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Here is the information released as part of the investigation into Activision Blizzard by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) so far: https://aboutblaw.com/YJw
Feel free to check it, people.
Not really I have no stake in this just when you blanket statement everyone with the title of bootlicker you come off as self righteous as the you tubers pretending to care.
Ben Brode's comment on the subject:
https://twitter.com/bbrode/status/1418708159246397442
I wonder what you ever did for the world to judge other people's actions.
That's weird, I can't see the grizzlybear6 post, but I can see it quoted in Mania's reply.
I don't have any ignored users, so it isn't that.
Oh well. As I said in my first post, the one good thing I can see about this mess is that a few of the allegations are black and white provable without asking a judge or jury to empathize or understand another person's feelings. That is the pitfall for a lot of sex discrim cases . . . some folks have a deeply ingrained "boys will be boys" mentality that results in excusing a lot of different behaviors.
I hope that, assuming the accusations are true, the victims kept the documentation they need to prove the pay scale discrimination and such. I realize that's not the most serious issue here as far as most observers will be concerned, but as always, it's not what you know, it's what you can prove. And that particular accusation is fairly easy to prove.
Helpful Clarification on Forbidden Topics for Hearthstone Forums:
Enjoying Americans winning in the Olympics is forbidden because it is political. A 14 plus page discussion of state-sponsored lawsuits against a multi-national corporation based on harassment, discrimination, and wrongful death allegations is apparently not political enough to raise an issue.
I couldn't see your last post at first either, something is marking things as spam at random here. -.-
That's vague enough to apply to both sides, but obvious enough to apply to a particular side.
"Oh no, not me though! I had nothing to do with it! I never reported anything, but I had nothing to do with it! I worked there for 15 years but I had nothing to do with it!"
People stop shoving this topic down my throat, I don't care about that girl i don't care about blizzard im here to get my goddamn dopamine from card reveals. i don't even play HS that much but i can't watch a stupid HS video witout getting OOOH MAN IT'S SO HARD FOR ME TO DO THIS STUFF WITH HS NOW SINCE THAT HAPPEND... I mean quit if you don't like it man, Toast at last had the balls to do it and stay true to his words
Yeah, that was a very weird response. I'm starting to feel nauseos to be honest. Ben has always been an inspiration to me as a game developer, I hope he has nothing to do with it. :(
If all this shit turns out to be true, chances you won't get your "goddamn dopamine from card reveals" anymore are pretty high. Don't be silly, please, this affects everyone here. -.-
For all the lawsuits Activision/Blizzard could face, sexual harassment charges is the lowest denominator for a masculine money driven company. Looking forward to the next one concerning MMR/RNG manipulation. It's all in the cards.
We make our world significant through the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
What could you possibly mean by "chances you won't get your [dopamine] anymore are pretty high"?
Helpful Clarification on Forbidden Topics for Hearthstone Forums:
Enjoying Americans winning in the Olympics is forbidden because it is political. A 14 plus page discussion of state-sponsored lawsuits against a multi-national corporation based on harassment, discrimination, and wrongful death allegations is apparently not political enough to raise an issue.
"Horrible attrocities happen in the world therefore crimes that don't affect me should go unpunished and unnoticed!"
Big brain statements in this thread by big brain users!
So if anybody harms you or your loved ones, police response should be "bruh, hunger, pandemics and genocides happen, deal with it"
Well, at this point, the fate of this game is more uncertain than ever. We don't know how exactly all this will affect Hearthstone, so I'm really worried about it too. Things can get very ugly for Blizzard and would likely have a huge impact in our beloved game. No more card reveals as we are used to? I don't know, call me extremist, but the possiblities are there.
I suppose the card reveal thing could go away if content creators continue to use them as ammo for statements against the company (and I don't mean that as a judgment, just that that's how Blizzard will see it).
I can't really see it going much further than that in terms of changing things. I'm sure Activision will hire some new "sensitivity coordinator" or some other good-sounding position in the hopes that they get some positive spin over it. There might even be a firing or too, though more often than not, even that small a result is hard to come by.
Regardless, the show will go on. It's embarrassingly difficult to mobilize groups of people in the name of any moral cause unless it demonstrably effects the group directly, seriously, and frequently.
Helpful Clarification on Forbidden Topics for Hearthstone Forums:
Enjoying Americans winning in the Olympics is forbidden because it is political. A 14 plus page discussion of state-sponsored lawsuits against a multi-national corporation based on harassment, discrimination, and wrongful death allegations is apparently not political enough to raise an issue.
Indeed a brutal fight. Alex really kicked the shit out of "I just want to eat bread man-man's" you go girl!
Let's hope so. :)
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I'm really shocked by the comments in this thread. Like, really people? You can't just put the card reveals aside for a moment to care about a problem that is causing deep suffering to people all over the world? Because this isn't some isolated problem or small incident. It happens everywhere on a daily basis. It's a problem in modern society. Yet, lots of people here seem to not just desire to disregard this in its entirety but they have to come here and post about it. They have to post how they don't care, how it doesn't affect them, how it is stealing their "dopamine dose" or some nonsense like that. Is this really the only dopamine source you have access to right now? You have nothing else to make you feel good in your free time? You really can't wait just a few days to see the cards? You really have to come here and act like a petty child who just had their favorite toy taken away for a few brief moments? If you don't care about what is happening then, at the very least, don't come online to post terrible messages because it's truly disgraceful to expose your own lack of empathy for other human beings.
Well, none of the complaints point to wrongdoing on the HS or OW teams, at least. It mainly focuses on the WoW and Battle.net teams, and issues with senior leadership on those teams, with incidents that date back as far as a decade or more.
The HS and OW teams, more now than ever, are comprised of a lot of new blood that came to the company more recently to work specifically on those games. So it's less likely they'd be subjected to the same work culture. There were also people (Dave Kosak for example) who moved from prominent roles on WoW to arguably smaller roles on HS. This is pure speculation but I wouldn't be shocked if it turns out that they changed teams to get away from that toxic work environment.
Hopefully they can clean house and move on. I want to be able to enjoy these games, and I want the creators to be able to enjoy making them.