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“What were they thinking?” You may ask, of two men in the games industry who have made some very insulting comments about women. How low can they go? CliffyB was giving an interview when he came out with some things that you’d only expect two half shit-faced guys to say to each other in private. But no, this was not private it was to a journalist.
He certainly wasn’t thinking of the fourty something percent share of his games that are purchased by a female.
Speaking with GamePro, Gears of War and Halo series creator Cliff Bleszinski explained his thoughts on Beta tests and spoke about his reluctance to offer Beta tests of his games.
A beta is like hooking up with a girl just to say, “yeah, I fucked her.” I know that sounds crude, but it’s the honest-to-God truth. Once you play a beta, you can check it off your list–you can say, “yeah, I played it.” Then you might not feel motivated to get that initial cherry popping from the proper, final game.
A female college blogger who is studying for degrees in programming reports that she “had the “opportunityto hear Bertrand Chaverot’s keynote on November the 11th. …he is responsible for bringing an Ubisoft development studio to Brazil, in order to develop games for Nintendo DS aimed at girls aged 7-14 …he made a sick joke during his keynote. It just screwed up my vision of Ubisoft São Paulo, even though I, like many people, till that moment would have very much liked to work there. For someone who was trying to make people believe the Imagine series games are not just a bunch of stereotypes for girls, but have a solid basis on market analysis …gave the wrong message. The games industry needs more “women who are designers and artists, so they can make better games for women”, he said something on the lines of “but not programmers, because as you know, women’s brains are not good at that”. Then he laughed, and the audience, composed in majority of post-pubescent (or otherwise apparently immature) men laughed too. Come on…something like this can’t be said, SPECIALLY NOT at a formal event in which you are representing not yourself and your 19th century opinions on women, but YOUR COMPANY. Most of them knew neither how to program nor how to draw games. But still they laughed… about: women who are programmers.“
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