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This Week in Games - Look, We NEED to Talk

Also, Shantae and the Seven Sirens Director's Cut will be released on Switch and Xbox One, with a Switch physical edition coming.

Our beloved gaming communities have failed on a catastrophic level to protect the vulnerable, and what's happening now is long overdue.

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Also, Shantae and the Seven Sirens Director's Cut will be released on Switch and Xbox One, with a Switch physical edition coming.

This is actually Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut. LRG released Shantae and the Seven Sirens last month.

So, we're at a turning point. And things need to change, even if it involves burning down everything and starting from scratch. The FGC has to evolve. The fratboy days are done, time to grow up.

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So, we're at a turning point. And things need to change, even if it involves burning down everything and starting from scratch. The FGC has to evolve. The fratboy days are done, time to grow up.

Mm, those days have been gone for quite awhile now. A lot of gaming communities have stamped out the 'fratboy' mindset long ago for a more sanitized, inclusive community. This isn't the 2000s anymore. The FGC that all this happened under were the ones who routinely denounced games like Dead or Alive for it's portrayal of women, who banned multiple OG people from participating in tournaments for political views or trash talking behavior. This happened under the watch of the modern, inclusive community, not the days of SCSA where trash talking your opponents considered fun and acceptable. Remember, Mr. Cuellar wasn't a fratboy, he was a forward thinker who valued inclusion and progressive values and always stood up for marginalized people.

If the next big outing is in the speedrunning community, it won't be because of all the OG problematic people who got banned from AGDQ around 2014, but the more accommodating modern iteration of the event that heavily moderates and polices the subscriber-only Twitch chat every year.

Trying to pretend those figures aren’t a holdover from those days is incredibly disingenuous. These issues didn’t suddenly crop up because people care more now, they’re more of the core problems that were allowed to stick around because of the amount of clout they garnered during those times. There will always be those that try to take advantage of good faith, and it’s good to have a community that is willing to toss them out and support victims when thing s becomes known. So miss me with that “actually the well intentioned people are to blame” when they’re the ones actually doing the work.

The problem, as it stands, is people in entrenched positions are using said positions to do awful things because there were no systems in place to regulate their influence. This is still the Wild West days of ESports, without a central governing body, players unions, etc. all. And the wolves were in the hen house, occasionally dropping lines about “core values” and other nonsense to hide their own horrible crimes.

Put simply, the community was allowed to self regulate and betrayed the trust of all involved to benefit terrible people.

I don’t know how the community moves forward from here, but seeing that EVO is probably dead, and it may be years before they get something as big as the ESPN deal EVO got, everyone is going to have a lot of time to think about it. People come first after all.