One Angry Gamer "After a very turbulent year involving all sorts of crazy shenanigans, the one thing that really seems kind of heartbreaking is how a game jam that would work toward pushing more games into the industry was cut short and demolished under a blind bit of string-pulling from major gaming outlets. Well, you can’t keep a good thing down if enough people pool the use of their efforts together to see it rise above the oppression and detriments set forward by a corrupt and dysfunctional system."
One Angry Gamer "Zoe Quinn and Silverstring Media PR rep Maya Kramer were originally accused of being responsible for doxxing The Fine Young Capitalists’ supervisor, Matthew Rappard. Quinn mentioned in an e-mail to The Fine Young Capitalists that she was not responsible for the reprehensible act, and in a way, that is true."
I never thought I would say this, but I miss arguing about video games. Nothing else, just video games. When you get to the point where you miss arguing about DmC vs DMC or Console vs PC you know something seriously wrong is happening.
Anyone else getting tired of these Psychopaths frolicking about the gaming industry, poisoning it for their own benefit?
It's pretty much journalist/indie devs throwing a temper tantrum. They don't want to grow up, they want to stay Toys R Us kids. Now that Gamers are getting tired of their stinky diapers, the struggle is real and poop starts a flying.
Gamers formed Gamergate and opened up the door where the journalist and game industry mingled, only to find... http://youtu.be/HRx49-leiRE
Did anyone really blame her directly? I'm pretty sure she had something to do with it but she didn't do it herself, I mean lets face it I bet she wouldn't know how to.
What a bunch of drama queen crybaby horseshit. I cant wait until their 15 minutes are up so we can get back to gaming articles about you know... games.
Good read, it's alarming how much personal information can be dug up once you've left a digital footprint.
One Angry Gamer "Big, big day here, folks. One of the champions for equality has surpassed their crowd-funding goal and will soon prep to start work on the game that the community selected during the Game Jam voting round. The Fine Young Capitalists met and surpassed their $65,000 goal, all despite being met with nearly insurmountable opposition."
The Koalition's Tony Polanco writes:
"This week saw the release of one of the most talked about games of the last few years. Bungie and Activision have finally released Destiny into the wild and so far it appears to be meeting the lofty expectations set upon it by the media and gaming public. A title of this magnitude isn’t one we could just gloss over so this week we go in-depth into what we think of the game. Has Destiny has lived up to the hype? What does it symbolize for the gaming industry and what sort of impact will it ultimately have? We answer all of these.
In addition to our main topic, we also discuss some news items that have popped up during the week. On the gaming side, we talk about the collector’s edition of Batman: Arkham Knight, and how The Fine Young Capitalists got funding for their project. Tech news consists of Apple’s most recent event where they revealed the new iPhone and about how Facebook isn’t as secure as people think. Finally for Pop Culture, we discuss the leaked images of the Batmobile from Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice."
Destiny exceeded my expectations in some ways, disappointed in others. The bottom line is, I'm truly enjoying playing this title. Some of the most fun I've had in an FPS in a while.
I understand they didn't want to keep going head to head with Zoe with all the shit that went on but this comes off like they are running home scared and bowing down to her...like a "Ok, ok...you win, can we move on please". I acknowledge it was frustrating for them but if they knew she was in the wrong I would of kept on going.
If Zoe did that shit to me and to my project I would of wanted her head on a spike, last thing I would want to do is "bury the hatchet with her".
I really feel things are just trying to get covered up on this. I get people don't want to keep seeing Zoe's name plastered on gaming websites but what she did and the controversy that surrounded her brought gaming journalist corruption to the surface. If you ever wanted a reason to start a massive online "attack" against crappy journalism this would of been the perfect time to do one.
Instead people just want to bury their head in the sand and just watch this blow over. In the end you're just going to watch it get covered up.
Serious question to all on N4G.
4chan /v/ got together to help TFYC out, how about us doing the same???
First we email TFYC to let them know our intentions.
After which we could just make individual donations like normal - but we could put 'N4G' after our names - that way they can tally up the overall donation from the community.
Heck , we might even get our own community mascot like /v/ did?
Anyone up for it?
Might be easier/better if one of the mods sends the email to TFYC + makes an official front page blog for those interested. That way it would 'represent' the community.
But , what about the bigger problem , gaming publishers throwin money at these sites, to say good things about their games, no matter how awful they might be !!