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Toxic gaming culture forced guys like Phil Fish and Adam Orth out of their jobs too.....
Yeah... I guess it was because they were eloquent people.
Toxic gaming culture forced guys like Phil Fish and Adam Orth out of their jobs too.....
What's wrong with disclosure? I know the name of every person who writes for Polygon, Kotaku, and so on. There are no Sushi X's anymore. Why shouldn't I know the real name of people who are against them? Instead of hiding behind silly names? I mean, if their cause is so just, why not step out into the light?
by tricking them into signing petitions for ulterior motives? uhh ok :/
Why are you putting it on the gamer's, and not on the gaming press to call this kind of thing out? Gamer's are only so involved right now because not only is the press doing a shitty job, but they are now openly ganging up and attacking their audience.
Why are you putting it on the gamer's, and not on the gaming press to call this kind of thing out? Gamer's are only so involved right now because not only is the press doing a shitty job, but they are now openly ganging up and attacking their audience.
If any members of the gaming press do call Youtubers out, they'll probably be attacked because ya' know, the Youtubers are pure and doing it for the love of games while the games press are doing it to destroy the industry and turn it to a hive of SJWism. But again, why the obsession with the fact Zoe Quinn slept with a game journalist who wrote two small things about her free game, but relative quiet about actual pay for play stuff within the Youtube community?
And ya' know, if your audience sucks and are doing terrible things, yes. Call them out.
I think the point that was being made is that gamergate has used the banner of "ethics" to persue people, usually feminists or people who support them, for what seem like very flimsy claims about ethical infraction, but when shadow of Mordor engages in what on the surface is a VERY ethically questionable deal, none of the gamegaters kick up a stink because it's not a part of their narrative about how the press and feminists hate your games.
Doot dooot doooooot.
That's the That isn't a thing that is happening horn.
It's been blowing a lot lately.
Needs some maintenance, it's really not certified for this kind of mileage.
I don't know the full issue at hand here. I gather from a smattering of posts that people are outraged that YouTube personalities are getting paid for making videos on new game releases? If there is something specific, I'd like to read it.
However, I have to ask this: What exactly would you (IE: anybody with an opinion on this) want the gaming press to do here? I run a gaming news site. I do reviews when I have the time to do so. I'm not a Polygon, I'm not IGN, I'm not GameSpot. I'm nowhere near as large as those guys or those website personalities are. So, if I were to write anything about this, how does it look to an outsider?
Besides essentially falling on deaf ears since I simply do not have the audience or reach of the larger sites, it paints me in a bad light.
Even in my mind, writing up anything about this issue and calling it out would come off simply as nothing but jealousy. Oh, this Zips guy is just upset because he's not getting paid to cover these games like so and so YouTube personality.
I've been dealing with this kind of thing for years already. I forget what game it was exactly, but I had learned that Machinima partners received dozens of copy of a game. Yet my review copy that I had requested? Well, they ran out. IE: "Sorry, you aren't important enough." Amazing stuff. I later ended up buying it. By that time, there was already a saturation of coverage from everyone else. So even when companies aren't paying YouTube personalities, they still take precedence over people or groups that have websites that have been literally been around in some form since before the turn of the millennium.
Meanwhile, while the GamerGaters think evil feminists are conspicuously out to destroy their video games, how video games fund arms manufacturers and the interdependent relationship between the US military industrial complex and the AAA video games industry are still going on without any criticism or pushback.
Maybe it's just me... but I feel like the harassment has calmed down a lot on both sides.
A game dev from Riot Games left her suicide note on Twitter and a lot of people have been handling it respectfully. Aside from one guy calling up a feminist dev and laughing at him moments after the suicide...while he was trying to stop her.
That's rough...but hopefully this leads to an understanding that there are real people on the internet that need more support and less hatred.
Meanwhile, while the GamerGaters think evil feminists are conspicuously out to destroy their video games, how video games fund arms manufacturers and the interdependent relationship between the US military industrial complex and the AAA video games industry are still going on without any criticism or pushback.
I'm sorry, but once again, how is this LoTR games an ethical infraction, but Nathan Grayson promoting a friends game over other indie developers that he didn't happen to have a romantic relationship with, isn't?
Probably because the latter didn't factually happen. Unless you call listing her game among 50 greenlight titles before they ever had a relationship promotion.
Nobody was writing about Depression Quest before this blew up. That this keeps coming up is baffling. Very few places write about freeware games ever, let alone promote any of them. The like one non-user review on Metacritic is a negative one.
Hey look, yet another person calling on 'gamers' to do the Journalists job for them!
That's what journalists already have been doing, but gamers are more prone to click on titles such as:
than they are about to click on titles such as
- "How this AAA shooter will rock your socks off!"
- "This console version of this AAA game only has seven thousand pixels less than the competing console"
- "Top 10 Booth Babes"
- "Reviews are in for this Fall's carefully coordinated release and marketing of AAA game - it's a 93,4 on Metacritic!"
And clicks drive demand, so you know.
- "How these citizens of third world countries are sustaining your luxury hobby"
- "This just in: The US military funds and employs video games as recruiting tools"
- "The gaming industry and culture is embarrassingly White straight male and a sizeable demographic have a difficult time admitting it or letting diversity into it"
E.g. don't even remind me about when Simon Parkin was covering the incestous relationship between Youtube personalities and game publishers that the fanbases and some gamers piled on and harassed him for speaking up about this issue.
Alternatively, not only clicks drive what content is pushed out, but also harassment and silencing work to determine what gets covered and what doesnt. E.g. don't even remind me about when Simon Parkin was covering the incestous relationship between Youtube personalities and game publishers that the fanbases and some gamers piled on and harassed him for speaking up about this issue. Or when reviewers give some overhyped game a lower score and so many people completely lose their shit - e.g. the Uncharted 3 Neogaf thread, or think about when GTA5 was reviewed by Carolyn Petit and she gave it a 9, partly due to the problematic depiction of women in the game, and as a result a sizeable portion of gamers harassed and threatened her - for giving the game a 9 because of issues of gender.
Meaning that there's a subset of gamers who actively go out of their way to silence and push back against a form of criticism because they simply can't handle that things they cherish and identify with are being called out - in this way, journalists and reporters and people who are dealing with gaming culture are excluded, silenced, harassed by gaming enthusiasts for bringing up critical issues that is worthy of attention.
Why are you putting it on the gamer's, and not on the gaming press to call this kind of thing out? Gamer's are only so involved right now because not only is the press doing a shitty job, but they are now openly ganging up and attacking their audience.
Well I find all of those second issues you brought up interesting. Why do you think it is fair to blanket claim that 'Gamers' don't care about those things? I think a lot of the GamerGate people also hate the latest AAA release and would be interested to hear about ethical issues surrounding gaming as a medium.
See, I am with you here. Harassment of any kind is not OK. If you put your voice out there on the internet, some asshole is going to send you some bullshit. This is the reality of life. According to Wikipedia 40 percent of the world has internet access. That is billions of people. There are many millions of 'gamer's'. So you get a few mean e-mails and then go labelling an entire sub-culture as misogynists.
The irony of course is that it is the supposed harassment that gives these people so much attention when they go public about it. I know if I was being threatened, the last thing I would do is tweet about it. I would go to the police and let them deal with it. Do not feed the trolls
There are many millions of 'gamer's'. So you get a few mean e-mails and then go labelling an entire sub-culture as misogynists.
Because "gamers" have decided where the corruption, collusion, bias lies. They have their targets and they are attacking with all their might. Emailing, social media onslaughts, the lot.
Except their targets are mainly based around hearsay and conspiracy. Why not suggest that they might refocus onto the actual sources which their rhetoric is aimed at? It is this sort of thing that devalues the entire movement and perpetuates that rather than "gamers", this is just a bunch of internet shouty people who have an inflated sense of importance, reveling in the chance to attack anything that they may have disagreed with in the past.
This isn't about a publisher blackballing me for being honest. I don't believe that was ever a point that was even brought up.Well I suppose you would actually have to try and make a name for yourself by providing a reasoned opinion on the subject. If publisher blackballs you for being honest, maybe you should write about that?
I'm sorry, but once again, how is this LoTR games an ethical infraction, but Nathan Grayson promoting a friends game over other indie developers that he didn't happen to have a romantic relationship with, isn't?
And did it ever occur to you that the GamerGate people are not focused on the most recent AAA release at the moment? This 'point' amounts to 'but other people are also unethical!'. It isn't much of a defense.
Your drive-by shitpost has been noted and appreciated. Unless of course you want to claim that the 'Gamer's are Dead' articles ever existed? I suppose I shouldn't have said 'openly', because in actuality it was in a private google group, and only when it was later exposed did they play it off like it was no big deal.
If Gamers care about these issues, then why target women and journalists and reviewers who bring up political aspects and social issues when it comes to video games? Why not spend all that energy and effort and time on something that is actually justifiable outrage (with appropriate means, of course)? Why not push back against the exploitative labor conditions in the products that we consume? Why not push back against the environmental damage that our hobby produces? Why not push back against the political propaganda that our hobby conveys? And on and on.
The "targets" and "evidence" for this Gamergate movement is infantile and ignorant with an almost abhorrent lack of perspective of what the supporters are actually championing.
Don't downplay harassment and online terrorism. We are not talking about "a few". The women who gave their voices in the Escapist article had to ANONYMOUS just to give their opinion. Jenna Frank, Mattie Brice and Lana Polansky have given up because of the misogyny and harassment. Other unknown women have definitely quitted any future in the games industry and culture thanks to this. This is not a few. This is not small. Just look at this study that I posted a couple of pages back:
100 to 3.7. Let that sink in for a minute. And that's not talking about all the other studies and articles on how women face harassment online. Google "Female voice in FPS" and "does sexual harassment exist in video games" for video game specific studies on the issue.
That's not how the world works. You can't just let it be. You can't ask for victims of harassment to let it go or ignore it. The trolls are flourishing because no one speaks up about them and let them be cultivated in an environment without any accountability.
The main point here (and I believe this has been gone over a multitude of times over the course of the month, hence attracting exasperation) is context. What was the context of those pieces. Who were these gamers that the pieces talked about. Was it the negative population who like to froth and debase in comment threads and social media, who demand to be pampered and catered to at every step of the way? Or was it the people who (like on this forum) love games so much they create lavish and dedicated official threads and loving retrospectives, who embrace all topics and diverse gaming tangents with delight?
It was the former. Obviously so. If people wanted to take it as a slight against everyone, then that is also something they can take away from the piece. They'd be wrong, but they can take it away, but they'd also be assuming they can speak for the population of gamers out there who don't embody the footstamping vocal minority (which, incidentally, is a bit notyourshield). And this game loving positive population exist, evidenced in this forum, also evidenced in the fact that they have absolutely NO CLUE GamerGate is going on.
So I stand up and applaud the pieces. Highlight and cast out this nasty minority, we've all seen them at work over the past month. This part of the Gamer identity DOES NEED TO DIE and be reborn in a more positive and forward thinking manner.
This isn't about a publisher blackballing me for being honest. I don't believe that was ever a point that was even brought up.
Now, I have written before about the YouTube issue. It's obviously worked out quite well.
It's also not as easy or clear cut as you seemingly think it is and I have given the reasons, based off of experience, as to why.
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Dude stop it can only take so much.
I just sent Intel an email thanking them. Glad to see there are still companies out there with a pro-consumer outlook, as opposed to the companies that try to alienate their core audience.
Ok I was just waiting to be called a dude before I could fall asleep. Thanks for filling that void. I knew I would be able to count on someone.
Moral arbiters my asshole.
Ok I was just waiting to be called a dude before I could fall asleep. Thanks for filling that void. I knew I would be able to count on someone.
Moral arbiters my asshole.
OK so tell the gamers that everything they bring up is a conspiracy, and then complain about them not bringing something else up that draws attention away from your unethical behaviour.
Clearly the 'journalists' aren't listening but maybe the advertisers will. I don't think Intel would have made their move on a whim. Attacking your audience is never a good idea. Especially not if you are trying to claim some sort of moral high-ground.
Just because you don't believe it doesn't make it any less true. Just look around online or ask some female friends who are active online or in games. You'd be suprised then how many people sent them messages and insults. It's sad really.I honestly don't know who gets more harassment, but I do not believe that the ratio is 100:4 in terms of mean messages sent to women and men, respectively. I can see why you would only cite that study, though.
Alexander is a terrible writer and professional troll and has been for several years.
I can't say I'm upset if people are going to stop paying her to write inflammatory clickbait.
Once again, you are attributing the actions of a supposed few to an entire culture of people who number in the millions. You are taking the word 'Gamer' and trying to associate it with 'hates women, minorities, and equality', when it could not be any further from the truth.
I did not downplay any harassment
The study you cite has already been called into question due to it all being from IRC chats.
This isn't representative of the on-line community as a whole
.The other study posted also seemed to say that men were more often the target of harassment in every field except for journalism, which would have also gone to men if they had not counted Piers Morgan as a celebrity, and not a journalist
I honestly don't know who gets more harassment, but I do not believe that the ratio is 100:4 in terms of mean messages sent to women and men, respectively. I can see why you would only cite that study, though.
OK well like I said, they did a great job of making sure to label all 'gamer's' in this way rather than just those who harass. I would think that most gamer's would speak against harassment, but unfortunately they do not control the few retards who do harass, and unfortunately those who are harassed publicize it as much as possible ensuring publicity and even more trolls sending hem shit in the future. Any reasonable adult would choose to not engage with people who make threats.
Given how my post was in reply to your post, which itself was a reply to someone about the YouTube brand deal, I think it was quite clear what I was talking about. Even given the context of the first paragraph in my initial reply, it should be quite clear. Even after that, there were no fewer than three mentions of YouTube in my post, so... yeah.Ok well you weren't very clean on your publication or the issues it has, so forgive me for jumping to something I would find likely.
https://twitter.com/leighalexander/status/507673109705797633
Maybe I'm don't get it (and admittedly, more ready to believe the worst of her), but it sounds like to me, as someone who understands non-neurotypical as someone on the autism spectrum, like "if you do these things that apparently can be associated with autism, then it's okay if you have autism, otherwise it's embarrassing/disgusting/socially-retarded", which sounds like a poisonous way to apologize to someone. Actually, I might even be more bothered by the second part of that apology, but I'll leave that untouched.
Just look:
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=gamergate&src=typd
Noise noise noise. Where is the sense? Snarky comments, propaganda. There is nothing here.
I just sent Intel an email thanking them. Glad to see there are still companies out there with a pro-consumer outlook, as opposed to the companies that try to alienate their core audience.
I honestly don't know who gets more harassment,
OK well like I said, they did a great job of making sure to label all 'gamer's' in this way rather than just those who harass. I would think that most gamer's would speak against harassment, but unfortunately they do not control the few retards who do harass, and unfortunately those who are harassed publicize it as much as possible ensuring publicity and even more trolls sending hem shit in the future. Any reasonable adult would choose to not engage with people who make threats.
Ok I was just waiting to be called a dude before I could fall asleep. Thanks for filling that void. I knew I would be able to count on someone.
Moral arbiters my asshole.
I never got the "but only a small percentage of gamers" argument.
I'm a soccer fan and I have no fucking problems if people call out asshole hooligans or talk about them. I'm a gamer and I have no problems when people call out asshole gamers or talk about them.
multiple people only responding to the very last, very least, important thing I had to say. I'm not surprised.
I can still see an issue with the way certain press and media outlets have behaved. I know that you cannot or choose not to.
Lime I think you should actually play a game or two on-line and you would see that everyone is called names. I am mostly silent when I play games, but It is not unusual to hear men talk shit to other men.
You cite studies from the sites at the centre of GamerGate. Not the best way to convince someone on the fence.
Lastly, I think you should think twice before using people from the third world as your shield because we already saw how that worked out the last time. Minorities are not your shield against criticism. Fuck, I don't want to side with gamers necessarily, but I feel like you are all either insane or work for the sites being accused. If this was really a non-issue then it would have gone away. I am only here because it is not going away.
Given how my post was in reply to your post, which itself was a reply to someone about the YouTube brand deal, I think it was quite clear what I was talking about. Even given the context of the first paragraph in my initial reply, it should be quite clear. Even after that, there were no fewer than three mentions of YouTube in my post, so... yeah.
You need to relax quite a bit with the whole "assumption" thing.
Just look:
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=gamergate&src=typd
Noise noise noise. Where is the sense? Snarky comments, propaganda. There is nothing here.
This is because you are not a woman. If you were it would be fairly clear.
As your moral arbiter I'd like to tell you to calm down dude.
Lastly, I think you should think twice before using people from the third world as your shield because we already saw how that worked out the last time. Minorities are not your shield against criticism. Fuck, I don't want to side with gamers necessarily, but I feel like you are all either insane or work for the sites being accused. If this was really a non-issue then it would have gone away. I am only here because it is not going away.
The first tweet that showed up is "@ThatSabineGirl If I start seeing gamergate clans pop up in games I play they will be kill on sight."
So what was your point?
Once again, you are attributing the actions of a supposed few to an entire culture of people who number in the millions. You are taking the word 'Gamer' and trying to associate it with 'hates women, minorities, and equality', when it could not be any further from the truth. I did not downplay any harassment. The study you cite has already been called into question due to it all being from IRC chats. This isn't representative of the on-line community as a whole The other study posted also seemed to say that men were more often the target of harassment in every field except for journalism, which would have also gone to men if they had not counted Piers Morgan as a celebrity, and not a journalist.
I never got the "but only a small percentage of gamers" argument.
I'm a soccer fan and I have no fucking problems if people call out asshole hooligans or talk about them. I'm a gamer and I have no problems when people call out asshole gamers or talk about them.
That the stream is full of senseless noise and snarky comments with very little actual worth going on. Gamers bickering, propaganda memes, hollow self congratulations, "we must keep on fighting", circular arguments between opposing viewpoints, chemtrail level ideas of conspiracy.
There is nothing there. Nothing. Nobody can look at that and think "well hey! That is a positive population of people looking to do some good!". If anything, that does more harm to the image of gamers than any such misread piece from Leigh.
Come on that Celebrity study is AWFUL, the data contained no standard deviations or p-values or any other fail-safe to make sure the actual celebrities they picked weren't the significant factor rather than the gender.
Second of all: If Piers Morgan was placed in journalists rather than celebrities FEMALE CELEBRITIES WOULD GET MORE HARASSMENT; He makes up nearly 80% of the male harassment data in the celeb pool.
That shows how BAD that study is, Piers Morgan by himself got more harassment than all other male & female celebrities combined essentially. (not surprising, everyone hates Piers Morgan.)
Don't go complaining that the studies other people cite are bad & then using a study that doesn't even understand the basic concept of control groups and deviations.
THE TRUTH COMES OUT
REVELATIONS ARE REVEALED
CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
If women are so hated on-line then how come a man was the most hated?
Dear Intel, Thanks for helping us shut up those mean women. Love, EvilFiek.