Zoe Quinn tweeted today: "couldn't you just fucking not play my games. Fucking boycott me, don't work with me, just leave my dad alone". She got a dead squirrel in her mailbox a few days ago. Remember: she made a free indie game about depression and had a messy breakup with an ex. This is literally all she did. This type of reaction is no longer uncommon.
No, that is not all she did. She traded sexual favors for favorable game reviews for with multiple people.
No, she didn't. This talking point has been repeated over and over despite the fact that it is factually incorrect - she did, it seems, sleep with a reviewer once. Who never reviewed her game, and only ever wrote anything about her months before they slept together.
The really laughable thing is that if this was really a campaign about corruption in games journalism then there is a ton of it to go around - numerous publications have deeply unhealthy connections to large game companies, like EA. But instead everyone goes after one independent game developer who slept with a guy who never reviewed her game.
Accusations aside — which to my understanding have mostly been the rantings of an immature ex[1] — it's a FREE INDIE GAME. About depression. That you don't have to pay money for. In what world does it make sense for someone to sleep with a handful of journalists to get coverage for her free indie game, for literally no financial gain? And in any case, why would anyone even focus on Zoe rather than the journalists, especially in an industry where big companies curry favors with "journalists" all the freaking time? Like, for realsies, and not in an angry, rumor-mongering kind of way?
[1] (Which is really none of my business and I feel icky even bringing it up.)
It's possible to be against trading sexual favours for game reviews (which, I'll point out, is not a proven thing that happened) and still not put dead squirrels in mail boxes. Maybe people should try that.
> No, that is not all she did. She traded sexual favors for favorable game reviews for with multiple people.
Nope. Get your facts straight. A disgrunted ex is the only source of those accusations. The guy who (very much allegedly) had sex with her did not cover her game.
According to the smear campaign? Its hard to know for sure anything about someone who's been attacked by internet vigilantes. I keep from leaping to conclusions when all I have is questionable internet sources.
Also this: http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point
Zoe Quinn tweeted today: "couldn't you just fucking not play my games. Fucking boycott me, don't work with me, just leave my dad alone". She got a dead squirrel in her mailbox a few days ago. Remember: she made a free indie game about depression and had a messy breakup with an ex. This is literally all she did. This type of reaction is no longer uncommon.
These women are really, actually suffering.