Lol urk.

So Zoe Quinn made a game called Depression Quest. Which was one of those more artistic games. It was released at the same time as Robin William's death so they decided to release it for a pay what you want platform as not to capitalize on the death. And a percentage of the money they did pay went to suicide prevention.

The game got a lot of publicity at the time (apparently) with some praising the social issues in the game while others raising questions over it's validity as a game etc. So her boyfriend randomly comes out that she was cheating on him with a gaming journalist. This was believed to be the reason the game was so well praised despite not being that good (according to hardcore gamers anyway I haven't played it I dunno). This information stands in stark contrast to the facts of the matter, such as the reviewer in question never actually reviewing the game in question! So she maybe slept with a guy who works for a review website who didn't actually review her game. Let's just let that sink in. lol.

So she starts getting death threats and harassed constantly. Other women defending them and expanding this to a feminist issue were similarly threatened.

So gamergate claims that they just want gaming journalism to be less corrupted with less bias based on money or favours recieved and from what I can tell that is essentially their stance. But they are a mostly leaderless group and are entirely unable to separate or even distinguish from the people who are harassing women and gripping to their narrow scope of what should even be defined as game ideals.

It's like that episode of south park where they are trying to stop them from changing Raiders of the Lost arc but half of them are just there to free a baby killer and those people are very vocal.

It's just a mess really and since it's an unorganized leaderless group it's not like there is even anyone to deal with it's just like yelling into the void at this point.

I think the problem is that both sides are sort of arguing about different things. So it's hard to come to any sort of consensus when both sides have different perceptions as to what the argument is even about.

I think the death threats in question were more of the this is where you live and we know it or the whole gunning down everyone in the public place we know you will be at type of deal.

A little different than the banter you'd get playing COD.

I mean I personally might not take it too seriously but I can't speak for someone who has been getting a lot of death threats towards me personally and I don't really know how I'd react to that myself.