The extruding internet assholes of the gaming community.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Originally Posted by Ramary

It is the internet in general not just the gaming community. The gaming community should not be singled out when really the problem lies with the vast "complexities" that is internet "discussion".

We should single out the gaming community because they have a lot of mainstream visibility and economic power they can wield through their pockets to determine what games get made and how that game's audience is represented to the mainstream. Nobody cares if there are assholes in the knitting community because the knitting industry is not as public or expansive as the games community (though assholes in any great quantity anywhere should be considered a problem).

The pandering of the games industry to this community has created a self-reinforcing situation where gamers feel free to act like complete dickweeds without censure in large part because the game makers are too reliant on their dollar support to stay in business.

Originally Posted by Aerozord

I dont know, its still better than more mainstream sports where rapists, murderers, drug addicts and animal torturers are celebrated.

Fandoms are more tame too. We dont riot because the ending of ME3 sucked.

If anything I think gamers over all are better than average. Atleast we care that crap like this goes on and is tolerated. See a movie star or football player do this crap and at worst they deal with a year of bad press before being in everyones good graces again

That's a mighty high horse there. Gamers HAVE committed crimes when they feel they aren't being catered to; recall when Minecraft's multiplayer servers were DDOS'd because they felt the game wasn't updating regularly enough for them. Give gaming enough time to penetrate as far into the mainstream as professional sports has, and perhaps we will see violence of a similar sort (even remembering that sports riots are publicized largely because they are so rare themselves). Also, do you know what happens to most sports stars when they're caught committing crimes? They're arrested and subject to due process like anyone else. Granted, there are forces at work that combine and often result in a lesser sentence, but it has not occurred (to my knowledge) yet that a court has flat out refused to prosecute a celebrity just because they happen to be a celebrity.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Shyria Dracnoir

That's a mighty high horse there.

its less me saying gamers are good and more me saying others are bad. Its more perspective than anything to show this isn't a gamer thing its a societal thing. A lack of accountability and double standards. If anything we are just more aware of the vitriol behaviors that occur within our own subculture and less willing to make excuses for those responsible.