"Gimme more money to make better stuff!" Sure. If you can do us all a favor and bring in Amy Hennig or Rhianna Pratchett next time you want to address a female perspective in game development, instead of slapping Zoe Quinn in there for her to wax lyrical about fabricated controversy and spend all of five seconds actually talking about game development.
I admire this guys work and i fucking LOVE what he does. But it annoys me that even with his expertise, ability and this level of production, he still couldn't help but prioritize boosting a personal acquaintance and deliberately fan the flames of a long dead controversy to generate buzz. All the while pretending he wasn't aware what was the issue and then turning around and writing everyone who called him on it trolls and sexists.
I look forward to what he does next, but i'm gonna leave the funding to other people until he shows signs of realizing that people protested a controversial non-personality supposedly brought in as an expert on game development not even spend a second talking about gaming in any context that wasn't blatant self-pity or self-promotion. It was just all around a very cheap piece of content that seemed way out of place.
All of that said, everything he's produced aside from that has just been of amazing quality and given amazing insights. He and his team are really paving the way for awesome coverage that doesn't feel like lame extended marketing. The sheer amount of substance, with no hint of tone-policing to please advertisers... we need more of this.
I feel like it is a very strange thing to suggest that you shouldn't cover or talk about something because it is controversial.
I guess we could never talk about abortion in america, using that reasoning.
It's not that he talked about something controversial, it's that he immediately sided with Zoe Quinn immediately because she was harassed, without looking at any evidence that she might be a manipulator.
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