@bitmap_books Lol people are angry because someone was trying to cancel another guy are now trying to cancel you. Hypocrites. If rectifying and apologising is not enough then the original poster should not be apologised to either right?
@bitmap_books Good to see a reversal, but unfortunately all you've served to do is tarnish your own image & likely harm the sales of the author's book because thanks to your rash decision people will be less inclined to trust or support your company. Totally unnecessary.
@bitmap_books 'We noticed people were angry and we hope you will not be angry' Pressuring someone to work for you and then give up their entire wage for the work they did for you is among the most vile things a company can do, it's astounding you thought work without pay was a good call
@bitmap_books What sort of threats? Can you name and shame those people please? As I've been following any mentions and I so far have not see anything other than people calling out (without abuse) this horrible abuse of power (yes youre the one with power in this situation)
@bitmap_books "Abuse and threats"? Why should we believe this? ...or do you have a different definition for those words? The only way you'll get "closure" and save BB is to (1) clearly admit to what you attempted to do, (2) resign, (3) have a successor who makes it crystal clear that nobody
@bitmap_books Take it one step more, Mr. Dyer: resign from the company. Either step down from your position, or sell your holdings to someone committed to a truly free press. Otherwise, you're more proof for remaining an indie author.
@bitmap_books @theWellRedMage could self publish a Volume 2 full of blank pages, and I'd buy a copy at $20 just to spite you. It wasn't a book that would even hit my radar, but you just screwed an author. You should release him from his contract and allow him to self publish. He'll get more
@bitmap_books Looks like the tides have turned and retarded cancel culture over nothing is finally dead. This company tried to fuck over an author over 3 year old mean tweets, and got so much backlash they had to relent and donate their own shares and pay the creator.
@bitmap_books Don't believe you. Donate all of YOUR shares beyond the first run as well. You were more than willing to screw the author over a petty internet beef until it blew up in your face.
@bitmap_books Thank you for doing the right thing. Glad I waited before cancelling my order. It’s important not to rush due to the unhinged BS mob. But totally unacceptable that you’ve had personal abuse and threats here for this. Time to move on hopefully.
@bitmap_books How nice of you to reconsider when you realized public opinion was overwhelmingly against your Stasi tactics.
@bitmap_books Did you feel it warranted him losing his livelihood yesterday?
@bitmap_books This is a small step in the right direction, but nobody is going to believe you didn't gleefully participate in struggle sessioning Moses, and hopefully, nobody will let you live down that your FIRST instinct was to give his royalties to your charity of choice. To quote Orthodox
@bitmap_books For him, it was all royalties, present and future. For you, it's company profits for the first printing. For a company that claimed to be taking responsibility, you're still trying to get off easy. Sounds to me like the only threats you experienced to to your bottom line.
@bitmap_books You should apologize to Moses.
@bitmap_books Translation: “This situation started making us look bad so we’re backpedaling even though we were fully 100% prepared to commit blatant theft, coercion and possibly blackmail against a creator”
@bitmap_books Thank you for rapidly reversing your previous decision. I would have canceled my preorder tomorrow had you not done so. Please learn from this experience that haste makes waste. Waiting until the dust settles from online comments (48 hour rule) often prevents worse problems.
@bitmap_books I don't believe for a second that there was no coercion; I'm sure he happily agreed to let his livelihood be put in jeopardy. I'll be buying Metal Slug: The Ultimate History secondhand since you clowns were completely fine robbing an author yesterday
@bitmap_books You still didn't learn from this by having the audacity to still say you think the comments were wrong in your "not apology" post. I won't support BITMAP ever again because you're a threat to authors now. You'll do the same again with someone else eventually. At least we "won."
@bitmap_books What's sad is the damage this has done to the sales of his book. Not because of what he said, I imagine people want to support him even more so in light of all this, it's they don’t want to support you. Why don't you give your cut to charity?
@bitmap_books Why only the first print company profits being donated? Lol. You were ready to donate all of his profits in perpetuity. Why not donate all the companies money?
@bitmap_books You in a very public fashion damaged Moses' reputation and his ability to make a living by your inexcusable actions! People would be very foolish to trust you to publish their work in the future, because you have shown you can't be trusted. You get what you deserve in the end
@bitmap_books Typical political correctness. Ready to cancel the author because some of his tweets could be interpreted from some sensitive people as racist, xenophobic while in fact they were just ma bit rude, even funny when considering the context. Good decision and common sense prevailed.
@bitmap_books Moses shouldn't have had to apologize for those comments in the first place. But your original solution was nothing short of extortion, and no one should do business with you.
@bitmap_books I'm glad you are no longer robbing your author regardless of whatever you allege about the freedom of the agreement. It is still mind boggling you thought such milquetoast, lukewarm posts were EVER enough to even have the idea of stealing from your author in the first place.
@bitmap_books Good move. Attempted to steal his hard work over some VERY MILD things he said years ago is a shitty thing to do. Whatever negative consequences came from attempting that were your own doing. You damaged your brand. Congrats.
@bitmap_books You were incredibly hasty and thank you for admitting it. The man clearly worked hard on the book and deserves to be paid for his time and effort. Thank you for recognizing this. In the future, when you face one of these social media dogpiled, wait a week and see what comes of
@bitmap_books You are a fking idiot and incredibly unprofessional, the tweets were not spicy, were not controversial and you made a complete fool of yourself and can only have hurt your business, which is a shame because your stuff actually looks nice.
@bitmap_books I appreciate that the author will get paid but this issue has me question Bitmap's future. While RPGs are not my thing I do have the Commodore and the SNES books. How will I know the next time I buy a book if all the royalties that creator is owed get put in their pocket?
@bitmap_books NO ONE should ever work with you because of that and you also proved you were willing to profit off of something you called OFFENSIVE. Also, NO ONE believes the donation thing was something born of good will, it was a "Band-Aid" to try to salvage a reputation you damaged by not
@bitmap_books Good. Should have never been an option in the first place. Glad you reversed course and have done the right thing in the end. That being said, you’ve a long road to regaining trust. Who would want to work with someone who even thought this was acceptable?
@bitmap_books If Moses "agreed" then wouldn't Moses should be the one deciding what Charity his royalties going to toward and not Bitmap Book This update statement does not bring closure whatsoever
@bitmap_books You deserved the abuse, but Im glad you're walking it back. I'll pre-order.
@bitmap_books Well done! Takes courage to admit a wrong decision. I will take great pleasure in reading Moses’ book and might pick up a few more from you.
@bitmap_books Thanks for the update on you not stealing his hard earned money for a couple internet likes.