Much of the controversy has been overblown but Mike has said some things that are, at best, incredibly tone deaf. He also seems to hold unpopular opinions about trans-gendered people, which I disagree with. He certainly has a right to express his opinions, but as a businessman, might want to keep those opinions to himself and close friends and off twitter.
As I understand it he said some stuff out of ignorance rather than malice, and apologized once a trans friend explained things to him. So while Mike and Jerry may put their foots in their mouths on occasion, they do seem like guys who are willing to be educated.
Gonna have to read up on that before deciding whether or not to purchase. I have doubts that the dnd5e team would be so closely linked with these guys if they hadn't gotten better on this stuff, learned from mistakes, etc. I've been surprised before, but I have a hard time seeing Jeremy working with someone who is even kinda transphobic, for instance. Inclusivity is extremely important to the whole team, as far as I can tell.
I do enjoy what I've seen of the C Team game, and my wife is listening to the old podcast episodes with Wil Wheaton right now. I avoided them for a long time just bc there are a million online media things to consume, and I didn't care to support the
-wolves guys (as another user said, it was more their reaction to criticism than anything else), but they seem to have grown? We'll see.
The article link MN linked was from 2013. So 5+ years ago he put his foot in his mouth, nothing since it seem? If not, is it worth dudging it up again if it’s a case where he apologized and grew out of it and hasn’t made the same mistake again?
Can we focus on the product coming out and not crud from the past that mike grew from? Most of us would be consider idiots based on thing
s we’ve said or done while in high school/college and adult life until we learned better.
Depends on if he has grown. The fact it happened 5+ years ago doesn't automatically mean that is the case. Some people never stop being the idiot they were in high school or college.
But also, he wasn't that young when he put out offensive material, doubled down when criticized for it, or when he expressed problematic views about trans people. Time, by itself, doesn't automatically get anyone a pass. It just gets them a chance to prove they've fixed their crap, at most.
