Black History Month

[Pokemang!]

No sales or promotions for games made by people of color?

[Ganger]

They shouldn't be any black, white, brown, yellow history month or what not. It's just divides people into groups. The human races needs fixing to live aside of each other not divided along lines of colour. Just my two cent.

[Start_Running]

When we gonna get a Ginger Month?

[cinedine]

What is Black History Month and why should anyone outside the US care about it?
Save from national days Steam hasn't done any sales for obscure national holidays ... or whatever this is.

[Ganger]

eram lähetti viestin:

Ganger lähetti viestin:

They shouldn't be any black, white, brown, yellow history month or what not. It's just divides people into groups. The human races needs fixing to live aside of each other not divided along lines of colour. Just my two cent.

what about the religious holiday sales we pretend not to have?

Religion is shared by people of all colours across the world in the same belief. But singling out one group of people for special treatment just causes anger and hate upon the other groups.

[Spawn of Totoro]

bag of patotos lähetti viestin:

No sales or promotions for games made by people of color?

It is a whole month long and is is just now the first of the month. New sales happen at 10:00 AM PST, so four and a half hours to go for the turn over.

Still way too soon to tell if there will or will not be.

[Kargor]

I actually see two problem with such a sale. Most games are made by teams -- and how is a "games made by black people"-sale *not* racist, since apparently it means black people making games is something worth pointing out?

Also, Steam wouldn't even know who to invite to participate, since they are probably not asking for team pictures when games are submitted to the store...

[Seraphita]

Best to simply report all offending posts and let moderators deal with it, imo. As for the thread itself, black history month is a thing we do where I live to remember what an entire race went through in the past. There are morality questions about why they get a month to their name but considering that racism is still prominent even in 2020, well you know...

As for a sale, I don't think a black history sale would be very fitting. The month is specifically an event to understand their culture and their history, not really for entertainment or gaming... But yes, I know that black characters exist in games but doing a sale about it is awkward, no? Imagine if resident evil 5 was in that sale, what message are we sending?

[Seraphita]

eram lähetti viestin:

reporting isnt what it used to be. the contract mods dont read and even ban you sometimes if you report people. by mistake of course but you have to contact them and wait for the unban.. not worth the risk

If they want to ban me for reporting racism, that would make quite a mark on their log when I contact steam support about it. I mean, I don't trust moderators anymore either after all I've seen but I try my best to do my part. Can't let bad people think it's okay to misbehave.

[Seraphita]

eram lähetti viestin:

yeah by mistake, im not implying they do things like that on purpose, its more just bad work on their part, and its not all the time, just occasionally.

Kind of wonder how it's possible to accidentally ban the person who reports. Especially when they need to give a reason for it (to justify the ban). At the same time, if we can't even trust the report system then that is not a good sign for defending peace on steam forums.

[cinedine]

Steam had a "Latinx" sale some time ago, so ... what exactly are you arguing about?
It was a tie-in for a game conference, though.

[Seraphita]

Suddenly, the user who was talking to me vanished? What is going on in this forum?

[J4MESOX4D]

bag of patotos lähetti viestin:

No sales or promotions for games made by people of color?

Name one black-only studio....

[Mad Scientist]

Ganger lähetti viestin:

They shouldn't be any black, white, brown, yellow history month or what not. It's just divides people into groups. The human races needs fixing to live aside of each other not divided along lines of colour. Just my two cent.

This.
Just make and sell games.

OP, If you want a sale for that, then you'd need a sale for basically all races and we all know how much people would complain about one particular being advertised/sold these days in all of this pc nonsense.

People weren't too happy with the "latinx" thing, a lot of people of that background hate being shoved into a generic pc label rather than just people.

[Voss]

Mr. Gentlebot lähetti viestin:

This.
Just make and sell games.

OP, If you want a sale for that, then you'd need a sale for basically all races and we all know how much people would complain about one particular being advertised/sold these days in all of this pc nonsense.

People weren't too happy with the "latinx" thing, a lot of people of that background hate being shoved into a generic pc label rather than just people.

why not a humanity month?
but that would annoy marxist like OP.

[cinedine]

J4MESOX4D lähetti viestin:

bag of patotos lähetti viestin:

No sales or promotions for games made by people of color?

Name one black-only studio....

Not exactly studios, but black one-man shows or games with a black lead designer exist. And there is even a fund for them by no one less than IGN:

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/humble-black-game-developer-fund-announces-first-5-games

As said, there was a Latin American focused sale only weeks ago. Why pretend something like this can't happen with another ethnicity if there is a corresponding industry event.
(And it's not like the games of the current Quebec sales are entirely made in Quebec either.)