There are people who genuinely think I was the cause of this.
If I and a few other GAFers were the cause of this decision, I'm ok with it.
To be fair the collective of GAF is getting blamed for it, apparently we bombarded playtonic about it to get a reaction. Its amazing how powerful people think we are as a community, really the stupidity of it when you consider that most devs also pay lots more attention to reddit, twitch and youtube now.
Seriously JonTrons reddit after the destiny thing was a fcking warzone, but hey we probably did contribute a bit as did a hundred fcking other sites that ran articles about it within the day.
But the internet likes lowhanging fruit and GAF is an easy target, hell even playtonic will eventually figure out a way to use GAF as a scapegoat.
Funny because only a handful of people would have even bothered contacting playtonic about this from here like you did. But we are LGBT scum, or everyone here is a SJW a-hole or some other bullshit bug hivemind blah blah blah.
Basically if we have an opinion on it were the fcking anti-christ. The twin chans, reddit, tubers, the hundred other gaming communities, thousand news sites and twitchers are all saints compared to us.
Personally the whole debacle is laughable on all fronts and people always look for someone to blame, we were just the easiest.
Reality is Jontron fcked up, I dont care if he is a racist because thats his opinion. I dont have to agree with his opinion like he doesnt have to agree with mine or anyone elses.
But if you are in his position you dont cross the now clearly drawn line that was drawn weeks prior.
Pewdiepie should have been a big red fcking flag to the content developer community as a whole because he showed all the people under him where the line in the sand was drawn.
People can think we are to blame but Jontron opened his mouth, he forgot to switch on his brain and realize freedom of expression has consequences when you are in the public arena.