The downgrading of Benjamin Quintero

On September 2nd, 2014, just 4 days after the infamous Gamers Are Dead incident. Software engineer Benjamin Quintero published an article titled Can We All Get Along? on the gaming website Gamasutra (the same site where Leigh Alexander posted her "Gamers" Don't Have to Be Your Audience. "Gamers" Are Over article). Quintero questioned the strategy of gaming websites deliberately alienating their own customers by insulting them and calling an end to their culture,

Benjamin wrote: "I'm trying to find reasoning in what game's journalists are thinking when they set out on a tirade against the people who basically keep them employed.  I could be wrong about this, but I never considered players of games to be nearly as enthusiastic about combing the web for articles and clicking on ad riddled pages to read singular opinionated pieces that belittle their intelligence."

Shortly after, however, Ben made a tweet saying that he was downgraded by the video game news blog, which claimed that his "20 years as a software engineer doesn't matter" and that he hasn't "made a notable game recently". Ben had suspicions that the reasons given to him are mere excuses and the true reason is that "they just did't like what I had to say".

Thankfully, Gamasutra have reinstated Benjamin's status as Expert Blogger by the end of the day.