Jump to content

Former World of Warcraft designer apologizes for the cringeworthy, sexist stuff they said at BlizzCon 2010 - Gaming News - InviteHawk - Your Only Source for Free Torrent Invites

Buy, Sell, Trade or Find Free Torrent Invites for Private Torrent Trackers Such As redacted, blutopia, losslessclub, femdomcult, filelist, Chdbits, Uhdbits, empornium, iptorrents, hdbits, gazellegames, animebytes, privatehd, myspleen, torrentleech, morethantv, bibliotik, alpharatio, blady, passthepopcorn, brokenstones, pornbay, cgpeers, cinemageddon, broadcasthenet, learnbits, torrentseeds, beyondhd, cinemaz, u2.dmhy, Karagarga, PTerclub, Nyaa.si, Polishtracker etc.

Former World of Warcraft designer apologizes for the cringeworthy, sexist stuff they said at BlizzCon 2010


Animous
 Share

Recommended Posts

In the wake of California's sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against Blizzard, an upsetting developer Q&A video recorded at BlizzCon 2010 resurfaced on social media. 

In the clip, a World of Warcraft player asks a panel of senior figures, including current Blizzard president J. Allen Brack, former World of Warcraft senior creative director Alex Afrasiabi, and former WoW lead systems designer Greg Street, if Blizzard could add some female characters to the game "who don't look like they've stepped out of a Victoria's Secret catalog."

The audience initially applauds the question, but is soon drowned out by booing. Worse, however, are the responses from the panel. The group of Blizzard developers feign confusion, playing to the crowd in an attempt to make humor out of the question. "Which catalog would you like them to step out of," asks Afrasiabi. "Could you see Sylvanas looking any other way?" 

Afrasiabi then jokingly agrees, saying that the studio wants to vary female characters in the game by promising to "pick more catalogs," a thought that Brack continues by saying a new Tauren female character is drawn from "Sexy Sexy Cow Business," a catalog that obviously doesn't exist.

It is, on the whole, exactly the kind of "frat boy" response that Activision Blizzard is accused of. The woman who asked the question attempts to laugh off the awkward situation of being booed by hundreds of people, but seems unhappy with the answers. 

Street, one of the figures on that panel who is now head of creative development at Riot Games, acknowledged and apologized for the "shitty answer" in a recent Twitter thread, though he did not respond to the question in the above clip.

See more

"There’s a 10 year old BlizzCon video going around of players doing a Q&A with a panel of devs of which I was a member," Street tweeted. "Look, it was a shitty answer at the time and it certainly hasn’t aged well. I wish I had said something better then."

Street added in the thread: "You can’t really see the people asking the questions well from the stage, and I feel terrible now seeing the look on her face. I have more experience now answering questions live, but no doubt that won’t be my last shitty answer. I apologize for those as well as for this one."

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Avoid unnecessary posts such as 'Thank you', 'Welcome', etc. Such posts will be deleted and user will be warned if it happens again. If caught spamming, the following actions are applicable -

  • First time - Warning
  • Second time - 5000 Points will be deducted
  • Third time - Ban for 7 days
  • Fourth time - Permanent Ban

If the post helped you, reward the user by reacting to the post like this -

1.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The last post in this topic was made more than 14 days ago. Only post in this topic if you have something valuable to add. Irrelevant posts are not allowed and you will be warned/banned for spamming old topics.

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Customer Reviews

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.