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      91 year ago

      Tbf, there were actual incidents where game news journalists gave preferential treatment to indie game devs they knew personally/went out drinking with/had dated. There was confirmation of that from leaked game journo email groups/chains. There was also concerns about preferential reviews being given to games that were running ads on a site. There was a small kernel about actual journalistic integrity concerns and what responsible disclosure means for games journalism.

      Unfortunately that got swallowed up by a lot of bullshit:

      • absolute waves and waves of women hate. Jesus christ that’s a lot of misogyny.
      • elitism about what qualified as a “real game” (I don’t enjoy “walking simulators” but that doesn’t mean they aren’t video games)
      • people unable to understand that just like movie critics are judging different criteria to movie consumers, game critics can judge based on different criteria to gamers
      • weird group stalking behavior towards specific female game devs
      • attacking creators themselves rather than whatever elements of their games people found lacking