Death of the gamer: Why the term ‘gamer’ matters

Let’s do away with gamers. Let’s free the medium from our narrow expectations, and open our minds to the vast possibilities games offer us when we domesticate their underlying mechanisms. Barthes ended his essay by proclaiming that “the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author” (pg. 1326). Well, the real birth of the player must be at the cost of the death of the Gamer.