Question When I support Gamergate its for reasons like we are seeing today with Mortal Kombat X. The press has allowed these companies to get away with this crap for years, failing to make them accountable for their shoddy actions. Micro-transactions, broken multiplayer, online servers being shut 18 months after release. Hold these bastards accountable, please.

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So Gamergate was set up to rally gamers to put pressure on the press to put pressure on developers to put pressure on publishers to stop taking part in shitty DLC practices. Got it.

On behalf of the press I’d like to formally apologize for not using our influence to stop a practice, which despite half a decade of widespread vocal criticism from both gamers and the games press alike, continues to make publishers quite a lot of money. If it makes you feel better I made a video about how shit DLC was back in 2010 before I was in the games press, but I guess Bobby Kotick must have missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lgvLxSk9uk





Wow. And people wonder why I think Gamergate is full of misguided, naive, babies. I get about a dozen of these moronic messages a week by the way. Had to reply to this one though, just made me laugh too much. And cry, a bit. For the future of our industry. I’m sure gamers weren’t this dumb ten years ago. Or maybe the internet was just harder to use so we filtered all the botchlings out. Stay safe out there people.