Do not support a racist company.

[DerkThunder]

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexpo

Steam is promoting a page called "Game Devs of Color Expo". This is a page where they are giving extra promotion and thereby extra financial benefits to "people of color".

As everyone knows "people of color" means anyone who is not white.

It would be one level of racist to give this extra benefit to only 1 race. For example: Hispanic devs only. That would be pretty racist. It's another level of racist to include literally everyone except 1 race. For example: No Hispanics Allowed. That's even more racist.

That's what they're doing by promoting "game devs of color".... It's a page where white people are the only race not allowed.

And I don't wanna hear any cheap dumb opinions where someone says "We already have a white devs page. It's called the homepage."

No.... That's B/S.... People of color are allowed on the homepage, are they not?

Steam, are you openly admitting that people of color are denied access to your homepage and standard listing options when they make a game?

No?! That's not how it works? You are an inclusive company that welcomes submissions from anyone? That's what I thought...

So just to be clear.... You have one level of hosting and promotion of a developers game's that's available to everyone regardless of race... Then on top of that you have a promotional page that goes beyond that, and white people are not allowed.

Yeah, that's racist. I will not support a company that discriminates against people based on their skin color. I will happily continue to use the games I've already bought, and continue to add to the load on their servers. But my wallet is now closed to this company.

I encourage any other sane and rational people who don't think you can correct past discrimination with discrimination in the present, to join suit.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by DerkThunder:

Do not support a racist company.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexpo

Steam is promoting a page called "Game Devs of Color Expo". This is a page where they are giving extra promotion and thereby extra financial benefits to "people of color".

As everyone knows "people of color" means anyone who is not white.

It would be one level of racist to give this extra benefit to only 1 race. For example: Hispanic devs only. That would be pretty racist. It's another level of racist to include literally everyone except 1 race. For example: No Hispanics Allowed. That's even more racist.

That's what they're doing by promoting "game devs of color".... It's a page where white people are the only race not allowed.

And I don't wanna hear any cheap dumb opinions where someone says "We already have a white devs page. It's called the homepage."

No.... That's B/S.... People of color are allowed on the homepage, are they not?

Steam, are you openly admitting that people of color are denied access to your homepage and standard listing options when they make a game?

No?! That's not how it works? You are an inclusive company that welcomes submissions from anyone? That's what I thought...

So just to be clear.... You have one level of hosting and promotion of a developers game's that's available to everyone regardless of race... Then on top of that you have a promotional page that goes beyond that, and white people are not allowed.

Yeah, that's racist. I will not support a company that discriminates against people based on their skin color. I will happily continue to use the games I've already bought, and continue to add to the load on their servers. But my wallet is now closed to this company.

I encourage any other sane and rational people who don't think you can correct past discrimination with discrimination in the present, to join suit.

It's not racist.

[Freqsync]

Human is the race by the way.
Color means Loud, nicely.
If Alien was a race count everything that used to live under the sea now under a rock on land as the majority and Human=Alien.

Translation this is going to be locked and blocked placed even in Off topic if challenges faced at gaining an audience did not suffice or perhaps think ♥♥♥♥♥ and ♥♥♥♥♥ and are really the absence whether in space or just a sheet of paper. Equally unimportant.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

I see you also complained about Black Voices in Gaming event too.

Look in a mirror.

[Gin]

Obvious bait is obvious.

[Boblin the Goblin]

The event isn't discrimination.

[Jon the VGNerd]

TL;DR

Pointless thread is pointless.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by DerkThunder:

Steam, are you openly admitting that people of color are denied access to your homepage and standard listing options when they make a game?

*Valve

this is about working in the game industry, not releasing or buying games on Steam.

edit for moderation: OP didn't even get severe basics right, had to be corrected. thread is bait of course.

[Crazy Tiger]

Contact the organisers, they're listed on the event page: https://imgur.com/a/JkpAEnV

[DerkThunder]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It's not racist.

:summerfish2023:

It is, and you're a racist for defending it.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by DerkThunder:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexpo

Steam is promoting a page called "Game Devs of Color Expo". This is a page where they are giving extra promotion and thereby extra financial benefits to "people of color".

As everyone knows "people of color" means anyone who is not white.

It would be one level of racist to give this extra benefit to only 1 race. For example: Hispanic devs only. That would be pretty racist. It's another level of racist to include literally everyone except 1 race. For example: No Hispanics Allowed. That's even more racist.

OP. Please keep you culture war politics out of gaming.

I mean They are literally dozens of these break out promotions.

French, Dutch, Latin, Japan. Ukraine, German, LGBTQ, VN Developers, Horror devbelopers, Heck theres one fo SHMUP devs right now.

It's literally just an arbitary curation criteria to give smaller devs a chance to stand out a little.

Since when did you even care about whether the devs of the games you play were white or non-white?

[DerkThunder]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by DerkThunder:

Steam, are you openly admitting that people of color are denied access to your homepage and standard listing options when they make a game?

*Valve

this is about working in the game industry, not releasing or buying games on Steam.

This is very dishonest... The headline literally says "Discounts, Demos, and More" and then page is filled with ads for games.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by DerkThunder:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It's not racist.

It is, and you're a racist for defending it.

You fail to understand the meaning.

Go through some of the chapters here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo

You can also read a bit here...

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/developers-remove-games-from-steam-over-valves-black-lives-matter-silence

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/12/245159550♥♥♥♥093452/

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/indie-devs-pull-games-due-to-lack-of-steam-black-lives-matter-support

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/developers-are-pulling-games-from-steam-due-to-sil/1100-6478608/

[Qbert ⭐]

Originally posted by DerkThunder:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexpo

snip

I couldn't care less about your Twitter rant bait

Just found a few cheap games that look good so im getting them... after all, that's what sales are about, games on discount for you to spend money, you can go get offended here

[DerkThunder]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

OP. Please keep you culture war politics out of gaming.

The irony is thick with this one...

Originally posted by Start_Running:

I mean They are literally dozens of these break out promotions.

French, Dutch, Latin, Japan. Ukraine, German, LGBTQ, VN Developers, Horror devbelopers,

Ohh, So as long as you name one where they promoted games based on genre then I should be okay with all these other examples where it's based on a person's arbitrary characteristics that have nothing to do with the game?

How about they shouldn't be promoting games based on race or sexuality at all? How about that?

[Ogami]

Originally posted by DerkThunder:

How about they shouldn't be promoting games based on race or sexuality at all?

Why not? Seriously, WHY NOT?
Because you dont like it? All the more reason to do it.
When nobody cares about sales like this anymore and no one makes a "omg keep this political XXX away from me!" thread, THEN is the right time to not have them again.
But we are a long way away from that.
As long as people like you complain about it, they are obviously needed.