Thread 713237202

Name a greater disaster for
Gamerkind.

>>713237202 (OP)
Oblivion horse armor DLC
Releases of Simcity 2013 and "The Sims" 4

>>713237202 (OP)
Completely inconsequential IRL
The first domino that set 4chan down an irreversible path of darkness, however

>>713237202 (OP)
Your mom

Alec Baldwin coined the term GamerGate. Good job fag. You really made a difference didn't you fag

>>713237202 (OP)
The Nazis losing ww2... In Wolfenstein

>>713237202 (OP)
Incels

>>713237202 (OP)
The Berne convention or really any attempt to globalize and strengthen IP law, while preventing obsolete bullshit like trademarks from being removed.

>>713237312
>Completely inconsequential IRL
-Every gaming website had to update their ethics policies and start disclosing affiliate links and declaring if the review code they got was free or not.
-Multiple major advertisers pulled out of gaming websites including some big companies like Intel
-Several high profile journalists got shit canned like Leigh Alexander (who has quit the games press completely now) and a whole bunch of people from Kotaku.

UItimately GG lost but they were making some good progress for a little while before reddit's "kotaku in action" took over and fucked everything up.

The release of the smartphone

>>713237202 (OP)
In chronological order:
-Sega leaving the console market and Microsoft taking their place.
-High definition TV's causing budgets to skyrocket
-Women becoming the dominant consumers of the medium

>>713238026
Thief

>>713238150
>-High definition TV's causing budgets to skyrocket
Not enough people talk about this. Japanese devs got raped by HD

Industrial revolution was the beginning of end. The great plundering of humanity started when first factory patents were purchased. Everything and anyone was exploited and weakened. Ottoman sultans increasingly more reliant on their mother spent their days on harem instead of leading their armies to war to crush corrupt westoids. The sick man finally fell. Germany cried out against exploiters and were put down without mercy. Japan, Vietnam, Iraq and soon Iran and many other countless fell and will fall. Today humanity stands defeated against the religion of greed. All must worship holy capitalism, all must get exploited, work like dogs, die like dogs. Hope you enjoyed eating rich-middle class kids, don't worry, soon no one but chosen few will get to eat anything.

>>713237707
adam baldwin, retard

>>713238089
The affiliate links and ethics policies goes beyond gaming sites, as tech review sites also disclose that stuff now. It also set the world on a path to be more critical of media in general, which is good. It's only the retards who used words like "glooberglobber" to insult the Five Guys detractors that became more radicalized to be more protective of multi-national billion dollar corps. All whom have anti-capitalist leanings, ironically enough...

Really people should be grateful for Gamer Gate. It exposed a lot of people for what they are, and the world's been more mask-off since.

>>713237202 (OP)
Corporatism. It can be blamed for so many ills.

>Rushed releases
>Popular franchises dying
>Popular studios dying
>Horrendous monetization methods
>Games flopping despite selling 1+ million copies
>Perpetual crunch periods
All due to poor corporate management. Shareholder value maximization, overhiring, and idiotic logistical decisions all lead to increased financial pressures that hurt the final product. You don't NEED to be in California paying ludicrous real estate prices and paying every employee 100-200k. You don't NEED diversity and ludonarrative consultants contracted out for hundreds of thousands per year. You don't NEED to spend 100 million dollars on advertising. You don't NEED to manufacture growth to appease shareholders. Just stay lean and focus on making the best game possible.

>Trend chasing
>Out-of-touch executive meddling
>Caving to political pressure
>Catering to the lowest common denominator
All due to the creative liberties being taken away from the people who are passionate about making good games and being given to salesmen, HR, PR, and activist infiltrators.

>>713237202 (OP)
"We" were right. As usual.

>>713237202 (OP)
Shareholders, investors and HR.

>>713238421
It's a system built to maximize the legal makework involved with it and it also gives massive bargaining power to publishers and other larger entities when compared to the individuals actually providing the labor.
If IP law functioned on much smaller time scales it would be significantly more true to function, but it also wouldn't be worth it for anyone to pursue anything , since the primary threat has always been a drawn out court case that can bleed the company dry of money or stall production.

>>713238754
Leave it be, it's funnier that way.

>>713238754
You seem like a very ronery person.

>>713238089
>Every gaming website had to update their ethics policies
incredibly funny to come back with this as a win.
this is the gaming version of when native protestors go out to demand their land back, and what winds up happening is a company co-opts a few of the leaders to do a land acknowledgement instead. you didn't get any land, but look, you delivered #progress !

>>713237202 (OP)
the holocaust

>>713241930
That it didn't work?

>>713237202 (OP)
>literal, unironic e-celeb drama generals

2007 Eternal summer. Hell, 70% of posters here are a part of it

>>713237202 (OP)
Easy access to hormone treatments.

>>713242007
think of all the brilliant minds that perished
vidya technology would be far more advanced if they had lived

>>713242158
Most of them were recruited by the american government thougheverbeit.

>>713237202 (OP)
Dark souls and how it ruined indie games, metroidvanias, action games, and soundtracks all in one fell swoop.

Communists slowing taking over western civilization in the last century

>>713237202 (OP)
>Some bitch had sex
>For some reason that made million of nerds lose their shit.
>And make the industry a worse place.
I will never understand Gamer Gate. The reason for the outrage was stupid.

>>713242158
>All those MKultraed German scientists who had to take the fall for victims of American Japanese concentration camps
A real tragedy.

>>713237202 (OP)
What negative impact did GG have on the gaming industry?

>>713238089
All true, except no one got fired due to GG because they didn't demand any firings. It was a boycott and email campaign to their sponsors which fell off after a year

GG also raised like $175,000 for various charities. Good luck finding that mentioned on wikipedia

>>713237202 (OP)
>*destroys 4chan*
An unmitigated disaster.

>>713237202 (OP)
normalfags started playing video games instead of watching divegrass

>>713242690
The coverup generated more outrage than the crime.

GG didn't form until like 3 weeks after the ZoePost in reaction to the gaming press and reddit circling the wagons and calling everyone terrorists for even talking about conflicts of interest

If they ignored it or gave a half-assed apology it would've blown over like Gerstmanngate in 2007

>>713242158
>think of all the brilliant minds that perished
We got great fiction writing out of it thoughbeit
What we need is a second holocaust to get the creativity flowing

>>713238754
i thought it was billy baldwin

>>713243357
It's just magazine reviews, dude. Why get angry about lack of accuracy or corruption? Nobody should take magazine reviews seriously in the first place.

>>713242690
It was basically a perfect storm of shit /v/irgins loved circa 2014.
>Getting mad at SJWs
>Shitting on loser indie devs like Phil Fish and Jonathan Blow
>Organizing raids
>OC
It's the same thing with the music being the last thing most people go to concerts for. Everybody just wanted in on the next big /v/ thing, and when it got forced off of /v/ the vast majority stopped giving a shit. The Chicken Little storytime from a year ago is the same situation - nobody cared about the topic, they cared about the wild ride of OC and shitposting it enabled.

>>713243489
Shut the fuck up dog

>>713243489
Gaming mags were pretty much dead by 2014. Indie devs lived and died off of website coverage, getting a mention on Kotaku was what you needed to climb out of the Steam abyss

Ironically, now game review sites are dead

>>713238706
>Ottoman sultans increasingly more reliant on their mother spent their days on harem instead of leading their armies to war to crush corrupt westoids
Muslims were retreating into harems after their entire army got MURDERED by westoids. Not defeated, but brutally and violently RIPPED INTO PIECES AND THEIR CORPSES PISSED ON.
Muslims were put so hard into their place, they started to flee from their own counties to live in superior western countries, because westoids have actual living standards and don't live in desert mudhuts marrying their underage siblings.
Just imagine being a Muslim and seeing a western city for the first time. It must have felt like leaving hell for paradise. A country in which you can just chase after your dreams while not having to worry that one of your "brothers" will brutally kill you because he heard the voice of the pig-god allah in his head.

>>713242690
Gamergate was about the government funding DEI bullshit in video games. Lo and behold, gamergate was vindicated when the industry began massive layoffs after the usaid spigot was turned off.

>>713243698
Ok but GG didn't organize and raida and banned anyone who even suggested harassment. Because they knew Zoe and the crew only stood to profit from any death threats. Therefore starving them of attention was the best way to harm them while focusing in the companies themselves

You have to co sider that Obama's second term was the precursor to all the bullshit that was enforced top down. All the DEI, all the woke propaganda, all the nonsense. It all kicked off on 2012 and GG was just what was felt in the gaming sphere.
Film, music, politics, tech, all of those were captured with little recourse, but video games has always been a majority white guy hobby and industry and changing that into the bullshit of the 2010s was very noticable.

It helped set us up to notice all the other bullshit going on everywhere else. Anons don't want to admit this but 4chan is upstream to every other website and all our opinions ripple outwards to millions of people. Now everyone is a chud. It took a decade but eventually our arguments won.

>>713243878
>Gamergate was about the government funding DEI bullshit in video games.
Where the fuck did you retards come from?

>>713243878
>Gamergate was about the government funding DEI bullshit in video games.
No it was kick started from a woman literally sleeping for reviews.
It expanded to the general pathetic state of games """journalism"""

>>713243925
>Ugh why do you care
>You're so weird
>Where are you coming from

Keep pulling this card, it's totally working.

>>713243175
It was the equivalent of an ISIS of Hitlers

>>713243975
Nobody was talking about "DEI" in 2014, faggot.

>>713242690
imbecile

>>713243925
>>713243938
Anons were laughing at SJWs, their fucked up articles and corrupt practices looong before Zoe tasted the 7 guy bonanza.
We had daily "LOL Kotaku" threads since 2008

>>713243938
and when people started following that thread of corruption it went all the way to the state department

>>713243975
Post literally any evidence of free government DEI monies for game companies

>>713244108
I don't have to.

>>713243938
Zoe had gotten positive press from her cuck game journo boyfriend, but no review

(It later leaked that he paid for her abortion whom she claimed belonged to another guy LMAO)

>>713244108
Sweet baby inc.

>>713244036
yeah just the same shit under a different name

>>713244036
yeah, cause it wanst in public eye
guess what put it?
anddo go think it wouldnt if it didnt happen, it would

>>713237202 (OP)
Censorious leftists/christcucks existing.

>>713244108
anita sarkeesian and zoe quinn were invited to speak in front of the UN. the american government really pushed those cunts.
you can still access the speech online. is has been dissected thoroughly, and people quickly found out that 99% of their quoted sources were either fake, did not exist or where completely misinterpreted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjkTtN68SHA

>>713237202 (OP)
Gamergate failed, but I don't get how it "ruined vidya". Games would have gotten worse and pozzed with or without it and games journalism was never good.

>giant corporations doing bad things is actually your fault for complaining about it goy
No one buys this, retard.

>>713244525
stairs muffin always gets me

>>713244108
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustborn
>inb4 Eurosubhuman trash doesn't count

>>713243781
>now game review sites are dead
>makes a 500 reply-thread about their weekly clickbait

>>713237202 (OP)
I completely forgot about most of the figures involved with it. Internet Aristocrat is probably dead i assume. Ethan Ralph was a nutcase pig slob. Mundane Matt was a retard. Alpha Omega Sin seemed to land on his feet and have a good life. Milo Yiannopoulos became a political celebrity for a while or something. Sargon of Akkad is probably still grifting, apparently he tried to become a politician but failed. Don't know what happened to thunderf00t either. Rockcock64 barely anyone remembers because when he stopped the best gamers he just wasn't funny anymore.

It's all lost to time for me, i can't even remember why i cared other than knowing that there was a real aspect of agenda pursuing leftist infiltration happening in gaming, but in hindsight there wasn't much i could have done to stop it. For what it's worth i always hated Anita Sarkeesian.

>>713238421
I will never understand people who bootlick corporations.

>>713237202 (OP)
Those colors remind me of that shithole website funnyshit or whatever. Wonder if its even alive still lmao

>>713244493
>>713244685
>Anita "Marry Yourself" Sarkeesian
Never again.

>>713244685
Jim is not dead, but he doesn't make anything good, just streams on non-youtube sites

>>713238706
Lol. Lmao. Take your meds schizo

>>713244685
It was prehistoric to the culture war. It's meaningless now but it's like the prequel to everything for us, Infact it's modern 4chans origin story since it lead to moot leaving, out current moderation teams policies.

I did some study on how tumblr came to be the origin point of the woke madness and it's actually deeply sad and troubling how it went from a very laid back easy going blog site for girls, and how a website that was basically stormfront for radical feminists went and scared these girls into hating men and shaving their heads.

That period between 20010 and 2012 was the radicalization period of the internet. And it's all caused by Obama repealing the Smith Mundt act which is a rabbit hole of bullshit

>>713237202 (OP)
GG taught me one thing:

Infiltration, infiltration, infiltration. Being outsiders to an industry will get you nowhere fast.

>>713243806
>>713244920
seething kikes

GG lost the battle but won the war. The entire internet nowadays is more skeptical and espouse GG talking points against gaming journalists, critics, and game jams/festivals. If the anti-GGers truly won, we wouldn't see the rise of such grassroots voices against these. GG fucking won despite being against the establishment and their goons. It's practically the only time the internet was truly divided and did something about it despite the odds stacked against them and it was about fucking video games.

>>713245016
Youre the only one seething. Hating everyone for no reason. You have Mental illness.

>>713245273
What's wrong?

>>713245209
gayest post in the entire thread
you sound like the type of person with multiple patreon subscriptions

>>713245331
>you sound like the type of person with multiple patreon subscriptions
I have never subscribed to any patreon ever so you're wrong on that front.

>>713245209
Well, video games are a cause worth fighting for

>>713245273
Back in the bunker moshe

>>713245365
prove it
show me your six figures bank account

>>713237202 (OP)
Your mom not swallowing.

>>713237707
Before or after he shot that bitch in the face?

>>713237202 (OP)
They won though? Advertisements now need to be publicly disclosed, gaming publications are now near universally recognised as the farce they are. All that effort wasted on smearing their own audience and the companies behind it are all much worse off than they were before it.

>>713245459
I don't have six figures in my bank account anon...

>>713245409
Actually im in your wall goyim

If the mods actually allow it we would have a GG commemoration day.

>>713245737
And why is that?Oh yes because you donate it all to patreon grifters!

So i was right all along.

We could have been on the moon by now.

>>713245969
We were on the moon 60 years ago and it was a colossal waste of time and money.

>>713245969
Where is the Finno-Korean Hyperwar?

>>713246027
Ah yes, some great cinematography by Stanley Kubrick.

>>713245969
So why did the romans put all of the eggs in the kike baskets again?

>>713237202 (OP)
eat shit wokie

>>713245969
black wamen wont take you to da moon, retard

>>713237202 (OP)
the true tl;dr of this is that 4chan shitposted so reddit could enter the White House

>>713237202 (OP)
Gamergate won and continues to win with every layoff and studio closure.

>>713238089
more like Kotaku asa whole

>>713245969
Is this the thread

>>713246892
gamergate won so bigly it is currently staying iran in the stone age

>>713246347
One shitty Emperor (born into it, didn't earn it) had a spooky nightmare that he could win the next day's battle (Battle of Milvian Bridge vs a rival Emperor: Maxentius. 312 CE) if he converted to the slaves' religion of Christianity. He converted, then he won, and then shit just went to fuck for the next 1100 years.

Rome fell, Barbarians took over, the Catholic Church became the new Empire. They wasted their time with forced conversions, fighting for the "holy land", and coming up with bullshit rules to impose on everyone.

Just think for a second if Constantine lost and Rome went on. No Jew magic, no weird sexual shit, no praising the meek and downtrodden. No dark ages, no plagues, no World Wars. We would be conquering space by now.

>>713237202 (OP)
>Completely inconsequential IRL
It was one of the first events which exposed the internal workings of systems of manipulation and governance before clueless normalfags who were never supposed to be aware of those systems' existence. Surely, it happened on the periphery, with an entertainment and not something important, and because of complete retards, but that's why it was able to happen in first place.

We live in a magical age of traditional government systems malfunctioning and dying because they work on informational superiority and can't coexist with internet. A revolution against all states and all power systems. This clownish event was just a glimpse of what's already happening on much, much larger scale. If the anarchic future will have its standard education history textbooks, it will definitely be mentioned.

It really is a shame that we will never see the complete picture of what happened and talking about it anywhere outside of here will simply get you your average normalfag response of how it was all just to bully 1 woman. At least some good came out of it in the long run by making more people aware of how ripe media is with corruption

>>713245724
That part worked. Now, does anyone trust a game journalist though? It feels like most of the game reviews you see out there are done by comedians or nobodies on Youtube. It's really hard to get a feel for if a game is actually good or not anymore. Friggin' Steam reviews by randos are better than most web reviews now. We went from an out-of-ten ranking system to "mostly positive" and vague opinions.

Also GG sparked the gender war and the culture war, which made social media even worse than it already was. It brought in people to /v/ that wouldn't have ever come here just two years before the GG scandal. They take themselves seriously and it's a fucking bummer.

>>713238706
>Anti-civilization luddite cuck has a dream of alternative history where fucking t*rk animals save humanity from godless white devils and their white devil inventions
The absolute state lmfao

>>713247561
based retard

>>713237202 (OP)
It failed when the former boyfriend of that bitch committed suicide

>>713247610
I was always confused just why this insane polak, who got brainfucked by US spooks to kill few completely irrelevant people because sky is blue and things fall down and not up, has so many fans on this site.
Then I realized, that they genuinely believe that pre-industrial society would have somehow unconditionally enforced their reproductive rights and gave them free hoes, but evil industrialization put an end to it. That's what they genuinely believe lmao.

>>713247779
BASED
there is nothing wrong with anything at all
glory to church of capitalism

>>713237270
God SimCity 2013 really was the first domino on the path of total DRM shit wasn’t it?

>>713247687
thats friendly fire tho

>>713237202 (OP)
its been so long ago that i barely even remember any details of it. even now if you asked me which of these whores pushed their boytoy into suicide i would need a minute to remember proper

>>713248102
there's five guys or something

>>713248219
was it? i could swear the media really focused on only one of them

>>713237270
>Oblivion horse armor DLC
nothing compared to paid online that M$ introduced for Gaylo

>>713248294
>the media
because they try to brainwash you into thinking it's a harassment campaign

This is the movement that ushered into mainstream the widely held concept of "fake news". After that, most major news outlets don't have people tuning as much anymore, much less the youth, as they get their news from either their peers or from some Youtuber which is how GG was disseminated mostly.

>>713248360
yeah figured as much, its just strange thinking about it now as it feels like it happened in the prehistoric times of the internet

>>713248509
>This is the movement that ushered into mainstream the widely held concept of "fake news". After that, most major news outlets don't have people tuning as much anymore, much less the youth, as they get their news from either their peers or from some Youtuber which is how GG was disseminated mostly.
yeah and now the average normalfag just asks ChatGPT or Grok if something is true

>>713248102
i think it was something something some bitch made a literal trash pixel garbage game, then sucked blogger dick to get a number typed on a keyboard, and then got invited to talk at the UN

>>713247848
"Capitalism" doesn't exist.
It's a word from social-democratic religious lingo, similar to "infidel" in Islam.
Ever wondered why almost no one ever uses "capitalism" in regards to the core of social-democratic establishment, for example Britain or Germany, despite their economic systems being very similar to the rest of developed world and having similar issues?

>>713247779
Very well said.

>>713237202 (OP)
Women.

>>713248302
That worked wonderfully for pc, right?

>>713248904
If you conscript women to wars you're a capitalist, simple as.

GG was absolutely right about everything before it was sabotaged from inside. Not saying it was ever gonna accomplish anything, since it never had real goals beyond just bitching. I think giving the online discourse a name like it's a movement, killed it.

>>713247104
this include the 41%?

gaming journalism is dead now outside of IGN and like 7 other guys (in hindsight it would have always died with the rise of sponsored streamers/"content creators" and AI slop generators), but the tragic part is that nobody seems to be able to accept their victory and move on

>>713237202 (OP)
Saddest thing about it is all the "top" guys have been proven to be awful at video games, its almost like they were just trying to grift from the start.

>>713247779
>muh pussy
the people who sympathize with Ted are failed normalfags that actually have to leave the house and engage with the system. would that be office worms commuting for over an hour each morning, or people having their ambition drowned in red tape. It's not incels that can't survive a day without their desktop.

>>713237202 (OP)
Judaism.

>>713249350
>it would have always died
nah they wouldve moved with the medium because they used to have all the manpower and capital. now they just get cannibalized, and no one will give a single shit about their past or future.

>>713248836
I had to google what Grok is and it's just some Twitter AI bot?

>>713249673
>nah they wouldve moved with the medium because they used to have all the manpower and capital
???
the people turning gaming journalism sites into AI top 10 list generators are the people who actually own those sites, not its individual contributors

>>713249354
They were mostly just opportunists but the message was still the point. Don't let anti-GGers make it about who was saying what when the point was still that gaming journalism was unethical as fuck and was turning into a nepotistic circlejerk like Hollywood.

>>713247779
Praising Ted is a normalfag's way of saying that they hate going to work and trying to accomplish normalfag dreams. This very industrial society allows NEETS like me to actually exist.

>>713249728
>not its individual contributors
they could have easily becomed vara darks and smashjts, instead we have randoms taking their place

>>713237840
They win in NuWolfenstein series. Pretty good games.

>>713237202 (OP)
I thought you guys liked GoG for its free DRM

>>713247541
>It feels like most of the game revie-
Your first mistake is trusting anything but raw gameplay footage. There's only one trailer that matters: release date announcement. You wait until that day and watch streamers, prefferably those who are past 2 hour mark so the game shows its true face when refund is no longer possible.
>Also GG spa-
Wrong. Tumblr freaks sparked the gender and culture war.

>>713249395
>>713249935
In pre-industrial society those people would have just been barely sentient peons plowing dirt all day.
The only thing it shows is them being completely historically illiterate and getting information about older times from cartoonish fictional fairy tales.

>>713243938
>No it was kick started from a woman literally sleeping for reviews
May I see them?

>>713237202 (OP)
Sad to think, nu-/v/ has forgotten the true meaning of green and purple...

>>713248302
Anon you've been crying about halo for like 10 years. Just because halo chads bullied you doesn't mean the game is bad.

>>713247541
>Also GG sparked the gender war and the culture war
Damn that fucking straw...
Breaking the camel's back so hard!

>>713237202 (OP)
Women playing videogames, unironically, they open the gates for everyone for the sake of equality, then decided to push for change or remove what they didn't like and decide to lower your social status if you disagree with them

>>713250571
They call that the patriarchy.