| Qwark said: I don't want SJW decide what is and isn't appropriate in videogames, (go artustic freedom) but gamergate wasn't exactly all that great either. |
Gamergate has been badly slandered and misconstrued by the media. I mean sure, there are some wackos and trolls within it but that's true in just about every group in existance.. In my scrolling through the hashtag over many months (and believe me, I've done TONS) only like 1% of what I've seen can actually be argued as being "sexist" in any way, shape or form. The whole thing is just absurd.
What Gamergate is about at its core is ethics in journalism, along with a resistance of SJW politics imposed upon gaming, especially when it comes to demonizing gamers as "mysogynists" for some reason I still don't quite understand..? I dunno I guess because people were giving shit to a female game dev Zoe Quinn who essentially banged some male reviewers for a good review score, and games journalists, rather than putting the spotlight on the corrupt media for doing so, instead blamed the GAMERS for rightfully calling her and her reviewers out? (I dunno there are probably few that have looked into this more than me and yet I STILL don't fully understand it). But what I do know was that this media slander was an obvious deflection and distraction of the real problem, which, let's face it - mainstream media is extremely good at doing. The difference was that gamers, unlike most normal consumers, tend to be much sharper and more cognisant of the happenings around them, and thus much more willing to defend themselves than other areas of entertainment, and fought back on social media - hence Gamergate.
The whole thing is just really strange and fucked up.. But at the end of the day it essentially ballooned into this fiasco of gamers being slandered and their natural backlash towards this slander, as well as the horrible track record of gaming journalism ethics really coming to light, which - as a gamer reviewer myself I can see. It also kind of veered into this anti-SJW thing because these types were increasingly ganging up on gamers for some weird reason.
But at the end of the day, in an expensive hobby like gaming, gamers expect ethics and journalists they can trust to provde them the info to shell out the big bucks on games, and many, myself included, felt that was called into question. Many of these people might not have been the best at communicating these feelings and some might not have responded in the most diplomatic of ways but essentially this is what I gather was the issue for most, and I felt a lot of it myself. The slander out of nowhere by many of these publications was merely insult to injury.. Hell, Even me personally as a game reviewer, I've essentially been wined and dined during exlusive press showings at E3, which is no doubt to provide positive previews - I can see why some people would be skeptical of these people's sincerity. The Quinn incident only further brought this to light.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident - all men and women created by the, go-you know.. you know the thing!" - Joe Biden
