How is not wanting to have your time wasted due to deceptive marketing childish or flailing? I value my time, more so at an event I paid to get into with panels that may compete with each other for my time. If I chose to see this panel over another, based on the marketing, above having my time wasted I may have missed a chance to see another presentation that might have actually been relevant to why I attended the event in the first place; in this case do I not have the right to complain and point out my distaste with the people who tricked me and wasted my time and ask that they choose other methods in the future?salm wrote:I think most people in this thread are gamers, including myself and the other people in favour of the stunt. Like allways when a group acts silly it is only some members and not each and every one of them. In this particular case I think it is defensive teenagers mixed with a bunch of non teenagers who mistook the teenaged flailing with real opinions and joined in.
The response to it sure has though, this thread is proof positive of that. Plus, the way that Unicef has used the footage and titled the official video (The video game idea that caused a walkout | UNICEF) makes it clear that they think that a plurality of people left because of the shock value of what they had to show rather than people leaving after realizing that they had been duped or that the panel's subject wasn't what they came to the show to see. Given the attacks gamers already face from the mainstream media it makes some sense that people feel unfairly targeted and victimized by these sorts of tactics.Indeed. This stunt doesn´t attack gaming, though. The idiots behaving like angsty teenagers on the other hand might make normal people believe that the gaming community is at least partially composed of inconfident, whiny little bitches.
Likely not as motoring is a respected pastime in a way that gaming isn't and may never be. People who are already firmly in a position of power have far less reason to complain about injustices committed against them than people already marginalized do. You can argue that whining isn't helping the situation any, but then you're making the same argument that people used about women speaking out against gamergate, that it makes them sound whiny and won't change anything either way.I really doubt that they´d be upset as the whiny little gaming bitches. They´d either aprove of the message or roll their eyes and move on. That is because other industries aren´t composed of such a high percentage of idiot teenagers.
The percentage of car fans who would be offended, though, I´d find just as silly as the gamers in question.
Is it your intention to make that argument?
So the title of the video isn't sensationalist and doesn't imply that most (or all) of the people left due to their unwillingness to face the horrors that exist in the world? An official post by their PR team on that same you tube video states "This video game idea caused a walkout at a gaming convention. Watch to see why." Given that the video never acknowledges that people may have more than one reason for walking out it's safe to say exactly what they meant with statements like that.Nowhere is implied that gamers are somehow bad people unwilling to face real horrors. But of course, if you are used to being hyperdefensive you will find a way to interpret that into the clip. Just like fundamentalists find ways to interprete stuff that has little or nothing to do with them as attacking their religion.
All the backpedaling and ass covering that they're now doing to say that it wasn't an attack is BS, if it wasn't an attack why would they have pulled back from their original statements and edited or removed posts now that people are speaking up?