Comments by "wtfserpico" (@wtfserpico) on "When Gamers Fight Back - The Sweet Baby Inc Backlash" video.

@DanVzare It had nothing to do with trans anything. It was discovered that a particular dev was sleeping with journalists for positive coverage. This led to a further discovery of collusion among a HUGE number of game journalists to cover up certain stories and push their own political agenda. It really kicked off when all of those journalists started publishing effectively the same article about "Gamers are dead" that stated that "gamers" didn't have to be the audience for video games and tried to shift the customer base from what it has always been (predominately young males) to everyone BUT them. The pro-collusion side tried to spin it into an anti-woman narrative due to the spark being a woman dev being the one trading sexual favors for positive coverage and ran with that narrative, calling anyone and everyone who even wanted to talk about it every kind of -ist and -phobe out there. That's why many people call GG 1 a 'harassments campaign'. To be fair there was some harassment, but this is the internet and the sky is blue.
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I think you already know the answer about whether they'll fix it. You probably should find something else to play and forget about giving them even more money.
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@Sidera17 You got it!
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This has been a concerted effort to try to change who the customer base of the gaming industry is. Historically it has primarily been young straight men. The grifters and activists have been trying to change it to be everyone BUT those young men. In a way they are succeeding and you can see that success in just how poorly many of these games are selling. The problem arises because there is nobody to replace them with, because the shrieking harpies and activists only represent the smallest fraction of the population. That makes me think that this is going to be a self correcting problem that is now accelerating as people find out about it, because you can't make games without a customer base to buy them, and therefore you can't make money. If you try to pander to less than 1% of the population you end up with a tiny customer base, of which only an even smaller percentage even buy and play games.
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