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| Topic | Explain GamerGate to me... without mentioning any ideologies or people. |
| Miroku_of_Nite1 12/08/18 6:35:45 AM #25: | Some of the post here already explained the initial valid concerns. The thing that got me about the whole thing was how quick and coordinated the blow back against gamers was. With multiple articles on multiple websites declaring 'gamers are dead' all in a short span of time. Legitimacy of video game reviews/journalism has always been pretty bad. Even going back to the gaming magazines of the 90s video game publishers use to threaten magazines with pulling their ads if they didn't review games highly. 3DO was really bad about this apparently according to former EGM staff writers. In the modern sense we have editors playing a game for ten minutes and writing a review. A feel there needs to be a bit of a 'gate' to be a video game reviewer. Something beyond a degree in journalism. EGM in the early to mid 90s use to have a video game aptitude test editors had to pass to write for them. Perhaps video game review websites should bring back this to filter out people? Anyway, I don't really care for professional reviews anymore. I'll either just read some steam reviews, or watch a couple youtube video reviews to get an idea of a game I'm on the fence with. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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