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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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Land0fChocolate

Aug 10, 2015 at 04:16PM EDT

Knowing the right people is 80% of how you make it in any business.

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Stormwatch

Aug 10, 2015 at 07:59PM EDT in reply to Chaoticus

Sunset was worse than an SJW piece that failed just as a game: it was a failure at the SJW part as well. I mean, when I saw the protagonist was an American, it got me thinking: why, do the developers believe a Latina maid would be unable to formulate any insightful comments about her country's political situation? Those racists, classists, ethnocentrists!

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