GamerGate failed at it's stated intentions, but I think we can see that the cultural resistance that we put up never actually wained.

Yes Journalists are still Leftists and corrupt

Yes the big publishers and developers are pushing virtue signaling.

But GamerGate wasn't an accident. It was an intentional ploy by the Leftists in the media to balkanize audiences into being controllable subjects that were loyal to their outlets; and it utterly failed.

History Lesson:

First, we had been seeing Leftism in Journalism going back to 2012. This was not new, the ideological capture of Game Journalism was already complete by 2014

Second, corrupt practices in game-entertainment goes all the way back to the early 1900's when Arcade machines were effectively money laundering for the mob. You aren't going to totally root out corruption within gaming. It's like rooting out cronyism in 'professional wrestling'. The industry has an underlying foundation on emotional manipulation. What we needed objective journalism for in 2014 was the fact that developers and publishers had been refusing to give us demos for years, and had even started creating fake demos that were not even built with the same software as the game itself.

Third, Game Journalism was dying because of YouTube. The Video Game magazine market was already collapsing. Play Magazine had already stopped reviewing games much earlier. All of the magazines, and even Nintendo Power to a degree, were fairly biased shill booklets because the medium wasn't profitable. But YouTube had recently lifted it's 10 minute maximum limit to videos, and now people started streaming games. Before it became entirely normalized, the publishers, and many journalist outlets, were pushing to criminalize livestreaming and uploading videos of gameplay.

GamerGate started as clear corruption and abuse by Zoey Quinn using her (intimate) connections to get favorable coverage, including even her own backers and investors to make reviews for her shit, all while abusing and cucking her boyfriend... but the defense for her was both political and economic. YouTubers were publishing videos that showed how badly wrong the Games media was in it's reviews, and had exposed corruption by showing how brazenly the journos were lying.

The journos went to war because they (correctly) saw their Access-Journalism oligopoly becoming unsustainable. So, attacking the audience would balkanize a political user-base to them, and prevent the audience from going to the obviously better source: Video Essayists, Walkthrough players, and Live streamers.

To be clear: this didn't work.

Game developers and publishers are basically shilling access journalism to content creators, because it's now a fully mutualist relationship that gets much more attention than the journalist outlets. The "content creators" are significantly more biased towards the genera, but not necessarily the product itself. Certainly not more than the journos were. The CC's biases are obvious, clear, and consistent (so it's a bit more transparent than the journos). The CC's are also vastly more competent in the genera than the best journos in the business (because they tend to focus on specific niches of gameplay styles, or only genera's that interest them).

For example: A journalist will basically tell you nothing different about any pokemon game, because (at a glance) they are all identical, and in many ways this is true. But the Pokemon CC is likely a competitive player, and has a long and inane explanation about how ability changes and breeding algorithm changes vastly effect top-level gameplay. He will do a video on that. If you are a basic player, you'll know whether you want to play it in 10 minutes; but if you are a hardcore fan, you'll know how to change your strategies after 30 minutes.

As a result, the industry itself is is monetarily shifting away from the journalists. Most of the shit they show involving SJ is because they are all out of Silicon Valley, and their Marketing departments haven't been fired yet. The underlying economic foundations are not salvageable; and the fact that these journalism outlets themselves are only making money based off of ridiculous Woke Capital investment rather than profit, shows you that the industry is already dead, and being propped up.

Finally, what Xbox Live Games brought in is now a full fledged cottage industry. AAA games might make money, but there is a vast industry of independent games, that are no longer even really that small anymore. When you also add that more countries, particularly Eastern and Central Europe are pushing out games rather than very specific studios in New York, California, Toronto, and Tokyo; the industry is facing vast, global, competition; even from "small businesses".

The Late 90's early 00's corporate dominance of major studios is seriously broken, and totally irreparable. Social Justice in the gaming space was a desperation move ten years ago. It's already dead, we're just waiting for the inevitable 2020's Gaming Crash which (given the economic conditions) can't be avoided anymore.

It's not Get Woke, Go Broke.

It's Go Broke, Get Woke, Croak We are headed towards the croak phase. As with the USSR, these things take time, but the longer it is delayed, the more total the collapse will be.

Gaming will survive the crash (even if Blizzard might not), but there will be plenty of parallel structures to latch onto that will take their place.