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For Game Developers, It's About the Labor of Love
Nerval's Lobster writes With "GamerGate" and all the debates over who counts as a "gamer," it's easy to forget that games are created by people with a genuine love of the craft. Journalist Jon Brodkin sat down with Armin Ibrisagic, game designer & PR manager for Coffee Stain Studios, the Swedish studio that made Goat Simulator, to talk about why they built that game and how it turned into such a success. Brodkin also talked to Leszek Lisowski, founder of Wastelands Interactive, about the same topic. While these developers might debate with themselves (and others) over whether to develop games for hardcore gamers, or jump on the mobile "casual gaming" bandwagon, they'll ultimately in it because they love games — a small but crucial detail that seems too easy to forget these days.
But only when a game designer's jilted ex-boyfriend posts hearsay about it. AAA publishers were doing worse shit all the times but there was no uproar of this intensity. Now Gamergate is about fueling a false persecution complex and attacking anyone who points out how horrible they're being.
No, "gamergaters" instantly made it that when they began their hate campaign and harassment.
And where was the unbridled hatred and rage towards EA over the whole Shadow of Mordor controversy? Oh, right, it was virtually nonexistent because that's not the point anymore. The point now is solidarity against whatever enemy-du-jour that is seen as "attacking gamers" or other such delusional bullshit.
Nope, it is not. Not by any stretch. Gamergate is based around made up 'issues' as an excuse to attack people who point out the rampant sexism.
Ganmergate is a bunch of people who realize the industry is changing and they don't like change.
They use propaganda, lies, and threats to push an ideological agenda.
They are a hate group.
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That's why y'all are harassing the women, and not the corrupt journalists, right? The entire movement has been spearheaded by misogynists from the very beginning.
Brianna Wu: *retweets meme*
GamerGaters: *dox her, send multiple violent rape & death threats*
Man, what a double standard those SJW's have, calling the latter "harrassment" and not the former! It's clear that they're of the same scope and intensity, right?