So we agree with each other that feminists have handled this terribly and that the gaming community is justifiably upset with them?Muspelheim said:Did I perhaps suggest that it was? I can't remember that I've recommended wild accusations of a developer's character as a good route of suggestion. Nor that spamming complaints reguarding every miniscule detail was another good way to do that. My point is only that suggestion and feedback isn't exclusively worthless.Guerilla said:Shaming developers to do what you want by calling them and their games misogynist and sexist is NOT a suggestion, it's blackmail. If Sarkeesian and her kind had just said something like "it's a good game but I'd like it if I could play as a female too" from the beginning it would be fine, making obnoxious accusations about games and its creators is not.
It also depends on how ofter you're doing it when you're "suggesting". Saying something once or twice about a game is fine, SPAMMING and whining about every. little. detail in every. single. game gets old and annoying fast and creates a pattern everyone and see through.
Can't argue with Sarkeesian's poor methods of criticism, though. However, isn't blackmail a more appropriate term for threatening with an action unless conditions are met? The worst Sark & C:O could do is something of the effect of "Pack that thing in, or we'll tell everyone you're dumb".
Blackmail is also when you keep the harassment going until the conditions are met, in that way yeah, it kind of is.