Activision-Blizzard Sued By California

[BrintoSFJ]

The argument can be made that we all should.

But that would hurt a lot of low- and mid-level employees, including the ones who were harrassed while management would probably be cushioned from the financial fallout.

But then if we ask for return of the money we spent, we are rapists!

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Eh, actually he’s right. If you’re complaining about the down-time due to this issue, you’re not valuing the issue enough and thus are a cunt, like the rapist cunts at blizzard.

No, I am not! I paid them to make the game better, not so that they could take the money and rape their co-workers! Yet this is what they did! And now claiming that I am responsible for the rapes? The real cunt is them! Each and every one of them! Even the one claiming to be on the side of the victims! Right now what they are doing is diverting the blame and fist-pumping! Fuck them! I hope they all get fired!

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Well, no. That's not what he said at all.

I take it you're one of the people who are going to complain the next patch is going to take longer so now you're trying to rile up everyone else to make yourself feel better about not giving a shit about what's happening to their female workers.

The next patch would always come later, I am willing to bet they have not even started working on it. This is all just excuse to not work and keep taking our money! We should all unsub right at the moment, I did and moved on to FF14! Can't believe I actually did it and I would ever do it but I did, all thanks to these pieces of shit rapists!

[Svifnymr]

Clearly shareholders don't give a fuck, since the stock is more expensive than it was when this news broke.

I'm sure any protest will probably be small enough numbers to not make a big dent in overall profit. I only noticed this story from this thread, and I didn't even click on this thread for a while because I figured it was just some singular whining, rather than an actual story. So I wonder how many shareholders even follow things until they see a stock price hit.

[Elegiac]

To me this is the same as saying antifa and blm never had a valid position just chaos and riots.

Says a lot more about you than it does about what was said. Lol.

[arandomuser]

"guys im like totally against seexism and racism so im quitting wow for ff14"

(indirectly supporting a government with an actual emperor that by law can only be a male and only people of the majority ethnicity are allowed to be citizens, and woman still mostly forced into traditional roles, not to mention gays/trans people still having zero rights) to own that corporation who had a few allegations(not yet proven in court) those people are the worst. i get it if you hate on blizz but dont simp for a japanese company in its place if anything the problem in japan is 10x worst because its dominant culture there and gets absolutely ZERO criticism vs western companies who do put in actual effort.

[Elegiac]

"guys im like totally against seexism and racism so im quitting wow for ff14"

This is not "simping for a company", bruh.

Just say you're annoyed WoW is dying and looking for excuses to bash the competition rather than try and spin it into some ethical stance. Lol.

[Jotaux]

I see you're wasting time complaining about the jokey phrasing than providing literally anything to back yourself up and contradict me.

Ahh so you can make a joke but I can't, I see how it is.

[Elegiac]

Ahh so you can make a joke but I can't, I see how it is.

"Jokes" made in bad taste generally aren't funny to decent people, yes.

Then again there seems to be this notion that you can say the most vile and hateful shit imaginable but adding "jk" on the end makes it acceptable when... No, it just makes the speaker an ass.

[Yuujin]

But then if we ask for return of the money we spent, we are rapists!

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No, I am not! I paid them to make the game better, not so that they could take the money and rape their co-workers! Yet this is what they did! And now claiming that I am responsible for the rapes? The real cunt is them! Each and every one of them! Even the one claiming to be on the side of the victims! Right now what they are doing is diverting the blame and fist-pumping! Fuck them! I hope they all get fired!

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The next patch would always come later, I am willing to bet they have not even started working on it. This is all just excuse to not work and keep taking our money! We should all unsub right at the moment, I did and moved on to FF14! Can't believe I actually did it and I would ever do it but I did, all thanks to these pieces of shit rapists!

You didn't pay them to make a game better. You paid for access to a game. Said access does not give you the right to decide that pushing out patch 9.X is more important than Blizzard addressing its internal issues and treatment of it's female employees.

You aren't entitled to shit.

If you want to unsubscribe, go right ahead.

[uuuhname]

"Jokes" made in bad taste generally aren't funny to decent people, yes.

Then again there seems to be this notion that you can say the most vile and hateful shit imaginable but adding "jk" on the end makes it acceptable when... No, it just makes the speaker an ass.

*taps the sign*

[Elegiac]

*taps the sign*

It's also hella ironic given that a lot of the harassment at Blizzard was apparently being normalized under the guise of "it's just a joke".

[downnola]

*taps the sign*

I'm sorry if that's hard for you to hear because you think you're the hero of your own story, but you're a footnote in everyone else's
*blank stare*

Someone get my man a step ladder cause that fella was just dumpstered.

[zEmini]

I just read the entire lawsuit. I just do not know what to say. I feel terrible for the employees and it really galvanizes myself as a manager.

How could a billion dollar company fuck up so hard? Who is their worthless PR agency?

A mediocre cost of doing business fine will not be enough. I expect top management to resign, problem employees to be fire and criminal charges to be filed against the worst perps.

Shame.

[Elegiac]

How could a billion dollar company fuck up so hard? Who is their worthless PR agency?

Bush' former torture apologist. No, I'm not joking.

[Edge-]

Bush' former torture apologist. No, I'm not joking.

She's their "corporate affairs" director, and I guarantee that her email was not run through internal PR first. No PR person worth their salt would have green lit that letter.

[Elegiac]

She's their "corporate affairs" directly, and I guarantee that her email was not run through internal PR first. No PR person worth their salt would have green lit that letter.

I mean considering the "unelected bureaucrats" nonsense in the official statement, I'm not too confident in the skills of their actual PR team either. Lol.

[Krakan]

I wonder if blizzcon will go back to being about games or if it will continue to have social issues rammed into it after this myself.

I hope people are held accountable but I'm not really holding my breath on that.

[Edge-]

I wonder if blizzcon will go back to being about games or if it will continue to have social issues rammed into it after this myself.

Social issues like what? When did they not focus on games, outside of when they had nothing really to show like when they announced D:I? Which was a result of...having nothing else to show more than anything else.

[Elegiac]

I wonder if blizzcon will go back to being about games or if it will continue to have social issues rammed into it after this myself.

Fairly telling this is your first concern.

Social issues like what? When did they not focus on games, outside of when they had nothing really to show like when they announced D:I? Which was a result of...having nothing else to show more than anything else.

"I don't want social issues in my video game which is literally about how racial animus leads to endless cycles of violence and fosters societies more receptive to authoritarianism."

[Krakan]

Social issues like what? When did they not focus on games, outside of when they had nothing really to show like when they announced D:I? Which was a result of...having nothing else to show more than anything else.

If you have to ask when did they do that besides when they did that... well it kind of answers your own question.

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Fairly telling this is your first concern.



"I don't want social issues in my video game which is literally about how racial animus leads to endless cycles of violence and fosters societies more receptive to authoritarianism."

I loved gundam seed for its philosophical debate on genetic destiny versus personal ambition... the robots fighting kind of ruined it.

[Edge-]

If you have to ask when did they do that besides when they did that... well it kind of answers your own question.

What social issues did they even focus on? I'm genuinely not sure what the source of your complaint is outside of some diversity panels that went along with all the other game panels. Was it simply those panels existing at all?