Disaster Limited Run Games gone woke by firing community manager Kara Lynne over her following certain Twitter users and interest in Hogwarts Legacy - "We at Limited Run Games support personal decisions, just so long they align with our woke political policies"

Niche Gamer - Limited Run Games fires community manager over their Twitter account​

by Cwb on January 7, 2023 at 5:31 PM, EST​

Games distributor Limited Run Games has fired their community manager, seemingly over public outcry for who they follow on Twitter.

“LRG respects all personal opinions, however we remain committed to supporting an inclusive culture,” the company said. “Upon investigating a situation, an employee was terminated. Our goal as a company is to continue to foster a positive and safe environment for everyone.”

One of the users the ex-employee Kara Lynne followed, Ian Miles Cheong, claims it was due to her following both him and the other notable account LibsofTikTok. Both accounts are kind of notorious online for stirring the pot yes, but a fire-able offense to follow them?

Absolutely not. From the looks of it, it all started after a witch-hunt of sorts started a pressure campaign that caused the company to cave and remove the employee from their roster.

There are other claims that Lynne was fired for publicly expressing her excitement to play the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy, which some users now consider “transphobic” due to Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling taking a hard stance in favor of biological women.

Limited Run Games removing their community manager is a mistake and will only embolden these types of people. They see the blood in the water and will never stop, and will never be satisfied enough to leave you alone.

The same kind of outrage campaign on social media from the same people that led to Kara Lynne being fired also led to Night in the Woods developer Alec Holowka seemingly killing himself. Limited Run Games is ironically selling his game right now, years after his death.

Another recent outrage campaign was directed at this year’s MAGFest where organizers posted “Kotaku’s Journalistic Integrity” on a floor sign, noting it’s in “404”, a joke that their journalistic integrity is missing. Limited Run Games contributor Frank Cifaldi and others kept screaming about GamerGate, for some reason. The sign has since been removed.

Here’s hoping that cooler heads will prevail and that maybe taking crazy people who are constantly online, at their word, might have been a bad idea to entertain in the first place.

 

[Baraadmirer]

Looks like bad reviews are starting to roll in on Trustpilot ( Archive ).

Anyone know anything about refund problems? They seem to mentioned somewhat frequently.

 

[Sugriva]

Are these people retarded? DON'T USE TWITTER. Or at the very least don't attach your real identity to it. Do these idiots see all the people around them being cancelled for inane bullshit? Do they really think it could never happen to them? For fuck's sake, the security of your job should come before your bird addiction.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

For fuck's sake, the security of your job should come before your bird addiction.

The vast majority of people never hear of these cancellations, or are fed the kool aid that its just nazi's and deplorables. They all think "It'll never happen to me".

Then the hot take of five years ago is the hate speech of today, and your fucked. These people assume the system is fair, caring and considerate, because they've never seriously questioned it, and don't realize how toxic our culture is getting to be.

 

[CuzinEd]

I bought a few Limited Run games. It happened way before this and only because I wanted physical copies on my Switch. They have always had shitty business practices. I don't buy them when they are overpriced. I just wait till Best Buy gets them and I buy them there.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

So LRG won't address the fact that they listened to some deranged autistic troon obsessed with MLP instead of a woman? That's a shame. I've picked up their niche games in the past, but never knew they were this bad.

It was the Doom Switch collection that has 1/2/3 on one cart.

They fucked up that release up by not letting you play the first two games ulness your console is connected to the internet.

Anyone know anything about refund problems? They seem to mentioned somewhat frequently.

No refunds once you place an order or get a different version of what was promised. Shiren was supposed to get an actual disc for the PC edition, but it only came with a code to redeem the game. If you do a chargeback from your credit card company, you are blacklisted from the site.

For fuck's sake, the security of your job should come before your bird addiction.

Just like those resetera idiots forcing people to sign up with their work or isp emails.

I bought a few Limited Run games. It happened way before this and only because I wanted physical copies on my Switch. They have always had shitty business practices. I don't buy them when they are overpriced. I just wait till Best Buy gets them and I buy them there.

Thankfully there's digital copies of most of the games they release. But if you want a physical copy of the game, you can pull a fast one on LRG thanks to their Amazon storefront and complain that a different item was sent to you.

 

[Epoch]

They fucked up that release up by not letting you play the first two games ulness your console is connected to the internet.

they later fixed that... with a downloadable update lol.

 

[zyclonPD]

I would like to announce I have gotten refunds on all my outstanding orders I requested them on.

I'm not going to screenshot the full list with amounts as that could id me to them through process of elimination if I posted the full list and I wouldn't put it past them to id a customer posting on KF. Transactions are still pending but I am getting over $1000 returned to me. That's $1000 less those faggots have in the bank and $1000 of shit that nobody is going to buy now they are stuck with. Truly the best outcome I could have hoped for.

It was a good thing they did refund because I was going to request the arbitration next as detailed in their TOS you can select to handle disputes. https://archive.is/Srx5h

 

[DamnWolves!]

Purple tinker involved in cancel culture and getting people fired for wrong think long before Cancel culture was a thing.

The biggest problem is that we give these fucking creatures enough money to survive in the miserable existence they seem to prefer. They have literally nothing else in their lives except the internet and Section 8 housing--for you or I, this would be depressing as fuck, but so long as we provide these fucking eunuchs with the basic necessities of life and a digital world they can escape to, these retarded cancel campaigns will continue.

If they had to spend all their time figuring out how they're going to feed themselves for the next 24 hours, maybe they would focus less on ridiculous tranny turboautist bugbears and more on basic survival, like God and the Constitution intended...

 

[Kulee Baba]

Funny, I just saw a video about the many things they do when it comes to limited releases

Good to know I got some DLC with my totally permanently available video

This video is great. Limited Run Games is just trash to sell junk to consoomers and the retard speculator market.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

So, they are still butthurt about shit J.K. Rowlings said. I thought it was something the game was doing. Like not allowing tranny shit or something.

Hogwarts Legacy developer Troy Leavitt leaves after reactionary video…

archived 5 Mar 2021 16:47:59 UTC

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They also found a dev, Troy Leavitt, who had a dead YouTube channel with some anti-SJW content.

Did Hogwarts Legacy Seriously Just Make The Anti-Semitic Goblins The …

archived 19 Mar 2022 23:13:44 UTC

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They also complained about Harry Potter's depiction of goblins being an anti-Semitic trope.

Maybe there were some other nitpicks but with JKR that's the big 3.

I would like to announce I have gotten refunds on all my outstanding orders I requested them on.
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I'm not going to screenshot the full list with amounts as that could id me to them through process of elimination if I posted the full list and I wouldn't put it past them to id a customer posting on KF. Transactions are still pending but I am getting over $1000 returned to me. That's $1000 less those faggots have in the bank and $1000 of shit that nobody is going to buy now they are stuck with. Truly the best outcome I could have hoped for.

It was a good thing they did refund because I was going to request the arbitration next as detailed in their TOS you can select to handle disputes. https://archive.md/Srx5h

Disturbing, but good on you. If they really are getting flooded with refund requests, maybe they'll lose at least $100k because of their poor decision.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I'm not going to screenshot the full list with amounts as that could id me to them through process of elimination if I posted the full list and I wouldn't put it past them to id a customer posting on KF. Transactions are still pending but I am getting over $1000 returned to me.

You don't think "successfully got over $1000 of returns" is enough to dox you to them?

 

[zyclonPD]

You don't think "successfully got over $1000 of returns" is enough to dox you to them?

No, I imagine most customers who buy from them have a similar purchase habit. I don't think a ball park number of over X is going to be enough.

While I'm back in the thread I'd like to theorize that this moment is financially critical for LRG and has the potential to bump the apple cart for them. I believe LRG is moving away from focusing as heavily on physical releases and moving more towards their development of the Carbon Engine. I noticed recently the carbon engine now has its own tab on the website all by itself.

The carbon engine was developed by this guy:

You can find an interview with him on Digital Foundry here:

Modern Vintage Gamer is an interesting person thrown into this mix. As you can see here:

MVG dedicated the second carbon engine game from LRG to Byuu/Near despite the evidence they aren't dead and has not recanted this statement since making it. He's just been floating this lie for over a year.

Recently he did an announcement vid on his channel explaining that he has become a full time employee for LRG and will be doing more port work with the Carbon Engine going forward:

This is a critical time for them because they probably need this carbon engine to take off with no issues and the expensive collector's editions are the funding mechanism to enable building something like a retro emulating game engine that you could theoretically slap hundreds of different games into to handle compatibility and port them to modern devices.

I'm interested to see how the fallout of this affects them going forward.

 

[NoonmanR]

Looks like bad reviews are starting to roll in on Trustpilot ( Archive ).
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Anyone know anything about refund problems? They seem to mentioned somewhat frequently.

They were never good at cancelling orders. Initially, they'd accept refunds and then just ship you the item anyways. When they found out the interns they hired were doing this, they'd just stop accepting cancellations entirely. I heard they had eased up on that recently, but i guess not.

No, I imagine most customers who buy from them have a similar purchase habit. I don't think a ball park number of over X is going to be enough.

While I'm back in the thread I'd like to theorize that this moment is financially critical for LRG and has the potential to bump the apple cart for them. I believe LRG is moving away from focusing as heavily on physical releases and moving more towards their development of the Carbon Engine. I noticed recently the carbon engine now has its own tab on the website all by itself.

The carbon engine was developed by this guy:

You can find an interview with him on Digital Foundry here:

Modern Vintage Gamer is an interesting person thrown into this mix. As you can see here:

MVG dedicated the second carbon engine game from LRG to Byuu/Near despite the evidence they aren't dead and has not recanted this statement since making it. He's just been floating this lie for over a year.

Recently he did an announcement vid on his channel explaining that he has become a full time employee for LRG and will be doing more port work with the Carbon Engine going forward:

This is a critical time for them because they probably need this carbon engine to take off with no issues and the expensive collector's editions are the funding mechanism to enable building something like a retro emulating game engine that you could theoretically slap hundreds of different games into to handle compatibility and port them to modern devices.

I'm interested to see how the fallout of this affects them going forward.

That's incredibly weird if so, since LRG is just a brand name for game developer Mighty Rabbit Studios. The first two games they ever released were shit they developed themselves.

 

[Broseph]

I'm so glad I've never given my money to these faggots.

 

[Paul Pelosi's Boyfriend]

No refunds once you place an order or get a different version of what was promised. Shiren was supposed to get an actual disc for the PC edition, but it only came with a code to redeem the game. If you do a chargeback from your credit card company, you are blacklisted from the site.

Hmmm, yeah. Dem dere business tactics are Chris Chan approved.

Truly the prototype tranny, born before his time.

 

[McSneaks]

Hogwarts Legacy is an upcoming game set in the Harry Potter universe and the sneak peeks we have received so far has generated massive hype among gamers, especially those within the Potterhead community.

In fact, it is one of the most pre-ordered game right now, topping the sales charts across platforms such as Amazon, Steam, and many more. For obvious reasons, this game is set to become one the most successful titles of 2023.

Lul

 

[JoeBidenSniffMe]

If you tell Douglas Bogart the owner of Limited Run Games why he hate women, why he will not stand up for his own employee, and why he would not stand up for his own employee. He will block you.

 

[bawtism]

Kara Lynne releases a statement. Basically she don't hate them troons, leave josh and doug alone you guys. Idk grinding in hogwarts too hard to read it. Says she will appear on multiple podcasts to discuss, may be milk.

https://archive.md/aay95

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[queue-anon]

I regret buying Night in the Woods now. I enjoyed it when I played it ~2 years ago, and I also bought it in a bundle so I didn't really give them much, but I still regret it. I'm just glad I didn't buy anything else from them.

Whelp, another company to put on my colossal boycott list that I now have to CTRL+F through before buying anything.

Woke corporations are sure making it easier for me to save money and spend my time on more useful pursuits.

I wish I bought from them so I could tell them I'm never buying from them again, fucking faggots.

Is there even one example of a company doing this in the opposite political direction? Fuck cuckservatives.

Didn't Red Bull fire some woke employees a while back?

Trader Joe's temporarily closed down a store when its employees decided to take a day off to participate in a BLM "protest". It also has been completely indifferent to cancel attempts, such as ignoring that spoiled brat throwing a fit over its "Trader Ming's" line.

Red Bull is Austrian, and TJ's is German.

 

[Jack Awful]

Trader Joe's temporarily closed down a store when its employees decided to take a day off to participate in a BLM "protest". It also has been completely indifferent to cancel attempts, such as ignoring that spoiled brat throwing a fit over its "Trader Ming's" line.

Red Bull is Austrian, and TJ's is German.

Trader Joe's is American