No they were not the straw that broke the camels back. They were a female developer making a free game being subjected to an orchestrated attack started by her ex-boyfriend and used by people who wanted a showdown with feminists and feminist allies they see as polluting the game industry by championing diversity. They aren't targeting the corporations that pay media outlets to give good reviews ,nor the media outlets. They are not targeting the people with money and power, they are targeting indie developers, feminists and journalists from websites who are devoting literally only a couple of percent at most of their output to anything vaguely related to social justice. This is not some crusade for journalistic integrity, if it were they would be targeting IGN, Activision, Electronic Arts etc. Not Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu et al. But that is who they are targeting.
The Guardian is wrong, there were threats against Sarkeesian that explicitly mentioned Gamer Gate.
If you defend Gamer Gate as anything other than an attack on feminists in the media you are defending harassment, because that is what Gamer Gate is. It was started as a movement to attack women in video game journalism, it attacks women in video game journalism and they have not once gone after any of the genuinely corrupt entities in the video game media. Everyone knows game journalism is corrupt, everyone knows developers buy good reviews from IGN and other sites yet Gamer Gate goes after a woman making a free game to raise awareness of depression. Gamer Gate is thoroughly and utterly corrupt itself, utilising harassment and illegal behaviour to try and silence opinionated SJWs.
Also those quotes you posted are obscenely biased.
[URL="https://medium.com/@projectid/max-temkin-and-rape-culture-9fc2599196e8"]Max Temkin ADMITTED to having sex with the woman, but he thought it was consensual, she didn't.[/URL] To say he had no idea what was going on is a deliberate mis-characterisation of the situation and that person should be ****ing ashamed of themselves.
Brad Wardell was false accused, and the lawsuit against him was dismissed, the fact the ALLEGATIONS were widely reported in the media is hardly unusual, that is what the media does. The lawsuit being dismissed was also widely reported.
Wozniak did accuse* Quinn of sexually harassing him, and if she did that is bad, but that STILL does not justify Gamer Gate and the ongoing harassment of women in the industry in its name.
*It's funny how harassment of women in the industry is always being fabricated by them, but some guy claims he was sexually harassed and it is taken as gospel truth.
Even if Zoe Quinn is a thoroughly reprehensible person who has been harassing people IT STILL DOES NOT JUSTIFY GAMER GATE! IT DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE HARASSMENT!
As I've said over and over, if Gamer Gate was about journalistic integrity they would be going after IGN, EA, Activision, Blizzard etc. etc. But they are not.