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wardell seems like quite a scumbag.
by sleepybrett 8y ago
wardell seems like quite a scumbag.
- mcv 8y agoHe seems to be a genuine fan and gamer with some serious personality issues. I know him from way back on Usenet (probably comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic or something like that) when he was working on Galactic Civilizations, and he was rather insistent that games should be DRM-free, which I really appreciated. He has some other issues on which I strongly agreed with him. But as a CEO, he seems to have trouble with the idea that a) not everybody likes him or what he does, and b) other people have rights too, and they may conflict with what he might prefer to be true. And once he gets on the wrong side of an issue, he tends to double down and make it a bigger problem than it needs to be. I believe there was an issue with sexual harassment that he reacted really badly to, and now this. And probably quite a bit more in between.
- sleepybrett 8y agoHe threatened to shut down stardock before he'd be forced to change his personality (he claimed it wasn't sexual harrasment, 'just how I am').