Purple Link · @AboveUp
9th Sep 2014 from TwitLonger
I expect things to start slow down, but not necessarily cool down. #gamergate
Keep in mind that Destiny also came out, so a large chunk of people who really just want to be playing videogames are going to play the everloving fuck out of that. And that's a good thing, really. It's what it's all about at the end of the day, video games.
But yeah, I expect things to start slow down a lot now, but not necessarily cool down. Too many things have surfaced and not enough amends have been made from either side for everyone to calmly come back together and act as if nothing happened. We know a lot of the more vocal SJW journalists really just look at minorities and women as tools for relevancy to a point of repainting them as white men when they don't agree with them. It's not all of them, but with the bile that came from some of them, it's clear the feelings of disinguinety regarding a lot of the articles they've pushed out the door wasn't unfounded. We know a lot of those same journalists would rather commit career suicide than side with their audience over developers.
And we've made a large amount of people see this when the kneejerk reactions came from the crowd.
Extreme right-wing people started joining up the conversations, some of which seem the type who would normally want video games and their contents banned. Now they're just content with siding with the disenfranchised audience of gaming sites to boost their voices. As previously pointed out, this is likely going to be a slippery slope and when the far-left starts budging they'll likely use their newly established stomping ground to start making the same demands they previously made.
We know indies aren't the end-all to the malpractice in the gaming industry. That's pretty much what the started with during the Quinnspiracy start, and after the Cameralady video, that's what we've come back to, to a certain extent.
We saw the traffic ratings of sites protesting against both social media hashtags plummet, while the traffic ratings of the few who supported it simultaneously skyrocketed, which shows that gamers do care about how they're being treated. Kotaku ended up losing a sponsor, people aren't sure about the Escapist because even though they retooled their ethics code, they still employ Moviebob who went on tirade after tirade on Twitter and even released a YouTube video protesting everything that was going on.
It's been, what? A month? Considering it hasn't died yet, it'll keep moving in the background and have slow, long-term effects that will be impossible to track back to it. At this point, anyone involved to a decent degree won't forget about it. And it's likely the antagonization, admittedly from both sides, isn't going to stop any time soon.
Also, people keep asking what the endgoal of all of this is, when it will be reached. Sorry to say, but with something like this I don't think there is an endgoal. Rather, there never was one. There never will be one. For any sort of even coverage or discussion, you need two sides to it. For this to have any point, the only thing that needs to happen is for it not to completely die and remain focused long enough to have its own ground besides the already established journalists so it can become that missing side. Nobody's ever going to "win", because winning would imply it is all over, and the only way for it to be entirely over is for games coverage , or even just gaming as a whole to be over.