原文標題:Xbox 創始人曾因一句「玩遊戲就像打X槍」,差點被比爾蓋茲開除
原文網址:https://games.yahoo.com.tw/seamus-blackley-xbox-032359914.html
Yahoo 奇摩遊戲編輯部
Seamus Blackley 是初代為微軟打造 Xbox 的創始人,雖然已經不再為微軟工作,但近幾
年來仍然會對 Xbox 的服務或是決議發表相關看法,力挺自家人與玩家的權益。而近日他
就在 Twitter 上爆料了自己當年的一個小故事,那就是因為他訪問中脫口說出的一句話
,差點被當時的老闆比爾蓋茲(Bill Gates)給開除。
https://i.imgur.com/CZfbUDI.jpg
左邊 Bill Gates 右邊 Blackley,沒想到因為一句話差點被開除。(圖源:Twitter/
Seamus Blackley)
事情發生在先前,一名網友引用了外媒 Bloomberg 科技記者 Dina Bass 的一句話:「玩
遊戲就像是打X槍,每個人都會做,但是沒有人會想要討論」(Gaming is like mastur-
bation. Everybody does it, nobody wants to talk about it.),不過 Bass 卻回應
這句話其實不是他原創,並直接點名了 Xbox 創始人 Seamus Blackley,這是 Blackley
在2001年說出口,當年遊戲的定位確實難以說出口。
| @dinabass: "Gaming is like masturbation. Everybody does it, nobody wants to
| talk about it."
| To give credit where credit is due, that was me quoting something
| @SeamusBlackly said to me in the fall of 2001 a few weeks ahead of the orig-
| inal Xbox launch. The point I was trying to make is that gaming now mainstr-
| eam where it as a bit more hidden back then.
https://twitter.com/dinabass/status/1484289099712253952?s=20
而 Seamus Blackley 被標記後也馬上出現回應,原來在當時2001年 Xbox 推出前,他接
受了媒體 Eastside Journal 的採訪,結果他就說出那句不該出現的話,Blackley 提到
那時公司內部有些相當保守的高層人員讀到了這句話,直接被叫到4樓約談,害他差一點
被微軟開除。
| This quote nearly got me fired from Microsoft.
https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/1484314944183037960?s=20
不過早在2019年 Blackley 其實就回應過 Bass,當時的一名高層和比爾蓋茲對這樣的說
法非常不滿,幸好最後他沒有被開除,成功推出了 Xbox,並在經過20年後成為了與索尼
和任天堂相當的三家主機大廠之一。
| What about those of us who got to interview you as you expounded on your
| theory of how gaming is like masturbation? (Which my editor would NOT let me
| put in a story no matter how I tried).
| You know, I got in a LOT OF TROUBLE for saying that, It was n argument for
| multiplayer gaming online, which Xbox was a pioneer in. Steve Ballmer and
| @BillGates were VERY upset at me about those comments. Thanks for bringing
| it up.
https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/1182502393486794753?s=20