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What should game developers do in response to GamerGate? Want Answers 7 3 AN SWERS Ernest W. Adams, Game Design Consultant, Author, and T... (more) 49 upvotes by Anonymous, Daniel Super, Shikhar Singh, (more) GamerGate has no manifesto, no organ therefore it is impossible to meet their demands, which vary from unspecified changes to the way video game journalism works to actively opposing creation of new kinds of games aimed at anyone but the traditional young white male market. The former is beyond our power (game developers don't control what journalists do) and the latter is financially absurd (we're not going to shrink our market to what it was in 1984 no matter who asks). In fact, the traditional voung white male market was always an inaccurate stereotype anywav ized membership, and no leaders, and From the standpoint of their demands, there is literally nothing we CAN do because there is no one we can negotiate with and no one who can officially say, "Yes, we are satisfied." GamerGate is not an organized movement, it's just a mo This leaves us with the more vile behavior perpetrated by some of the most prominent GamerGaters in its name: the harassment, the threats, the doxxing and SWATting and so on. Our response to this must be to oppose it, to support fellow developers who have been the victims of it, to learn to defend ourselves against it, and to work with law enforcement to track down and p criminals in question. Threats of violence are criminal acts, and it is long past time that a few people realized that the Internet is NOT some kind of free-speech free fire zone in which you can say whatever you want without consequences. un ish the The International Game Developers' Association has created a list of anti-harassment resources, here: IGDA Online Harassment Resources. There was also an excellent session called Game Developer Harassment: How To Get Through at the 2015 GDC in which a number of people including Zoë Quinn gave practical suggestions about how to avoid and handle harassment. I hope that it will be free online for anyone to watch, very soon. The game industry also needs to crack down hard on bad behavior in online spaces that we control. This isn't a GamerGate thing specifically, it's just common decency and good business as well. If you owned a shop and one of your customers was hurling racist abuse at the others and demanding that they leave the store thereby costing YOU money-how long would you put up with it? The game industry has been woefully remiss in dealing with this kind of thing. Games are for e veryone Finally, we need to avoid dwelling unduly on the horror stories, or we will scare badly needed talent away from the industry. GamerGate consists of perhaps 10,000 people. They make noise entirely out of proportion to their real importance, which is practically nil. There are hundreds of MILLIONS of gamers on the planet who know and care nothing about GamerGate, and those are the people we need to serve. Written 4d ago. 12,836 views Upvote 49 Downvote Comments 3-+

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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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Disclosure relationship with game dev
fair and independant review of game
no financial connection between game dev/editor and game journalist
Stop clickbait article
Stop screaming racism/sexism on everything, specially when nobody else see it
Stop hitpiece and character assassination of game dev/editor without proof
Stop promoting your opinion like absolute truth and blame people who like what you don't like
Stop promoting political correctness in game and harass people for it.

Is that so difficult ?

PS : gamer are not only white dude for the bazillion times

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"The traditional young white male market" to "the traditional white male market was always an inaccurate stereotype" in one paragraph.

One paragraph to contradict his own words and show how full of shit he is. How are new games only for white males when white male exclusive game audiences are a myth?

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