videogames.si.com/features/games-industry-deserves-better-than-geoff-keighley

Interesting article I just read

This article just comes off as useless b****ing to air out the guy not liking Keighley. Nobody even views him as a spokesperson for the industry nor does he even act like that. The guy just throws events for publishers to showcase their games.

Bruh said he could repost some job listing as though that's meaningful

You can't just point at someone and say they should be the arbiter of ethics. Not a soul is changing layoffs from happening in an industry with an already infamously high turnover rate.

Side note those black nerds on reset era don’t know fashion niggas where wearing locs with a fade before black panther ever came out. E.g. me. Now developers are gonna be like we put more black hairstyles in the game and they’re still complaining. That model nigga had them first anyways smh

geoff has absolutely positioned himself as one of the faces of the industry. when konami was f***ing over kojima he took the time call them out on his show. his shows are supposedly about the celebration of the games industry. how can you "celebrate" an industry without acknowledging the biggest and most ongoing story in it? even the oscars and grammy's acknowledge the negative aspects of their industries. why can't geoff?
it's completely reasonable to ask why he doesn't have anything to say about the thousands and thousands of devs being f***ed over.

tweeting about an ai powered gaming air freshener the day sony announces a massive amount of job loses is at best extremely tone deaf and at worst an indication that he doesn't care. simply commenting on the biggest story in gaming as the guy who runs and is the face of the two biggest shows in gaming is not a lot to ask of him, in fact it's the most basic thing he could do. i don't think anyone is expecting him to fix the industry, cause the problem is much bigger than him, but he seems to avoid even doing the bare minimum, which is just acknowledging it's existence

When has he ever been spokesperson? Nobody has ever called him a spokeperson besides this journalist today. He's used his platform to talk about some issues or donate to some charities if my memory is correct, but he's never spoke out about industry problems.

Kojima is his best friend he meat rides to no end, I wouldn't equate that as him taking a stance on the industry when he was just going to bat for a friend. Unless he has more examples of doing similar I can't call him a spokesperson for that.

He's also not somebody that the video gaming community anointed as a leader or as like Jason Schier who does the nitty gritty journalism on the industry. He can be judged for not saying something, but he's never been that person to begin with, so why would this journalist expect it now. Like people don't expect Max Verstappen to speak out on the car industry just because he's passionate about racing.

he doesn't have to be anointed or officially voted in as the spokesperson of video games to be viewed as someone one highly influential and respected in the space. no one is saying he is the voice of video games but he does operate and run the two biggest gaming shows of the year, which means that his voice has a larger reach than about 99% of the industry. every year he uses that voice on stage and talks about how amazing the industry is and how wonderful all the people are who make games, yet he seemingly refuses to acknowledge that thousands of them are being laid off yearly, that's kind of a problem and makes his previous statements seem disingenuous.

does geoff not have other friends in the industry? surely at this point most likely dozens of them have been effected by the mass lay offs. he doesn't go to bat for them? he only goes to bat for the guy whose gonna bring all his new projects on geoff's shows? geoff only standing up for kojima and not any of the other thousands and thousands of other devs who've been f***ed over makes it look like he only stood up for kojima because geoff directly benefited from having a good relationship with him, not because he cared about the people responsible for making games

geoff made it his mission to dethrone e3 and become the face and name attached to the biggest and most popular gaming shows of the year. you don't get to do that and then put your hands up and say "hey i'm just a little guy, you can't expect me say anything about the industry! what am i supposed to do? :(" like, this is the role he wanted

the max comparison doesn't work cause f1 isn't a showcase of the car industry. max is not the face of cars, he's the face of motorsports. if the motorsports scene was experiencing an equivalent to the mass lay offs in the game industry (something like tons of historic tracks being decommissioned and destroyed) people would probably expect max to say something about the importance of historical tracks being preserved and raced on. it wouldn't be max's duty to fix but people would see his acknowledge of the issue as bare minimum, which is all people are asking of geoff

geoff definitely thinks of himself as a spokesperson

Geoff is like the Jimmy Fallon equivalent of the gaming industry. He’s merely a showman.
Seems kind of unfair to expect more than that from him

Jason Schreier is the type of figure (a journalist) you’re looking for to speak on the harsh facets of said indusrry.