On May 05 2012 00:41 ArcticFox wrote:
Your analogies are off. If those things happened, they're analogous to contacting Quantic, which people are within their rights to do. What happened was a ton of E-Mails to Razer. That's more analogous to contacting Roger Goddell to have the Falcons kicked out of the league over the Vick issue, or seeing a kid misbehaving and calling child protective services on the parent. There's a disconnect, a critical step that was skipped, that a lot of people are taking issue with, because it deters other sponsors from wanting to put money into the system.
Your analogies are off. If those things happened, they're analogous to contacting Quantic, which people are within their rights to do. What happened was a ton of E-Mails to Razer. That's more analogous to contacting Roger Goddell to have the Falcons kicked out of the league over the Vick issue, or seeing a kid misbehaving and calling child protective services on the parent. There's a disconnect, a critical step that was skipped, that a lot of people are taking issue with, because it deters other sponsors from wanting to put money into the system.
I understand what you're saying, and that makes some sense; but Roger Goddell doesn't sponsor the Atlanta Falcons. He facilitates the entire National Football League. The Falcon's are indirectly sponsored by the fans and customers of that franchise (as well as direct sponsorships through drink companies, apparel producers, etc). But the mass amount of money comes from the "on the ground" fan. I don't know the content of the emails to Razer; but I don't know that people were calling Razer to stop sponsorship of Quanitc rather perhaps they were expressing concern about Quantic having an active employee that was using racial slurs. Maybe they were calling for Razer to drop Quantic, and if that is the case then I don't think it's right to punish an entire team for the actions of one player.