GamerGate

[kmusser]

Ok, I wasn’t going to write about Gamergate as I don’t think I have any Gamergate supporters among my readers (if you are you can go ahead and unfriend me now) and I usually try to avoid preaching to the choir, besides which I wouldn’t be considered a "real" gamer by Gamergate types anyway as I don’t play the right kinds of games. If you don’t know what Gamergate is, count yourself lucky and move on. In case I have any game industry readers (which seems slightly more likely), I just want to say, for the love of the hobby, please do not feel a need to cater to the Gamergate crowd. They do not represent gamers, they are a tiny sliver of the market and those are not the customers you want. You are already losing customers to that type . . . I should be an ideal customer, I have money and happily spend many hours on end playing games, but I won’t play multi-player video games because of the high asshole percentage among many game user communities. Games going more mainstream is a good thing, diversity in games is a good thing, and when you have a choice between making your games friendly to people that dislike assholes, or making games friendly to misogynist assholes who think death threats are funny . . . this should not be a difficult choice. #GamersComeInAllGenders