Everything from Actiblizz atm comes off as dmgcontrol directed at their shareholders smh
If you knew the candle was fire then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
We’ll see. Others have said correctly so that people will forget or misremember facts (cause people are genuinely dumb). But for me this just adds another nail in the iron maiden.
My family already has found next to no reason to play any blizz game besides WoW (classic and retail). All of us think classic was delivered wrong but one pushed on for r14 and region rankings. And that person dislikes tbcc altogether even though they have champion of naaru, and full haris pilton bags. They are playing ffxiv now.
And then for me the wowtoken boost enabled by boosting communities (look at gallywix and their labeling on events throughout bfa vs anything earlier in wow), soured my drive to go after real prestige things. Like for example I was one essence short of azeroth’s champion (needed 2400) and to look at a metadata site (wowranks.io) and from people I played during summer 2020 for azshara runs saying they paid for boosts, really ruined my view on wow. Which is reinforced by blizz making more money than ever but having lost 29% of customers since the first half of 2018. That easily says that value added transactions have grown, and why wouldn’t blizzard the sole provider of that not quietly double down on that in terms of content design?
This coming to light and blizzard’s pacing of content and broken reward structure for WoW have got me wondering why I am even subbed.
But yes I will wait until things have been processed by the legal system and not from a mob wanting immediate vindication and vengeance.
Last edited by Couchpotato2013; 2021-07-24 at 12:42 AM.
A lot of people say they are shock and not for this, but they say that to look good, but in reality they just saying it and not really meaning it. I rather wait to see what the state will prove as there evidence in court.
Ya, and that's the thing about Afrasabi. They don't actually have much of anything on him based on the document, yet people are getting the their pitchforks and already treating him like he's the next Cosby.
The Cosby Suite nickname could literally be one person saying that, even making it up. That's all it takes to put in the document. All they're trying to do is make him and the company look bad and sound like they have a case. I feel if that was a well known thing, there would be people coming forward about it and they would of made a clear point in the document that it comes from multiple people, but they don't. I guess we'll see if people do, but right now no one has that I've seen.
The rest of the details completely lack context and seem to be totally blown out of proportion.
Unless someone specifically comes forward to accuse him of something, they really don't have much of anything other than he was flirty to woman he knew at a company parties and that he groped one, which is actually something.
It's still pretty messed up they singled him out and ruined his life and reputation if this is all there really is. This department is California is doing some dirty, dirty, dishonest PR stunt so far from the looks of it.
I guess we'll see if there more.
Last edited by Mojo03; 2021-07-24 at 01:04 AM.
Well, generally filings don't have all of the evidence in a case, and discovery is the next part of the process to gather more, if a settlement isn't reached. So I wouldn't assume guilt for anyone just yet. This is a common thing with lawsuits, people think everything will be listed in the filing, when that's not how it works. The bulk of the evidence will be submitted when the actual trial starts - and I doubt the State has even assigned this to a judge yet. (Most likely will be on a specific judges' docket by Monday for sure.)
Also keep in mind Afrasiabi is not on trial here, the whole company is. As far as anyone knows, he didn't do anything criminal past groping women. If criminal charges are going to be filed, it can be completely disconnected to this case. But if he was allowed to operate in unacceptable ways due to the culture the leadership allowed to fester at the company, as the State is alleging, then he's fair game.
But again, I've posted that naming him and J Allen is potentially problematic.
So, it's shoot first ask questions never when it comes to Swifty and Quinton Flyn, but when Blizzard are in the hotseat it's a "distorted and untrue picture of our company".
Fuck you.
Scheduled weekly maintenance caught me by surprise.
All I ever wanted was the truth. Remember those words as you read the ones that follow. I never set out to topple my father's kingdom of lies from a sense of misplaced pride. I never wanted to bleed the species to its marrow, reaving half the galaxy clean of human life in this bitter crusade. I never desired any of this, though I know the reasons for which it must be done. But all I ever wanted was the truth.
these emails and tweets the top people are putting right now are all 100% screened by legal, HR and PR.... but some people seem to think its all from the person and open dialogue,esp the tweets. this is a legal matter and the prosecution is for sure reading this stuff, one of says the wrong thing and BAM case gets even worse (not that it can get a lot worse at this point)
All I ever wanted was the truth. Remember those words as you read the ones that follow. I never set out to topple my father's kingdom of lies from a sense of misplaced pride. I never wanted to bleed the species to its marrow, reaving half the galaxy clean of human life in this bitter crusade. I never desired any of this, though I know the reasons for which it must be done. But all I ever wanted was the truth.
Tonight for me is a special day. I want to go outside of the house of the girl I like with a gasoline barrel and write her name on the road and set it on fire and tell her to get out too see it (is this illegal)?
And no mention of the sudden departure of Alex Afrasiabi, a prominent figure of WoW, and the purging of his online profiles, hmmz...
Last edited by Daedius; 2021-07-24 at 01:30 AM.
The suit is as a result of a two-year-long compliance action by the state after which the state determined Blizzard had failed to make the changes it required to ensure compliance with the relevant acts.
It's mindboggling you think the department of employment has the time or resources to file a frivolous suit against a multibillion-dollar company just to destroy the life of a random blizzard exec.
An exec who clearly jumped before he was pushed which means blizzard didn't intend to stand behind him in their defence (make of that what you will).
EDIT:
This stuff about Golden is wild. I'm no fan of her wow world building but holy shit. Does she even work on the campus? She was a contractor like three years ago why are people pretending its her personal responsibility to stop sexual harassment at blizzard?
Last edited by Saltysquidoon; 2021-07-24 at 01:32 AM.
Tonight for me is a special day. I want to go outside of the house of the girl I like with a gasoline barrel and write her name on the road and set it on fire and tell her to get out too see it (is this illegal)?
Those emails just look like they're trying to do damage control and save their reputations. Not going to work. The damage has been done.