I hate to be the voice of reality here, but it needs to be said.
Nothing bad will ever, ever happen to Zoe Quinn. Not from this event, not from anything. Quinn herself is a manipulative sociopath, as evidenced dozens of times over. She knows how to cultivate a loyal following of the most beta virgin of men who will go to bat for her. She's fucked enough people (quite literally) in the gaming industry and the press and made sure she was alone with them to have people stick by her out of sheer fear, trying to convince themselves that they're on her side. The decaying games journalism crowd views her as Gamer Gate, which has bought them four more years of publication due to click bait, so a Golden Goose. As pathetic as that is, but your life is pretty pathetic when you're a games journalist. Just a massive faggot with not even enough skills to work the fryer in McDonalds. So those people ain't saying shit.
And she's not going to pick a target that will ever harm her. Look at fucking Alec, that shit was as tactical as you can get.
1. Knew his social circle were progtards, who would immediately betray him for that #MeToo clout
2. Knew his co-workers intimately and how they'd react out of jealousy and spite because they're fucking talentless.
3. Knew his family and how they would respond. Just look at his fucking sister.
4. Knew he was fighting many mental health issues, meaning adding to that pile would make it likely he wouldn't fight back.
5. Knew his politics, making it likely he would apologize rather than go after her.
6. Knew that the indie gaming clique would never, ever take his side and go right for that #MeToo
7. Knew it was far enough in the past and they spent enough time alone that it would be believable. (Not to anyone that knows this bitch, but she doesn't care about us. She cares about all the little progtards. Remember, she could just brush it off as her critics attacking a 'defenseless woman'.)
Really, he was the perfect target for someone like her. The only thing she didn't predict, because she's a fucking monster, that immediate isolation from literally everything in your life with massive mental health problems usually doesn't end well. So he killed himself.
Quinn herself is a sociopath and will never feel guilt, sympathy or empathy. So she did the strategic retreat, stayed radio silent for a week or two and came back out. She knew none of her circle would contradict her. Not even with this evidence. It simply does not matter. You can have a voice and video recording of her tying the fucking noose around his neck and egging him on to kill himself and she'd still have fucking support.
Because everyone against her has the wrong politics. Because she has the right people in the right places. And don't think for a fucking second that men she's fucked previously are looking at Alec and thinking 'Am I next?' so they're all going to be out in force for her. Because everyone is disposable to Zoe Quinn. She's fucked the right people, and I don't mean for influence wise. I mean, that if she ever accuses them of anything, they're done. Everyone will turn on them. You think bitch boy, Nathan Grayson is safe? Fuck no. Nobody is.
The joke is that Zoe Quinn is some poor, abused, weak woman. When in reality, she's a heartless fucking cunt who will destroy anyone at anytime, for any reason. She has completely insulated herself from any harm from people like us. Because she's designed it that way. I'm not saying she's an evil genius. With the press GamerGate got, she got really fucking lucky. And powerful. And there is nothing worse than a manipulative, narcissistic sociopath who got a little taste of that.
Normally I agree with a lot of what you say but this time I actually think you're too pessimistic. While she hid her Patreon metrics I highly doubt they rose to a significant level. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the increase was a mere pittance, a slight addition of a few hundred bucks a month(and I do consider that slight for this situation)which will just gradually dry up again.
I'm sure you haven't forgotten that the entire reason Zoe most likely did this was to claim literal victimbux; to get her Patreon some numbers, blow it up some with more cash inflow. All that's going to happen is, at worst, she'll rake in some extra money for a while, then it will gradually dwindle like the available charts show it has for a long time now up until this incident.
What then? Well, here's the thing: you're actually right in my opinion, UNDER certain circumstances. Those circumstances would be, she stops. Completely. I don't just mean now. In my opinion, the BEST option for Zoe right now would be to coast by on what she has right now, shut the fuck up, somehow get her followers and sycophants to shut the fuck up, and just put everything behind her.
IF she were to do this, she's insignificant enough to much of the world right now that it would be less likely for someone to actually look at her in real life and go "Hey aren't you the woman who accused a man of abuse who committed suicide" or some variation of that.
Here's why that's not going to happen:
Despite this being the BEST out my brain can think of, this comes with the added factor that she'll lose Patreonbux gradually. She will, eventually, see the impact that will have in the long run and the only out she has for that is to repeat the cycle all over again or try and advertise to get more money. At best she creates another Chuck Tingle situation, but how long can she keep making fund me things for stuff she doesn't deliver on before she actually comes under scrutiny?
And if she does another callout for literal victimbux, the cycle repeats and Alec's corpse is metaphorically dug up all over again when the next accused is told by people who just HAVE to tell him "Dude the last person she accused ended up killing himself". Mark my words, the next person she even remotely metoo's will involve Alec being brought back up in full force on the subject matter, and even otherwise NO ONE is going to ever shut the fuck up about this for years to come I'm sure. Every time Zoe is brought up I guaran-fucking-tee you that someone is going to bring Alec into it.
Now will this actually hurt her or make her feel guilty? Fuck no. But it WILL annoy her. She'll be pissed off constantly that no one is shutting up about Alec and that she can't just bury the truth and have her happy little narrative. That will definitely irritate her every time it comes up.
She also runs what I could even call the definition of a cult. Some do it out of fear, hell GG only ever happened in my opinion because people like the journalists were protecting their own. But I'm sure enough do it out of some rabid fucking devotion to her that she won't be able to make them all stop, so her own followers would end up being part of what fucks her over if she ever wanted to seriously stop.
She won't age gracefully, and anyone with money, power, status, or any combination of the three would never marry her unless she found someone fucking insane or clueless. Yeah, nothing's going to happen right now. But the more people see her for what she really is, the better, far as I'm concerned.
I still hold firm that it's not the vast network you make it out to be. Some journalists? A few specific people in the right place? That means nothing. She can't rise in the games industry beyond being a no-name indie dev with zero talent or good games released at best and a harpy who preys on people to give her favors and boost her in said industry at worst. She can barely rise in the comics industry and I say this having the bare minimum of information on that front(maybe I should read up more about the goings-ons on this site, get better educated on that side of things), but knowing that sales are apparently abysmal enough for the cringier comics that there's no way Goddess Mode is making her mad bank. If it is, well...shit I'm wrong on that one I guess.
Point is, no, nothing bad is going to happen to her right now, but she's not in some permanently untouchable position. Otherwise she wouldn't have gone from games to comics. I'm not rallying or saying we need to go after her. Just stating that one day she'll trip over her own ineptitude and fall on her face. Until then, the cycle continues.