I hope victims get justice and huge financial compensation (that will hit Bobby) but quitting WoW or boycotting other games because of current situation makes no sense. I don't see people stop using Amazon, Apple and other way worst companies or throwing away all their tech because the chipsets were made in the Foxconn City, and what's happening in that place makes ActiBli$$ looks like Hello Kitty's Garden Party. Quitting WoW is an equivalent of protesting against animal testing and later going to McDonald's for a double cheeseburger.
Certainly depends on company, chick is very special cause its not even publicly traded which gives them a lot more freedom to act out of norm. That said i think all the big corps fall under the yoke because they all publicly traded and benefit immensely from a higher rating so they cant justify going against it to investors.
Without making a judgement on political spectrum values, Ms. Townsend was a member of the Trump Administration, was in line at one point to be FBI director if I'm not mistaken. Kotick hired her after the election. I see her original letter not in terms of gender but more in terms of the standard D.C. response to problems. It affects both Dems and Republicans. It was tone deaf in the extreme as it showed not the slightest knowledge of gamers or the history of gaming and gamers over the last few years. Quite frankly, if Kotick had hired a male to be in that position who had just come out of D.C. it wouldn't have been all that different.
That's one reason why Kotick needs to have people that have worked with and in the gaming industry itself. He's not a very good ambassador to his customers so he needs to have staff that know the (t)ropes and understand what has gone on, how the industry as a whole has been and all the rest.
But I'm fairly convinced that Ms. Townsend dashed off a reflexive response that more reflects her time in D.C. than anything useful. Tone-deaf: indeed.
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"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
I would say it extends beyond politics. Nearly any topic nowadays gets broken into 2 sides and turned into a false dillema, and if you're not in either side you are disliked by both.
Don't know if it's more prevalent in US vs Europeans, but you can see it online every day in things as meaningless as discussions about the state of the game here, where you're either defending or attacking Blizzard, and if you disagree with anyone in either of those positions they immediately assume you are from the "other team" and that you fully defend everything that "side" defends.
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He didn't use it as an excuse, you claimed you were and then he said he was too. That's called a conversation. People react differently to things that happened to them.
There are also people who claim X happened them in order to feel connected to what ever big topic is going or because they empathize with the victims or what ever and figure having more "victims" come forward will help get justice for the real victims. Then theres also the people that lie to try and get cash or what ever out of major events. All those people end up hurting people in the long run even if one of the types might have good intentions.
If you wanna take the moral highroad then there can't be any exceptions. Don't deny their possible truths. Call out their other bullshit.
I feel most people that quit WoW are just sick and tired of everything they have become. I agree that quitting over this is kind of shortsighted but a lot of people and a surprising amount of streamers are just sick of the direction it is headed, myself included, first BFA and now Shadowlands. I think now it's a "okay, this is just too much at this point, I'm done".
This is going to go on and on for years and years as it works through the system.
looking out of my lonely room day after day