My understanding is there has been collusion in the gaming industry to attempt to drive gamers in a certain direction on platforms, software, etc.
Similar to another listing that the leftist political/”news” journos were/are doing to determine the agenda on what will be published and what won’t.
Basically ALL media has no credibility
Having worked in the media for over a decade, I assure you that credibility, honesty and the original mission left the building quite some time ago. I don’t care if it is gaming media, the MSM or your hometown paper (ESPECIALLY the hometown paper). If you take what is written at face value, you’d have to be crazy.
The number of honest reporters is miniscule and their stories are either heavily edited or tanked altogether to comply with whatever agenda the Publisher/Editor is pushing. I don’t care if it is Iraq or the local high school board meeting.
Buying and consuming modern media basically does nothing but fund and empower more of that agenda. To the folks that are struggling with what relevance and how important this story really is in the big scheme of things, you have to understand that many of the names involved are not MSM level. They are low end blogger types that get paid little to nothing. Their entire ‘thing’ is wannabee crusading reporter with a head full of social justice.
Games are the last bastion of freedom for many younger people and even a few of us older ones. Until recently they were safe. Now, as the ‘media’ of the future, leftists have glommed onto them to spread the social justice crap and propagandize. These Journ O lists are pure Soviet central planning. And since it is the unpaid ‘crusader’ types that make up the majority of the propagandists, you are seeing fanaticism for leftist caused building.
And that is the great danger here. People are becoming normalized to it all. In the MSM, On ESPN and now in gaming.
There is no where left. FR does not ‘do’ news in and of itself. It relies on outside reportage and we discuss it. So ‘we’ don’t count.