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12:31 (0 minutes ago) ☆ Dear Sir/Madam As a long time gamer in addition to being a purchaser and frequent user of Blizzard products since early Warcraft games through to Diablo 3, I was surprised to discover that your company sponsors events arranged by companies which have colluded to pushed a narrative that 'gamers are dead' and are 'harassers' in response to the consumer revolt against corrupt practices commonly described as 'gamergate In particular the advertisement of Hearthstone in Polygon, as a part of Vox Media which has published an article stating it is at war with gaming consumers and from the Polygon Article An Awful Week to Care about Videogaming which directly degraded consumer concerns by stating 'the obstinate child threw a temper tantrum The thrust of these articles certainly has merit, in that harassment and bullying has no place both inside and outside in gaming However, it is extraordinarily disappointing that these articles, in context of current events, are a direct challenge to 'gamer identity and consumer rights. They have explicitly targetted hundreds of millions of people, worldwide, with a defamatory accusation that they are part of the problem who have harassed certain individuals which is singularly untrue. It is also a clear message from these game review outlets that consumers are simply 'dead' and should go away rather than expecting ethical behaviour despite evidence that, at best, certain individuals have engaged in illegal practices; and, at worse that there is an industry wide non-compliance problem supported or encouraged by editors, managers, site owners and game developers As a consumer I am disappointed that organisations have displayed ethics violations both by failing to follow basic journalistic ethics and standards in addition to flouting corporate compliance, for example, the Sarbanes Oxley Law (The Enron Law) which has regulated the giving of gifts, by requiring gifts above S50 to be declared to avoid graft and coruption. Observing this behaviour as a consumer and independent professional I am forced to look critically upon these companies as I consider their behaviour to potentially be graft and fraud. In addition it raises major concerns that those who fund them could either be supporters or participants in illegal activities Moreover, I would expect an industry leading organisation like Blizzard to act restore the faith of community in the industry. First by placing pressure on these organisations to become compliant and if they fail to respond in a satisfactory manner to cut ties with them At Blizzcon yesterday an opportunity was presented for Blizzard to state that it consider the legal concerns raised by consumers to be important. It singularly failed to do so. In addition the attempt by Blizzard to call for calm and an end to harassment from both side due to this failure to stand with consumers has once again fed the lack of media credibility leading to renewed, and unjustified, spin pieces against consumer rights. Without a clear statement that Blizzard is willing to act to restore consumer confidence either by distancing itself from these companies or by pressuring for them to reform,I will likely lose trust that the quality of products produced by Blizzard are of acceptable quality produced with marketing practices compliant with the law and will avoid purchases in future Regards

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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