Dennis E. Hamilton

But game development cycles are long. So it was _years_ before the internal realignments of the game companies started manifesting in big titles.

Which is why you’ve stared to see grousing again, in the last year or so, about progressive politics making their way into games. Big games, large titles YEARS () in the making.

That deal with the devil gamergate made? Turns out - they lost. The very tactics that ensured such total short-term success - specifically, the way the very public violence warned women away - was what sowed the seeds of their _permanent_ destruction.

Because it wasn’t just women watching on the outside of the industry. The money folks were watching on the inside, too. And gamergate scared the shit out of them the same way it scared the shit out of us.

As a post-post-script, if you look at my replies you’ll see that I very rarely engage seriously with any gamergater. That’s for two reasons: