protected class status) for an employer to terminate an employee based…

What do you mean “would ignore again?” You didn’t ignore it. You posted a direct response to them. Do you know what “ignore” means?

People don’t want to be reminded of that fuckbag’s opinions every time his character opens his mouth.

I don’t think it’s convincing to say this was blown out of proportion.

Have fun not playing a game you’d otherwise enjoy because its devs don’t want it associated with a racist.

Hey. Fuck you too.

Good god, the bigot apologists are out in force today.

You can disagree with or even hate somebody and still work with them or include their work, especially when it isn’t a work related problem you have with them.

To be fair, if this person was more honest they wouldn’t have had him do the work to begin with. They are just retroactively making the decision once they found out.

Why? He said some pretty deplorable stuff and why should Playtonic be seen as supporting him given that he’s made it clear that he’s not sorry at all? This is what happens when you make bigoted views clear, folks aren’t going to want to have anything to do with you, doublely so when you release a video that can be…

When the crap did everyone start to think the world should be consequence free? If you say something shitty, people may not want to be associated with you.

I wish he didn’t turn out to be such a massive ass. But here we are, dealing with the consequences.

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.

Counter-point: No it isn’t. This is a reasonable repercussion.

Is it too late to back this game