I reported them for harassment with the following statement:
The purpose of this group is to review bomb any game that has gay representation. Their discussion threads talk about using other platforms to discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals to circumvent Steam’s TOS policies. This type of behavior promotes discrimination, review brigading, and toxicity. It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.
on the other hand it looks like a great way to find cool games with good representation and character creation options
It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.
Is it? Is it reaaaaaally?
At risk of sounding like a bootlicker, I have to at least give credit to Steam for making an explicit exemption for trans people changing their account login names from our deadnames. Typically there’s no way to change your login name, and it seems like there’s probably some fucked up old spaghetti code to blame. But steam support lets you change it specifically if it is your deadname, and it seems like they go out of their way to accommodate us to do that. From what it sounds like when I talked to steam support, as a software developer my self, it sounds like a convoluted manual process that they go through solely to make trans people’s lives a little better. They even ask us specifically not to widely share that they are willing to do this, presumably so cis people don’t take advantage of it and ruin it for the rest of us. So good for them, honestly.
Yeah, given their actions during the George Floyd protests this is par for the course. For those not aware, some of the employees wanted the company to make a statement and donate money to appropriate charities. Others were tech-chud libertarians who of course wanted to do nothing or outright condemn the movement. The solution the higher-ups came to was to just give every employee several thousand dollars to do with as they saw fit. Want to donate to bail funds? That’s just fine! Don’t want to donate at all? That’s okay too! Would rather just give it to atomwaffen? Go right ahead, just don’t make us pick a side!
Gamergate and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Gamergate honestly catapulted the whole thing but I’ll keep saying it: I vividly remember everyone gettin mad as fuck about LoZ: Wind Waker because it wasn’t Ocarina of Time: More tits and gore and I genuinely think the whole thing has its root causes in gaming starting as a hobby for rich people originally
I thought the backlash for Wind Waker was because they were expecting the art style that was presented during the GCN tech demo.
Dang I gotta get my game on this list, I had a whole dang patch just to add a trans color palette
overtly anti-free speech messaging
I can guarantee you that these kinds of people would lose their shit if people “cancelled” a game developer that released a pro-fascist game.
