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comment by carboxyl
carboxyl  ·  3737 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List of ethical concerns in video games (partial)

Wow I completely agree, it's like people see screenshots from games taken out of context and assume this is how the gamer views the world. Articles like this are just going to turn women off video games until we're stuck with the same problem you see in STEM fields.

And none of these are real ethical concerns they're just thinks that the author thinks aren't fair

    One of the U.S.’ most long-running and successful print game publications [game informer] is owned by one of the world’s best-known game retailers [gamestop], and few of the magazine’s consumers seem aware of what, if any impact that relationship might have.
Wait, you don't think NintendoPower was owned by Nintendo do you?

These gripes about the gaming media are meaningless, stop assuming businesses are funded like political campaigns. Video game media are small-internet oriented-operations, industry advertising is the only way most of these guys can keep their sites running. Could you get some conflicts of interest? Of course, but there are millions of reviewers out there it's your choice on who to support. There is no industry giant that has opinion influencing control over all the major video game media outlets.