Have you guys heard of gamergate?

[Vendetta21]

just read about it, it's a weird topic, i know, but it provokes a lot of questions about gender, video games, and internet communities. thoughts??

[Omeganitros]

hmm yes gamergate...very interesting.....very controversial...i heard it provoked an editorial note from a microsoft review site!

[Vendetta21]

well i mean you read about this stuff and wonder if maybe the culture of video games and internet communities is actually a little sexist

[Omeganitros]

gosh, that would be...gosh! thats pretty wild to imagine.

[Vendetta21]

Originally Posted by Omeganitros

gosh, that would be...gosh! thats pretty wild to imagine.

well take a step further and ask yourself: maybe it's true?

[JurseyRider734]

[Vendetta21]

like in all honesty women in internet communities get a lot of weird messages from dudes and as a dude i get practically no messages at all

[Omeganitros]

I remember when I was a kid, hearing that if you made a female character in World of Warcraft, you would get lots of free stuff from guys.

[Vendetta21]

Originally Posted by Omeganitros

I remember when I was a kid, hearing that if you made a female character in World of Warcraft, you would get lots of free stuff from guys.

no this is true i make female characters in wow and sometimes i get messages like

"hey want to quest together?"
"sure"
xxx has invited you to party
*accept*
"lol thats a pretty girly name are you a girl?"

[JurseyRider734]

Originally Posted by Vendetta21

like in all honesty women in internet communities get a lot of weird messages from dudes and as a dude i get practically no messages at all

wow...... so true....... in fact i got a private message from one of the ex-mods on here that i found to be quite a bit creepy..........

[Omeganitros]

[lurker]

games journalism was already in the pockets of developers and advertisers so like, what's the point of this lol

[gold stinger]

Originally Posted by Omeganitros

I remember when I was a kid, hearing that if you made a female character in World of Warcraft, you would get lots of free stuff from guys.

I can confirm this being true, owning a level 80 blood elf paladin up until the end of Wrath of the Lich King. People gave me free need rolls in raids all the time, people would suck up to my shitty healing instead of asking a priest, and the only thing that people talked about in guild chat was what color people thought my character's hair was.

Someone actually paid me 25k gold to know the color of my character's hair. PS it was blonde.

PSS my character's name was Lavender

[XelNya]

Kinda hard not to hear about it.

But it's been blown to be about something way more different from what I have seen.

[lurker]

there is no doubt that it turned into a reveal of mass collusion within games journalism
problem is, anyone could've predicted that given how games journalism was already obviously influenced by bribery
there's nothing special about this at all, pretty much all journalism is faked and anyone who writes for a living is not to be believed

[NeoMasterPie]

more like gamer GAY am i right haha

[XelNya]

Originally Posted by lurker

there is no doubt that it turned into a reveal of mass collusion within games journalism
problem is, anyone could've predicted that given how games journalism was already obviously influenced by bribery
there's nothing special about this at all, pretty much all journalism is faked and anyone who writes for a living is not to be believed

Pretty much.

I mean when the "critics" are giving games high scores and saying only nice things, they're not really critics anymore. They're just bribed losers who are named wrong.