The problematic nature of gaming journalist

[Siege Pilled Riki Spammer]

Am writting this to put into words my feelings of frustration towards modern gaming journalism, which basically boils down too left wing liberal political zealots attacking game studios and developers personally often going out of their way to being devs under smear campaigns calling them homophobes , racist sexist and any other kind of slander you can think off simply for not pushing a left wing political agenda. If a video game is found to be racist because too many white characters in a game as well as just white characters in a game automatically makes it racist, or because the game lacks "representation" since nowadays apparently if your game doesn't have every mark on the modern progressive tick box of female strong and independent character , token minority character , gay character or a mix of any and all this sub groups that are elevated in the oppression charts of this journalists groups and the political agenda of the left. The consequences of not aligning with the message of this psychos you will be made to endure article after article slandering a game developer or studio because they simply didn't push the "correct" political narrative and it is sickeing. Think the biggest and latest example of this is what happened to Hogwarts legacy , the witcher series been critized for been too white same with kingdom come deliverance. It seems like nowadays gaming is all about telling the story you want to tell unless you don't want to tell a story full of characters approved by the liberal gustapo we reached a point where nowadays the female mc with a lesbo cut and personality of drywall is the modern day equivalent of the 2000's and early 2010's bold or buzzcut generic white male main character am sick of it. Let video game developers make whatever game they want , stop the demonization of telling stories with white main characters with white only cast and in white countries because these stories are just as valid as those who are more eastern centric or more focused on other diverse groups of people. Be it boycott or something we need to put a stop to game journalist websites like Polygon , TheGamer , kotaku and any "journalist" that interviews developers with a dagger in their robes ready to call them names because they find the developers vision of a game lacking in "representation and diversity". They are not been real journalist and they choose to report in this irrelevant topics rather than the ever growing more underhanded tactics employed by upper management in video game studios with ridiculous crunch cycles , tons of content been put on the chopping block to either be canned or sold later as DLC along with ever growing more intrusive micro transactions and battle passes. If their gonna use their platforms to hurt the gaming community rather than to help it nourish and develop properly then they don't deserve a platfrom at all either way people care more about the opinions of YouTube content creators and other members of their specific communities that actually care and have a passion for the game or setting their reviewing and talking about than what some random game journalist with a angeda to push has to say about anything.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

İlk olarak Hammer Of Evil tarafından gönderildi:

'journalist'

more like

'paid false news spreader'

p much

shameless influencers hiding behind a title

after the whole Zoe Quinn 5 guys fiasco people should've realized "gaming" """journalists""" are corrupt af and will take any form of bribes to make your game look better. No matter how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it is.

also IGN plagiarism videos from other youtube vids is legit grounds for never believing these ass clowns about anything gaming or at least not take them seriously.


Not a good thing when GAMESTOP was the main area you'd find the IGN and other gaming magazines. If they were any good they'd stand out in super markets and such like even US Weekly or Forbes.

[Piston Smashed™]

Paragraphs...

I have a wall too

[Siege Pilled Riki Spammer]

İlk olarak SharkOfTheDead tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Masque tarafından gönderildi:

I hate to admit it, but even gaming journalists know about punctuation and paragraph breaks, not to mention the difference between "to" and "too".

Still gets the point across. Video games are suppose to be an escape from stuff like political narratives and a place where everyone can come along and dark humor is very welcomed. We care so much about feelings now a days, that we don't consider how much its splitting communities apart, or how political narratives are being pushed in every game at ever second now. Pretty soon you'll be unable to play a Lego game without a political narrative being shoved down your throat so much that its impossible to enjoy the game. I miss the days of games like Half-Life 2, when games were usually fun, sure there may of been SOME politics, but it wasn't shoved in your face 24/7 like it is in most games now a days, And it's just like the Hogwarts Legacy controversy, people were too busy being political to separate the game from the person who made the franchise, you had people being doxxed, their families being doxxed, their friends being doxxed, people being called worse than Adolf just because they played a Harry Potter game. . . Like damn, we get it J.K Rowelling said something political and made some people mad. But if you don't like it just don't buy the game or Harry Potter related stuff, don't watch people who play it. That's fine, but the line is crossed when your full on sending death threats to people online and doxxing their families just because they played a damn game. I'm not even a fan of Harry Potter, I find it boring, but that whole controversy if anything did more harm than good for people who aren't straight. The OP is right, games today are getting way too political, these political journos like Polygon? They need to go. The people like those who were leaking the info other people playing Hogwarts Legacy, leaking the info of those peoples families and sending death threats to those people and their families? They need to go. ESG? It needs to go. Games should be enjoyable, not political propaganda, not political debates. I may be way off topic with this damn rant, it's 12:44 AM where I am and I haven't slept at all tonight, but short and simple, the OP is right, regardless of grammar the point they made stands.

Thank you am currently replying ag 2:30 AM because i can't seem to fall asleep honestly i agree with everything you have said on both your comments and they serve as great ways to add on to what i have to say. Sadly is not just video games but all media be it tv shows , movies and video games everything these days seems to be pushing the same left wing liberal agenda demonizing white people and traditions of old while uplifting the current status quote and it's regime is seriously getting annoying when you see history been bent and missrepresented to push a certain political narrative is all so tiresome it makes stories and games all feel the same when they all have the same political message with the same old villains pushing the same old tired narrative we have been forced to listen too ever since gamergate was a thing back in 2014 when things started to take off and get worst over time. It has greatly effected how video games are developed and the quality of games. Thanks to ESG scores who thanks to now the political backlash and bad rep it has accomulated by basically been a tool used by blackrock to economically reward corporations following their minority hiring quotas and political messaging their likely to change the name of this funds and continue pushing the same political diarreah they been pushing for years now. If your an industry insider or know anyone developing video games these days the studios have been restructured completely ever since the end of 2010 and the big explosion of the industry. Back in the day most of the crew developing a video game was software engineers and people who are familiar with the engine and the technical aspects of a video game , they where between 90 to 70% of the entire crew working on a game with all other departments been miniscule in comparison. While if you look at the structure of your average game studio these days you have if lucky a team of 5 to 15 software engineers and actual devs that work with the engine and developing the game itself all supported by a bloat of video game developers with zero technical skills making demands of the engineers to add features or promise fans mechanics that can't possibly be implemented before release , then you have the concept artist and designers often been double that of software engineers number in the 20 to 30 working on the comcept art and promotional material to the game though nowadays this position is more of a luxury and a lot of studios cut this workers completely by subsidizing the concept art to deviant art artist or free lancers they can undermine and underpay. And the gravest issue that's killing large game studios these days is advertising departments , human resources and other pencil pushers that do nothing in the office other than leeching off the companies tit all the while they pretend to be busy or qualified to do anything when in reality they waste millions in mediocre add campaigns with unrealistic promises and suicidal levels of hype for games that ensure their dead on arrival. ESG scores play a vital role in the way studios are structured these days because guess what? Most game devs specially the software engineers tend to be white or asian males with a nerdy disposition and a passion for video games but if a studio wants to get that fat stack of cash from blackrock their going to need to hire a lot more women and the right people of color such as blacks and hispanics and when merit isn't your priority when it comes to who you hire rather their skin color and creed obviously the quality of your dev team is going to suffer and i think we can all agree the quality of modern day video games has greatly stagnated compared to how it used to look back in the day and i think as time goes on things will just keep getting worst do to this policies that are rotting the industry from the inside though thankfully indie game devs and small studios have been picking up the slack. The game you proposed sounds like it would make for a magnificent video game but you seem to be missing a very important detail. A detail that ensures said game will never be made and if it ever does by an Indie team it will be so controversial it would probably get banned off steam and the devs blacklisted. Why ? Well because it would humanize the Germans that where alive during WW2 Germany and giving any sort of human feelings and characteristics to nazis is a huge red flag a mega no no in modern society, granted your not saying their actions where right but the mere act of implying these men and women of that era where nothing other than demonic charicatures of people who just have hatred in their hearts and are demons walking on earth anything other than this description would not be accepted in modern society. Nazis are and will always be restricted to be shooter fodder who say evil things in the German tounge and exist simply to be killed by the player character nothing less and nothing more that is just the status quote and trying to change that will get you in hot water. Granted the issue of superficial villains lacking on complexity and motive has been a thing in gaming for a while not to say villains who are complex , deep and sometimes empathetic don't exist but is more of a outlier than a rule. Personally since doxxing is a crime i say we start taking it seriously and charging insane fees to game journalist and their crooked friends who go out of their way to doxx people and contact their employers to try and get them fired and overall ruin their Iives simply because they disagree with the politics of that person or the person their doxxing enjoys a game they consider to be hateful. If this journalists and twitter zealots go out of their way to ruin the lives of others over politics then they deserve to be made pariahs , to lose their jobs and to be shamed for their hateful actions towards others for there is no one more vile than the person who destroys the lives of others under the premise of tolerance.

[St✩rlight]

I've never encountered what you are describing.

[Siege Pilled Riki Spammer]

İlk olarak Q-T_3.14.exe tarafından gönderildi:

Sorry, I don't read what Californians think.

Gaming journalism is pointless. It should've ended a long time ago. Some say it ruins gaming and I agree with that.

The fact gaming journalists still have a job because they use bots to artificially inflate the traffic to their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ websites thus keeping investors pumping cash into their industry is a crime that should have been pointed out years ago. Is a house of cards overdue in been blown over if you ask me. Specially when you consider the fact these journalists openly brag on twitter about ruining the lives of fans and devs after spamming their employeers with letters asking x or y be fired because random dumbass journalists claims their racist or sexist and most jobs not wanting an article written about them comply with this soy bullies.

[Insomniac Jack]

I'm not subjecting myself to your ocular assault. Learn how to form sentences and paragraphs.

[secuda]

*You encounter a wall of text in dungon of forum.

[Soft Wumbo]

so, gaming journalist is a thing?

[Siege Pilled Riki Spammer]

İlk olarak Fumo Bnnuy n Frends tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Hammer Of Evil tarafından gönderildi:

'journalist'

more like

'paid false news spreader'

p much

shameless influencers hiding behind a title

after the whole Zoe Quinn 5 guys fiasco people should've realized "gaming" """journalists""" are corrupt af and will take any form of bribes to make your game look better. No matter how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it is.

also IGN plagiarism videos from other youtube vids is legit grounds for never believing these ass clowns about anything gaming or at least not take them seriously.


Not a good thing when GAMESTOP was the main area you'd find the IGN and other gaming magazines. If they were any good they'd stand out in super markets and such like even US Weekly or Forbes.

Yeah their all a bunch of vile parasites leeching off the industry to survive since they lack relebance or any audience specially outside of Twitter. Sadly corporate ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ specially the suits on top still take journalists and what they have to say seriously so unless we start going out of our way to deplatform these rats exposing all their skeletons and dirty loundry to the light nothing is gonna change. Just look at gamergate and how quickly that movement crumbled the moment a few journos called the main spearheads of the community racist or sexist with their latest tactic to use been falsifying sexual assault charges something they already done to smear multiple industry veterans like Chris Avellone who had his life and reputation ruined by false allegations and is not like we can forget Justin Roiland and how his name was dragged through the mud we can't forget the big part journalists play to lavel someone as guilty before anything is even proven. We really need to overhaul the industry because having well respected members removed from projects over false charges that have zero evidence backing them is seriously gonna destroy the industry from the inside out and we got no one other than journalists to thank for this mess.

[Siege Pilled Riki Spammer]

İlk olarak Munithe EXT tarafından gönderildi:

I've never encountered what you are describing.

I envy your fortune

[Siege Pilled Riki Spammer]

İlk olarak Wumbo tarafından gönderildi:

so, gaming journalist is a thing?

Sadly still is the game devs for the rouge trader RPG just got accused of been homophobes because no gay sex as well as a character in the game saying there are no female space marines. Because of this the devs got harassed doxxed and recived death threats from twitter leftist zealots

[Siege Pilled Riki Spammer]

İlk olarak secuda tarafından gönderildi:

*You encounter a wall of text in dungon of forum.

We should play dota some time

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Claims to be a journalist, can't use grammar or paragraphs.

I'm not reading that wall of crap.

[Siege Pilled Riki Spammer]

İlk olarak Insomniac Jack tarafından gönderildi:

I'm not subjecting myself to your ocular assault. Learn how to form sentences and paragraphs.

Am not gonna take longer than 5 minutes to vomit my word diarreah onto this forums my apologies sadly i must continue my ways in the ocular assault of those with a higher taste in literature than myself.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

İlk olarak Abaddon the Despoiler tarafından gönderildi:

I'm not reading that wall of crap.

İlk olarak Siege Pilled Riki Spammer tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Abaddon the Despoiler tarafından gönderildi:

Claims to be a journalist, can't use grammar or paragraphs.

Wait did you read anything i said?

The irony.

If you want people to read what you have written, learn the basic writing skills that you should have mastered by age 8.