It’s been years, but that quote from the Xbox creator is now a cult.
A few weeks before the presentation of the first Microsoft game console, Xbox, its creator risked being fired for a phrase that later became a small cult, which perhaps few of you will remember: “Play is like masturbation. Everyone does it, nobody wants to talk about it“.
It was 2001, definitely another era, and the father of Xbox Seamus Blackley for this sentence he seriously risked firing, with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, the then CEO of Microsoft quite infuriated. All this is back in vogue thanks to Twitter, in an exchange between a user and Bloomberg journalist Dina Bass, protagonist together with other colleagues of the theory according to which video games would be equal to masturbation.
This quote nearly got me fired from Microsoft. https://t.co/d7ZTGKqTbi
– Seamus Blackley (@SeamusBlackley) January 21, 2022
You know, I got in a LOT OF TROUBLE for saying that. It was n argument for multiplayer gaining online, which Xbox was a pioneer in. Steve Ballmer and @BillGates were VERY upset at me about those comments. Thanks for bringing it up ????
– Seamus Blackley (@SeamusBlackley) October 11, 2019
Seamus Blackley went through a lot of trouble, but the resumption of the sentence associated with the matter Activision Blizzard it was inappropriate and above all unfair. Blackley is also sorry and unfortunately ran into one of the big problems of social media – especially of the American public – which decontextualizes phrases or ideas pronounced years before, blaming the protagonist. It is obviously hoped that it all ends like this, with an anecdote that simply makes you smile.
Source: Gamespot.com
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