Just because something LOOKS VISUALLY APPEALING does NOT make it ART.

"We're taking a position ... We just don't find that kind of gratuitous violence interesting enough as an interaction."

If nobody plays the single player, it's because the single player portions are not worth playing- You can't blame the consumer for wanting part of the game they purchased to not suck. It would be understandable or fair if there was a recognizable attempt at making it good, but otherwise the game is worthless to…

It's a nice idea, but not sure what use it would really be. More often than not, the size of a large game comes from it's content (models, textures, audio, etc), not the "engine". Also, engines are not all made equal, it's unlikely that one or two engines would satisfy everyone- and it would make no sense to try to…

Not everything you've exchanged money for becomes your property. When you "buy a game" you're not exchanging money for goods, you're exchanging money for a license to access and use copyrighted material within the terms of an agreement.

So... we make fun of Microsoft for trying to create the "One" device for the living room that does everything, then get mad at Sony for removing features that would let you do everything from one device in the living room.

No one would buy a car that required you to call the manufacturer and stay on the line with them the entire time you drove to make sure you hadn't loaned it to a friend without permission.

I'm seeing a double standard here... One minute we'll be flying the equality and acceptance flag, trying to raise discussions about women's rights and combating sexism and racism and generalization in gaming and generally tech-y industries-

My understanding was that part of the point of the game as a whole was to provoke discussion- it certainly accomplished that. Maybe not very deep or well informed conversation, but I guess it's better than no discussion.

The issue with this whole conversation (obviously in my own opinion) is that you can't force an entire medium to either be serious or non-serious at once. It's perfectly fair to examine each game individually and decide on a level of seriousness based on actual content and partly on the intent of the developers, but…

My own bad behavior? That's exactly the kind of finger pointing I'm talking about. I haven't done anything to exclude women from gaming. I AM a game dev and I work with women who are treated as equals in our office. Maybe you have trouble imagining this happens because I'm not American. And yet you feel the need to…

Did you even read what I said? Yes there are huge sexism issues, but they do not come from the video game industry. Do you not see that framing an entire industry as sexist (when it's not the cause of said sexism) damages that industry? It takes perceived value away from the industry, increases hostility, and very…

Again, my response was not to the article, it was entirely to you saying that "these problems ... don't happen to straight white guys".

I think you're misunderstanding my comments to mean that I think the article is invalid, should not have been written, is not important, or that I disagree with it's content- that is not the case.

My first response was not to the article, it was to you.

You're entirely missing the point. I'm not making it about men. Pointing the blame at men is making it about men, I'm trying to oppose what I think is inappropriate placement of blame.

That's where our opinions differ. You're claiming that women's problems in the workplace are caused primarily and directly by straight white guys, and I disagree. I think there's a larger picture, beyond deciding on an identifiable subgroup of people to place blame on.

I work in the industry, and I agree that the problems being discussed exist- but not more than in other industries, and quite often not as severely as is depicted in these kinds of articles (not denying that more extreme cases don't exist, I just don't think they're the norm).

I'm not the person who posted the first comment, and I never claimed the article was about strait white guys. I was simply trying to suggest that taking any extreme view (such as "everyone is actually equal, so get over it" or "strait white men are never wronged, thus their opinions are invalid") is probably an…

Those problems absolutely do happen to strait white guys- maybe not as often, but the world and the issues being discussed are clearly not as "black and white" as your comment implies.