原文标题:Xbox 创始人曾因一句“玩游戏就像打X枪”,差点被比尔盖兹开除
原文网址:https://games.yahoo.com.tw/seamus-blackley-xbox-032359914.html
Yahoo 奇摩游戏编辑部
Seamus Blackley 是初代为微软打造 Xbox 的创始人,虽然已经不再为微软工作,但近几
年来仍然会对 Xbox 的服务或是决议发表相关看法,力挺自家人与玩家的权益。而近日他
就在 Twitter 上爆料了自己当年的一个小故事,那就是因为他访问中脱口说出的一句话
,差点被当时的老板比尔盖兹(Bill Gates)给开除。
https://i.imgur.com/CZfbUDI.jpg
左边 Bill Gates 右边 Blackley,没想到因为一句话差点被开除。(图源:Twitter/
Seamus Blackley)
事情发生在先前,一名网友引用了外媒 Bloomberg 科技记者 Dina Bass 的一句话:“玩
游戏就像是打X枪,每个人都会做,但是没有人会想要讨论”(Gaming is like mastur-
bation. Everybody does it, nobody wants to talk about it.),不过 Bass 却回应
这句话其实不是他原创,并直接点名了 Xbox 创始人 Seamus Blackley,这是 Blackley
在2001年说出口,当年游戏的定位确实难以说出口。
| @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 被标记后也马上出现回应,原来在当时2001年 Xbox 推出前,他接
受了媒体 Eastside Journal 的采访,结果他就说出那句不该出现的话,Blackley 提到
那时公司内部有些相当保守的高层人员读到了这句话,直接被叫到4楼约谈,害他差一点
被微软开除。
| This quote nearly got me fired from Microsoft.
https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/1484314944183037960?s=20
不过早在2019年 Blackley 其实就回应过 Bass,当时的一名高层和比尔盖兹对这样的说
法非常不满,幸好最后他没有被开除,成功推出了 Xbox,并在经过20年后成为了与索尼
和任天堂相当的三家主机大厂之一。
| 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