First of all, once the the founder decided to discuss the Blizzard scandal in a public interview, he 100% opens the door for considering his words and his staffing decisions as a leader.

nonanswer, or “manswer”

Silence is complicity.

Eventually he settled on...

The complaint: Women’s armors are clearly designed to make the character look like a wet dream while the male ones are made to look like a power fantasy. We want female armors that are as much a power fantasy as the mens!

I actually left WoW back in 2011 because I was being stalked by a crazy guild leader. We were on a RP server, and a “sexy human dude” hitting on a “hot dwarf chick” was cringe AF but not unexpected. Then he started stalking me through my alts (female and male, regardless of whether or not they could physically…

I made a hard decision to pass on the Diablo franchise going forward, the only Blizzard property I really cared about. Sad, but there are better games from better people to invest my money and time in.

The apology was such a non-apology it’s insulting. People make mistakes, people can learn from mistakes but if any of them had learnt from that mistake they wouldn’t have been spending the majority of the “apology” equivocating and contextualising.

They would have said “What I said was inappropriate, I see that now and…

Speaking of being optimistic, I think it bears mentioning that in 2014 a new art director took over for WoW and in the years since, there has been an obvious effort made to redesign and desexualize female character designs and armor sets. Used to be that nearly all the female characters, up to and including marquee…

I was there during this panel in person. It was so unbearable to be in the room during the devs and the audiences responses. I was 21 at the time and knew that it was some bullshit being said. Up until that point I held game devs on a pedestal, thinking they must be great people to have made this great game.

This was…

I think it’s cyclical. The devs on the panel were emboldened by the crowd, but the crowd had been groomed by years and years of WoW where almost every female character looked like a sexual fantasy of one sort or another. From their point of view she was basically complaining that water was wet and the sky was blue,…

the problem you describe is what we have to deal with in WoWS/WoWS:L - the people playing are on average 42, male, and ex-military. The game’s designers planned Legends around 13-30yo. You can guess how well it’s worked out.

Greg Street’s “apology” was a passive aggressive, “I’m sorry you were upset (but not sorry for what upset you)“ nonanswer, and is totally fitting with what I would expect a sexist pig to say. He feels no shame in his past behavior, only that he’s getting called out on it.

I explained this in a Reddit post that is now deleted because it was buried under a litany of bro culture hate, where Afrasabi, Greg Street and others on the panel obviously and openly made these candid remarks without remorse, without consideration.

So, I’m willing to bet that the pavilion was pitched by and put together by some third party agency. I say that because I work at one of those agencies.

By and large, I think the mentality that would think a stripper pole is a good idea thankfully being forced to die but there are still a lot of troglodytes that are…

I was working as a contractor at Microsoft Game Studios several years ago, when some game studio (I can’t remember which one) made headlines by setting up a pavilion outside the Expo that included a stripper pole. I said something about that being not at all cool, and some of my (male) coworkers spoke up in defense of…

In the video she asks the question, people in the crowd cheer and the men on the panel looks chastened. Then men in the audience start booing loudly and you can see the panel become emboldened to start openly making fun of her. There is a lessen here about the fact that the misogyny in the game industry is reinforced…

“I couldn’t see her reaction, so I didn’t know I was hurting her,” says man who employed a sneering, hurtful tone, and dismissed a perfectly valid question with a weak joke.

Yes, I got what you meant; “it isn’t true because I’d rather it not be true” is not only a flatly unconvincing argument, it’s an attitude that enables creeps and assholes to get away with their behavior.

That is literally the entire point of Hannibal Buress' joke. Why was everyone pretending that Bill Cosby wasn't a serial rapist and still touring?