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This situation is entirely the fault of "Game Journalism" which spent a good two or three years showering praise on the magical "Indy Developers" who are in lar
by generic_user 11y ago
This situation is entirely the fault of "Game Journalism" which spent a good two or three years showering praise on the magical "Indy Developers" who are in large part a narrative invention to fill page real estate and promote there friends crappy projects.
There was a string of highly celebrated indy games that were truly garbage and people quickly came to the conclusion that there was collusion between the "Game Journalists" and the "Indy Developers". Once people started to research these connections in many cases it turned out that the developers were close friends of the journalists or even involved in relationships.
GamerGate was the start of the process of publicly connecting the dots and showing the collusion between these shady characters. The response was a massive coordinated attack and smear campaign on "Gamers" by the very people who were being outed. The war rages on to this day and probably will for years to come.
There never was a large number of high quality Indy Games. Game journalists did a huge amount of damage by promoting garbage and then attacking the very consumers who they were claiming to be catering to. To most gamers these Journalists have lost all credibility.
you can find out more about who these "Game Journalist" are at Deep Freeze.
http://www.deepfreeze.it/ http://www.deepfreeze.it/