Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

Post by syshum » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 7:35 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #177

Appeal to public opinion is generally a great idea but there is a risk. Activision gets no sympathy from me, but I also don't think the answer will come from the masses. I'm not sure that most gamers really care about sexism in the gaming industry. Video games are synthetic, we don't really see the people behind them. At least in movies we see the actors. If push comes to shove, I think most gamers will still be lini…

Post by dralley » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 7:36 PM UTC

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imbnwa wrote: post #74

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The Last of Us Part II I presume

It is about battlefield 5, the last of us was last year. More specifically people didn't like the depiction of world war 2 in this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ZpQadiyqs

Post by nitrogen » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 7:36 PM UTC

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> considering women playing video games only became socially acceptable a few years ago. ... In Saudi Arabia? > It's still common for men to talk down to women on video games, to the point where the overwhelming majority of women do not use voice comms or make their gender known. It's common for men to talk down to men on video games too ("talk down to" is a very mild phrasing). Turns out there are a lot of jerks who…

"it's common for men to talk down to men on video games too" This is very tone deaf. I have spent probably thousands of hours playing games (with a mic) and the % of times I've been "talked down to" is very small, and it was never because of a natural property about me (that I'm male, etc). Literally every woman that I've played with who has used a mic or otherwise presented themselves as female has faced vitriolic h…

Post by majormajor » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 7:37 PM UTC

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> We're talking about the same career that's been known as a money-printing machine for the past 25 years? 20 years ago it was fairly frequently perceived as both very nerdy in an unpopular way and in imminent danger of being outsourced entirely. It's sad how many people who had to put up with bullying for their interests back then quickly became bullies themselves when they had the opportunity. Of all people, we sho…

20 years ago i had to show people in a cs course how to turn on their computer. they were only there because of the dotcom bubble. Brogrammers were a thing back then, and were problematic even then.

Post by crooked-v » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 7:37 PM UTC

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> The misoginy accusations came later The misogyny was the driving force from the start. The original 'Quinnspiracy', before it became 'Gamergate', was a harassment campaign organized around the blatantly false claim that Quinn had slept with a gaming journalist to get good reviews of her work (the only mention he ever made of her work was before they even met).

The guy that made the accusations was her former boyfriend, and seemly not a gamer. Around that time people were also upset with other journalists, the Quinnspiracy thing became just the straw that broke the camel back, and gamers weren't upset because she was female, they were upset because Kotaku kept making shitty articles.