Gamergate

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Your refresher on the issue is what Gamergate ostensibly wants you to believe. It's call for ethics in games journalism is a front for blatant misogyny and is a blowback to the notion that the core demographic for video games is changing. They conveniently start it all with the same person: Zoe Quinn. Not to mention the unilateral distrust of Kotaku, where the journalist Quinn slept with, Nathan Grayson, writes articles for. The simple fact that no Gamergater cares to acknowledge is this: their interaction didn't exist. While it's true they started a relationship, it was well after Quinn's game had been released, a game Kotaku never reviewed or made articles about. This entitlement movement was started by Quinn's spurned ex-boyfriend, who decided to ruin her life after the breakup. A decision, by the way, he has no regrets over.

And if you really want a great idea of how their crusade operated, look no further than the Shadow of Mordor controversy, where Warner Bros. gave certain sites access to the finished product early so said sites could get more traffic for their early reviews. The flip side of that was they were not permitted to be too critical of the game and not to mention or show any of the potentially game breaking glitches it might have. This became a big story on all the major gaming sites when it the truth came out, but the Gamergaters were far too busy harassing Quinn and other women with rounds of doxxing and death threats. Hell, the one guy who could conceivably be behind the movement if its intentions were pure, Jeff Gerstmann, was vocally opposed to it.

I'm glad you don't support it and all, but the discussion has already played itself out. Gamergate is essentially a hate group and the people who started it are vile scumbags that need to mature and think before they speak.