Oof, now that is a weird case. I think that is the type of thing that should be openly disclosed in articles and it may be a conflict of interest, but there is a clear difference between marriage and sexual favors. In that case, a bias might be created (although bias among IGN writers is certainly not exclusive to this case), but its not like she married him so he would say nice things about Nintendo, whereas this case with Zoe Quinn is an (alleged) bribe with sexual favors. I would certainly say the Zoe Quinn case, if proven to be true, is a lot "worse" than this case with Matt Cass.

This is either the best trolling I've ever seen or you're saying don't judge you for having sex with your father for employment opportunities.

Kotaku responded http://kotaku.com/in-recent-days-ive-been-asked-several-times-about-a-pos-1624707346

The thread title should be changed in respect for Zoey Quinn "for good press" is debunked

Props to him for trying to fix the situation instead of sweeping it under the rug like most sites are doing. 

That settles it then. Now that we know no unethical behavior was done then this topics relevance has ended. Can it now finally be locked and we get back to talking about gaming instead of people inserting themselves into the sex lives of others for the purpose of simply bashing a female in the game industry for simply being female and having personal and private relationships with others.

The big difference is, someone attacked directly 50% of people, the other one look more like a lynch to get back on someone.


I am sorry, its not sexist or anything. Its just the equivalent of someone posting sex tape of is ex-girlfriend .Its Childish and horribly a other lvl of douchebagery.

And for the one who think Journalism some sense of integrity, at some lvl yes. But Dont kid yourself, they are like everyone. they saw a opportunity and they took it.

Journalism integrity does exist if you still believe in unicorn. 

as someone who spent so much of her time vocally slaughtering infidelity i find this outcome highly amusing.

the following campaign to erase the event from the face of the internet, ignoring all manner of rules, regulations and decency only further underlines how retarded placing people on a pedastal is.

sadly nobody, not even zoe, will learn from this and her actions will not only be forgiven but encouraced by the droves of defenders, and in the end things will just become worse off.

My wife,  who is an active game dev has this take on the topic:

"using the topic of misogyny and the femenist movement to contradict what you stand for to suit your needs at a given monent is sickening, were this a male indie dev discovered to have done the same things the difference would be the lynchmob would be the media and not 4chan.

The fight for equality each day slides closer and closer to the fight for power and dominance, enforced in full by the apologist media and the fear to point out bullshit behaviour unless it's a target everyone can safely shit on, namely, a man. "

Wonderful post, there shouls be more like your wife because  too many feminists are like this Zoe " i want equality but i take advantage of beign a woman when i need :) ", sad.

WoW did neither of you read the kotaku post? She didn't use her body to get reviews. The case has been closed. She had a romantic relationship with a man and it was not for personal gain and she was single at the time. The rest is unfounded nonsense made up by other people, or the words of a pissed off and jealous ex boyfriend.

Why is this even a discussion?