GamerGate
Help gaming industry to resist of blackmail and manipulation
Why do we need independent web-resources for protecting game rights
- forums can be purchased, ban their users and wipe out thread history
- social networks and video sharing platforms use their rules to block unwanted opinions in favor of advertisers
- wiki-resources with open system for rewriting information is vulnerable to certain techniques and have defense based on "human factor"
- experts and bloggers can be corrupted, or blackmailed
AGENDA
The main goal — forming a web of institutions of rights protection in the gaming industry
Gamers
- game journalists depend on advertisers who use this position to "fact spinning"
- microtransactions ruin user experience and storytelling
- outsourcing game-testing to buyers, who receive an unfinished and unoptimized product
- deliberately complicating unreadable purchase agreements
- planned placement of barriers to force microtransactions ("Pay-to-Win")
- violation of pre-order conditions
- positive discrimination and censorship
- cartel patterns in game industry
- distortion of history and heritage
- lobbying for pseudoscientific arguments
Creators
- quasi-consulting companies:
- impose their services, pursuing the only goals — money for their services
- de facto do not contribute to resolving community problems
- forcing inclusivity into storytelling destroys the authors intent
- misrepresentation of history to suit modern outlook, destroys the independent factual basis of science, pursuing unclear goals
- vulnerability of modders to holding copyright companies
GameDevs
- work in constant Crunch mode:
- contributes to the burning out of specialists,
- does not compensate for real costs and health restoration.
- manipulative HR methodologies:
- undermines the mental state of workers,
- based on “blackmail” and “extortion”.
- monopolizing position of stores and their pricing policy
- forced "inclusion" through blackmail of developers
PLAN
to make our own history
- Unite — presence and representation of audience
- Analysis — gathering of information and evidence basis
- Breakdown — presentation of structured and independent data through:
- ratings and rankings
- wiki-resourse
- news channel
- disclosure of information about dangerous and even criminal market participants
- whitelisting
- Active protection of individual players, workers and companies
…please stand by