It can be hard to forgive in life, there is a lot in my own life that I can not forgive for and in the video game industry there are several things I can't forgive for, things that tend to have me seen in a bad light by those who would prefer that nothing ever changes.

1) The over abundance of male leads and male lead only games: I know that the industry is focused on catering only to male gamers while enforcing the rather backwards notion that only males play video games, but enough is enough. Female gamers are on the rise, male leads are always so stale and boring with the usual bland stereotypes, poor writing and lack of personality.

There are only so many times that the usual male space marine, soldier and more can save the day in their usual generic way of killing anything and everything in sight. And then there are the games that would work just fine with allowing for playing as female for a change, the excuse that females can't do anything like fire a gun, swing a sword, defend themselves and other backwards nonsense is holding back any creative thought and effort in progressing the industry from the stale males only mentality.
And the excuse that it wouldn't be realistic to have a female doing anything but spreading her legs at the demand of a male, popping out babies and generally being restricted from doing much of anything doesn't cut it, video games are not supposed to be realistic. Real life is more than realistic enough, video games are supposed to be an escape from real life.

So enough with the excuse that females can't do jack all, you can bet that if a woman has to defend herself or other and has a weapon at hand, then she will use it. Just as any female will do what is required of them when it comes to either saving the day, working hard, completing some tough mission, assiassinating anyone and more.
Using the excuse that only males can do such things is limiting any creative potential in the industry, so kindly quit it, get over this whole 'males only!' mentality and start alowing for playing as female in more games! You'll find you'll be making more profits that way since more female gamers as well as more male gamers will be more interested in seeing games that are not the usual generic male only.

2) The obsession with multi player and trying to be the next Call Of Duty/Halo: Ever since multi player gaming in regards of MMO's like WoW and others and the success of games like Halo and Call Of Duty, the majority of developers and publishers have become obsessed with slapping multiplayer onto every game while trying to be the next COD/Halo, when it comes to non-MMO's and trying to be the next WoW when it comes to MMOs.

It's boring. Seriously.

Most MMO's do the same thing regardless of their name - Grind, loot, grind, loot, complete luckluster missions/quest, grind, loot - repeat. It is not fun. Many MMO developers and publishers keep doing this and they think it will make them a vast amount of money, but all it's really doing is clogging the market with clones.

And cloning is not a good thing after a while because the original DNA, well coding, becomes degraded and that is what has happened with MMO's.

Now in regards of shooters it's much the same way, it's always the usual soldier/space marine who must fight the evil terrorists/aliens and save the day, male lead only of course since that just adds more to the stale cake.
Over a decade ago these games would have been enjoyable enough, but that was then. This is now 2012 and they are still the same exact game with each release.

Shoot, run, shoot, run, pound chest, shoot, run - Rinse and repeat a few thousand times until the next ho hum installment not long after.

It's boring, it's stale and it's lapped by the usual gullible fools all the time while the greedy pocket the money and demand the same to be made again.

Very yawn.

3) Leaving content out of games that should just be left in: Before the days of Downloadable content, games would usually be released in a complete fashion. At times, at least for the PC, an expansion pack would be released later down the line. Sometimes it might happen for consoles, it wasn't as common, but it would add more to the game.

These days with the internet being so common place then developers and publishers have gotten into the habit of releasing their games half complete, or barely even complete, and then releasing the rest of the content and charging the costumer for the content that should have been unlocked on the game in the first place.
While this may be understandable in a money grabbing business sense, it is frankly insulting towards the cosumer to demand that they pay full price for an incomplete game and then spend even more for the content that should have been in the game in the first place.

And then there is the way that many games today are released in such a glitch filled condition, New Vegas being one such case in point as an example. Whatever happened to games being made with love and care? Has that been abandoned in the name of fast profits and making the rich even richer?
It's a disgusting practice for sure and really needs to stop.

4) Public relations laywer responses: "Why yes, we are very happy that one of our employees decided to leave to pursue farther venture" is the usual response when an employee might leave a company, the real response though is more like "The employee was not happy with the way we treated them nor their fellow co-workers, they saw how greedy, anal and selfish we truly are and wanted nothing more to do with us, so we fired their ass. All hail money!"

Do the PR reps in companies really think we are so stupid as to not see that there are cracks underneath the false layer that they create? It's pretty clear that the lazy suits at the top of the ladder are pocketing all the money while the workers are being treated like slaves.
If they can't tell the truth then they should just not bother to tell their terrible lies.

That's a few of the things I find to be unforgiveable in the industry. It is hard to say if I ever be able to forgive the industry for the way it is now and it's constant refusal to progress and move beyond the rut it's gotten into.
It's hard to forgive the fools at the top who are clearly out of touch with the costumers and reality.