Correct, but also correct that afterward, you could not critique the game at all without being "a literal Nazi." The journos (as shown in their private mailing list) closed ranks amazingly quickly. I watched perfectly reasonable critiques get removed from comment sections before the comment sections were inevitably shut down "to promote better discourse."

As usual, it isn't the crime, it's the coverup that gets you, and GamerGate was a great example of that.

There is literally no wonder they "closed ranks" given crap that was going on. And I know, because I personally seen that crap. The level of asshollery going on in general absolutely makes understandable that someone would go trigger happy.

And no, the whole issue was not about quality of single indie twine game. That is just nonsense.

It was a attempt by obviously outsiders to establish cultural dominance in a sphere, where they were neither welcome nor wanted.

Call it SJW-Colonialism and it was repelled by the natives. To go to battle to tell people what they should accept as their escapism, from up high, was a new low.