The crazy shit people believe from corporate media isn't called crazy since so many believe them. And the reason so many believe them is because all corporate media spreads it.
Also I am significantly more afraid of crazy shit that people don't call crazy than crazy shit everyone calls crazy.
Censorship based on how much money different groups spend and gets outraged is not very democratic compared to censorship based on democratic votes. And censorship based on democratic votes is seen as bad, what big corps do now is even worse.
They don't even view making 200k per year as "making it". Joining a top tech company doesn't require luck or connections, anyone can do it if they got the talent and just practice programming enough.
Of course when you confront them they retreat to their motte and say that talent is also luck, and not getting cancer is luck etc, and therefore everything in life is actually luck, so they weren't wrong!
If 1% of a fanbase of 10 million gets mad then you have 100k angry people. And of those a percent or so will be insane people who likely will murder someone in real life at some point, its just statistics. And those one thousand insane people will create a lot of ruckus, but that doesn't mean their views are shared with the community in general.
But that applies to anywhere though. As a man you can sit alone in a bar and nobody will bother you, as a woman lots of people will come up and start to speak with you and possibly get angry if you don't want to speak with them. The fact that the same happens in games isn't evidence that there is something particularly wrong about gamers, rather it is the exact same social game that happens in all leisure spaces.
Of course it would be better if women didn't have to deal with it, but you can't just blame this on gamers since men everywhere does the same thing.
You put way too much credit in the intelligence of hate mobs. People attack others for nonsense all the time. And I don't view gender bias as misogyny. Women are biased to believe women and men are biased to believe men, that is just natural. So men accusing women leads to male hate mobs, and women accusing men leads to female hate mobs. Of course male hate mobs are usually more vicious, but the workings are the same.
I didn't say she did. Hate mobs can attack people for things that aren't true, happens all the time. There is a reason why we don't use hate mobs in the justice system.
For example, lets say a twitter mob attacks a man for something he didn't do. Is that misandry? No, they did it thinking he actually did it.
You speculated about the motive of the harassers, not the actual chain of events. Nothing you say here says that the harassers attacked her for being a woman instead of attacking her for cheating the game review system.
Is there any documentation why people harassed her that isn't just speculation? The gamer culture works just like twitter mobs, they attack things for almost no reason and do it hard, harassment and death threats etc. There is no big plan or conspiracy behind it, just thinking that maybe she slept with some reviewer to increase her score is enough to trigger the hate mob.
With that said, I'm not saying it was justified. Gamers are biased against women, yes. Gamers overreact and harass people who don't deserve it, yes. But they don't just harass any woman who publishes games, there are thousands of women who do that and nobody cares. It requires a spark, just like a twitter mob, and they become relentless attacking the target. And of course, if you accuse them of misogyny here they start attacking you, since they didn't attack her due to misogyny, similarly how when a twitter mob attacks a man with little evidence they don't do it due to misandry, they just attack someone they think did something wrong.
It is mostly true though. Of course all genres has some women but they skew very heavily in that direction. Strategy games etc barely has any women at all, especially the more complicated ones. Instead they mostly play puzzle games, and more social games like mmorpgs or story based games like rpg's.
Ask yourself this, would your "startup within a big company" have managed to lure Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page to join them instead of founding their own companies? And even more important, would it even let such people have lead a significant part of the company in order to realize their ideas?
If you answer no to either of those, there is your answer to why your "startup within a company" can't hit it as big as real startups.
Nobody here is angry at him. He just comes off as a person who refuse to acknowledge that his ideas are dated, there was a very short time when his ideas were demanded and it was exactly when he was active. People bought and enjoyed his game for a couple of years, then they moved on and no longer wanted his style of games, and demand never picked up again.
It is like how Einstein refused to acknowledge quantum mechanics, and if Einstein wrote a post about how his ideas are so much better than those who studied quantum mechanics and that he was just born in the wrong time then Einstein would be ridiculed as well. Not because Einstein isn't smart or didn't add a lot of value, but because that kind of post is ridiculous.
Nobody wants to end up in his position, so we analyse it to try to see where he went wrong. In his case the issue is pretty obvious, I don't think it is wrong to bring that up.
If you write a sob story then don't paint a huge target around yourself as the main problem and antagonist in your story.
He is closer to Aristotle than modern scientists and engineers. That is create formulas to represent the world without checking how the world works at all.
He makes the basic error of not recognizing that the user is always right. If nobody thinks your games are great then they aren't great. You missed at least something when you made the game. If he actually made great niche games he would have built up a community around them of people who love that style in the 40 years he has been making games, but ultimately nobody cared about his games.
You don't have to make everyone think your game is great, but you have to make at least a fraction of people think so. Even just 10 000 dedicated fans of the genre is more than enough to keep an indie developer going, but he couldn't even manage that.
Also I am significantly more afraid of crazy shit that people don't call crazy than crazy shit everyone calls crazy.