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The X Button - Due Recognition

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This year brought about a lot of bickering over small and strange things. The greatest was Gamergate, a movement seemingly fomented over complaints of “social justice warriors” controlling game journalism and colluding with developers. Gamergate was absurd and poorly substantiated when broken down to its base elements, but it was also serious: people were harassed, other people lost jobs, and companies pulled ads from websites (and, when it came to Intel, put them back). And it's still going on in some capacity.

Fair And Balanced^TM

It's not over by a long shot, and the more publications say it's over the longer it continues. Also, no proof Intel reinstated ads unless third party contractors did that, their We Are Gamers ads proves gamers are certainly not "dead".

I find it entertaining he ignored all the evidence, and it's ongoing achievements. The FTC regulations? You now see disclosure on affiliate links flying up left and right. The piles of money donated to charity. It is not absurd and has been a game changer for a significant chunk of the internet. Sweeping it under the rug by claiming it was stupid and 'over' is the kind of dismissal that made it gain traction in the first place.

Yep, a lot of women were received rape and death threats, and in some cases forced from their homes or jobs. Gamergate must be so proud of itself.

Oh, and Kotaku lost a few advertisers for like two weeks before they all came back. Accomplishments!

Can we all agree the Lucky Chole thing was silly?

Or really any Japanese developer. Japanese developers tend to be very blunt and don't take rudeness very lightly.

But if you can get past how he deals with those people, he has some interesting insight on the industry.

This year brought about a lot of bickering over small and strange things. The greatest was Gamergate, a movement seemingly fomented over complaints of “social justice warriors” controlling game journalism and colluding with developers. Gamergate was absurd and poorly substantiated when broken down to its base elements, but it was also serious: people were harassed, other people lost jobs, and companies pulled ads from websites (and, when it came to Intel, put them back). And it's still going on in some capacity. After enduring that, it was a comfort when, in the last weeks of the year, a controversy arose about nothing more serious than a catgirl cosplayer in a Tekken game.

The short of it: Tekken 7 introduced a new character named Lucky Chloe, and some fans didn't like her catpaw sleeves and headphones and minidress. So series producer Katsuhiro Harada told them he might remove Chloe from the American versions, since fans there prefer beefy boring grizzled guys with MMA gloves and imposing stubble. Speculation ensued over whether Harada is joking (he probably is) and just how Lucky Chloe fits into a fighting game that has such dignified sights as samurai cyborgs, lion-headed wrestlers who never remove their masks, and an ending where a schoolgirl travels back in time to stop an angry old man from throwing his son off a cliff.

The best thing to come out of this so far is Diepod's vision of Chloe sneaking into American players' good graces (above), which Harada seems to like. After such a fuss, I hope that Lucky Chloe arrives in Tekken games everywhere and inspires arguments and vaguely horrifying artwork for years to come.

Oh yeah, take Keiji Inafune and Hideo Kojima