Blizzard banned the guild because the environment of World of Warcraft is one where sexual orientation is not to be discussed in any way shape or form. I agree that EULA’s are rediculous, but it is stated several times in the EULA not to make any references about sexual oriention in character names, guild names, and chat. Not a stupid move on their part, since it will keep this GLBT guild from creating more controversy and issues around themselves.

I like gay people. I have several gay friends that are pretty cool. But I do not support this “look-at-me-i’m-gay” mentality that so many gay people have adopted in recent years. They simply try to create an issue in an attempt to appear righteous. Let’s not get into the fact that your article generalizes against gaming companies, and game players. You are insulting an entire class of people who have probably dealt with an unfair ammount of insults from Oprah, Hillary Clinton, etc. Feel free to stay on the mainstream bandwagon, just leave us gamers alone to compete with one another and have fun.

As for ‘race’ in WoW. They might as well have called it ‘species’, especially since the opinionated irrational elite go into seizures at the mention of the word ‘race’. Choosing between races in WoW is not a matter so much of racial preference, but a matter of playing with your friends, looking cool, and creating a race/class combination that augments your combat abilities.

A great many individuals complain like you do and threaten to leave, or bask in their glory as they choose not to play WoW and deprive blizzard of a small peice of coin on top of their millions. There are common sayings to people like yourself that flaunt their ‘customer’s rights’ within the WoW community. We tell them blizzard won’t miss one player, especially one that raises a fuss; Nobody will miss you, and more players will play longer in your absense making blizzard more rich; and last of all, can I have your stuff? I guess that last one is irrelevant since you haven’t played yet, but if you can’t return the game to Amazon, send me your game discs, I have friends that would want it. Oh wait, this is postdated, can I still have your stuff?

I’m not a WoW fanboy. I can’t stand what Blizzard has done in the sense that they have made a game that requires an improper ammount of gameplay to even begin to enjoy upper level pvp content. I am all againt the rpg levelling system, and all for a renewable, non repetitive experience. In many ways, I wish Blizzard would make a better MMORPG than WoW. However, even my dislike of blizzard wouldn’t provoke me to turn against the truth that your article is misinformed, prejudiced, and childish.

If someone openly descriminates against a homosexual player or guild, they’re the one who should be reprimanded, not the person who was wronged. The admins responsible have effectively, if not condoned, then displayed their nonchalance to anti-gay sentiment, putting the blame for it on the gay people themselves, effectively telling the homosexual community “It’s your fault for being gay.”

I really don’t need to go into detail about why this is wrong.

While certain individuals may suffer from a particularly acute homophobia (Something I’m frequently called) I think that the more open-minded people owe it to others to set a better example (and not just in a World of Warcraft context).

Nothing sucks the wind out of someones sails as when their descriminatory sentiments are flamed by half of the zone. And nothing makes me happier.

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So you go running away everytime you hear gay used as a swear word. Man I would be running from everything everyday with as many times as i hear God and Jesus’s name used as swearing. How many times have you blurted out say “Jesus”. So You saying i could go into any place in the world and sew and make a big to do over someone taking Gods name in vain. Stop letting these petty things stop you , suck it up , forgive them, and know that you are more mature then some lil kid that think Jesus,God, and Gay is all swear words. I mean how do ya think a female dog feels everytime a human is called a female dog as a swear word. If i had 1.00 for everytime I heard Gods name used as a swear word i be rich. So dont pull the “gay” thing ok, its dumb and its inmature. Besides most games censor out “gay” but the dont god and Jesus when thay type dam after it. So you have some safty lol. Like I said they dont really know or care meaning of the word and what it means to someone else.

Now on the subject, I think it was stupid for this to happen to this girl and blizzard really needs to be carefull, but we cant be pulling up arms and getting lawyers into this mess cause that will just ruin the whole comunity of gaming then you will have net police everywhere and things not said will be reported for it being said and blah blah blah. I mean really every time i hear someone say something that is against Christians,Jews,Indians,Irish,German,Dutch, Fat, White men I could raise a big stink over lol. But i dont. When its come right out in your face bigotry then we need to stand up but i think this was a really bad misunderstanding and Blizzard is to fault. But we are all bigots that need to grow up cause a bigot is someone who hates another person for anything and any reason. just remember that.
Ok thnx for the time and my chance to voice my opinion.
Oh and dude(“zephoria”) who started this post your being a biggot to the gameing comunity , reread your comments and you will see that.

Now Im not a bigot, but i hate it when ppl(the action of it not the ppl “to cover my but” lol) want to make a mountian out of a ant hill.

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” That’s right! I have received an email from the head of Global Customer Service which included an apology for the way that their staff characterized my conduct, and that it was an unfortunate interpretation of their policy. They have removed the warning from my account. I will be posting the letter that Blizzard sent me on the guild website sometime this week so that you can see that advertising for your glbt friendly guild is NOT violating the TOS!!! ”

This is coming from the user of the account where this whole ordeal started.

This is from a letter from lambda legal group:

“Although Blizzard is well within its rights to insist that players avoid referring to other gamers in an �insulting manner,� Blizzard cannot issue a blanket ban on any mention of sexual orientation or gender identity. There is nothing �insulting� about identifying oneself as gay, lesbian or transgender, nor does the announcement of a guild for LGBT gamers constitute �harassment� in any sense of the word. If other players react insultingly to the mere presence of LGBT gamers, then Blizzard should discipline the harassers, not attempt preemptively to silence the potential victims of harassment.”

this so far has been the most logical argument presented by ANY side… including yer own blanket boycott of blizzard. it is most likely this argument the encouraged blizzard to quickly take a stand on the issue… their stand being that The Admins who Suspended the account… Did so without proper justification.

update yer post.

blizz hasn’t banned anything.

there were sum admins that made a bad decision.

it is not the companies position.

the official position is being clearified so this doesn’t happen again.

GLBT guilds now are protected to advertise for their guilds in the meantime.

It depends heavily on what server, what zone, what time of day. I just stopped playing on Hakkar, and one reason (I’ll admit it was a minor discomfort) was that EVERYTHING was “gay” or “ghey” or “fag” or “u liek boyz” or “wussy fag” blah blah blah.

The only way to get away from it was to /leave 1, so I chose to /leave Hakkar.

I don’t know where people get the idea that WoW is ,a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/illovich/97018364/”>completely straight anyway.