I think we’ve won battles. Big battles, small battles, but the war isn’t over. If you could even call it a war.

Right now, I think only one thing could classify a ‘We’ve won’ position for GamerGate. And this is only my position/opinion. The ‘we’ve won’ is when GamerGate finally gets recognized as an institution, like a consumer watchdog, with actual weight and power.

We’ve gone too far now, been attacked too much, we’ve rooted out too much corruption and lies and collusion. At this point, GamerGate needs to become the new normal. It needs to stand between the consumer and the industry and be willing to go to bat for the consumer when journalists, publishers or studios start becoming corrupt.

As lofty as that goal is, I think that is the only way we can say GamerGate truly ‘wins’. Because if Gawker files for Chapter 11 tomorrow, there will still be corruption. If all the corrupt journos get sacked, apologies given and ethic statements put in place, the publishers are still doing unacceptable things we should address. If Anita and the liar brigade get thrown out tomorrow, there will still be people who self serve and use games as a platform to morally crusade.

This is a fight against corruption, for the consumer. It is impossible to truly ‘win’ because you’re fighting a force of human nature; greed, selfishness, etc.

We’ve won a lot of battles, but we are nowhere near done winning this war. It is a battle of attrition, a siege, and it’ll be a slog. We are tearing corruption out by the root and that won’t happen over night.

We’re seeing the tide shift, inch by inch, in our favor. Devs join us now almost daily. Anti-GG regularly eat their own and radicalize to such an insane degree it ostracizes the common folk. More lies, more collusion, more corruption is unearthed and archived. It’s been slow but that shift is happening.

And let me tell you something, they know its happening. Like in Shogun 2, there is a point where we’ll have them frenzy, where they’re on the edge of losing the popular opinion in the industry. When that happens, expect a lot of attacks. But when we reach that tipping point, that is the point where I’ll say victory, true and total victory, is in sight.