Poll: What is the future of gaming culture for gamers?
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At best, nothing changes.
Gaming journalism will still be this sad, pretentious joke it has been for years, but at least people will start talking about video games on the video game boards again instead of...whatever knee-jerk political horse shit is making the rounds.
At least, until some other obvious, controversial fuckup occurs and kicks off another round of Twit Wars.
But if anything changes, it certainly won't be for the better. There's a -lot- of scorched earth in the wake of this shitstorm...between the spooked advertisers and tanked ALEXA ratings anyway.
The gaming press largely did not budge, and they didn't have to; in fact, they seemed to have learned Sarkeesian's best trick, and just waited for the angry, disorganized mob to hate troll itself so hard that the press appeared positively saintly by comparison. Once that happened, a smear campaign was trivial and quite effective from the looks of things.
But for those of us in the know, well, we just quietly observed who the real shitstains in the press were, updated our blacklists, and moved on. Let the reactionaries rave; I have me some games to play.
Gaming journalism will still be this sad, pretentious joke it has been for years, but at least people will start talking about video games on the video game boards again instead of...whatever knee-jerk political horse shit is making the rounds.
At least, until some other obvious, controversial fuckup occurs and kicks off another round of Twit Wars.
But if anything changes, it certainly won't be for the better. There's a -lot- of scorched earth in the wake of this shitstorm...between the spooked advertisers and tanked ALEXA ratings anyway.
The gaming press largely did not budge, and they didn't have to; in fact, they seemed to have learned Sarkeesian's best trick, and just waited for the angry, disorganized mob to hate troll itself so hard that the press appeared positively saintly by comparison. Once that happened, a smear campaign was trivial and quite effective from the looks of things.
But for those of us in the know, well, we just quietly observed who the real shitstains in the press were, updated our blacklists, and moved on. Let the reactionaries rave; I have me some games to play.
What we need: Cooperation between the moderates on both sides towards transparency and open disclosure in games journalism and creating a much more welcoming community. Sure, it's not the "sekret klub 4 boyz onlee" that some people say, but there's certainly a good number of assholes out there.
What I'm worried both sides have become to cancerous to achieve: Cooperation between the moderates on both sides towards transparency and open disclosure in games journalism and creating a much more welcoming community.
Since the beginning of this whole debacle, my friends and I have been playing the part of a third party in this debate. I've always been against the whole devs paying money for better reviews schtick that's been going on for years, ever since the whole Kane and Lynch debacle. However, I've also supported creating a welcoming environment within the gaming community, and am generally opposed to harassing women just for being women. Personally, I think this whole debacle has created the idea that these ideas are mutually exclusive, when they're really not, and otherwise have very little to do with each other.
With that said, both sides have left a poor taste in my mouth, with Gamergate using the morally dubious actions of people like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian to excuse a lot of sexist bullshit, and the people against it being no better, engaging in quite a bit of doxxing and harassment themselves. There's so many people, particularly on twitter, both for and against gamergate, who are far more interested in badmouthing the other side than in actual change, that I honestly don't want to support either side. I would rather strike out on my own and get my own thing going, and I'm kinda glad to see that some people, including Russ Pitts, agree with me.
What I'm worried both sides have become to cancerous to achieve: Cooperation between the moderates on both sides towards transparency and open disclosure in games journalism and creating a much more welcoming community.
Since the beginning of this whole debacle, my friends and I have been playing the part of a third party in this debate. I've always been against the whole devs paying money for better reviews schtick that's been going on for years, ever since the whole Kane and Lynch debacle. However, I've also supported creating a welcoming environment within the gaming community, and am generally opposed to harassing women just for being women. Personally, I think this whole debacle has created the idea that these ideas are mutually exclusive, when they're really not, and otherwise have very little to do with each other.
With that said, both sides have left a poor taste in my mouth, with Gamergate using the morally dubious actions of people like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian to excuse a lot of sexist bullshit, and the people against it being no better, engaging in quite a bit of doxxing and harassment themselves. There's so many people, particularly on twitter, both for and against gamergate, who are far more interested in badmouthing the other side than in actual change, that I honestly don't want to support either side. I would rather strike out on my own and get my own thing going, and I'm kinda glad to see that some people, including Russ Pitts, agree with me.
I'm kind of an outlier. I play a lot of flight sims and driving games. Not much boobs or butts in either of those.
Eh, I'm slightly optimistic that It'll change for the better as time passes and some of the ingrained "This is my hobby, why are casuals hopping into it and making devs make things more accessible?!" mindset gets more and more sublimated.
Seriously guys, accessibility != casualization.
Just because the new Xcom isn't an absolute atrocity to understand doesn't make it "so casual it sucks", alright?
Seriously guys, accessibility != casualization.
Just because the new Xcom isn't an absolute atrocity to understand doesn't make it "so casual it sucks", alright?