Like bro it's a fucking toy, you would think that it's a religion the way these dingleberries talk.
Every major game company is greedy and terrible, your favorite gamer shit isn't any less mindless consumption-y than the gamer shit that you don't like.
It sucks because the whole industry is shitty and instead of acknowledging that they distract from the real problems facing the industry by squabbling about which souless company is the most souless.
The same kind of people complain when game industry workers try to unionize.
I always assume it's just children on Reddit that act like that... I hope.
Yeah, I feel like you can come back from some things by apologizing, and other things should be a scarlet letter R (for rapist) that follows you around. And I know feeling betrayed by someone you trusted, even parasocially can be just awful.
That opinion article writer that i linked seemed to think he shouldn't be forgiven yet because his apology wasn't restorative. But it's kind of hard to say from the outside whether he apologized more specifically in private.
I'm also sorry that people weren't taking your concerns about Nick seriously. I want this to be a safe space where people can be believed and listened to. There needs to be a balance between protecting people targeted by abuse and allowing for rehabilitation.