BeefJack: "There exists a website dedicated to highlighting the insults that females receive simply for playing a game. We talk to the co-admins of ‘Fat, Ugly or Slutty’?, exploring why we all have a responsibility to take our heads out of the sand and confront the abuse."
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
Ugh. How many times can this be reiterated?
The internet (and the anonymity it affords) by it's very nature is just a cesspool of insults, insecurity and general douchebaggery.
It is, in fact, a little selfish and close-minded to think of it as a simple matter of misogyny. I am CONSTANTLY assaulted by asshats when I play games like CoD and Battlefield. Black people are constantly being thrown derogatory terms. Dudes with effeminate voices are accused of being gay. It goes on and on.
It's not a sexism thing anymore than it is a racism thing, a sexuality thing, a religious thing etc. etc. It's just the internet.
I didn't mean to suggest that I think we should "sit back and accept it." Only that this is not some ridiculous case of male vs. female. This is everyone vs. the corrupting power of online anonymity. So unless you feel like you have the power to abolish the presence of every-single-flipping prick out there that thinks it's funny to spew insults and bigotry and then hide behind a digital wall, well...I have some bad news for you.
YOU'RE IN THE SAME BOAT AS THE REST OF US.