An old video becomes the blizzard boss just fatal

A video from the year 2010 just falls to the blizzard boss on the feet. For many, this is the proof: J. All Brack is deep in the Blizzard scandal.

The negative news around the game developer Activision Blizzard currently do not end. A few days ago, it became known that the state of California charges charges. It is about sexual harassment, unequal treatment of women in the workplace and a culture in which all that is tolerated and even promoted. Especially the former developer Alex Afrasiabi stands there in the criticism - but also the current Blizzard boss. J. Allen Brack had explained in a statement that he condemn such behavior in the company and shock it.

Now a video from BlizzCon appeared over 10 years ago and is for many of the proof: J. All Brack is in the swamp and helped himself establish this culture in Blizzard.

Who is J. Allen Brack? This is the current president of Blizzard Entertainment - ie the top chief. Since 2005 he works for Blizzard, at that time at World of Warcraft. He was previously the Executive Producer and Vice President for World of Warcraft, but then took over the post of Mike Morhaime, who said goodbye to Blizzard.

In a statement he had recently declared that he would actively assist against such a culture. A video from 2010 delivers the proof for some now: His statement is not correct.

What is that for a video? The clip comes from 2010 and the BlizzCon former. Already earlier there was a "Q & A" panel where players could ask their questions about World of Warcraft directly to the top developers.

At minute 4:25 a woman as a questioner comes to the series and explains that she is looking forward to giving it so many strong, female roles in WoW. But she also asks if there are plans for the future that not all look like as if they have sprung out a "Victoria's Secret" catalog and thus plays on the fact that the female models often have top model dimensions in the game and In addition, often little clothes wear.

In the first seconds after the question, the woman gets a lot of applause from the audience, with particularly female voices make out. Shortly thereafter, however, this is drowned by Buhrufe a significantly male mass.

It follows a small discussion of the developers with the question: "What catalog should they come?" What's a lot of applause from the public. Since the questioner can still laugh.

Alex Afrasiabi then asks: "Can you imagine that Sylvanas looks different somehow? So ... we feel what you mean and we want to vary clearly in the female characters. So ... yes, we choose other catalogs. "

The questioner is visibly uncomfortable as she removed. Especially the last sentence can be interpreted as a mockery.

Have the female roles changed? Especially ironically is that Sylvana's years later actually looks different and carries more veiling armor. Her abdominal protection then triggered a great discussion.

Also, World of Warcraft has become variable in its presentation of female characters. No longer all characters comply with the clichéd beauty ideal of "young and sexy dressed", but there are also a few older or obese ladies, such as Katherine Proudmoore or Lady Ashvane.

Something similar also found at Hearthstone - where Jina was subsequently veiled stronger and characters like the Sukkubus were even deleted.

What now has it with J. to do all the Brack? Also J. All Brack is sitting in the round and amuses a little over the question, makes a few little jokes with his colleagues. For many, this is a proof that he is "deeply complexed" and the defendant complained in the indictment, female culture at Blizzard has been an integral part for a long time and brackishly knows what's going on.

At the end of the question, he even belongs to Afrasiabi: "Hey, Alex, from which catalog comes the tauress woman?"

That too can be interpreted as a mockery - or as an allusion that WOW have female characters that do not match the beauty standard - such as taurene.

More news about the Blizzard scandal is here:

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• WOW player protest, make sit-ins and kill NPCs
• The scandal escalates: "Cocaine on the toilet, sex in the lounge"

This is how the community responds to the video: Whether on Twitter or YouTube, the old video is being discussed wildly. There are numerous comments, many of them are quite fresh. Among them:

• _ "A pretty clear evidence that J. all Brack is part of the women's despicable brothers culture." _
• _ "Only for the protocol, the guy very left, which mocks the woman at 4:30, is Brack. Now he claims, he would not be aware that there is a "frat boy culture" and mistreatment of women. "_
• _ "That's hard to look at. I mean, what a big asshole you have to be to be with "What do you mean?" And "from which catalog should you come then?" To answer. It's pretty obvious what she meant and that was reasonable feedback. But that's exactly how bad are the other guys in the crowd they shout. "We want every character is always sexualized!" Really strengthens these stereotypes that exist on WOW players. "_

The tenor is clear: Anyone who has already dazed then is part of the problem and has ensured that this culture is established at Blizzard.

What do you think?