The gaming press works for the Gamers. The Gamers pay their bills. In the past it used to be by literally buying their magazines, but now it is by providing them with a target for their advertising. It is because the gaming press has an audience that they can exist.
The gaming press used to be Gamers. They were passionate about games and got into the the job to write about something they love.
During GamerGate we, the Gamers, discovered that game writers were not gamers, they literally hated us, and they were conspiring to ruthlessly manipulate us in backroom email lists.
It isn't that games journalists were not talking about games (they had been doing crap reporting for years) or that they sold out; they had done that before, see the Dorito Pope or Advertising $ for game reviews.
No, it was that it was revealed to the audience that the gaming press hated our fucking guts. They saw controlling what we Gamers think as the way to gate-keep an entire multi-billion dollar industry and skim money off the top. They despised us for not being leftoids, and they despised us even more for being vital to their own job.
I totally agree. That’s when I stopped getting gaming magazines when I realized that the journalist seemed to despise gamers or couldn’t review Pac-Man without some lefty talking points. Last straw was the constant push for women in gaming. I’m thinking of women want to play games they know how.
But yes the hatred of gamers and the backlash we got for not wanting leftist garbage in our hobby will never be forgotten from my end
Gamer Gate was the canary in the coal mine for the culture war.
What’s crazy is that as evil as they make it sound it’s simply gamers wanting journalists….. to talk about the games
Lets not downplay why we are mad.
The gaming press works for the Gamers. The Gamers pay their bills. In the past it used to be by literally buying their magazines, but now it is by providing them with a target for their advertising. It is because the gaming press has an audience that they can exist.
The gaming press used to be Gamers. They were passionate about games and got into the the job to write about something they love.
During GamerGate we, the Gamers, discovered that game writers were not gamers, they literally hated us, and they were conspiring to ruthlessly manipulate us in backroom email lists.
It isn't that games journalists were not talking about games (they had been doing crap reporting for years) or that they sold out; they had done that before, see the Dorito Pope or Advertising $ for game reviews.
No, it was that it was revealed to the audience that the gaming press hated our fucking guts. They saw controlling what we Gamers think as the way to gate-keep an entire multi-billion dollar industry and skim money off the top. They despised us for not being leftoids, and they despised us even more for being vital to their own job.
I totally agree. That’s when I stopped getting gaming magazines when I realized that the journalist seemed to despise gamers or couldn’t review Pac-Man without some lefty talking points. Last straw was the constant push for women in gaming. I’m thinking of women want to play games they know how.
But yes the hatred of gamers and the backlash we got for not wanting leftist garbage in our hobby will never be forgotten from my end