Media Watchdog: Gamers Were Mean To Us!
Remember the furore over Madworld in August? Mediawatch UK were at the centre of it, after their director complained that it would wreck Wii’s family image. Now they’re complaining that gamers aren’t happy about their moral compass.
In their autumn newsletter, the watchdog pointed fingers over all the “hostile emails” they received:
“Within hours of these remarks being published a rain of hostile emails from gamers poured into our office telling us to ‘shut the f*** up’, suggesting that we have ‘got our knickers in a twist’, demanding, as though we were on trial for an heinous crime, to know
what right we had to impose our ‘narrow minded bigotry’ on them and stopping them playing an ‘adult’ game of their choice.
“Others, of a more sober character, asked reasonably why we should be so concerned about games when there was so much violence in films and on television! We were also accused us of being ‘cowards’ for not responding properly to belligerent strictures and one ‘emailer’ observed glibly that “violent acts are not a symptom of video gamesand films, but rather the human condition”. Another said: ‘If you don’t like violent content, don’t view or use it’.”
He then complained about feature artcles in the gaming press were responsible for “grossly exagerrating the significance of our comments”. But surely that’s what Mediawatch want isn’t it? Surely they are doing this to get their voice heard and get games banned?
They are right in that abusive emails aren’t doing the gaming community any favours, but it’s telling that the only respondents that appear to come off well in their eyes are the ones who said ‘yes, games are bad — but TV and film are worse’.
Source: Mediawatch (via GP)
