| Puppyroach said: The way I saw GG when i followed it, was that critics of sexism in video games themselves became victims of sexism and harassment from gamers around the world. That has nothing to do with the freedom a developer has in making games. Having freedom to do something does not mean that you should be immune to critisicim. It´s a whole other thing if the industry is regulated by the government. So ofcourse I can oppose GG while standing for developer freedom. |
It's a very narrow way of looking at it, but I'm not going to argue the toss with you.
I can say however, that as a direct result of the attacks against GG and the constant whitewashing in the media, many, many developers have been negatively impacted, not by gamergaters, but by those apposing them.
@bold: when that criticism is handled the way it currently is by the media and "critics", there is no freedom, none what so ever, it isn't a case of "its just criticism, it doesnt harm anything" because that kinda goes out the window when people are actively being fired from their jobs, going out of business or being forced to change portions of their game for people who dont even intend to play it.
And what did these people do to deserve for losing their jobs, going out of business, or being forced to change their own game, sexually harras someone?, hurt someone? rape someone?, no, they simply questioned the criticism given.
Nobody should be immune to criticism, but at the same time, criticism shouldn't be immune to criticism either, with the way things currently are, criticising the critics gets you labeled mysoginistic, woman hating or gamergater.
