After watching the Armor 2.0 stream and seeing a Bungie figure dressed like they just woke up was unappealing to say the least. One of the only good things about Activi$ion was that they always had a professional and refined appearance. While it’s okay to be casual in a work place such as a game development company it is most definitely not appropriate to appear that way to the consumer. I’m not friends with the dev team and I’m not watching a Sunday night game with them either. I’m a consumer. Part of being a consumer is having a safe knowledge that the creator of my consumption cares about the product. So tell me how could the team care about the product if they don’t care to wear shoes? Please have a common decency dress code next time.
Edit- no this is not about gender. No I don’t want to see formal wear. My intended point was I would’ve liked to see something above minimal effort. While I respect the work that the dev team does that appreciation does not transfer over to being happy with seeing pure disregard for respecting each other’s time. I understand that tech culture is dominated by people who don’t care about the newest fashion trend but professional presentation is still important. Had everybody on the stream been dressed casually I would’ve seen no problem. In the past the dev members have been dressed casual and that’s fine. Something above nothing is all those of us with a problem are requesting.
On a side note the sexism and the idea of “being a snowflake” both have no place here. This isn’t meant to be a hate mob. This is just feedback so Bungie knows that the consumers expect to see a level of professionalism above none.
Edit 2- yes. There are more pressing matters with the actual game. However the problems with the game do not override the problems with presentation. There is room for both discussions to occurs. Hopefully somebody has relayed that below causal wear is not the appropriate wear for a live appearance.
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Did you know that probably half the dudes that make you food in restaurants don't wash their hands after using the bathroom? The world has a million problems, this ain't one, champ. Sorry a game devs clothes hurt your feelings, you might want to explore that 👍
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Holy hell, shut up!
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6 Replies98% of gamers are disgusting, smelly people. Pots and kettles, people.
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Edited by jack_zedd: 8/16/2019 2:17:41 PMI swear, whenever I read a post I think it's the stupidest, another one comes and takes the title away. So far this is number 1.
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Man why you gotta be like that? Bungie is different from other game companies because they care about people. They have charities and respect worker hours. So why not have pajamas? What’s the problem with it?
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1 ReplyI thought it may have been scripted. Everything about these streams is intentional. The build they used for her warlock was a "lazy" build, which went along with the pj's she was wearing. It was basically saying that there are builds for different styles of play and that you don't have to always play like a tryhard, such as when you just woke up but still felt like getting some D2 in.
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Damn if only we could control ppl to look just like how we want.... force them to do thing put them in camps and feed them exactly what’s needed to survive.... cull the weak and sick.... have identification printed right on there skin... yah know bring them up to par with the rest of us
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Its a stream for a video game so its ok. I know bungie is a business but the main focus is a video game/entertainment.
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What are you going on about? I think dress codes impede creativity and are just a corporate invention to make us look like the robots they want us ti be. I like that bungie values its people and their creativity enough to not demand they dress a certain way. Go bungie!
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They create a video game. I DO NOT CARE what they look like or dress like. If they dress in comfy clothes, more power to them.
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Well, she did mention that she forgot or she wouldn’t have come to work in her pj’s. 🤷♀️
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[quote]While it’s okay to be casual in a work place such as a game development company it is most definitely not appropriate to appear that way to the consumer.[/quote] Someone's preferences for clothing is none of your business. Her employer doesn't care and you shouldn't either. [quote]the idea of “being a snowflake” both have no place here.[/quote] The fact that you took it upon yourself to create a thread about that shows the exact opposite. Worry about the work product that she delivers, not her clothes, mr/miss fashion police. man... this barrel really has no bottom.
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Is this what an ultra instinct douche bag sounds like?
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"Thinking is hard, that's why people judge". ~Carl Jung
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I don’t think everyone is that stuck up, plus the amount of hours these people crank out to deliver us content is insane. I can give two shits if they are wearing anything from pajamas to a MAGA hat. They have the right to be who they are and if their boss has no problem with it I don’t either. So it begs the question, why do you even care what they wear? They aren’t your coworkers, they don’t know you in person, they probably don’t have any business affiliations with you aside from you being a whiny customer. TLDR: Let people be who they want to be
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71 RepliesEdited by Hatter: 8/15/2019 10:26:04 PMThis is the 21 century. That is a gaming tech company. I work in tech so I understand this. A) casual is our style in tech. That's how we dress. B) the consumer base? Majority is not your normal business man or woman. They are gamers. We are gamers. Would we relate batter the people dressed in a suit? Or would we relate to a fellow nerd type gamer? Is it better to hear someone deliver a message very formal like in a suit business manner, or hear it from a passionate individual. You should not judge a person as unprofessional simply because they're not in a suit. And you should know your audience. I wear shorts and a hat every day to work. I have a bachelor's and masters degree in human computer interaction, and work on complex data driven software to solve customer issue and innovate. And I work in a fortune 500 company.
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Its Bungie. Let them dress how they want. If they want to wear jammies. Great! Keep your -blam!-ing mouth shut. They dont need you clowns telling them how to dress. This community will find anything to complain about.
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3 Repliesdude it's an bungie stream not cnn
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Edited by Dismay: 8/16/2019 9:27:55 PMI consider grammar above a 6th grade level to be professional. Do you not believe in commas?
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Oh my fücking god who cares
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Holy shit. You need a hobby. They make games for young adults and grown-ass men and women to play. It's not the State of the Union address.
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Edited by Divine_Majin93: 8/16/2019 11:32:38 PMUntil you can refine your grammar skills, I don't think you should be the one complaining about professionalism and refinement. Regarding appearances, your post looks like it was written by a troll or someone who slept through English class and ended up with some dead end, entry level corporate job. In my profession, you'd get ridiculed into next week if you communicated with that kind of typing.
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Are you their boss? If she wasn't told to change or sent home, then that means Bungie finds it acceptable. Why do you focus on her instead of the ACTUAL CONTENT?
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4 RepliesI'd rather have dedicated servers than a dress code, but I guess I'm just weird for caring more about getting DDoSed than about what some game dev was wearing in some video I'm probably never going to watch. ;P And yes, it is zero sum: every dollar spent on nice clothes could be going towards paying for dedicated servers at this very moment! *sarcasm* Seriously, if people are going to judge Bungie based on how they dress, then Bungie would never have sold a single copy of a single game back when they first instituted their anti-dress code dress code when they first incorporated. Bungie have so much to answer for, to be sure, but I prefer to judge Bungie on their actual merits (or more frequently these days, their demerits, like their lack of dedicated servers ;P) and not on something which does not actually impact the quality of the game or my end user experience with it, such as how casual a dress code they have at their workplace. As long as they're not dressed in a way as to make other coworkers uncomfortable or worse (eg. engaging in Blackface, cultural appropriation of Indigenous headdress, hate symbols and insignias, etc.), I really don't care what Bungie employees wear. This is either just really bad grasping at straws for people to find things to hate Bungie for, or it's a not-so-subtle sexist pretext to target one woman working in the video game industry on patently ludicrous and superficial 'reasons', while failing to point out that the woman's coworkers are similarly casually attired and yet clearly it didn't cause Bungie.net forums to spontaneously combust with faux-outrage. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be peeved at Bungie (and I'm standing in a long queue of people waiting to express our displeasure at Bungie for those reasons), that needling them on their attire is just pointless and detracts from the argument as an ad hominem attack rather than a legitimate criticism of Bungie or their game. I sincerely care more about the dangers of loot box gambling mechanics ruining good games by promoting, exacerbating, or even causing addiction issues in end users/Bungie customers... than I ever will about what some Bungie employee is wearing in some 'making of the game' vidoc that I'll never watch.
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5 Repliesreading your whining is unappealing to say the least. nothing wrong with pajamas. No one should be forced to conform to whatever dress code you want them to wear.