This is hilarious! Microsoft apparently banned a gamer from its online community because his profile said that he was from the town of “Fort Gay” in Virginia. Microsoft and the Xbox Live team had banned the gamer citing violation of gamers’ code of conduct. Microsoft had thought that the gamer was identifying his sexual preference by calling his home town to be “Fort Gay”.
The gamer, Josh Moore on finding out that his account was locked, did appeal to Microsoft and to the Xbox Live teams but it was a while before Microsoft realised its mistake. Microsoft and Xbox Live have since apologised to the 26 year old gamer and also to the entire town of Fort Gay.
Josh Moore said that convincing Microsoft that his town is for real was very difficult. He had to get to his local mayor David Thompson and also to the local media to get the issue resolved. The Xbox Live chief enforcement officer Stephen Toulouse acknowledged the incident and said that the agent reviewing a fellow gamers’ complaint against Josh Moore failed to check for the town name and was at fault.
Fort Gay appears in the records in 1789, when 11 people established a settlement near Louisa. In 1875, it was chartered as Cassville but changed its name to Fort Gay. A simple Bing search would have solved the issue.
Check out Fort Gay here.
OMG … this is ridiculous!!! Seems that someone at the Microsoft office is kind of homophobic … or gay himself! ;o))
i think you mean a single GOOGLE search would have resolved the issue
That is gay
Lol banning a guy for a silly reason is incredibly gay!!!!
Lol banning a guy for a silly reason is incredibly stupid
Wait, why exactly is it against the code of conduct to identify your sexuality in a gamer profile?
Wtf Microsoft?
its WEST VIRGINIA not VIRGINIA. they have been 2 different states for ALONG time, people need to stop confusing the 2.
On the other side of the coin, who the f*ck would believe that there’s a town called Fort Gay?
“On the other side of the coin, who the f*ck would believe that there’s a town called Fort Gay?”
The same people would would believe there is a town called Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
how stupid does microsoft have to be, for them not to simply google fort gay
is it that hard
What moron reported the name of someone’s town listed on their profile?
I mean really, how hard are people willing to work to find ways to be offended?