WoW and Gays...
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atomicpanda linked to some rather disturbing articles concerning World of Warcraft and gays, and I am linking to them also, because I think it's important.
GLBT groups question Blizzard policies.
WoW forum post with 20+ pages of responses regarding this issue. There really are a lot of intolerant immature people playing WoW, which makes me sad.
The emails the gamer in question received from Blizzard.
Basically, a guild leader who runs a GLBT-friendly guild was threatened with account action for advertising said guild- simply for *saying* their guild was a place where GLBT people could hang out and not have to worry about the constant abuse you regularly see on the general chat. There was also another guy who had his account actioned for saying he actually was gay in real life. Blizzard is treating the friendly-to-gays comments the same way they would treat some jackass spamming the general chat with "u suck, u r so gay", "u play a girl, u r a faggot" or "that fag ganked me". Those people can apparently constantly spew their crap, and never get in trouble. (I know when I was on Mal'Ganis, there was a guy who hid near Crossroads and constantly spammed the general chat with gay-bashing slurs- it was apparently all he did in the game. Multiple people reported him constantly, and he never was offline, EVER. Never got actioned or banned, even though both spamming and posting constant insults in general chat are considered bannable offenses. Not to mention all the toons running around with names like "Dirtylezzy" or "Fagpwner" and such...)
This makes Blizzard look bad. I know on the online Final Fantasy game, they had gay guilds and such or servers where gay people hung out almost exclusively, I don't see why Blizzard is being so uptight about this and interpreting their rules in such a retarded way. Gay people play video games, just like straight people. Why should they have to hide their identities completely to play the video game they like? What if their online character is also gay? It doesn't make sense.
atomicpanda linked to some rather disturbing articles concerning World of Warcraft and gays, and I am linking to them also, because I think it's important.GLBT groups question Blizzard policies.
WoW forum post with 20+ pages of responses regarding this issue. There really are a lot of intolerant immature people playing WoW, which makes me sad.
The emails the gamer in question received from Blizzard.
Basically, a guild leader who runs a GLBT-friendly guild was threatened with account action for advertising said guild- simply for *saying* their guild was a place where GLBT people could hang out and not have to worry about the constant abuse you regularly see on the general chat. There was also another guy who had his account actioned for saying he actually was gay in real life. Blizzard is treating the friendly-to-gays comments the same way they would treat some jackass spamming the general chat with "u suck, u r so gay", "u play a girl, u r a faggot" or "that fag ganked me". Those people can apparently constantly spew their crap, and never get in trouble. (I know when I was on Mal'Ganis, there was a guy who hid near Crossroads and constantly spammed the general chat with gay-bashing slurs- it was apparently all he did in the game. Multiple people reported him constantly, and he never was offline, EVER. Never got actioned or banned, even though both spamming and posting constant insults in general chat are considered bannable offenses. Not to mention all the toons running around with names like "Dirtylezzy" or "Fagpwner" and such...)
This makes Blizzard look bad. I know on the online Final Fantasy game, they had gay guilds and such or servers where gay people hung out almost exclusively, I don't see why Blizzard is being so uptight about this and interpreting their rules in such a retarded way. Gay people play video games, just like straight people. Why should they have to hide their identities completely to play the video game they like? What if their online character is also gay? It doesn't make sense.
