The Gamergate crowd has an important lesson to learn from this and that is the concept of a martyr. If somebody is a public face of a movement that you disagree with you DO NOT fight the movement by attacking the face as you will just prove yourself to be all the more bad in the eyes of your opponents. Opposition will grow towards you as a result and the ideals that you oppose will advance.
Gamergate likely had nothing to do with the firing of Alison, but Nintendo has to now treat their decision to fire this lady as though it were a show of partisan support towards the Gamergate crowd thanks to the petty attacks that preceded her firing. As a result, Nintendo is going to have to be more lenient to the feminists in the future in order for the company to restore a balanced public image. This could mean letting things in like a female Link in Zelda U which I feel would be a far bigger loss for us than if we had just left Alison alone as a Nintendo employee who really didn't hold any sway on the content in games.
In short, the real losers here is the pro-Gamergate crowd: we have now made a martyr out of Alison and we will suffer the consequences. In the future, we need to attack the ideas of our opponents but show respect toward the people with whom we disagree: this will add legitimacy to the Gamergate movement.
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