Quite true, mainly because the people in charge at Blizzard are also "assholes and jerks."
Resigning from Blizzard (and giving the finger to Vivendi Universal) was the best thing that Bill Roper and the rest of the Blizzard North team ever did in their careers. The controversies surrounding Blizzard and WoW seem to be increasing in severity every single day, and this latest example of Blizzard's hypocrisy has thousands of customers in an uproar.
...meanwhile, WoW is a game which is filled with imagery that is both degrading and subjugating to women. Furthermore, the game's environment promotes derogatory comments to, and defamatory treatment of, every female player in Blizzard's customer base.
I've spoken out about these topics many times, both on Blizzard's forums (from which I've been permanently banned), and on my own website (www.tessmage.com)... and the resulting flamewars have been a clear indication of exactly which demographic Blizzard has been marketing to: rabidly homophobic teenaged boys, all of whom fantasize about half-naked women that they can openly (and rudely) try to cyber with in video games.
Blizzard... enough is enough. Your hypocrisy is showing - again.
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Resigning from Blizzard (and giving the finger to Vivendi Universal) was the best thing that Bill Roper and the rest of the Blizzard North team ever did in their careers. The controversies surrounding Blizzard and WoW seem to be increasing in severity every single day, and this latest example of Blizzard's hypocrisy has thousands of customers in an uproar.
- Tessera -
http://www.tessmage.com/
I've spoken out about these topics many times, both on Blizzard's forums (from which I've been permanently banned), and on my own website (www.tessmage.com)... and the resulting flamewars have been a clear indication of exactly which demographic Blizzard has been marketing to: rabidly homophobic teenaged boys, all of whom fantasize about half-naked women that they can openly (and rudely) try to cyber with in video games.
Blizzard... enough is enough. Your hypocrisy is showing - again.
- Tessera -