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Diablo Fans Abuse Jay Wilson on Way Out
Last week, Blizzard’s Jay Wilson announced he was leaving the Diablo III team to work on a new project within the company—and the haters POUNCED. Soon after the genuine well-wishers and “see ya later”ers, a bunch of folks unhappy with the way Diablo III turned out appeared and started leaving nasty messages on his farewell post.
According to a post on Eurogamer, the sentiments of the mob got so unruly that chief creative officer for Blizzard Rob Pardo stepped in to come to his colleague’s aid, and to try and silence critics who’d gone too far:
“This thread saddens me greatly. I know that the Battle.net forums have earned a reputation for rough justice, but I do not believe justice is being served by how people are speaking about Jay’s departure from Diablo 3. […]
I’ve worked with many, many designers at Blizzard and Jay is one of the best. He has a great career at Blizzard ahead of him and I guarantee that you will enjoy Jay’s game designs in future Blizzard games. […]
If you still feel the need to dish out blame, then I would prefer you direct it at me. I was the executive producer on the project; I hired Jay and I gave him advice and direction throughout the development process. I was ultimately responsible for the game we released and take full responsibility for the quality of the result.”
Internet commenters can be pretty rough. One of the greatest things about the internet are the ways that everyone has a say. One of the worst things about the internet is that saying something, anything, is as easy as slapping the keyboard and hitting “submit,” with little to no regard of who’s on the receiving end of the hatred. Whether you’re a fan of what Wilson has done or not, just think about it: he’s a real, living, breathing human being. If you don’t like his work, that’s fine, but you don’t have be a major dickhole about it when he changes jobs.
C’mon, internet. Let’s just be nice. For once.
Via Eurogamer
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I’m sure it balances out somehow, considering he talked about his former colleague in about as rash manner as any Diablo forum poster.
I believe Jay’s words were “Fuck that loser.” — in reaction to this interview. http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/interview-diablo-creator-david-brevik-discusses-his-feelings-on-diablo-3
Now, I’m not saying anyone’s right here. No one is. And I do know that Jay did apologize at some point down the road for such thing.
But, because the “Legion” does not forget or forgive, Jay is just reaping what he sow in their eyes.
Unfortunate on all ends. Hopefully Jay is an optimist, and shrugs it off.
I didn’t care enough to go there either commend or bash the guy, but c’mon, he and his team ruined a perfectly good franchise, and then proceeded to get butthurt when people start saying they hated the game, then he and his posse of monkeys tell one of the greatest minds in VG history to “fuck off” what did he expect?
Fine, I’m extremely bias towards this subject, but you get the point, while I agree that it’s very rude and childish to dish out on the dude, it sorta goes with the territory, this being the internet and everything.
Got banned for a week for saying Jay said “F that Loser,” while still wishing him well in the end. The mods were deleting just about anything negative about Jay. It was disturbing, really.
Funny, though, that it took Jay leaving for Pardo to finally have his back.
Jay Wilson is a douche bag asshole who deserves everything he got.