As such, most devs paying attention haven't been voicing much — or any — opinions on
the game journalism ethics issues that are supposedly threatening our industry.
Not exact matches
From there an online group was born, one that officially claimed to promote
ethics in video -
game journalism, although a faction of its members dedicated their collective energy to viciously harassing Quinn and her supporters online.
The panels were dropped thanks to Gamergate, an online movement that officially promotes
ethics in video -
game journalism but is better - known for its vicious online trolling and harassment of its opponents.
It's not about
ethics in
game journalism anymore (if it ever was (it wasn't)-RRB-.
The useful idiots — those well - meaning
gamers who bought the»
ethics in
game journalism» party line and got unwittingly swept up into a harassment campaign — have mostly departed.
Yes, this Christmas is the Christmas that the cause to fight for
ethics in
games journalism is best served with a spicy discussion of child pornography.
When the GamerGate movement began defining its focus as being about «
ethics in
games journalism» they inevitably invited the mockery and dismissiveness such a highfalutin turn of phrase deserved.
I would hope that if «
ethics in
games journalism» is indeed the main issue, that N4g wouldn't left without all the facts.
Yes, I understand that this may be an unattainable goal because it by its very essence is ideal, and the assertion that
ethics in
games journalism should be a necessity is probably falling on death ears.
As far as #GamerGaters go, he's a moderate, reasonable guy, and he comes at the topic of
ethics in
games journalism with relative experience and logic for a consumer movement that frequently has no idea what ethical
journalism looks like.
When #GamerGate kicked in, I strongly advocated for the people who actually cared about
ethics in
games journalism to use the energy to create a consumer organization (Initial proposal here, answers to criticisms here).
In all honesty, Red Wedding Week was good for those Gamergaters who actually have noble ideals about
ethics in
games journalism, in that it did actually expel or minimize some of GamerGaters worst agents who were driving some of the stuff that riles up opposition and makes Gamergate look very bad.
GG, I have said it before and I will say it again, has managed to make impossible an actual discussion of
journalism ethics in the video
games press, because it has dragged in all that culture - war baggage.
With the release of the PS4 and Xbox One,
gamers are squarely focused on the future of gaming, new
game titles, hashtags, socio - political issues and the
ethics of gaming
journalism.
In 2012, I wrote a column that argued
games journalism to be problematic ascertaining that truth and
ethics in
games journalism were all but dead.
Aka we support
ethics in video
game journalism and work tirelessly to try and right it by making its existence known.
The attitudes from some
gamers towards
games journalism have also changed quite significantly, with some intent on «exposing» some sort of
ethics - based scandal they're adamant is a widespread issue.
What is showing itself, too, is that people in GamerGate want
ethics in video
game journalism when they hate most video
game journalists and say that
journalism, the written form, with letters, words, and sentences, is useless in the wake of YouTube.
Now tell me it's about
ethics in
games journalism.»
With all of the «
ethics in
journalism» articles floating around these days you would think that Activision would stop and think for a second about lodging DMCA claims to small YouTube channels focusing on bugs and issues with a
game they had published.