Diversity and inclusion are the heroes in Overwatch, a runaway gaming success

[Super Kami Dende]

I mean, if you only play characters based on what they look like and not just because you find them fun. Chances are you aren't the audience for this type of game anyway.

[Amirila]

Then what was the point of this whole exchange, if the punchline was just the same thing that you said earlier?

Damn, can't show that she isn't thin without being asked why

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I am undamaged also, but clearly others on this thread were a bit more harmed.

They're broken toys now.
Young people in their prime. The scars still fresh, yet withering to dust.
As God is my witness, we'll never go culture wars again!

[Strangebrew]

So basically nothing happened? She just made money, and made gamers look bad for a little while.

This is getting circular, are you just baiting?

I am undamaged also, but clearly others on this thread were a bit more harmed.

Some of us just simply give a shit about this industry and letting developers create whatever they want.
We had to deal with Jack Thompson and religious right in the past, now we have to deal with feminists, video game journalists and other parasites.

They all attack the industry for the same reasons, they all want the same results and they use the exact same methods.






On-topic; I dig how overwatch get's praised for diversity by the tumblr club, when it couldn't possible be more stereotypical.

[NED funded]

They managed to raise money for a women charity for the The Fine Young Capitalists. Who wanted to faciliate a project comprised of women game design. which saved it after Zoe quinn caused it fall after spreading misinformation about it being transphobic. Saving a feminist charity project.
Some other charities was American Foundation for suicide prevention, pacer national bullying prevention center.
Escapist, defy, ign, kotaku, Polygon, Destructoid. over 100k raised for quite a few charities total.

Played a role in the downfall of Gawker. Max Reed: "Of all the enemies Gawker had made over the years — in New York media, in Silicon Valley, in Hollywood — none were more effective than the Gamergaters."
source: http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/08/d...ll-gawker.html

That no such review ever actually appeared on the site should tell you a lot about Gamergate’s relationship to the truth;

What a nice group.
On a serious note: It doesn't say you lot played a role on its demise. It just says gamergate was an annoyance. As an additional thing, I should remark there is a lot of irony in a group that bitches about the abuse of social media to silence speech using the same tactics. Ultimately itwas Hulk Hogan that defeated gawker in the court

[Garnier Fructis]

Damn, can't show that she isn't thin without being asked why

It's more about asking why you felt the need to repeat yourself.

[GennGreymane]

This is getting circular, are you just baiting?



Some of us just simply give a shit about this industry and letting developers create whatever they want.
We had to deal with Jack Thompson and religious right in the past, now we have to deal with feminists, video game journalists and other parasites.

They all attack the industry for the same reasons, they all want the same results and they use the exact same methods.






On-topic; I dig how overwatch get's praised for diversity by the tumblr club, when it couldn't possible be more stereotypical.

Im glad they do. Never was an actual threat to that.

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They're broken toys now.
Young people in their prime. The scars still fresh, yet withering to dust.
As God as my witness, we'll never go culture wars again!

lol the best witness

[Coffeexbean]

lol at all the alt right cucks saying diversity has nothing to do with the games success.. its a part of the games image.. people play games for the characters and the whole fantasy of it all.. there are many things to enjoy about a video apart from the mechanical part of it. You must be the same people who play wow to stare at logs and graphs playing fotm classes instead of playing for fun. Why is diversity a bad thing? Guess fucking what we all live on planet racist scum

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[Strangebrew]

Im glad they do. Never was an actual threat to that.

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lol the best witness

There was plenty of threat, of everything from social pressure to people having their personal life targetted.
Plenty of japanese developers came out and said that the social climate people like anita have created in the west meant that they no longer wanted to release games here.

If you had paid any attention whatsoever, or wasn't so fucking biased you would know.

[Argarock]

you have to be mentally ill to care whether the virtual 3d model that you shoot rockets with is a white male or a black transgender pansexual granny with alzheimers

I agree,
that said.. I'd LOVE to be able to play a rocket-shooting black transgender pansexual granny with alzheimers
would be the radest character EVER

[NED funded]

And none of that was Gamergate's fault, she was there before Gamergate.
She was an expert of creating outrage where there is none, along with her puppetmaster Mcintosh.

She is gone, but there is still a long way to go when you look at the state of the video game journalism.

Anita Sarkeesan was never a big thing to begin dude. It wasn't until she was given attention by gators that she became someone and ended giving a speech in the fucking UN.

[GennGreymane]

There was plenty of threat, of everything from social pressure to people having their personal life targetted.
Plenty of japanese developers came out and said that the social climate people like anita have created in the west meant that they no longer wanted to release games here.

If you had paid any attention whatsoever, or wasn't so fucking bias you would know.

Yeah they said that, got all the attention they needed, released the game, made money. easy advertisement. Kinda like what Overwatch did with Tracer's ass. One person said a thing in the beta, and even suggested Widowmaker get the pose instead, but nope. The internet rage machine did its own thing. Seeing it now with D.Vas police skin. Literally one thread on Tumblr about it, and every single facebook group made it into an actual issue, and then it was picked up by gaming media.

Hell Japanese games have been censored for decades. Hell even Paper Mario and Animal Crossing got censored.

[Strangebrew]

Anita Sarkeesan was never a big thing to begin dude. It wasn't until she was given attention by gators that she became someone and ended giving a speech in the fucking UN.

She was a big thing before Gamergate was even a thing, stop spreading this bullshit.

She managed to create attention for herself perfectly fine without having to rely on people pointing out her obvious bullshit, the only ones you should blame for giving her the popularity she got is trolls and the beta orbiters who couldn't keep their fedoras down.

and then it was picked up by gaming media.

Gee, it's almost like GG actively fought against this crap by the gaming media.

Hell Japanese games have been censored for decades. Hell even Paper Mario and Animal Crossing got censored.

And it's 2017, media should not be censored or fall under people forcing their own morality or sense of shit justice during localization on it.

People throw a hissy fit over that video games should be considered art, yet they are perfectly fine with the same "art" being censored.
It's bollocks.

[Garnier Fructis]

It's funny because I play overwatch dispite the cringe worthy eye roll levels of diversity. It's like the crust the end of the pie. The games amazing. We TOLERATE the cringe. I'm sorry. People call cringe diversity now for some reason.

I'm having a hard time seeing how we square away the declaration that we aren't racist/sexist/whatever-ist with the notion that we tolerate works with this much diversity. The spread in character design, even if forced, should not be a problem whatsoever for people who truly don't care about race/gender/etc.

[Rennadrel]

Yes, because gamers really care about whether the characters they play in a fucking video game like to shag other women's carpets or dudes want to fuck other dudes.... /Sarcasm

[GennGreymane]

She was a big thing before Gamergate was even a thing, stop spreading this bullshit.

She managed to create attention for herself perfectly fine without having to rely on people pointing out her obvious bullshit, the only ones you should blame for giving her the popularity she got is trolls and the beta orbiters who couldn't keep their fedoras down.

She was a nothing before gamergate and the rape/death threats. Which don't tell me they were not real, as people on this very forum said they would happily rape her.

[NED funded]

There was plenty of threat, of everything from social pressure to people having their personal life targetted.
Plenty of japanese developers came out and said that the social climate people like anita have created in the west meant that they no longer wanted to release games here.

If you had paid any attention whatsoever, or wasn't so fucking biased you would know.

The whole DOA is a fucking sham dude. There was no evidence to backup any of the claims and guess what japanese developers still release their shitty fanservice games.

[GennGreymane]

Yes, because gamers really care about whether the characters they play in a fucking video game like to shag other women's carpets or dudes want to fuck other dudes.... /Sarcasm

*looks at the skyrim modding community*
*looks at the witcher community*

[Super Kami Dende]

"diversity"

Ayyy. I would hit each and every one of those equally. let's spread that diversity.

[GennGreymane]

The whole DOA is a fucking sham dude. There was no evidence to backup any of the claims and guess what japanese developers still release their shitty fanservice games.

Paper Mario had a "trans" character. Vivian

The camel and someone else in Animal Crossing are guys in Japan, but are women in the US.