The Gaming Industry | Start Here
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Published 2019-12-22
The video game industry is richer than the global movie and music industries combined. And it’s still growing.
But a series of public scandals in recent years have revealed poor working conditions for the people making the games, as well as a culture that discriminates against women and minorities.
Will calls for unionization in the industry take off? The newest episode of Start Here reveals what’s going on behind the gaming screen.
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All Comments (21)
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This video starts from gaming industry and ends in feminism.
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Disclaimer: Video is less about games and more about socio-politics
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They didnt say anything about micro transactions.......
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The title is "The gaming industry" And I expect the history of gaming industry... But it's different than what I expected... This is just "Female on the gaming industry".
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03:34, Anita make false claims, repeatedly, did everything she could to subvert games development (even going so far as threatening developers last year) with feminist nonsense. The majority of gamers don't like her and they don't agree with her. Asking Anita to be honest about gaming is like asking a writer from the Daily Stormer to tell you about the Holocaust.
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My friend is working in gaming industry .its true. there is so much discrimination. She have to work 9-6 only one day off. This culture is literally sick. one of my friends laid off. when google shut down accounts of gaming studios.
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Al jazeera talking about women's rights in a Western Industry. They should focus on qatar. 😅
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This report could have done better if the reporter had not spend a large portion of it on feminism propaganda. There are more issues affecting the gaming Industry like microtransactions, deceptive marketing, low quality graphics, piracy etc
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i was hopping to watch Gaming Industry and ended up ads for "Me too"?
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You guys are lucky you haven't see the toxic gaming culture and industry in sea
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Has parallels to the start of the industrial revolution of the 1800’s - Taking advantage of workers. I wonder if you divide a developers annual salary by the hours worked – would it be all that great?
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Why did this turn into a feminism video half way through. I understand that there are mistreated women in the industry. However, that is not the main problem of the industry. The main problem is actually addressed in the beginning, the ridiculous work hours. Another major concern is the companies further alienating and milking their customers with micro transactions.
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They stick female issues into everything we guys injoy, what does a female being harassed at her job do with the games industry Those are 2 totally unrelated subjects
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It's not only gaming industry all industries are the same ... From oil to construction and so on ... The one who work the most get almost nothing and the one who doesn't do anything get everything.
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Billion female gamers and 80% of them only playing candy crush and kardashian party on their smartphone. It is hard to make women interested in games, in which you have to use both hands.
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"title correction: Women in Gaming Industry.
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03:55 Sexual harassment is a genuine issue for women. Not just in the game industry.
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As gamers, we respect and love women and wish people to have good working hours. But microtransactions are killing us, they're making us pay for what we have paid for.
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That lady from Feminist Frequency has a major problem - using questionable methods and sources to have her way. I mean at first she was portrayed as the iron willed woman going up against a Male dominated industry. The minute she gets clap back - which is something you will alway get when you go around provoking people - she becomes a victim. The UN even gave her an opportunity to present her case and guess what they said? "No, because she presented information from questionable sources." In summary, the industry has a problem. But the way to fix it is not by provoking people and acting like a victim when there's clap back. There are far more constructive ways of doing so. E.g. criticizing by creating. And also lost how the video went from talking about gaming to talking about women🤨🤦♂️
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I have a topic - are there forms of energy production prohibited only because of the social threat that they work to well and are to affordable?