10 Issues In Video Games That #GamerGate Has No Reason To Touch

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Apparently, Mr. Jimmy Wales and the staff at Medium thought this list was worth the read. Right off the bat the author states as their preface:

Preface: #GamerGate has never been about ethics in video games journalism.

So I would take it from this preface that you intend to prove that we are a harassment campaign due to ethical issues within video game journalism that we have chosen to apparently ignore since those issues did not benefit our ability to continue harassing people? I’ll be sure to keep this in mind as I go through your points.

10. App stores discouraging developers who want to make games that deal with politics or sexuality.

Reminder that you stated in your preface that you intend to show that GamerGate is not about ethics in video game journalism, and yet, your first issue has nothing to do with journalism. I certainly hope this trend does not continue in your hit piece!

9. Nothing tells women, “we’re not here to speak to you,” like hosting a networking event at a strip club.

Continuing from first point, your second has nothing to do with ethics or journalism. Are you just trying to say this is an issue you think is bad or important to you? I’m not in disagreement, but again, it has nothing to do with your original preface.

8. There is often no legal recourse for a small developer if a large studio clones a game’s design wholesale.

Okay, I’m not going to repeat myself. This has nothing to do with journalism.

7. Publications hungry for content, eager to pass off promotional material as news, presenting touched up renders as in-game screenshots.

FINALLY, a legitimate point! As you state, the concept of “bullshots” has been covered extensively, however, you seem to be trying shoehorn this into a problem with publications, when even the Kotaku article you cite seems to put the blame squarely on dishonest game publishers for feeding journalist the information as factual.

6. ‘Crunch time’ and other exploitative labor practices.

Not journalism

5. The use of conflict minerals and other ethical violations in the supply chain.

Not journalism

4. Publications that brazenly accept payment for advertorial ‘sponsored reviews.’

See the url here: http://www.androidheadlines.com/paid-android-application-review-service

Your entire point is based on an offer to pay for a review with the site “Android Headlines”. First of all, this site does not appear to be very popular compared to other Android news sources. Second, calling a site for Android news “game journalism” is a stretch at best. For sure, this is a deplorable practice and if Kotaku or any other major video gaming publication pulled a similar stunt, you better believe we would be all over it.

3. Hiring practices that treat developers as disposable.

And we’re back to points which relate in no way to your original preface!

2. The troubling relationship between video game developers and arms manufacturers.

journalism [jur-nl-iz-uh m] — the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.

1. When you buy games, you don’t necessarily own them — and may not be able to play them in the future.

I think we’re done here.

I’m profoundly disappointed in the people that thought this article was some sort of turnabout against GamerGate. This is a clear hit piece of non-sequitur information that only serves to reassure the opponents of GamerGate of their own opinion. Not the the least bit surprising considering the environment we have encountered thus far from the media. I suspect one could publish anything with the title “FUCK THOSE GAMERGATE CUNTS!!” and our opponents would probably use it as source for the Wikipedia article.