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Partial List of Ethical Concerns in Games (Paraphrased from LeighAlexander.net) Advancing the political agendas of arms manufacturers. The aggressive marketing of war games is an inspiration to the US military Apple removes several games critical of manufacturing opperations in impoverished areas from its App Store. Pay-For-Review game sites Revenue stealing free and unsanctioned clones YouTube reviewers accept money to put games in front of their fervent consumer audiences and are not meaningfully obligated to disclose those relationships Exploitative labor practices in the industry including extreme work weeks and letting go of 'excess talent' after a game ships An entire product and studio network can tank because of political posturing. One of the US' most long-running and successful print game publications is owned by one of the world's best-known game retailers and few of the magazine's consumers seem aware of what, if any impact that relationship might have In the name of objectivity, the consumer-facing games press largely re-releases material on a mutually-agreed upon set of terms and chedules dictated by game companies In many of the above cases even when disclosure is obligated and made, disclosure does litle to purify the overall effect on the climate and its perspectives Despite this, only the games press exists to question these ethical problems and attempt to inform the consumer, no one would care otherwise. Women in games are routinely abused, bullied and harrassed while their professional community, and the industry's largest companies, tend to remain silent. Interrogating this culture or attempting to advance this conversation can often result in censure or punishment Not ethical concerns Women's sex lives-independent game developers' Patreons-The personal perspectives of games critics. People having contentious or controversial opinions.Who knows who in a close-knit industry

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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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Patreon isn’t a concern? Greg Lisby begs to differ… (skip to 4:06)

It should at least be disclosed that the writer donated to them.

Who knows who can also be quite important, depending on the context of how they know them. Hernandez knowing Antrophy and Love was quite important, given she dated/lived with them, and strongly pushed their games. Fish knowing the judges of the pay-to-enter competition that awarded him two cash prizes is pretty damn important.

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