Activision Blizzard Sued for Sexual Harassment and Discrimination

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What a piece of shit Blizzard is and there are worst things to come.

Hugely unacceptable for how they treat women in the company. It's disgusting!
Unfortunately this is... just how the video game industry is.
 

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Unfortunately this is... just how the video game industry is.
I refuse to believe that most video game companies follow those practices.
 

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I refuse to believe that most video game companies follow those practices.

You'd be surprised. Blizzard is just one of the ones we *know* about.

Konami is one of the other most well known companies that mistreat their employees.

EA is notorious for mistreating employees and enacting union-busting firms to keep other employees from getting any ideas.

Gearbox is a company full of shills who care about nothing but the bottom line and will run their staff like cattle in order to get the job done. Randy Pitchford is one of the worst executives in the gaming industry today.

Ubisoft is similar to Gearbox, the bottom line comes first, and release dates are mandatory. They will work employees to death just to finish a product on the correct date and time. That these games come out unfinished projects that require months of rebuilding and patching to make them even remotely playable is of no consequence to them.

Nintendo, the god-forsaken Jesus Christ of video game companies is just as notorious for some of these practices. Japan's culture in general is an intense economy-based work environment in which deadlines are strict and failing to do a quality job could mean your life. Not to mention that Nintendo is among the worst when it comes to authoritative practices regarding their products.
 
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You'd be surprised. Blizzard is just one of the ones we *know* about.

Konami is one of the other most well known companies that mistreat their employees.

EA is notorious for mistreating employees and enacting union-busting firms to keep other employees from getting any ideas.

Gearbox is a company full of shills who care about nothing but the bottom line and will run their staff like cattle in order to get the job done. Randy Pitchford is one of the worst executives in the gaming industry today.

Ubisoft is similar to Gearbox, the bottom line comes first, and release dates are mandatory. They will work employees to death just to finish a product on the correct date and time. That these games come out unfinished projects that require months of rebuilding and patching to make them even remotely playable is of no consequence to them.

Nintendo, the god-forsaken Jesus Christ of video game companies is just as notorious for some of these practices. Japan's culture in general is an intense economy-based work environment in which deadlines are strict and failing to do a quality job could mean your life. Not to mention that Nintendo is among the worst when it comes to authoritative practices regarding their products.
Motherfucker. You got me there Grim.

I'll take back my words about the video game companies not doing the stuff they do. I'll shut up now.
 
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Motherfucker. You got me there Grim.

I'll take back my words about the video game companies not doing the stuff they do. I'll shut up now.

I really wish it wasn't so. I'd really love it if developers and whatnot actually were capable of unionizing and regaining a sense of control from this bullshit corporate structure that they have to deal with. More benefits for them and some sense of respectability.
 
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You'd be surprised. Blizzard is just one of the ones we *know* about.

Konami is one of the other most well known companies that mistreat their employees.

EA is notorious for mistreating employees and enacting union-busting firms to keep other employees from getting any ideas.

Gearbox is a company full of shills who care about nothing but the bottom line and will run their staff like cattle in order to get the job done. Randy Pitchford is one of the worst executives in the gaming industry today.

Ubisoft is similar to Gearbox, the bottom line comes first, and release dates are mandatory. They will work employees to death just to finish a product on the correct date and time. That these games come out unfinished projects that require months of rebuilding and patching to make them even remotely playable is of no consequence to them.

Nintendo, the god-forsaken Jesus Christ of video game companies is just as notorious for some of these practices. Japan's culture in general is an intense economy-based work environment in which deadlines are strict and failing to do a quality job could mean your life. Not to mention that Nintendo is among the worst when it comes to authoritative practices regarding their products.
All of this x 100
Employees of large gaming companies are some of the worst treated people in the hi tech industry its awful and one of the big reasons I didn't end up doing a career in that field.
 

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And now the bombshell dropped today that Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick not only knew about the allegations the company is being sued for, but he straight up did nothing.

In a conference call, the board of directors genuinely sided with fucking Kotick, and now even more employees are walking out of the company. It's up to 200 more now.


The fact Polygon, the biggest gaming news website on the planet has taken a hardline stance advocating for the resignation of Bobby Kotick is actually big news too.
 
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As an avid watcher of Stephanie Sterling, none of this was surprising. She's been going on for years about what terrible people Bobby and Randy are (as well as others).... I'd love to see Kotick gone but fact is he keeps making money for the shareholders and at the end of the day that's the only thing they care about. They won't give a damn about staff leaving. They are replaceable in the eyes of the people at the top of the food chain..
 

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The more that comes out, the more I don't want to play video games. It is hard to support companies that are known to do things like this. Sad part is there is so much more we don't know about a lot of companies.
 
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The more that comes out, the more I don't want to play video games. It is hard to support companies that are known to do things like this. Sad part is there is so much more we don't know about a lot of companies.

Haven't bought a COD game for a couple of years now :garrett Can't remember the last game with Activision slapped on actually :hmm:
 

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They letting girls develop games now?

No wonder Activision failing hard. :neckbeards: