We had too many memes in the past (maybe not on HMF tho) to not consider Johnny Sins in a black suit as a valid ET.
But if they should not only include “what did he do wrong as we know now” but also “what did or will he he do wrong as we will know after picking him”, the only logical consequence is to not feature real life people at all.
My entertainment comes first, that’s all that needs to be understood in situations like this, and I’ll leave it at that.
Yeah, at this point, it’s becoming embarrassing at least, problematic at worst. Whether going into a collaboration with foreknowledge or it coming up later, the whole concept may need to be set aside to avoid it happening either way.
Short of IO being a soothsayer…
And that seems like a jump to conclusions. The solution is to feature celebrities, but do background checks to make sure the company’s image is not damaged. In this case, the JCVD problem is out of their hands, but that does not apply to either Busey or Conor, who were known to be controversial wacko’s.
I think we should just remove all content and delist the game. Easy fix no more controversy.
Episodic model, here we come!
AH now I get you, you say that after these events it is time IO does a proper background check to make sure they don’t miss cases that are avoidable.
I agree but I don’t think it needed these two or three cases. For me that should be a given regardless of how well it went in the past.
I also think we should remove the word Hit from the title and INation aswell so it’s just called Man: World of Ass Ass
Obviously the fact we’re having this very conversation means IO weren’t doing that when they should be.
He’s known to be both an idiot and a shithead. Like, I remember him comparing gay marriage to dogs getting married on a TV show, years back. IOI sure knows how to pick them.
EDIT: That was back in 2018, apparently.
That kind of stuff isn’t that hard to look up either, just check Wikipedia, for instance:
"He had begun an affair with actress Darcy LaPier, whom he married in February 1994. From this marriage, they have a son named Nicholas (b. 10 October 1995). That same year he had an affair with his Street Fighter co-star Kylie Minogue during filming in Thailand. LaPier, who was pregnant with their son at the time, did not become aware of the affair until Van Damme publicly admitted it in 2012.
In October 2016, he expressed his support for presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election. Earlier that year in March, he mentioned that the Illuminati including the Rockefellers and Rothschilds might try to stop Trump from winning."
Another DLC and ET gone? lmao.
If there was anyone at IOI wanting the old/original Elusive_Target™ formula to truly return to the game - they’ve had it miraculously manifest in what has to be the worst way possible!
Being gifted with and accepting naughty stuff sure makes for great blackmail material later. I am curious as to when this went down… Like if it was fairly recent or within the past decade. Not that that makes what happened any less wrong, but (unless I missed it somewhere) that one missing fact really makes me wonder.
Edit: Just to be clear, I’m not saying this is what happened. It could’ve come to light by itself without it being held onto for later.
Eh… Without opening the article I am sure it has something to do with Romania.
Now take this with a pinch of salt. My uncle was a bouncer in a famous casino/club in Bucharest in the early 2000’s till 2007/8.
Vandame was a well known customer and… There were rumors back then which for Romanias this is absolutely no surprise. Big part of our criminal economy is based on prostitution.
Seriously, we knew back then and we are only shocked it came out about now. Probably he finished the money to pay the big guys.
I won’t make a bet, but the presumption of innocence until proven guilty is core to the values of most developed societies.
So I will presume such; if and until he is convicted.
McGregor was never convicted, only lost in civil court - but that lower bar was enough for IOI to make a statement and cut ties so the same standard applies here.
To put it bluntly - unless JCVD loses a civil or criminal case over this, I don’t care.
It’s more about the image that this is now the third celebrity partnership with IOI that has had even the accusation of sexual misconduct leveled against them, in less than a 10 year period. True or false, right or wrong, fair or unfair, those who look at this from the outside and are not spoon-fed the context could very well get a bad image of the company.
Now that they’ve got three CelebrETs, IO could do a Celeb Arcade contract called “The Lecherous”. A three-tier Arcade featuring The Wildcard, The Disruptor and The Splitter.
I… would actually like to play that.
And for this arcade to be free!
Better yet, charge a fee, and 100% of the earnings from it is donated to the victims - of McGregor at least, the others if there are ever guilty/liability verdicts.
I like both of your ideas and have stated something similar before, except my idea was to have a reskin of 47’s Signature Suit with a pink tie, a pink Briefcase, some other pink colored items, and Safehouse cosmetics for Freelancer - and the donation to go to women’s shelters in general.
Maybe IOI can combine our ideas and have the arcade contract, donate the money made to both the victims and women’s shelters in general, and include the cosmetics I mentioned. I personally would gladly play for that pack
The best thing to do is just stopping the CelebrET and put a random guy as ET.