Straight male developers typically do not face death and rape threats. Female and gay developers typically do. Straight male developers do typically face criticism of their work. Female and gay developers typically face attacks on them personally and nobody pays attention to their actual work. This is a problem.

They're making games that quite a few people want to play, but there's some segment of gamers who apparently froth at the mouth when they see a game that they personally don't like? I don't understand it, but I've run into it at conventions and in forums. It's not every gamer by any means. But there's enough that something needs to be done because this crap is not OK.

You clearly do not know what you are talking about and are greatly generalizing. Greenlight devs are routinely "harassed" if you think people saying their game sucks is considered "harassment". Sex and gender immaterial to the discussion.

Funny you speak about Depression Quest where Zoe Quinn was not issued death threats when her game was put up on Greenlight the first time, but a fair number of people said the game sucked. To which, she "rage-quit" Greenlight and cried about how people were sexist. Not that her "game" is 5 minutes long and seems like it could have been written in a weekend for a high school computer class.

Frankly, your argument is bad. People pay attention to the games when they are actually good. The problem is that the most vocal of female or trans developers who are complaining, aren't making good games. They instead want to blame society for the lack of recognition when in fact their games just aren't up to snuff.

Games are already doing that. Since like... forever. Where have you been living?!

And let me add this point...

Jane Jensen of Gabriel Knight fame is an acclaimed developer whose name on a project helps its sales. Why? Because she wrote great games! If gaming were sexist the way some people here claim, she couldn't possibly be successful.

I think the biggest problem is the human ability to blame anything else but themselves for any failures or lack of success. This clearly is not limited to female or gay developers. As many or more male devs who think their games are great have rage-quit or exploded over poor reviews and criticism.

Is it? I question that. What's wrong with appealing to a niche audience or finding a cult following through few but devoted fans? You can't force people to like what you create (well, legally anyways). People choose what they like. Games targeting niche aspects of life shouldn't find their developers wondering why it's not become mainstream (as if that should even be considered a holy grail).

I would prefer people like better music but Nickelback et al remain popular. I rest my case.

Here I am. ;-)

I am very pro-gaming, and state it fair n square.

And as to you, Firebrand9 - do you support ANY of your fellow gamers (assuming you game) to love gaming as much as you do?

I just got off the phone with the developers of the original 'Divine Divinity', and my hunch was right.

They did base Duke Janus on TStael! :D

Of course they had to make the character slightly less condescending in order to make the game realistic.