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Act Sexist in Halo 4, Receive Lifetime Ban |
Listed in: News Tags: 343 industries, bonnie ross, halo 4, kiki wolfkill, xbox live
Did you know that there are women that work in the games industry? And I’m not talking random HR people or PR spokesfolks, but actual game developers and designers? It’s true. Take, for example, the 343 Industries team that just finished working on Halo 4.
Kiki Wolfkill is the executive producer of the game. Bonnie Ross is in charge of the studio. And both have made it clear that sexism in the industry is a major problem, and it’s the responsibility of developers to solve it. Part of the solution? Lifetime Xbox Live bans for Halo 4 players displaying sexist or discriminatory tendencies.
Here’s Ross:
“I've seen many of the sites that have documented some of the more gender-specific slanderous comments. This is behaviour that is offensive and completely unacceptable. I'd like to think most of our Xbox Live players don't support this kind of behavior.”
Of course, Ross and Wolfkill admit that developers have to do their part to battle sexism in their designs:
Ross:
“As developers, we have a personal responsibility to think about how our games come across. With Halo 4, we were very deliberate in thinking about who should be female and who should be male in the game, and if we came off stereotypical, we went back to question what we were doing and why.”
And Wolfkill:
“Most people look at a franchise like Halo, and automatically assume it's run by a guy. People are surprised to learn that it's a woman who's running the Halo 4 show.”
What are your thoughts? Should devs be working harder on issues like sexism and discrimination?
[GameSpot]
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And to all the hos out there... this is just a joke. Girl you know I lurve you. :*
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While it's fine and dandy in thweir view to ban a sexist MALE, you will never hear about a woman being banned because they were telling a guy he will never get laid, or calling up stereotypes on him.
The problem is, as soon as women are able to make ''rules'' like these, they never think of balancing them, they only strive for unquestionable authority over males, sexism itself.
That aside, this is unnecessary. There is already the mute/report/avoid option on xbox live globally. They should be used, instead of making xbox live a PC battleground of landmines.
Aren't there much bigger problems on xbox live anyway? you know, real issues, like racism or homophobia? Sure, sexism is offensive, but the difference is sexism isn't anto-women, whereas racism is anti-race and homophobia is anti-gay, which are REAL offsets to those kind of people playing the games.
Sexism is simply ''the hurt feelings brigade''
you want equal rights? suck it up! Report/mute/avoid, but don't go crying to authority and demand blind power over the opposite sex!
;astly, this is way too easy to abuse. We all know how commen false rape claims are simply because a women had regrets/wanted to hurt someone. I can see this being used every time a woman loses a game to a man. ''It MUST have been because he was sexist being a MAN''
terrible, terrible decision. A sexist decision in itself.
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