/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10583960
Objectification theory is fucking retarded anyway, his approach is unironically the intellectual one.

>>6496771
>In 2000 after being fired from id Software he went to work for Wild Tangent making several dancing girl visualizers for Winamp and a third-person shooter called Betty Bad (an homage to Steed's favorite arcade game, Tempest).

>Steed gained press and controversy with the release of a "Crackwhore" female model for Quake II in response to a skin (character texture) contest for the first Quake sponsored by a group of female gamers who called themselves the "Crackwhore Clan". The Crackwhore model was released after Quake II was released as a downloadable character as an homage to that same female gamer clan. While Quake II included a female character as an option when playing, both the phraseology and approach to the Crackwhore model received some amount of criticism despite the 'Crackwhore Clan' having been created and organized by and composed solely of female gamers - not Paul Steed.

>He initiated and sponsored several modeling contests such as the Bad Girl and Cute Doll contests by which he challenged any and all other modelers to compete against him for sponsored prizes

>"The guy loved his naked women, though. One time he ran a contest where everyone was going to build hot female character models, and the winner would get their submission rigged and put into Quake 3 as a custom model (which was very new at the time). The result was essentially a pornography competition, with some models even having incredibly detailed and animating genitalia. The competition was scrapped because they couldn't find a way to judge the models without them fall into the public's hands and possibly ripped. I think it was for the best, as it was sort of a shameful competition anyway."

His cause of death is apparently unknown, but I think I know what it was: His love of the female form.
He also got made fun of by SA goons for modelling big breasts, which, judging from modern perspectives, is a positive.