In Newsweekly -.- Gaming -.- Blizzard of GLBT gaming policy questions - This is depressing. If all this is true, I am disappointed in Blizzard for the first time ever. They’ve made so many great games and made them for the Mac.
I do enjoy playing World of Warcraft, but it is tiring to read “That’s so gay” from other players (usually used as a negative remark.) It is one of the reasons I still want to find gay folks to play with (lack of time has prevented me from really doing this, but there are others who want the same thing.)
Hey Blizzard, knock it off. Let people with common interests find one another in the game!
Update: Neat quote at Boing Boing: World of Warcraft: Don’t tell anyone you’re queer
In real life, you can be a citizen with rights. In gamelife, you’re a customer with a license agreement.
Update: Another link: Online game warns gay-lesbian guild | CNET News.com
What most majorities don’t realise is that minorities need a place where they can be with others in their minority and not have to worry about the majority intruiding.
That’s why a Black-only club or Latino-only club can exist but a White-only club cannot. White’s have their own “club,” it’s called the United States.
I wish Blizzard would understand that this is also why a LBGT Guild is not discriminating against heterosexuals. You can’t discriminate against hetereosexuals, there is not power structure in place to do such a thing with.
A long overdue update is at:
http://quadrant99.com/weblog/2006/07/14/wows-official-response-in-their-forums/