My point was a simple one: studios that use quota principles hire people due to their race or sex, and this is irrational and unjustified.
As opposed to not hiring people, also due to their race or sex, which is very rational and justified. And you are maintaining that any non-white non-male hired by Obsidian is not qualified, not deserving of the post, hired simply for their race or sex. Uh-huh.
Then this guy starts saying that Sawyer is not the only one to blame,
Well, is he now? Can you address a single point I brought up? Is he one of the execs? Is he in charge of human relations and hiring policies? Is he the one to decide which games to pursue as a company? Is he in charge of the company? Is Feargus his little puppet?
While at it, why don't we also claim that Sawyer actually
fired Chris Avellone, since Sawyer's powers within the company are so wide and reaching?
and that he makes Obsidian selling a lots of units of a popamole game
I think you just haven't yet accepted what a shitty industry game development is and what lows game companies have to sink in to stay on water, if they can at all. You don't have to like all their games but there isn't any other company with their resources and potential that has stayed afloat for so long and that doesn't happen with good wishes. However, holding onto those resources to use that potential (and not delivering) is also what keeps them so bloated and needy, in my opinion. They could downsize and make more modest if much better games. Isn't that also one of the reasons Chris left the post?
and we can’t say bad things about him
Oh I said that, didn't I? Except I don't seem to find where. Perhaps because I didn't. In fact, I am pretty certain I said I don't like his design sensibilities one bit but I didn't have that juvenile need that you have, to lay everything bad there is on him alone. That actually also includes PoE, a game made using Obsidian's resources, not Sawyer's pocket money. So if it somehow became Sawyer's own personal project to the detriment of others, that shows poor management. Now, certainly Sawyer isn't a manager within the company.
Or... IS HE? <cue revelatory music>
By the way, little known fact; Sawyer is the unknown bastard child of Hitler. Now that explains everything, doesn't it?
and that I can’t prove that they hiring everyone based on moral prejudices.
Well, can you? Is Carrie Patel, for instance, whom you personally targeted, is such an inadequate, underqualified person? Let's ask one of the resident (male) Obsidian people.
What this has anything to with the initial point?
Well, you did bring up Sawyer's quote about women in game development and you also very specifically targeted Carrie Patel, so it's obvious that you have something to do with it.
What I find telling in your answer is that you somehow think that helping Obsidian become another sellout studio for causals is something commendable. Fuck these people.
Casual sellout that brought us KOTOR2, MOTB and NV. And POE is as much a casual sellout as Baldur's Gate was but still makes it a niche and in my opinion, at least, retains some hope for the future.
All in all, what I make of this exchange is that you are a spineless little shit who can't keep his story straight, and dead-afraid of women.
They are coming to get you, Lurker King!
Women are coming for you. Look! There is one of them, Carrie Patel! You better run before she castrates your little peashooter and feeds it to you!
