This section is purely for using general information to compare with the results documented in this questionnaire. All these questions are completely confidential and do not require any direct identifiable information, (characteristics)

These questions will be more specifically directed towards the LGBTQ's representation in Video Games, the positives and negatives of such and a brief look into case studies which are relevant to this questionnaire.

In August of 2014, the Gamergate hashtag came to pass following an organised number of attacks on left winged gaming journalists by a 4Chan community originating from /pol/. The controversy lasted a number of months and had video games companies choosing sides.

The event caused a huge controversy for the Gaming community and has effected company representations in making their own video games, for example EA who announced they would change their audience to become more diverse by focusing on more minority groups including racial and LGBTQ+ based characters. This also led to controversial cases being brought against games that refused to include such minority groups for reasons that the company saw to as reasonable. Such examples was of how in the first person shooter, Battlefield 1, did not include any female players in multiplayer on the grounds of historical accuracy and that the game failed to meet the needs of LGBTQ audiences as the characters were not publicly considered to be apart of a LGBTQ group.

The channel Feminist Frequency, led cases against the company and others on the same basis and were a part of the cases brought against Overwatch for not including LGBTQ characters in their original launch of the game. (Feel free to look into the topic more if needed to come to a proper decision on the following questions).