7) From speaking to several women within the AAA industry, including one in particular who talks at schools about pursuing a career in the games industry, this narrative of women getting attacked for no reason, and the grossly incorrect view that the games industry itself is an actively hostile place for women, or a self-fueled ‘old boys network’, is making the problem WORSE. The number one question being ‘how will I survive in this industry’ despite the games industry generally crying out for female developers, and all of these women reporting their studios making them feel welcome.

Putting aside the unique viewpoint female developers bring to the table, working in a single gender environment is pretty horrible and unhealthy, when you consider that most game industry devs move to new cities for their jobs and likely only have colleagues as their entire exclusive social circle. It’s ridiculous to suggest anyone, bosses or employees, in the games industry likes the status quo of having no women among our number, or that we actively work to maintain this status quo. It’s horrible. But the resumes just aren’t there.

Worse, the number of resumes for female developers available for AAA studios to hire is going down because of this fabricated perceived hostility they will face, and this is only going to make women less represented in games as time goes on, fewer strong female characters in games.

Even to accept at face value that any female indie developer on twitter will get masses of abuse for no reason but their gender, this still has nothing to do with the respect and appreciation a AAA games studio and its employees would have for female colleagues. Considering the AAA industry seems to be the number one focus of the sexism charges, it’s time to stop painting employment at a big studio as some misogynistic hell hole.

It’s completely false and hurtful to the industry and is actually achieving the exact opposite of your apparent goals to improve the portrayal of women in games.

Seems like he is definitely asking NOT to keep the boys club intact