I occasionally play Overwatch on Xbox with an IRL friend of mine. She’s a wonderful player (and person), definitely gets the finer points of the game, communicates well, etc. I think it’s about 25% of the time that we queue up and go into team chat that some turd ass guy/kid makes some dumbass “oh look a gamergirl”…

One day, years ago, I decided to jump on vent for the first time with my guild to run a dungeon. It was weird to say the least and led to me quitting the guild because after a year of running with them, they tossed me on the C squad and railed on me for any mistake I made. I won’t go into the propositions... After…

It’s the same mentality that calls women who don’t sleep with them ‘sluts’.

There is something horribly ironic about a gamer culture that demands titillating fictional women IN games, but our right rejects titillating real women PLAYING games.

Last year I tried streaming for a month, and I used a camera. The fact that I lasted a month tell you all you need to know about the kind of behavior on the part of my viewers. Everything I’ve experienced IRL or even just using voice chat in games utterly pales in comparison.

“This used to be a god damn community of gamers, nerds, kids that got bullied, kids that got fucked with, kids that resorted to the gaming world because the real world was too fucking hard, too shitty, too lonely, too sad and depressing,”

“Twitch used to be full of people who were bullied, but now it’s full of a bunch of sluts.”

Holy shit.

I hope the “debate” is on Twitch’s opaque enforcement policies.

...the same sluts that rejected us, the same sluts that chose the god damn cool kids over us...

“The same sluts that rejected us, the same sluts that chose the god damn cool kids over us.”

The context of the comment he made was that skill difference is what should matter, not time played translating to tangible strategic advantages that are attached to the account. In other words if I played a game for 1000+ hours and then switched to a new account, I should be on the same playing field as I did before…

I’ll leapfrog here to say that there’s a line between advocacy and something else. Battlefront II devs were talking about receiving death threats today on Twitter. I get that folks are upset... I’ve been pretty vocal too... but I want to use this as a general opportunity to remind folks to approach these issues…

The change you’re looking for is a union. HR departments will always work for management and will always work for their interests. At most, they’re trying to limit legal liability and create a paper trail that will protect them from lawsuits.

That HR response is beyond disturbing. Like they live on another planet.

Good. We need to keep pushing back against this bullshit. We can stop the game industry become this cesspit of shady gambling tactics and micro transactions if we actually try. We need to apply more pressure or they’ll keep pushing the limits of what they can get away with.

Yeah, but Nintendo knows how to make an engaging game. battlefront 2 is just a matchmaking game. Gone are the days where my friend and I would play countless hours of halo 2 and 3 matchmaking. I loved the hell out of overwatch, but I doubt I’ve got 80 hours in it (just checked, 65), and all the heroes come unlocked…

The currency used to unlock the characters is also used to purchase loot boxes. Leveling up is tied to cards gotten from loot boxes, so you also have to chose whether to level up, or get a hero character. Of course this is designed to encourage you to buy loot boxes with real money if you want the heroes.

lol not only 40 hours to unlock the character...then you have to grind its upgrades. You’re looking at about 75 hours with luck.