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can mostly be summed up here.




Discuss.

The person says it's almost masochistic to want to make a game in the industry. I disagree. You just have to stay away from the controversial stuff and no one will attack you. It's literally that easy. According to these "gamers" Zoe Quinn gained a lot of unfair popularity by making a game about a controversial subject and then claiming to be a victim of attack.

And also if you are afraid that no one will play your game because a girl made it, use a pseudonym! It worked fine in the past with book authors! Just look at Harry Potter!

This is /v/'s side of the story done in "loving" imitation of her depression quest game:
http://oppressionquest.com/

You certainly can just stay away from controversial topics and use pseudonyms, but perhaps you shouldn't have to.

When it comes to fighting for women's equal rights in the game industry, people like Zoe Quin actually do more harm than good. Many people in the wake of defending Zoe (other than performing child-like twitter tantrums) have done things such as shut down charities and attack any websites that try to cover the other side of the story.

I, myself actively fight for women's rights. In college, I was a member of the Society of Women Engineers, which is a school organization to help get more women involved in engineering positions. As for the current mess of affairs going on in the game industry right now, I'm going to stay away from it. Because, it seems to be more of a childish rant on both sides than a fair fight for equal rights.

Okay, Phil Fish was a pretty poor example to put here, but I have seen a lot of the gaming community. Yikes. The amount of disrespect you see from these people can get pretty high.

Nonetheless, I believe it's possible to change their minds and maybe, just maybe spread a message that can help us be a true community. True communities don't call eachother scrubs or noobs (unless if it's all in good joking, which I tend to do a lot), or tell people to, well, to put it bluntly, ♥♥♥♥ off, yet sadly it's seen everywhere. Even in a lot of public Team Fortress 2 servers you see this happening, and TF2 has on average one of the 'better' communities in FPS gaming.

Ah well, I'm just speaking from personal experience. But this author has a point, there are quite a few people who take this sort of thing too far. We shouldn't stop in our attempts to make the world a better community.

(yes I also left a comment there with the same message but I felt like posting it here too.)