The AGC "MMO Rant Session" is traditionally, well, a rant session. A place to loosen ties (if game devs wore ties) and make with the yacking about what's wrong with the MMO industry. Yesterday's rant session sounds like it was a good one.
My isolation Now there's a sobering thought
Something is scratching Its way out
They call me Superman I'm here to rescue you
My give a damn's busted
World of Warcraft players are a constant source
of amusement for me. At least they are since I stopped playing
WoW and can now look from the outside in. While I'm sure there
are some really cool and decent players somewhere on some server, I
never met them during my short stay, nor did I ever see even blurry
photographic [...]
Kokatu is reporting that Blizzard has backed down from their citation against Sara Andrews for violating the WoW harassment policies:
According to the letter, an e-mail from “Thor Biafore,” the head of
Blizzard’s customer service worldwide, acknowledges that the action
taken against Ms. Andrews was based on an “unfortunate interpretation”
of Blizzard’s current policies.
Hopefully Blizzard will back down completely, [...]
I finally got around to reading the original email exchange between Sara Andrews (the founder of the GLBT-friendly guild on WoW's Shadow Moon server) and a WoW GM. It made me sad.
It's one thing for Blizzard to say “it's our game, and we say what goes.” I can respect that. But it was the reason [...]
While researching my previous post, I came across the Landover Baptist Church*. Nice bunch of folks there, especially one Billy Houston, who currently evangelizes in World of Warcraft with his 57th level undead priest. Billy says
I think the reason so many people are open to hearing about Jesus in the World of Warcraft is because [...]
Blizzard's response to the GLBT debate is an interesting one. I actually do understand Blizzard is in a tricky position, but dear jeebus what lame-ass marketroid came up with this? They respond that “topics related to sensitive real-world subjects — such as religious, sexual, or political preference, for example — have had a tendency to [...]