Emob78: As to that pandering shit, it's just revelation of the method. The gaming press (and the press in general) have held the public in intellectual contempt for years. In the past they kept their teeth and ass cheeks clinched over it. Not so much any more.
Why anyone would align themselves with that snobby, hipster lounge crowd boggles my boo-boo. I suppose shit does indeed roll uphill.
dragonbeast: are they unaware gamers just enjoy it if devs are friendly with them? It also makes us more interested. Look at the CEO of Stardock, Brad Wardell. He has behaved open and nice to his fanbase and it gained him quite some fans. As dev, pandering to your fanbase is a good thing.
But no, they will be mad unless the pandering is exclusive to journos and SJW.
I feel like these people have build up a massive superiority complex.
Indeed they have. Want to be really creeped out? Watch some C-Span and catch a random news conference and pay attention to the chit-chat of the press club in the audience. You would have thought they were the privileged entourage of King Louis IV. The fourth branch of government has truly become its own supporting 5th column of thieves and villainy. Wu and the others are just the gaming world extension of that. They go to elite universities, read leftist rags in air conditioned offices, then burst out from the egg sac hive of San Francisco with a head full of bad wiring and pockets loaded with PR firm/Venture funded loot... ready to ransack any twitter page or news paper article they can get their grubby hands on. The consumer? Ha! Lowly peasants. To them the consumer is nothing more than an empty vessel waiting to be filled with 'their' version of reality, then sucked dry of all labor induced revenue.
But the real funny part of the joke is that for all their contempt and savaging of the common man, the stupid gamers, all of their rhetoric is still somehow couched in socialist and collectivist principles. We all hate the ones we love, don't we?