| LivingMetal said: In light of one of VGChartz's newest articles: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/260873/industry-and-gamergate-analysis-continued/ WHAT IS GAMERGATE??? I've read some artcles on the controvery and even looked on Wiki (which I later found was a no-no). But I don't have the time or energy to sort out every shread of information/misinformation to see the clearer picture. HELP!!! |
Gamergate was a scandal where people argued that the dev of depressionquest (I think that's what it was called) had sex with reviewers in order to get good review score on her games. This was sparked when her ex-boyfriend, who she had just broken up with, took to reddit and claimed that she did this while they were dating. There was no evidence that this happened at all. The campaign was hijacked by mysoginists who hate women, and called for this dev to kill herself repeatedly. It made gamers look terrible, despite the fact that it was just a very loud, and very small minority of gamers. By the end of it, a lot of the people yelling weren't even gamers, just random terrible people that piggybacked off a perverted cause in order to yell at women.
