mornelithe said:
Thankfully, unlike Leigh Alexander, most games developers and companies know that the internet has and always will be a bastion for anonymous trolls. And that the proper recourse is to ignore those idiots, or publicly shame them if possible (or when necessary, involve the police). The improper recourse is to bury the overarching issue of journalistic integrity, because of an issue rampant in every aspect of the internet. I think it's kind of despicable to throw all gamer's under the bus, just because...trolls and hatefilled schills. Since when, in any other topic of discussion, do we actually care what those people say? It's not just games, it's every freakin topic. You will find people who are either genuinely awful, or simply shock trolling. Paying them lip service is the dumbest thing you can do. |
In my opinion the issue here is that many game journalists work as game journalists because they couldn't get another job.
They are often people with a background in literature, like English majors, and wish videogames were more like HBO tv shows than like games, that way they would be less ashamed of their job. They want videogames to be a "respectable" art form, and mainly a storytelling medium.
These are the same people who call The Last of Us the Citizen Kane of videogames, when it has no new gameplay ideas. They would never recognize Doom, Street Fighter II or Super Mario Bros as "The Citizen Kane" of videogames.
These writers are ashamed of the people they write for basically.
