Hearthpwn

Well, at least they promoted progressive ideals at the expense of product quality :^)

I am really getting sick of ,,Someone allegedly did some horrible stuff so lets just randomly punish them and/or people connected to them without any proof or trials,, situations. Its been happening a lot recently around hs and I couldn't care less to be honest. If someone did something horrible...the legal system should take care of it. I don't even want to hear about it. I play this game for fun , not to dole out justice to ALLEGED horrible people.

This.

This would make sense if they somehow would be cancelling the release of the expansion. It's just a delay in the reveal of 2 cards of a set of 135, how bad can it really be for you? chill, you'll get to see and play with the cards soon enough.

There was a two year investigation into this by the state of california. Maybe do some damn research before you open your mouth and look like a fool.

That's the thing. I DO NOT CARE. Finding out if someone is guilty of some crime or punishing them is something I am neither interested in, nor qualified to do. And it's certainly NOT the reason I play hearthstone or come to this site. There are legal systems in place to do this sort of thing and there is zero reason for a game made for entertainment to be involved in any way.

After reading what happened and still not caring makes one a fairly bad human being.

It is time for an internet community to overestimate how much of an impact they will do with their "protest" yet again. Isn't Blizzard suppose to be "dead" or "bankrupt" already ever since the "big internet protest" of Blitzchung?

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Worst case scenario there won't be new reveals from streamers... blizzard can just reveal the cards themselves if more youtubers/streamers do the same. 

 

Also I do feel it makes sense to affect hearthstone, the same company that goes as progressive with gender stuff can't allow sexual harassment (or be ignorant of it) just a couple of desks away. It's hypocritical at the least.

 The company started growing progressive with gender issues as soon as they started being investigated. Coincidence?

Can you please protest somewhere else and reveal my cards? I didn't do anything wrong.

Attention seeking apes. I'm so tired of what is culminating in the US these days.

ooof this topic is WAY 2 touchy 

The best part was when Blizzard devs had walk outs and protests over that "tough esports moment" but they certainly didn't care about stuff like this.

So I read up about that and apparently, they did file complaints to HR on those matters...and received punishment, victim blaming and deaththreats. Also, many of the ex-employees stated those things. They were disregarded as "disgruntled ex-employee".
And if you're protesting the higher ups on pure "he said-she said", you will be fired long term and probably won't find a good new job with that "stain".

Sure, but they'll walk out over some card game playing guy getting suspended, but won't over their own health and safety?  Or do they just not care about their own co-workers?

"Or do they just not care about their own co-workers?" Probably that.

Jokes aside, I can just assume that the denial-mentality of "It isn't that bad" or "This guy? Nah, you are lying/overreacting" grew rather rampand among the male employees (who weren't part of the inner circle) and, well, the females were probably terrified. I've for example read about threats of worse physical harm, if they spill the beans (e.g. groping->rape). Maybe they were ashamed to let it happen to them.
These tactics and reinforcing those feelings are common among abuse and rape incidents. "No one will believe you, but I will know"-style.

To walk out against China is rather easy in comparison, no real personal fate involved and no direct enemy. Nobody will call you a liar or say you're overreacting about your trauma.

That said
Yes, they clearly did too little. Those elaborate structures neither just happen out of nowhere nor over night.

TLDR: Blizzard spend most of their time making female coworkers recreate The Human Centipede in their offices.