You could say all gamers drink the blood of innocents under a full moon and I still wouldn't give a fuck."

This guy quite clearly doesn't understand how the game industry works and is attempting to put the media cart ahead of the millions of horses that are the gamers of the world.And yet, none of this is having ANY effect whatsoever on the activity of game developers. Literally none. There are no AAA developers suddenly deciding that instead of a 3D shooter, they are going to develop. Blizzard is not going to haltin order to put more clothes on the girl-Dranei or ensure that they are sufficiently Strong and Independent for Literally Who's liking. Matrix is not going to start publishinginstead of its 576th World War II wargame,. And as far as I am aware, no one is running out to hire Zoe Quinn as a design lead.But #GamerGate is having a tangible effect on the media organizations. Intel and Mercedes have stopped advertising on Gamasutra and Gawker. Other advertisers will follow suit; I have heard of other publications discovering that their advertising revenues are imperiled. The pinkshirts of the games media are going to find out, over the next few months, just who is truly irrelevant, who is truly impotent. And it isn't the gamers of #GamerGate.#GamerGate ultimately comes down to one thing. We gamers like our core games the way they are, and we aren't going to change them for anyone or for any reason except better gameplay. And we don't give a quantum of a damn what any casual gamer who playsdoes, thinks, wants, or says. All the theatrical handwringing rhetoric about misogyny and harassment and death threats means absolutely nothing to any of us. It doesn't matter if Literally Who, Literally Who 2, and Literally Wu wind up being ritually tortured and force-fed Ebola before being sacrificed to Cthulhu on an altar made of desert-agedcartridges, that's not going to alter any of our opinions on the matter in the slightest.One gamer, by the name of Phasmal, speaks effectively for us all:D'accordo. In the meantime, if you're interested in either reading honest game reviews or writing a few yourself, check out Computer Game World . I'm in the process of adding many of my old reviews and others are adding new ones every day.

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