i know but why are all the game related "movements" using it now be more creative
whatever, i dont use professional gaming journalism sites to buy games anyway. i like user reviews the best, or watching a LP.
All scandals use -gate. Think of Bendgate, which was about the iPhone 6 supposedly bending in people's pockets. "Bendgate" is easier to say than "the iPhone 6 bending scandal".
And I agree. There used to be a time that professional reviews mattered to me, but paid reviews have been around for nearly a decade now. There were rumors of it beforehand, but when Jeff Gerstmann got fired from GameSpot in 2007 for scoring Kane & Lynch badly it was pretty much confirmed.
It was originally about Zoe Quinn sleeping with reviewers and other gaming industry people to help out her game.
Her supporters and social justice warriors have warped it into the typical "females aren't represented" thing.
While that's how it started, it blew up after an independent investigative journalist found a mailing list proving that these so-called journalists from various sites will talk behind the screens, agree on what they should and should not talk about. Apart from that, it also showed the hypocrisy of these SJWs, in that they will criticize any form of "sexist speech" even if it's done jokingly, yet behind the scenes they would pretty much say the exact same things. Anyone that doubted their course of action was immediately put to trial by the group. It's corrupt, to say the least.
It's also why I despise people linking to sites like Kotaku, Polygon, Giant Bomb and whatnot. They're people that throw around trash simply because they want walking simulators with **** stories like Gone Home to be the future of gaming. They're not journalists, they're activists.
idk man, its not surprising at all that video game devs will use personal relationships to get favourable reviews, its not exactly a unique feature of the gaming industry
Even if it isn't, people should stand up against it. Leaving it alone will just make sure it spreads even more than it already has. I want to go back to a time where reviews aren't owned by the companies that make these games, where a person reviewing a game gives a fair assessment and is able to call a game **** if it's ****. With how bad the game industry has become ever since the release of the 360 and PS3, having these people around would certainly help to improve the quality of games. None of this day one patch bull****, where all the major bugs are taken out. Bring back the good old days of making sure a product is good before you release it.
Tao brought up some good points. People keep buying this crap, so companies can keep selling it to us. Of course, some people are going to buy them before we hear if it has this or that problem, but if it's a broken game then the sales should basically stop there until it's fixed. The movement against these reviewers was going strong for a while but has died down now. It's plain sad.
Some of these people will also claim that gamers will set back gaming 10 years if they keep going like this. In that case, let's keep going so we can go back to the golden age, during which games that were released were given a fair assessment, and games that got rave reviews were actually incredible. The entire PS2 era was great because of games like Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Okami... The list goes on, and not only for the PS2.
Then you look at the libraries of previous systems and you've got your Mass Effect, Dead Space, Dead Rising, etc. All franchises that started off good, but the later installments were broken, glitchy pieces of ****.
Then you hear that Anita Sarkeesian was hired to work on Mirror's Edge 2, probably one of the most incredible games of the previous generation. But the gameplay was too hard for her, there were too many buttons. So now we've got to make it more accessible, and in her mind "accessible" means GTA gameplay. Mirror's Edge 2 is just going to be GTA with a woman.
**** SJWs.
this 50% of gamers being women, where does this stat come from? does it include ppl who play those filthy casual facebook/mobile games?
casual gamers innit