I was playing vs QuanticDestiny a few hours ago where he was calling me a "gook" and a bunch of offensive words. Now I understand that one may get frustrated if he/she loses in a game (I've been there myself). I also understand that it is his stream and he may say that he can do whatever the hell he wants in his stream. However, he stands now as a "community figure" who has the reach to influence thousands of viewers daily and can skew the public's view of sc2 community in an extremely negative direction.

Isn't it reasonable to expect a level of professionalism from a player that plays on a professional team? I just don't think spurting out racial slurs left and right in front of a large audience is why Quantic sponsors Destiny to market their team.

As a note, I don't think QuanticDestiny is a true racist. However, I do believe that ignorance towards his excessive use of racial slurs would eventually lead to tolerance within the community and that would be a very dangerous outcome.

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

May 01 2012 13:17 GMT

Destiny?

Racial slurs?

Woah, I never expected this.

Msr

Korea (South)495 Posts

May 01 2012 13:18 GMT

who cares, grow up. by the look at the minimap what he said was an accurate statement.

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Jakkerr

Netherlands2549 Posts

May 01 2012 13:19 GMT

Looks like you allined him.
Getting allined by Terran does that too people.

Obviously Destiny should know better then that tho.

Hulavuta

United States1252 Posts

May 01 2012 13:19 GMT

This was the reason that Destiny was released from compLexity, if I am not mistaken, and I'm sure Quantic hired him knowing he does this sort of thing, so I don't think they have a problem.

Matkap

Spain627 Posts

May 01 2012 13:19 GMT

i would grow a pair of balls

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iYiYi

United States489 Posts

May 01 2012 13:19 GMT

If it bothers you so much go email quantic and the sponsors. Or you can go get reddit to be your personal army,

RageCommodore

Germany912 Posts

May 01 2012 13:19 GMT

Who cares?

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GreyKnight

United States4720 Posts

May 01 2012 13:19 GMT

No, Quantic does not care. they signed him up frankly for this purpose

syn0r

64 Posts

May 01 2012 13:19 GMT

#10

It's not acceptable, but it is Destiny. It's what he's known for, unfortunately. If his team had a problem with it they would have never signed him.

yoigen

Germany369 Posts

May 01 2012 13:19 GMT

#11

Firing him is the only solution.

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But that won't happen, because reddit likes him unlike Orb.

KristofferAG

Norway25712 Posts

May 01 2012 13:20 GMT

#12

It honestly is something he's done for a long time, and it's not really a surprise to me. It's part of what I think Destiny is. A pretty good player with a slight anger management problem. He can be funny in his BM, but he can also be sad. Sure you could expect some sort of professionalism from him, but I personally focus on the gameplay of a gamer, not their personality.

Aunvilgod

2653 Posts

May 01 2012 13:21 GMT

#13

I really dislike Quantic for allowing Destiny to stay on their team.They pretty much trade professionalism for money.

Horrible team.

Anacletus

United States733 Posts

May 01 2012 13:21 GMT

#14

There's a lot of threads about this subject already, your claim is more like supporting evidence of this and not really a subject of it's own. You should probably just post this in one of those threads.

Piy

Scotland3152 Posts

May 01 2012 13:22 GMT

#15

Meh, if it didn't offend you, why make a thread about it? Faggot is just as offensive as gook, and you get called that pretty often online.

Also people say things when they're mad - and since you don't have a natural, I think I know why he was mad.

decaf

Austria1797 Posts

May 01 2012 13:22 GMT

#16

If it had been asians picking your cotton y'all would act immensely offended.

Andreas

Norway214 Posts

May 01 2012 13:22 GMT

#17

The fact that Destiny gets good money from streaming this kind of stuff on top of whatever his team does for him... I'm amazed there hasn't been a big cleanup about it. A large number of fanboys means you can get away with a lot, I guess.

Teoita

Italy12248 Posts

May 01 2012 13:23 GMT

#18

And how exactly is this new?

Zarahtra

Iceland4053 Posts

May 01 2012 13:23 GMT

#19

Always love good hypocrisy, idra and destiny can say whatever they want, others(read: orb) not so much. I personally think Quantic is quite aware of this personal... "trait" of his, and yer I guess you could report him via Bnet. Still the community should look down on this behavior, but alas this is one of the reasons Destiny is popular :/

how

United States538 Posts

May 01 2012 13:23 GMT

#20

On May 01 2012 22:17 Fionn wrote:
Destiny?

Racial slurs?

Woah, I never expected this.

My thoughts exactly. There is a SotG he is on where he talks about it a lot with iNcontroL and them, don't remember exactly which episode (not exactly easy to go through those sometimes.) But the jist of what he said is that he never asked to be a community figure and never tries to be one. When you are on his stream, he wants to be himself (and says that is what people should expect.)

On May 01 2012 22:23 Zarahtra wrote:
Always love good hypocrisy, idra and destiny can say whatever they want, others(read: orb) not so much. I personally think Quantic is quite aware of this personal... "trait" of his, and yer I guess you could report him via Bnet. Still the community should look down on this behavior, but alas this is one of the reasons Destiny is popular :/

Orb is a caster who is TRYING to be a community figure. A caster should never be allowed to get away with that kind of stuff. A player on the other hand, you can be much more lenient towards. They are there to play the game, nothing else. I still think we were all to harsh on him (mainly because he had already changed away from that behavior.)