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[Bolldar Bloodaxe]

I doubt you looked at the same website then, this was a link I was shown by Nydian from a series of posts about it on the WOW forums. I cant honestly recall his name just that he was fullfilling the same position for WOW as Sanya does for Mythic, he may have only been dealing with the non American side of things im not sure. Any company that can hire someone like that for a position where he is dealing with all the people he is deriding on his website has made a significantly bad choice. From the comments of the Europeans they pretty much all found it offensive as did I. I choose not to give my dollars to an asshole like him or a company stupid enough to hire him.

BTW I didn't claim he was a paedophile or into child porn.

(Edited by Bolldar Bloodaxe at 5:34 am on Feb. 13, 2004)

[Zutroy]

ok, so lemme ask again since I haven't seen it:

What exactly is so offensive about his website?

[Bolldar Bloodaxe]

I cant remember the exact commentary he made since its a fair while since i read it and would be lieing if I said I did, but he basically slagged French, Europeans, Canadians and Australians in some detail giving each separate treatment plus various other opinions showing his almost total ignorance and monumental ego. In so far as its possible to portray yourself as a complete rude & ignorant asshole he succeeded magnificently. Nydian may be returning to the game with the RvR expansion so you could ask him but i know he was quite offended by it also.

For me this was a game I was marginally interested in, so this was easily enough to turn me off it.

(Edited by Bolldar Bloodaxe at 10:49 pm on Feb. 13, 2004)

[Zutroy]

Meh, I'd just say grow some thicker skin. Who cares what he thinks about your country? As long as he's doing his job it shouldn't matter.

[Bolldar Bloodaxe]

Why?? As I said I was only ever marginaly interested in the game anyway. Ive never liked any of the Warcraft series in the past as I find they dont hold my interest very long. I have to mistrust the thinking of a company who can appoint someone to a position like that who holds the views he does.

Id say someone who is in the position of dealing with the public from all those countries and professes to hate all those people except for Americans cant really be trusted to take the concerns of non Americans into account can he??

I dont seriously think Mythic gives a toss about there non prime time players either since everything they do in terms of game design is built around having large groups but at least Sanya hasnt publicly said she hates all non Americans (in so far as im aware lol) so it can be perhaps attributed to a design decision rather than bias. Thats true of most of these companies though there are some exceptions who cater for the non American audience and look after non prime time US audiences also.