🎭 Dramacow Gamergate / Depression Quest Shitstorm

[Jaimas]

No Kiwiforums Pathfinder today hence all the posts... Thought this was a little entertaining: https://twitter.com/scrub_squad420/status/505553834421534720

Quinn will ban you on steam for negative reviews no matter how they are phrased.

...And so we finally arrive, having come full circle, to Quinn pulling the maneuver faced by all failures on Steam.

She now joins such illustrious individuals as Muxwell (the guy who made Earth: Year 2066), the devs behind WarZ, the dipshits behind Day One: Garry's Incident, and the creators of Air Control in the well of developers with absoltuely no self awareness nor understanding of the Streisand Effect, since she's already moving onto blanket bans and removing negative comments from her Steam forum, since Steam Devs are allowed to moderate their own communities, and thus she can (try to; fail at) create her own echo chamber. Competent devs, even relatively unskilled ones, don't do this, but Quinn has.

Oh, but don't worry. Zoe Quinn has friends of hers and alt accounts saying how deep and amazing her game is, just as was the case with Air Control. And the main mods for the forum and those posting positive feedback are all, surely by coincidence linked up in her friends list. It's almost uncanny how many shit devs follow this particular arc.

 

[tehpope]

There's a rumor going around /v/ right now that a bunch of journalist are going to use Pax to announce, possibly Monday, a new term to replace gamer, in response to all the "'gamer' is dead" articles. /v/ is using "Gamer+" to describe it, ala Atheist+, though the new name isn't announced yet.

wow

 

[Surtur]

There's a rumor going around /v/ right now that a bunch of journalist are going to use Pax to announce, possibly Monday, a new term to replace gamer, in response to all the "'gamer' is dead" articles. /v/ is using "Gamer+" to describe it, ala Atheist+, though the new name isn't announced yet.

wow

That is pretentious as fuck.

 

[soIregistered]

Is this essentially the story of a bunch of indie-fuck tryhard kids fucking each other and crying in blogs about it, and then we argue over what constitutes journalism and what constitutes a game? Because they're all a bunch of uninteresting, insignificant "look at me! I'm different!" types, I wouldn't play her stupid game, Nathan Grayson has about as much literary clout as LaToya Jackson, and I don't care about any of them. The end.

 

[Sonic Speed Monkey]

I'm sitting here reading all the reviews for Depression Quest on Steam, both positive and negative. You can really tell who is trying to suck up to Quinn (probably with the hopes she'll sleep with them), and who the people who actually do research are.

 

[Jaimas]

I'm sitting here reading all the reviews for Depression Quest on Steam, both positive and negative. You can really tell who is trying to suck up to Quinn (probably with the hopes she'll sleep with them), and who the people who actually do research are.

Feel free to post your favorites, good and bad. If this is anything like Haribo's Sugar-Free Gummy Bears reviews, this should be a boundless font of humor.

 

[Sonic Speed Monkey]

Feel free to post your favorites, good and bad. If this is anything like Haribo's Sugar-Free Gummy Bears reviews, this should be a boundless font of humor.

Going to try and find some good positive ones to post. Most of the positive review filter is primarily heavy sarcasm and Five Guys jokes.

Edit: Here's one I chuckled at.

Spoiler: IT EVEN HAS A TRIGGER WARNING

 

[Linako 2.0]

I really have no idea what's going on.

Also Phil Fish is back

 

[tehpope]

I think most of those Fil Phish accounts are fake BTW.

 

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There's a rumor going around /v/ right now that a bunch of journalist are going to use Pax to announce, possibly Monday, a new term to replace gamer, in response to all the "'gamer' is dead" articles. /v/ is using "Gamer+" to describe it, ala Atheist+, though the new name isn't announced yet.
wow

I had been hearing that too - some people on the Escapist monolith of a thread about this have been saying the new name for "Gamer" would be...

...wait for it...

...Player.

Yup, no "misogynistic" undertones with that choice. Anyway, rumor is that they'll be announcing their new fancy word on Monday.

 

[DN 420]

I really have no idea what's going on.
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This is a fucking joke, right?

 

[Jaimas]

I had been hearing that too - some people on the Escapist monolith of a thread about this have been saying the new name for "Gamer" would be...

...wait for it...

...Player.

Yup, no "misogynistic" undertones with that choice. Anyway, rumor is that they'll be announcing their new fancy word on Monday.

I try to avoid image macro responses, but I do believe that something that stupid calls for this:

 

[Linako 2.0]

Gamer+ ?
they try to pass it off like a new game +
most of them can't even play though a game once, let alone twice to beat a new game +

 

[Small Onion]

I don't know. The only gaming site I ever pay any attention to is Giant Bomb, and they're more of an entertainment site than anything else. I look at Dtoid once in a blue moon, and I really didn't see any of the shitty stuff that Polygon or Kotaku did (and still do) until fairly recently. It's really disappointing that things are as bad as they are, because I really love games, and I want everyone to be able to enjoy games, but when a group tries to mess with an artist's vision (see: the MGS5 controversies - Quiet's outfit and the implied rape in Ground Zeroes set a ton of people off), it really upsets me. Sorry for the rambling post, but this whole thing is maddening.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

"Video games are the last vestige of the patriarchy."

I am so homicidal right now. If you want the game industry to cater to you, buy some fucking video games. Play them. Enjoy them. Make your tastes known with your wallet.

But here's the thing that really bugs me. Like really, really pisses me the fuck off. It's something that a lot of these SJWs seem to gloss over. Video games are for EVERYONE.

Pokemon is for EVERYONE.

Mario is for EVERYONE.

The Sims is for EVERYONE.

Minecraft is for EVERYONE.

Half-life is for EVERYONE.

Skyrim is for EVERYONE.

Mass Effect is for EVERYONE.

Assassin's Creed is for EVERYONE.

MMOs are for EVERYONE.

Online multiplayer is for EVERYONE.

Shooters are for EVERYONE.

Platformers are for EVERYONE.

RPGs are for EVERYONE.

Puzzlers are for EVERYONE.

Adventure games are for EVERYONE.

Most games are marketed more toward men than women, but there is no one stopping me from enjoying them. If you think video games are exclusively male territory then you are just as fucking sexist as the "gamers" you slander. You are utter scum. You are making other women feel unwelcome in gaming. You are a failure and you need to GTFO out of my hobby.

 

[Linako 2.0]

 

[DC 740]

I don't know if people don't like EmptyHero around here and he is a little vulgar sure, but he makes a good point here if you want to listen. Basically this "gaming journalism industry"* is dying, they know it, and are trying to keep themselves relevant in the face of YouTube and Twitch.

[youtube]Go1jQ2caDpI[/youtube]

Also don't know if this was posted yet. I wish there were more like her.

[youtube]0aCyCwEj62g[/youtube]

*edited because it said "gaming industry*

 

[Jaimas]

I don't know if people don't like EmptyHero around here and he is a little vulgar sure, but he makes a good point here if you want to listen. Basically this "gaming journalism industry"* is dying, they know it, and are trying to keep themselves relevant in the face of YouTube and Twitch.

[youtube]Go1jQ2caDpI[/youtube]

Also don't know if this was posted yet. I wish there were more like her.

[youtube]0aCyCwEj62g[/youtube]

*edited because it said "gaming industry*

I'm not really a fan, but he's pretty much spot-on in that first vid for their increasing irrelevance in a world that no longer needs them in spite of the crudeness of the humor.

 

[tehpope]

I had been hearing that too - some people on the Escapist monolith of a thread about this have been saying the new name for "Gamer" would be...

...wait for it...

...Player.

Yup, no "misogynistic" undertones with that choice. Anyway, rumor is that they'll be announcing their new fancy word on Monday.

Player is even a worse word. Like are they going to use Gamer to describe the Elite, non-misogynistic folk while player does? What the flying fuck.

 

[wheat pasta]

"Video games are the last vestige of the patriarchy."

I am so homicidal right now. If you want the game industry to cater to you, buy some fucking video games. Play them. Enjoy them. Make your tastes known with your wallet.

But here's the thing that really bugs me. Like really, really pisses me the fuck off. It's something that a lot of these SJWs seem to gloss over. Video games are for EVERYONE.

Pokemon is for EVERYONE.

Mario is for EVERYONE.

The Sims is for EVERYONE.

Minecraft is for EVERYONE.

Half-life is for EVERYONE.

Skyrim is for EVERYONE.

Mass Effect is for EVERYONE.

Assassin's Creed is for EVERYONE.

MMOs are for EVERYONE.

Online multiplayer is for EVERYONE.

Shooters are for EVERYONE.

Platformers are for EVERYONE.

RPGs are for EVERYONE.

Puzzlers are for EVERYONE.

Adventure games are for EVERYONE.

Most games are marketed more toward men than women, but there is no one stopping me from enjoying them. If you think video games are exclusively male territory then you are just as fucking sexist as the "gamers" you slander. You are utter scum. You are making other women feel unwelcome in gaming. You are a failure and you need to GTFO out of my hobby.