Do you think games and the people that play them get enough representation? I need my own data, tis for a college report an' all. If "no" please explain why.
Poll: Do games and gamers get enough rep?
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God no. We're recognised within the intrernet and the technology community, but in general, we're not. Think news, outside world....
The problem is, we like to play games. That's what we do. This doesn't hold up so well in the "outside" world. Perhaps we are frowned upon for being childish.
Dunno what you want. Who shall represent us? aren't we already representing us-self along with the gaming industry?
Do you want random non-gamers to represent us?
Kidna reminds me of a situation half a year ago, where some the Danish porn acters wanted a workers union of their own, and they made a commercial thingy, that made it look like they wanted someone else to make a union for them. I was like OMG LOL! form a fucking union if you want one, it's not like the government is gonan do it for you.
Do you want random non-gamers to represent us?
Kidna reminds me of a situation half a year ago, where some the Danish porn acters wanted a workers union of their own, and they made a commercial thingy, that made it look like they wanted someone else to make a union for them. I was like OMG LOL! form a fucking union if you want one, it's not like the government is gonan do it for you.
I think gamers are a completely unrecognised social group. We are in fact quite a sizable minority deserving of greater representation to help push our interests. To make it happen however, we need to become more active in the world of politics and especially in the media. If we could give people perspective on what most of us are actually like (nice, normal, educated people who subscribe to a certain lifestyle) we could force people to recognise us.
We coul finally move past all the negative stereotyping and think of the good that would do for us.
Also, things like the situation in australia would become a thing of the past.
and then we can take over the world
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We coul finally move past all the negative stereotyping and think of the good that would do for us.
Also, things like the situation in australia would become a thing of the past.
and then we can take over the world
>.>
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Games yes. Look at MW2, L4D2, Borderlands for examples.
Gamers yes but a bad one. Because we play the 'Airport' level from MW2, GTA, Manhunt, FIFA and possibly Viva Pinata, we must all be murdering psychos and must think off different ways to kill people.
Because everyone who plays games are mass murderers, obviously.
Gamers yes but a bad one. Because we play the 'Airport' level from MW2, GTA, Manhunt, FIFA and possibly Viva Pinata, we must all be murdering psychos and must think off different ways to kill people.
Because everyone who plays games are mass murderers, obviously.
No we are not because the general view from non-gamers seems to be of a lonely psycho man-child with no social skills.
All the networks play to this stereotype in a big way, just look at the guy fox had on to discuss modern warfare 2 and this is repeated on every radio and television station discussion of any game topic.
If they did that with other groups they would be taken off air because every Irish person on the news would be a red haired guy drunk off his face wearing green and every american would be eating mcdonalds and taking up 3 seats
All the networks play to this stereotype in a big way, just look at the guy fox had on to discuss modern warfare 2 and this is repeated on every radio and television station discussion of any game topic.
If they did that with other groups they would be taken off air because every Irish person on the news would be a red haired guy drunk off his face wearing green and every american would be eating mcdonalds and taking up 3 seats
No, hence dip shits trying to scapegoat us as the problem for the entire world. Only here in Britain does anyone seem to see we do a f*cking lot for the economy.
If we were to be truly accepted, then we'd be as welcome as the book/film and music industry. We're getting there, but to say we are there is ridiculous.
If we were to be truly accepted, then we'd be as welcome as the book/film and music industry. We're getting there, but to say we are there is ridiculous.
usually when i tell people i play games, they say "Xbox?" and when i say PC and occasionally PS3, i am instantly frowned upon as a nerd.
I'll represent you if you want, throw some news interviews at me and I'll claim to be a game expert. Sure I could hold my own better than the people who already get interviewed.
But no, we don't get represented, we are seen as kids in their bedrooms with violent material training for mass murder.
But no, we don't get represented, we are seen as kids in their bedrooms with violent material training for mass murder.
Here's part of my problem with the media representation of gamers. Spike TV video game awards. They make us look like a bunch of slobbering morons who just like to shoot things and look at tits. While I do enjoy both activities, they're hardly the focus of my gaming or my personality. There's a lot more to gamers than we are given credit for.
No, but I wouldn't want us to. If everyone and his dog started playing games, we wouldn't have enough super-secret super-friends super-club passwords to go around 
i think we do get penalty of "rep" as long as your around things catering to demographics under 30 older people do not play games for the most part but its almost assumed that young males play games and many television stations run ads for games. the only reason it is not as big as movies is that young people are what is called "technology natives" and are more comfortable with technology. The only thing that makes things seem like a small industry is the fact that some casual gamers do not identify as gamers, but with Wii, ds, and flash games games are being played more and more by people who were afraid of them. Especially compared to the old days, we get plenty of rep.
Sometimes they're "just games" and childish... And a while later some kid "learned how to do a drive-by from GTA".
Make up your mind, media.
Make up your mind, media.
Of course not, those who participate in video game tourneys and such and are good modders or even like to play games and review them as a pastime are seen as nerd. Take AVGN for example, to us he's awesome and even a professional veteran gamer, but to everyone else in the world they will quickly point him out as nothing but a nerd.
Certainly agree with this, and it is, unfortunately, a problem of our own making- I think we were a bit too quick to identify the internet as the highly effective news-and-information (and discussion, and for want of a better word, multiplayer) dissemination tool, and that's cost us more 'visible' representation like print, broadcasting and physical locations.Squid94 said:
While I'm not going so far as to suggest that the reason games have had such a hard time getting onto TV is because online coverage is so much better (I am firmly of the belief that it's the other way around- the reason we're all on the internet is because television refuses to cater for us in any non-tokenistic manner), it does exacerbate the situation- the same way that the games magazine market is disintegrating and the uptake of online multiplayer has made the idea of a LAN cafe that didn't go under long ago some kind of bizarre fantasy. This makes us look like the "kids in their bedrooms" D4zZ brings up, and means that we struggle to get any known faces to act as ambassadors, or at least build a brand someone faceless can stand next to.
That's not to say that this is the only problem, game content does need to broaden in all directions (and indeed, so does game coverage- 99% of consumer online content is either boring dry reviews, or humour videos that equate to little more than "here is something, it is shit, lol") and because of that we don't deserve as much rep as perhaps we think we do.
But we do certainly deserve more than we get.
No, we get stereotyped as acne riddled nerds with no social skills...seriously it's ridiculous :/