PR is managing public opinion.

Thanks, that's a lot more succinct.

Somebody needs to tell GOG. ;p

As someone who constantly goes on about personal attacks and namecalling aren't you being a bit hypocritical there? I didn't call anyone bollocks.

As richlind33 says, PR is managing public opinion. If you do something that is predictably going to offend people, then you're doing it wrong.

What a bizarre rant, your comparisons are apples and oranges.
They wouldn't get a response for three weeks, and then finally they'd get a message saying "We hope the issue has been resolved" despite nothing having been changed. :P



Your call, but I'm thinking maybe take off, nuke it from orbit.

B.S. Your entire argument is circular reasoning. Linko is guilty because people complained. Because many others don't get complained about, makes him obviously guilty. I've already demonstrated how you and the rest of these fools keep getting the facts wrong. He's not this repeat offender as you and others stupidly keep claiming. Have you even looked at GoG's Twitter? They are promoting multiple games a day with video clips. There is no way the social media manager is making those clips themselves. You keep getting the facts wrong. You keep making mistakes. I guess by your own logic, you should get "fired" over your posts too.

So the only offense that can be properly attributed to Linko is the one Tweet. And people like you are calling him terrible at his job and deserving of being fired for just that. A tweet that didn't demean anybody, just hijacked a hashtag. As I've said before, I hope hypocrites like you get fired from your jobs the next time you make a mistake, because by your logic, you'd deserve it, because you "should've known better". Clearly compassion for others isn't one of your strong suits.

Again, you're missing the point. Yes he's guilty, but what he's guilty of is being bad at PR. If people are complaining about your PR social media posts then you are bad at PR.

You are missing the point. He made one mistake and it wasn't that bad. And you, in your infinite wisdom thinks called him bad at his job is appropriate. You are being extremely judgemental. Hundreds of tweets from that social media account and only two complained about. One because of a video clip pretty obviously provided by the game developer and one other and because of that one, he's "bad at his job".

And it's not as if GoG/CDPR have been in the crosshairs of this same outrage mob before Linko. They have overreacted at least 3 other times, complaining about the group PC Master Race and how GoG shouldn't associate with a group using a name we had to go to great lengths to deem offensive. A tweet using a meme in defense of CDPR's diversity of employment. And complaints about only allowing a binary choice of sexes in the Cyberpunk 2077 preview.

You'd think that an intelligent person would see that there is a group of people trying to find offense at any straw they can grasp. But no, you, in your infinite wisdom thinks calling Linko bad at his job over the one tweet is appropriate. Says a lot about YOU!

This one is lost cause bud. No amount of logic will change that guys mind.

Except if you represent something that deliberately positions itself as vaguely provocative, anarchic, and marginal. A lot of PR affords, or seeks, an element of surprise, or disturbance, or (more or less juvenile) edginess, or whatever, that takes the risk of being "offensive" without ill intent.

I'm thinking of the Benetton campaigns, for instance, that were succesful in increasing brand visibility through (the conservative's) outrage. Or comedic movies, shows, journals, that don't mind being judged as shocking in their ways of toying with codes and representations.

It's risky, always, it's a fine line between "schoolboyish" (not sure ow to translate "potache") and mean-spirited, and above all, it requires a clear positionning intent. If, for instance, GOG goes "yeah, go crazy, be silly, shake the tree" or even "ok why not, hijack popular trends for silly ads, can be fun", and then goes "oops, shaked the tree too much, byebye", the issue is elsewhere. Partly in a very unhealthy over-polarized cultural context, where any wink at a matter gets loaded and drafted on one side or the other.

Just saying. We don't know anything about the process behind it, but things are not as simple as "offends = bad PR".

But again, we're living in a touchy global (too global) culture, to which we come from different subcultural background. And we see that -for instance- each time a Charlie Hebdo provocative frontpage generates international scandals and random interpretations by people who never opened the journal even once.

For me, it's the same issue.

Big controversy = bad at PR.

Don't for a second think I'm of the opinion he should have been fired, what I said was that I wasn't surprised. My point is, he wasn't fired to appease anyone but rather because he brought controversy to GOG's door not long after the Cyberpunk twitter debacle. The fact that he wasn't responsible for that one doesn't excuse his lack of awareness. If CDPR is already being perceived as transphobic then it's an incredibly stupid thing for the GOG PR guy to hijack a hashtag about trans rights. Surely it should have been obvious that this is a subject to steer clear of?

Which is exactly why Linko's tweet was such a stupid thing to do.

Your definition of intelligent person is someone who loves the taste of that redpill koolaid, so I can see how you'd think that.
I know, this isn't my first rodeo with RW. ;)

who is the official Cyberpunk 2077 account mod?

and who did they Postal 2 thingy?

My guess would be the CDPR forum manager if it's set up the same way as it is here. Vattier, but there are other CDPR employees posting there like Dominica, Marcin Momot, Alicja. Riven-Twain is listed as a moderator. The CDPR forums are far more heavily staffed, so it's hard to say who might have posted that Tweet, but it's pretty clearly not going to be Linko posting for Cyberpunk 2077.

The Postal 2 Tweet came from the GoG account, but let's face the facts. The Tweet said nothing offensive at all. People took offense at the video attached and it's highly doubtful the CM is picking out those clips themselves, they would be sent by the developers. But let's not let the facts get in the way of a good outrage, shall we?