Unfortunately… Conflicts only grows as more people knows about it. Its not going to end well until someone gets hurt for real and then the blame game starts again soon after.

Long story short, people are stupid and sometimes you get riff Raff expecting themselves to be entitled and special.

The truth is, no one cares sadly.
By that, I mean most of the world who would otherwise skipped these sites and articles altogether and just do whatever needs done in life… Yes they have a life.

Its like everyone pulls out a big brother card whenever they can’t win a argument. Can’t win your battles? Get someone else involved.

Also, while the minority are making a big fuss, the rest of the world are moving on… Yes, gamers are still a minority in the world compared to everyone else, no one is special.

I agree. I have no problem with the term “Gamer” just like I have no problem with the term “Audiophile”. However, the really messed up sense of identity that term brings is the problem. Honestly, I think it comes from the way “Nerd” culture has been ostracized and depicted over the years that many of us have come to take on these terms such as “Nerd” and “Gamer” and “Geek” as a badge of honor – or even a shield. However, in doing so, we ostracize each other now – picking and choosing who true “nerds” and “gamers” are because what was a term of belittlement is now a term of strength and we don’t want no damn flappy birds players in our super exclusive club. Now you have to fit the qualifications to get in, and if you don’t, you are ostracized from the group that was once ostracized itself.

Unfortunately, too many loudmouth gamers are playing into their own stereotype – people such as Jim Sterling and AVGN use the stereotype to push their views, many gamers throw childish fits when their game isn’t EXACTLY what they wanted (Mass Effect 3 for example) when someone has the audacity to question the quality of the medium the gamers go up in arms to defeat them – only to put the appearance of truth to the lies. A strong example is Anita Sarkeesian and her Feminist Frequency videos, including the recent Gamer’s Gate Debacle.

Now, I’m not saying I agree with her or that her arguments have any merit (they don’t), but just look at the level of flack she has gotten. I wholeheartedly disagree with her approach and will argue against it until I am blue in the face, but this… THIS? http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118310-Flash-Game-Makes-Players-Beat-Up-Tropes-vs-Women-Creator

IS DISGUSTING!

The same goes to Phil Fish (Once again, don’t inherently like the guy, but still… come on guys!) Death threats are commonplace whenever someone tries to rock the “gamer” boat. It’s childish, it’s stupid and it only continues to promote the stereotype that we are fat, lazy, misogamist, racist, homophobic jackasses.

Oh, and do I really need to even talk about EA’s relatively recent trash? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3FN3YCwYk

The other issue is the artist connection. Mass Effect is a prime example of where art and gaming are separated when they shouldn’t be. Games can be art. I’m not doubting that. But games are primarily entertainment. People pay $50-$70 to play and enjoy a game and when they pay that much for something that is terrible then like any consumer, they will get mad. And there is the big disconnect. Gamer’s aren’t patrons of the arts, they’re consumers of a product. Consumers who have been badly abused and labelled by not only a corrupt game media but by the developers themselves. The term, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you” is very appropriate here and is a major reason for the push back.

With ME3, most of the outrage from what I can remember came from the fact that the developers always stated that your choices would matter, that it wouldn’t just be a ‘good, bad, or neutral’ ending, but that is what was delivered with the ending and people were rightly upset. The resulting articles from the games media, stating “gamers” were “self entitled babies” would be what I would call disgusting, just like what has happened recently with GamerGate.

The statement ““Gamers” have begun to ostracize individuals that
exclusively play
genres or series’ that are deemed to be inferior or not worthy” is just
what happens in almost any area of life, especially when such a broad
spectrum of people get lumped together under one title, they form
cliques / subgroups of people with the same tastes that shun / make fun
of / joke with other groups, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Yes people will voice their opinions on how games should be made, especially with how easy it is to get your opinion out there now, but I agree, and I hope most people would too, that games developers should be able to create any game they wish, however they wish, without having to change it for any group of people. In the end I believe most people will “vote with their wallets” and buy games they want, and ignore games they don’t.

This article, to me at least, comes across a little like all those “Gamers are Dead” articles that came up on the 28th. If people wish to call themselves gamers, then fine, but saying “be more” just comes across as you think less of anyone that does call themselves a gamer.

When you attempt correct me, wasting both of our time in doing so, then
I will think of you as “hipster douche” as I walk away without
saying anything else.

Hint; in public such a situation has never arisen. If someone asks me if I play games, I say yes, I play games. And aside from being asked what kind of games I like to play, that’s about it.

That statement…

How about this? When I say I’m a gamer, don’t bottleneck me into something you perceive as a “gamer”. I already am an individual and it’s not my job to prove it you. There are shitty people within any fanbase of any medium. To judge a collective based on the actions of some is an insult to me, personally. Respect the individuality of everyone and then we can move forward. To skew the perception of those judging me is not my job, whomever judges me needs to grow the fuck up.