I remember back in the 90s I asked the only IT guy at our small company who was Novell certified a very basic question about netware protocol as I had never used PCs before, and his response was "sorry, we didn't cover that in class."

It's a certificate. Does any employer actually treat these as important for anything other than grunt jobs?

Yes, the government could save a huge amount of money here on buying labels by only marking those few games which are not sexist.

I don't even have twitter or follow it. The hashtag only got the mainstream crowd to notice, whereas these issues had been building for a long time before the hashtag.

So, it's like movies that want opening weekend numbers but don't care at all if they collapse after that?

Started college in 81, and we had USCD Pascal & p-system. On a basic Apple II we had a full editor, compiler, debugger rolled together, a networked file system, and a self-paced instructional system to learn to program (with human proctors to grade you after every section though). Add another decade though and the state of computing actually seemed worse overall.

The history of computing actually seems to go backwards at times with technology and/or software becoming more primitive as time passes.

Why give them benefit of the doubt? This is ubisoft, they've had crappy games for their entire existence, they've been screwing up their PR for most of it at well. I'm seriously baffled that they still have customers.

I only have one PC game with mantle support, and it made performance worse. FPS slightly higher but with stuttering. Maybe on a high end system it does better, but on a high end system where your fps is over 50 then it won't matter anyway.

They are sort of irrelevant for the average gamer. DX9 is incredibly popular because it's available. Maybe the high end games with expensive systems don't see it that way, but for people on a sub-$500 computer either they don't see a performance improvement with higher versions or it hurts their performance.

There's also mounting evidence that the bigger the hype the poorer the game. In the last decade there's probably only a handful of "AAA" titles that I'd rate above a C.

I haven't even finished Simcity 1.

So avoid the developer, it's that easy. It's not like yet another lousy Assassin's Creed game is a must-buy. Boycott the next Far Cry, boycott the entire line of games from the developer. But the game makers know that the sheep will keep buying the games no matter what happens.

And why in the hell are people blaming the journalists here, except to get GG traction? We wouldn't even know of this if it weren't for journalists. The game MAKERS are the ones to be blamed here.

Everyone has known for decades that game journalism is pointless. It's never been good, it's always been either amateurs who can barely write or people giving positive reviews to any thing out there. Going to gaming websites to get factual information is as dumb as going to yelp to figure out where to eat (and yes I know plenty of people do both, but I never said people were smart). Anyone who's getting upset about this now must be a newcomer to gaming.

Anyone remember when games routinely provided demos and trials, both so that people could try before they bought and to get people hooked on the game play so that they'd go out and buy? Nowdays they expect that just using the name of some mediocre old games is enough that people will buy sight unseen.

While the embargo is not a good thing, I gotta wonder what makes people buy games instantly when they're released. It also used to be common rule of thumb to wait a month for the first patches to come out or for the price to lower. Those buying on the first day are implicitly agreeing to become guinea pigs.

Plus, the incident most likely never even happened, there is only one account from it and it's from someone with an axe to grind. But ya, all those GG people who refuse to believe that an jilted boyfriend would ever lie.

The bogeyman is real though which is why the topic remains alive and keep feeding itself. Anyone who denies seeing chauvinism in gaming either hasn't been gaming very long or is attempting to defend it.