"Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back"

On January 28 2008 11:40 BottleAbuser wrote:
Cooper Lawrence: “Here’s how they’re seeing women: They’re seeing them as these objects of desire, as these, you know, hot bodies. They don’t show women as being valued for anything other than their sexuality. And it’s a man in this game deciding how many women he wants to be with.”

This is talking about the game Mass Effect. She answers "No, I haven't played it before."

So people go to Amazon.com and bombard her books with horrible reviews, sometimes noting "I haven't actually read it."

It's sad that people are childish enough to do this, and it's worse that broadcasting companies actually take that kind of stuff into account (spamming is what it takes to make someone listen? WTF?).

On January 28 2008 13:18 Krohm wrote:
That is awesome. I really had no idea that gamers could pull so much weight over that. They made that author crumble. I'm pretty impressed to be honest.