wow Old BlizzCon Video and Ghostcrawler's Apology for It

[Starym 3,779]

 

We have another old Blizzard employee joining in on the commentary surrounding the Activision Blizzard lawsuit, as former Lead Systems Designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street offered his thoughts on the matter.

More specifically, there's an old 2010 BlizzCon WoW Q&A video clip that's been posted to reddit and received a lot of attention, which was pointed to as being related to the issues/atmosphere alleged in the lawsuit, and while Street barely even said anything in it, he still thought he should explain the situation and apologize.

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.

— Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) July 24, 2021

There was a bit of a vibe in those Q&As of players trying to score points or gotcha us, and then us cleverly riposting and playing to the crowd. It totally didn’t work in this case and ends up just being 6 dudes bullying a female player.

— Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) July 24, 2021

No I didn’t say anything. Maybe I started to answer first. But I could have given a real answer.

— Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) July 24, 2021

I probably could have done more to salvage it

— Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) July 24, 2021

Yeah and a lot of player questions were to get a rise out of the devs, or score one for players, or pull a gotcha. Many questions to me were will you buff my class? So it can be hard, without seeing someone’s expression and reaction, to know when they are hurt or feel dismissed.

— Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) July 24, 2021

For me, the issue is the way we answered not the actual topic

— Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) July 24, 2021

I did apologize for the video… I just couldn’t fit it all in one tweet. If you meant I didn’t apologize for women at the company, well then I apologize for not doing more.

— Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) July 24, 2021

As he was then asked directly about the situation at Blizzard at the time relating to the lawsuit, he also responded:

I understand now that many women didn’t feel appreciated or supported. I did not realize it at the time, and that is on me. I also didn’t realize it at Riot. I thought most women loved working there. That’s also on me. And to the extent I didn’t realize it, I am very sorry.

— Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) July 24, 2021

You can read even more replies in this thread.

[Dejo93 984]

Imagine apologizing for a joke over a decade old. This just sad. He should have just said nothing or mocked the idiots demanding the apology

[Nakzul 37]

10 minutes ago, Dejo93 said:

Imagine apologizing for a joke over a decade old. This just sad. He should have just said nothing or mocked the idiots demanding the apology

Apologizing doesn't even do anything nowadays. It just shows the people whining that they are correct and then they start coming after you even harder. There is no such thing as forgiveness these days so why bother?

[Mishmish 65]

Pretty nice to see. He could have said nothing, but he apologised, and i think that's worth something and might help this kind of situations occur less for women in the industry. 

[Malokos 6]

9 hours ago, Dejo93 said:

Imagine apologizing for a joke over a decade old. This just sad. He should have just said nothing or mocked the idiots demanding the apology

And how would any of that do anything to further our decission making? Everything coming to change in society starts with people recognizing a problem. A lot of people will not see things as a problem unless famous people say it is.

Of course we could demand that everyone use their own head, but we have been doing that for the past 60 years on this issue and it hasn't gotten to a point where it's satisfactory. So talking about these things is mandatory to further our society into a better direction, in this case not making sexist jokes just because 'I like how these characters look'.

[CTEKK 12]

9 hours ago, Dejo93 said:

Imagine apologizing for a joke over a decade old. This just sad. He should have just said nothing or mocked the idiots demanding the apology

That's not sad, that's personal development and viewing things from another angel. Apologizing is an expression of feeling. If it's felt it's okay to articulate. 

[oldorcnaabu 0]

You know what's kinda stupid and shortsighted about their answer? Mists of Pandaria was in development in 2010. They, at the very least, knew pandarens were going to be a playable race. They could have easier said "Come back next year and see for yourself" and that would have blown the roof off the convention. Instead, they got petty. 

[Andser 34]

16 hours ago, CTEKK said:

That's not sad, that's personal development and viewing things from another angel. Apologizing is an expression of feeling. If it's felt it's okay to articulate. 

He didn't really apologize, he shouldn't have apologized, he was just forced to make up an apology so the sjw's would have more ground for hunting and smearing him. 

The only rule of cancer platforms such as twitter or reddit is to never apologize, identify PC culture and SJWs, ignore them, block them, kick them out of your projects.