Wow, pretty disgusting stuff. I suppose it isn't hugely surprising how sexist gaming companies are considering how sexist a large portion of many online games player bases are.
How’d you connect those two? Devs do not equal their toxic player bases.
Activision Blizzard Sued by California over ‘Frat Boy’ Culture
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#12Wow, pretty disgusting stuff. I suppose it isn't hugely surprising how sexist gaming companies are considering how sexist a large portion of many online games player bases are.
This is basically the same Argument as the one that really kickstarted Gamergate IMO.
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#13Piece of shit company that declares another character gay to cover up any bad press turns out to be a piece of shit company.
Can't say I'm surprised.
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#14Wow, pretty disgusting stuff. I suppose it isn't hugely surprising how sexist gaming companies are considering how sexist a large portion of many online games player bases are.
How’d you connect those two? Devs do not equal their toxic player bases.
People working in game design choose to accept lower pay and worse working conditions than other industries offer for the same skills.
That makes no sense unless they're gamers themselves.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
How’d you connect those two? Devs do not equal their toxic player bases.
People working in game design choose to accept lower pay and worse working conditions than other industries offer for the same skills. That makes no sense unless they're gamers themselves.
There’s probably a couple billion gamers and less than a hundred thousand game developers of which only an even smaller fraction have been accused of anything.
That’s a tiny, tiny fraction to use as the reason to assassinate the characters of everyone else.
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#16> The suit also points to a female Activision employee who took her own life while on a company trip with her male supervisor. The employee had been subjected to intense sexual harassment prior to her death, including having nude photos passed around at a company holiday party, the complaint says. Yikes. After the stories that came out about Riot Games, it seems like this sort of behavior isn't super uncommon amongst…
And their response is:
> We are sickened by the reprehensible conduct of the DFEH to drag into the complaint the tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing whatsoever on this case and with no regard for her grieving family.
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#17Anecdote: I work on a game team at Activision Blizzard and have seen nothing like this behavior. If anything people are terrified of creating a harmful climate because the company is so “woke”. (2 hour webcast featuring a non-binary skateboarder’s experiences growing up in the middle of the workday! [that’s just this week])
How long have you worked there, and how long has it been this way?
The company has been under investigation for a long time and known it. Of course you've been subject to an oversized response: the company wants to portray that clearly they've always been ""woke"".
They know that a single new incident right now, during this lawsuit, will cost them dearly.
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#18Anecdote: I work on a game team at Activision Blizzard and have seen nothing like this behavior. If anything people are terrified of creating a harmful climate because the company is so “woke”. (2 hour webcast featuring a non-binary skateboarder’s experiences growing up in the middle of the workday! [that’s just this week])
Companies that present themselves as woke seem to be among the worst perpetrators.
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#19Piece of shit company that declares another character gay to cover up any bad press turns out to be a piece of shit company. Can't say I'm surprised.
They have to introduce a lot of gay characters to cover for this.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
How’d you connect those two? Devs do not equal their toxic player bases.
People working in game design choose to accept lower pay and worse working conditions than other industries offer for the same skills. That makes no sense unless they're gamers themselves.
I’ve been in Game dev for the better part of a decade and money has never been the driving factor in what positions I worked. I have ADHD and unable to work normal dev jobs (I’ve tried and I find them too boring). The game industry is a small world the ones that are intolerant quickly find out no one wants to work with them.