@extomar said:
As for the other threads, their purpose appeared to be trying to tearing down Quinn instead of some other discussion. At this point I still don't see what the point of bringing up what is going on surrounding her since it seems inappropriate for most forums and sites. There probably needs to be a story of the whole but so far too many are interested in salacious details instead of recording an event where each reposting of "Hey look at what Zoe Quinn did according to..." is not helping.
Could you please reply to post 83 instead of ignoring it? You asked why people are upset with the press refusal to cover the topic of Zoe Quinn, I gave you an answer, you ignore my post altogether and claim that it "seems inappropriate for most forums and sites," and that focusing on this Quinn is "not helping."
Aside from that, there is the accusation coming from The Fine Young Capitalists that Zoe Quinn essentially attacked their competing game jam, and accused them of being scammers. The claim is that she used twitter to ruin their game jam and got them kicked off indie go go. Meanwhile, they also claim that they couldn't get an answer out of her what they are doing wrong or why she considers their game jam to be a scam.
TFYC also say that they have reached out to the gaming press many times, and every time they're turned away because the press instantly sides with Zoe, or says that they refuse to cover the topic. Total Biscuit re-tweeted to raise awareness for them, so either he's using incredibly poor judgement, or Zoe is.
There are only three possibilities here: This could be Zoe protecting people from a scam, this could be her trying to eliminate the competition, or this could be all be a big misunderstanding. If the first is true, people deserve to be warned about an ongoing scam. The Fine Young Capitalists are back on indie go go, and are still taking donations. If the last is true, people deserved to be warned that this ISN'T a scam, because a good cause is being seriously hurt.
According to The Fine Young Capitalists, no one in the press will touch it.
None of this has anything to do with personal info leaked by a vindictive ex-boyfrined, and no game journalist will touch it.
THIS is the real issue here. Not that some journalists gave her money, but that they're refusing to report on actual news stories, because even if they were to report ONLY the facts involved in these cases, that might cause them to be ostracized from both the game journalist community and the indie games community, and that is a serious conflict of interest. You can see it with the linked image in post 83.
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