Aram Zucker-Scharff

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But what happens if the culture is not there? What happens if the enthusiast community becomes so culturally polarized that it essentially becomes anti-content-innovation? What happens if it demands that games only be escapist fantasies? As I see it that’s what the fight over gamergate is really about. Whether games are more, or less.

Gamergate may want mechanical purity free of the sullying of media, but personally I feel that that is the wrong answer. Any answer that starts or ends with demands for games only to be looked at as products is a demand for a smaller rather than a larger universe. It’s a demand to be pleased at the expense of everyone else who might like to play a game but not engaged with the Gamer nation. It’s a demand that flies in the face of where all the rest of our culture is going and will continue to go. Their answer is reversion, but it can’t work.

For game makers the question is whether to buy into that Little Gaming view, or whether to reject it. If gamers are determined to become a smaller and ideological tribe than they already are, at some point the economics of buying them simply won’t make sense. Indeed they may already not.

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– The Gamergate Answer.

“My dad’s an old-school biker dude who types with two fingers and has me fix the settings on his cellphone every time I see him — I still don’t think he quite understands what all this has been about. He just knows now to hang up when someone calls and screams “YOUR DAUGHTER’S A WHORE” into the receiver.”

– 5 things I learned as the Internet’s Most Hated Person.

Why people hate Phil Fish.

People cared about racism only insomuch as it let them hate Phil Fish.

‘Minecraft’ creator Notch says selling Mojang to Microsoft was about keeping his sanity – Neowin:

“It’s about my sanity,” says Notch, whose statement on his sale of Minecraft points to ‘the internet exploding in hate’. In his statement, Notch questions if he ever truly connected with his ‘audience’ or if he has become a symbol with no connection to his own identity.