Minecraft Creator: "We Did Not Pay Anyone To Party"

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:
It's actually quite heartening to see the game industry confronting this.

See, I can understand someone feeling this way about the IGDA thing. Even though I'm not sure that was exactly sexist, it was pretty inappropriate for the setting because that group represents developers, including female ones.

But this was Mojang's private shindig. Notch is claiming they didn't pay anyone, and it's not inconceivable that girls who don't know or care anything about games would be there to see Skrillex or just to party. But even if they did pay them, so what? No one was harmed or "otherized" in front of her colleagues.

I agree that Mojang likely didn't do anything wrong here, just that the outrage still means we've dragged this issue out into the open. If they really didn't do anything wrong, no harm will come to them, but we make headway on an important problem.

On a related note, i also agree that the women at the IGDA thing hardly qualified as "scantily clad," but again, the positive undertones here is that the game industry is standing up and acknowledging something that's been a big problem for a while.