Is it just me that I don't really see anything wrong? I mean he didn't really coerce them, he just wanted to do something which will be more valuable to someone else. If they said no and he kept harassing them they should do it behind the scenes then yeah he's an idiot and deserves it. If it's just this message I don't see the issue here.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
He didn't do anything in term of creating, or forwarding value. Just pretty much forced their PR to either look bad, or good. Sure, it creates an opportunity for a developer to create a good image for itself, and do good for others. Twitter can easily turn into a shitstorm and it create an uncomfortable 'flashpoint' for the company. He could've taken it to DMs but Twitter is one of those things where people revel in those opportunities to come off like a saint by only tapping their fingers for 180 characters or less, bouncing back the costs to the game developers (who's financial situation I have no idea) at some sort of moral blackmail. Like, last fucking time they
ever publicly offer a free game.
Charity is fine, but not if you air it out publicly, and especially not if
you're not the one actually doing the charity. He could have personally donated that game to a dying Cyberpunk 2077 fan by talking in DMs.