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>429174 >muh conspiracy theories Devfag here. There absolutely is industry gatekeeping. It's not like Leigh Alexander is going to email you "f--- you, you're not SJW enough, BLACKLISTED" of course not. That would be retarded But for better or worse we're still at a point where doesn't matter how great your game is, if enough people don't know about it or want to buy it (this number varies greatly depending on platform, minimum sales in the first X (week/month/whatever) to be viable, that's not a small number you can reach by going to a pile of small forums. You need a megaphone project costs, etc), your studio sinks . Since many projects require 1 00k+ bare This means devs need press. That's just how it is. Consider the following scenarios 1) You are an experienced dev, you have made a number of noteworthy titles over a deca de, you generally know what you are doing. You need a PR push for whatever reason, and you email off to 100 journos. 0 get back to you, or even acknowledge you exist. 2) You are an inexperienced / wannabe dev, you have made 0 games. But you are rl friends with the right journo clique. You mention on twitter last night you got drunk and had an idea for a game, and suddenly a whole pile of journosfriend email you how they can help. Need Patreonbux? no problem. Need kickstarter signal boost? no problem. Made a s----- game? They'll give it a 10/10 This is what is LITERALLY meant by identity politics. Journos push the games made by friends (with their friendship based on the identity- typically hipster/bluehairedness/SF scene/BC scene/etc). Nobody hears about the quiet dev toiling away making good games, instead they hear about the e-celeb drama queen who is the "correct" -ist. GamerGate happened and another option opened up 3) You criticize journos enough to get on their radar, and they go for your throat lying about you an house or threaten you. Printing false articles that you're a r-----. Seriously! d slandering you and oxxing you and sending their twitter mob to mail s--- to your That's what Gatekeeping looks like. And it ultimately leads to terrible games, since the quiet experienced toiling dev doesn't have time for social media b-------- he/she is putting that energy into the game rather than her/his e-celeb As a side note, if anything will naturally fix this issue its youtube/twitch streamers so thank God TB survived his cancer

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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