Asmongold Comments on Blizzard's Horrifying Scandal
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- Will this be the end of Blizzard as we know it? Asmongold reacts and gives his take on the worst drama that has ever happened over the once beloved game company. Several cases of misconduct and harassment have already been reported and a massive 2 year investigation by the State of California has been made public with the relative lawsuit. This poses to be the final nail in the coffin for Activision Blizzard after the already massive migration from WoW to other MMOs such as FFXIV, New World, Ashes etc..
Bloomberg Article 0:00
Blizzard Employees Speak Out 12:58
Blizzard Response 20:35
Community Response 29:31
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but they made their logo rainbow colored during June, how can they be bad?
Boy I can't wait for their apology post where they: 1. talk about their values. 2. Promise to "assist" the investigation. and 3. spout some empty promises on how they're gonna improve the situation...some bullshit about the blizzard "family" yada yada yada
None of the corporations that sport the coloured flag care.
The amount of left-wingers who fall for those kind of dog whistles whilst simultaneously (and rightly) calling out right-wing dog whistles is astounding.
@@mephik rainbows don't include furries because they can't see them. They're too busy looking at the dog they're screwing in their fursuits.
Besides muzzling furries just turns them on more.
@@Flaky1990 "we good cause we made 10000 USD donation to some charity, buy in game pet so we can pay for it"
Blizzard: "Asmongold is an asshole"
State of CA: "It's time"
Asmon is an asshole. He’s not a fucking monster though. His hearts in the right place. That’s why he’s loved. He knows where to draw the line.
Golden comment!
SO YOU HAVE CHOOSEN DEATH
Turns out, Blizzards opinion barely matters now
That state worker is in this fandom. Thank you good stranger
A huge red flag for me is that "Nothing happened, these allegations are wrong." Quickly followed up by "We pumped up our diversity and reporting systems once the allegations started." Uhhh, if nothing happened then why do that?
Because the two go hand in hand. Diversity and inclusion reporting systems in practice are merely set up to silence dissent. In bich tech companies like Google and Amazon it's woke ideologist and in Blizzard it seems to be creepy neckbeards. It's a system that's only there to serve the people at the top with a set of arbitrary words that can be interpreted in so many ways that they will always find a way to smear someone that's being 'difficult'.
@@suckieduckie The same creepy neckbeards who were going on about how woke they were.
the "diversity" is clearly code for fetishes/preferences of the dudes that do creep shit like this
@@-PVL93- Or "white guilt".
Elyseon The fact that that’s even a statement is incredibly sad.
For the longest time, it was my dream to work at Blizzard as a game developer. Thank f**k that didn't happen.
Me too! Literally going into a game art degree in 10 days. My dream was to work with blizzard.
@@jaidaviola5622Good to hear, I hope everything goes well for you! ❤
@@bella-gx7lz thank you so much. Steering clear of blizz for sure ❤️
@@jaidaviola5622 better stay clear of that whole fucking industry. Epic, Riot, Ubisoft and Rockstar have similar problems and nowadays I just assume it's every big gaming company that is like this.
I hope you don't give up on being a game dev. maybe even open your own indie studio and make it to your liking!
I always said, "If they treat their PAYING customers this way, imagine how they treat their employees."
This is even worse than I imagined. They'll never get another cent.
This is probably the most intuitive comment on this entire video.
yeah i just told my mom shes not allowed to play blackout anymore.
Why people switching final fantasy online. Fuck blizzard n there wow
This, the company can close it's doors tomorrow and not a tear will be shed. Ga'damn filth
shut the doors on these trashcans
Let this be a lesson for people who think HR is your friend. Think Blizzard’s HR department didn’t know about this? HR is there to defend the company. Period.
Always is
Never trust...HR. They're not there to help the employee. They're there to cut loose ends and try to bury lawsuits.
Yeap learned that the hard way when the company that hires and support HR reps is the company of the accused. Hr isn’t your friend lmao
Exactly.
I worked on a global company in Sweden in the truck industry, i stood up for a fellow female colleague against a boss and got called into a meeting with him, his boss and the HR team. Let's just say they can all fuck off.
No matter what industry it is, the HR will always favour the company, because that's who they work for.
word, fuck HR
The girl killing herself issue is more than even just a Blizzard issue. Incidents like that are way to common when it comes to revenge porn or exchanging pictures with more than the intended persons involved. And it always has to be taken to the extreme of someone taking their life in order for situations like this to be taken seriously.. I don’t even see this as a men verse woman issue, but an issue of not respecting other people’s values or basic rights as just people.
Karma seems to be coming back round... Hopefully
If you end your life over your pics being exposed probably don’t take pics or hit the gym
@@ezaf5989 let us know when you actually get a pic ya fuckin reprobate
@@ezaf5989 nobody said it had anything to do with her weight. We don’t know what she looked like. It’s sad that’s where your mind first went to and that you still deem it okay.
@@ezaf5989 ok incel.
Being drunk on the job is immediately grounds for termination. Period. This should never have gotten that bad.
People should only be drinking at off the clock events, and getting shitfaced at them is beyond belief
@@empresskindred At Google in Seattle there was this company meeting where people were getting shitfaced and doing coke! Is this really the culture we want to perpetuate? Sexual deviancy, promoting violence and mediocrity.
This should also apply if employees are drunk with power.
@Nicholas P you could only effect farm animals. Even then your uncle was well within his perview to fire you for being intoxicated on even that job
Lol don’t work in a restaurant then that’s all I can tell ya
"They'll hire a celebrity to apologize for them" Asmongold: "That's a good idea! Maybe they can get Bill Cosby to do it" fucking dead lmfao
same ;_; just a brilliant line
Same Lmfao
mic drop
@@aarvlo I’m not at all surprised since a manager at Blizzard had a suite called the “Cosby Suite”
Hes bringing the sauce.
"If California makes us stop sexually harassing staff to the point of suicide we're gonna move out of the state!" - Activision Blizzard
Nailed it buddy.
@@spikegilfer1997 people get shot for that kind of behavior in other states
Please let them leave
Other states have been alerted in case Activision/Blizzard moves.
@@kathrynsmith53 glad to hear I hope this case makes it into federal court.
This happen to my wife to a low degree and ended up with her being forced to quit due to bringing it to light. The job had great pay and what not but the emotional stress it put on her and me wanting to handle it (my own way) was not worth her staying anyway. PTSD is an understatement in these events. If you're in this situation, please get out of it. Its not worth staying regardless of the benefits.
DId they take unapproved pictures?
They was running a train on your wife and she actually liked it but cried because something didn't go the way she wanted...and the worst part is you believed her
@@Troupe_Master lol stfu basement nerd. Go back to your anime spank sesh.
@@Troupe_Master oh and Elders trash
@@Jonbmx666 I definitely made you mad 🙄 I'm living rent free In your head right now, have a good day😁
A woman took her life...Blizzard only has to say " we will do more training ..."
Higher-ups who know people doing the sexual assault / harassment need to be fired as well because, they are just as guilty for not protecting the innocent .
Agreed. You sweep it under the rug, you deserve punishment too
It's funny you think anyone "higher-up" even knows who the F works in the Bullpen... much less what is happening between the regular employees.... Even if it gets reported! It wont reach them, it gets killed in the HR department.
In my honest opinion this smells very very very off in the terms that "males play video games while the females do all the work" smells like absolute trash, from someone that as worked in several companies from the lower level to a "higher" tech role, this seems like someone writing a fictional scenario of "male bad female good".
On large companies you can find everything, males that dont work, females that dont work, males that work, females that work, people that are assholes on both sexes and good people as well.
Soon as these things start painting EVERYONE OF X with the same brush, i stop believing them.
Personal accountability...
@@messman2000 the state of california did a 2 year investigation but ok dude
@@empresskindred no
This sounds like our government dynamics, it feels like sexual abuse has gotten worse.
-Blizzard: every voice matters.-
Blizzard: every $$$ matters.
Activision Blizzard, it’s no longer just Blizzard to blame. They both deserve the criticism for this!
@@Maglouk sad af
Multi-dollar company gonna multi-dollar
Activision, Kotick is a piece of trash edit: srry Blizzard is a pice of trash too
I always knew they weren't perfect, but I've really been thinking Blizzard was a shit, scumbag company ever since Blitzchung and finding out they're 10% owned by Tencent.
It's all sadder and sadder.
Earlier, a few years ago, when I saw "blizzard" I thought about good games and that every product is good and I'm ready to play it.
Now I think that I don’t want to touch anything that is associated with "Activision blizzard".
Exact same statement for my group of friends, really sad ending tbh
then there is the thing if u boycott it u will also get the last programmer out there who is putting his all into the game its a sad state blizzard is in :(
I uninstalled the launcher and every game, canceled my WoW subscription and never looked back in 2016. I refuse to support anything associated with Activision.
Tried to play wow earlier and I couldn’t play for more than a 20 min, beyond disgusted by what these higher ups have done.
@@HaseDGS There's other projects these "good boy devs" can put their talent and skills into and not Blizzard, not until they clean their act and actually do better. For now I don't know why people are looking for excuses to keep playing their games.
The suicide bit got me. Fucked up on so many levels.
Imagine you just want to make games for a company you love and when you get there they treat you so horrible you kill yourself. It’s heartbreaking. Maybe working for Blizzard was her dream even
@@studybuddy. bruh.
It was completely unrelated to the incident. But never let a good crisis go to waste. This is our chance to finally make games 100% diverse and feminist.
@@kayfrenly5460 yeah I mean who doesn’t kill themselves on a business trip with the serial harasser who is your superior at work present on the same trip, right?
You can’t be that dense.
@@kayfrenly5460 do not make this a "feminism" or sjw subject, that is going to hurt more than it helps the situation since that entire movement became a damn joke after the third wave hit. at this point it's just women trying to get the best pieces of a buffet.
don't believe me? compare the outcry about kelly clarksons divorse settlement compared to dr dre's (or any similar cases for that matter), if the movement wanted equality they would be angry or happy with both without discrimination depending on gender, not happy with one and angry with the other
Blizzard: "Do you guys not have phones!?"
Fans on their phones as they watch this go down: "Why yes, yes we do."
Asmon had better ban appeals than whatever that garbage statement blizzard released.
"pls"
Lol
Because as we saw with WoW, Blizzard can't create new good content.
@@LautaroQ2812 they arent trying to create something new cuz they are too busy being drunk as fuck all the time and sexually harrasing the women that work there ... and i was wondering why every new set in wow is just an old recolored model
LOLOL, dude, savage AF. Love it.
"We didn't do anything wrong." "Also, here is a list of things to fix the things we are not doing wrong."
"I sniffed my butt and it's not stinky"
It’s like letting cops investigating for crimes they commit. Companies like this shouldn’t be allowed to investigate themselves for the crimes they commit.
Garrosh didn't do anything wrong, either..... 😒
"I fisted myself and found no poop under my finger nails."
Those fucking corporate talking is so fucking disgusting, I hate it so fucking much.
Even if it’s only about problems in game it’s annoying, let alone problems this big.
The most ironic part about this whole thing to me is that all those values they have around the Orc statue in the rotunda - this is basically all the opposite of all of them. :(
If there's one thing I've learn from being in the game industry, you never ever trust the companies "pretty words" they put out. You always assume they won't give a shit about you no matter how good their reputation is.....
That's more ironic considering the orc statue and their shitty writing
They are corrupted af
As a Woman in the tech world as a QA Software Engineer. It happens everywhere. I have experienced this almost everywhere I have worked. I am sick and I have now uninstalled Wow and blizzard and will never touch again.
Wow Im way past 1 year where I kicked off Blizzard Launcher. You late to the party gurl. But, better late than never, you doing the right thing. Cant even have the launcher installed, let them kno we want NOTHING from them except their company crumbling further.
Sorry that you have to deal with this. It’s profoundly immoral behaviour that has to be endured day in, day out.
The saddest part is that this extends far beyond WoW. It's almost every top gaming company. If their games have scantily clad women it's a pretty clear sign of what the company is like, which is why I now mostly stick to City builders and other sims (but not by EA or Ubisoft)
@@Ailieorz Yeah, for me I only exclusively support well built, ethically made (as far as I know) indie titles.
Good, they are despicable
It must be a real shame that we all have phones to see this.
"Don't you guys use phones?"
Underrated comment
You killed then man xD
@@ki11ukw1k eh that's not what happened at all.
@@762x69 that person must be either a blizzard frat boy employee or delusional fan boy.
Viewer: "They'll hire a celebrity to apologize for them."
Asmon: "That's a good idea, maybe they can get Bill Cosby to do it."
I, too, heard the last two minutes of the video.
You mean Bill Crosby lol
@Stevospeedo Aye look at this guy still salty that Biden won. For people that used to yell "facts don't care about your feelings" their feelings sure do seem to get hurt very often now.
lmao killed me!
@@ProXcaliber Tara Reade
How to treat a woman like a human being? Don’t do something to her you wouldn’t do to a male coworker. Would you randomly hug a male coworker you’re not familiar with or would you pass around pics of him and talk about him in a sexual manner? Why wouldn’t you? Because it’s gross? It’s always gross whether it’s a girl or a boy!!!!
Well said lad
No problem with that. It should be possible to do it anytime.
@@marceelino Most people don't actually like to be touched by people they don't actually know
This! If you wouldn't do it to, say it to or expect it of a guy, then it's sexist. Pure and simple.
Exactly it’s an invasion of privacy
I’ll be honest, I’ve never been the biggest Asmogold fan over the years. But his stance on this issue has earned my respect
And props to the person who edited this. The timing on the final line was epic.
Blizz literally defends themselves by saying "We didn't know the Agency was collecting all this evidence against us over 2 years", but then says "every allegation is baseless and inaccurate". They don't even know what to say anymore
Objection!!! 👉
What i find incredible is just how incompetent they seem to be about communication for a large corporation. They don't seem to have a clue about what to say.
meh this shit was written by damage control department . its their job to write this bs :D
@@Andrewf5251 What an unbelievably insightful and useful comment. Not like the point in the first place was that their damage control department IS SHIT AT THEIR JOB.
@@avioracrown6967 HOLD IT! 👏
We all knew WoW is killing WoW, but who knew Blizzard was gonna kill Blizzard
and the crazy part is this story isn't even over. I will bet there will be more to come next year.
Unfortunately there are articles about how HR’s don’t do anything for the employees cause they are looking out for THEIR employer. So it doesn’t surprise me that when going to HR nothing happens
Unfortunately a large majority of companies have HR Dept’s as a cleanup crew. Same with IG. They’ll out the whistleblower in a heartbeat and stand by the employer. They are paid by the employer thus will always be a conflict of interest.
The only good HR is a third party HR. Your company's HR department is made to bury dissent and profile the dissenting parties.
This is the problem with having a Human Resources Department instead of a Personnel Department. Humans are a resource to be used up and discarded when they either have nothing left, or if they become an inconvenience.
Unfortunately that IS the standard for HR departments. Protect the company over the employees. That's the impression I've seen in HR departments across different fields. Even worse is that they are notorious for covering up for the sexual perpetrators. They would rather not announce their company employing a rapist and take responsibility. They would rather emotionally devastate the victim into submission until they either quit or give up and continue being harrassed. Whether the employee is happy or kills themselves is an "acceptable" inconvenience than investigating.
@@pluna3382 example: Activision Blizzard
The thing that got to me is how their statement goes on the offensive against California. Just attacking the people who are putting in the effort to investigate and hear complaints that Blizzard's own department couldn't be arsed to do. Acting like they are obligated to see Blizzard first, and hear their side of the story, tell them about every person who's been snitching on them, before the government gets the moral right to carry out this investigation, with the blessings of Blizzard's higher ups. Followed by this snide, cynical jab of "this is why companies move out of California". Why, because the local authorities are less willing to put up with this bullshit? Because they actually hold you accountable? Do you think you'll have less trouble with the government in Texas? Because if the Texan authorities won't handle a case like that, that says more about Texas than it does about California. This isn't the absolution of sin you want it to be, Blizzard.
Is this the company that fired hundreds of their employees and gave the CEO million of dollars as gift?
Mocked fans openly for being disappointed about their shitty phone game. Literally just lied to fans about the Warcraft 3 remake outright and only avoided a lawsuit because they gave no questions asked refunds to everyone that wanted them. Promised to fix it, but has made no changes in almost two years. Killed StarCraft one game into a trilogy after promising three parts that would make a complete story.
Blizzard... is a shitshow.
They cut the CEO's bonus in half, so he's only gonna get a multi million dollar bonus. And yes, this is them. Thousands of employees were sacked during COVID.
Bobby ran away with 200 mil bonus while they downsize during the pandemic.
@@raggo1955 probably they put money in management hands as a pay..so if lawsuit comes in and fine theres no money on account and they declare bankruptcy
@@DragonZerul I'm almost positive I've seen it proven somewhere that he did indeed get the full sum of the bonus, not halved at all.
Well this explains why WOD didn't get finished, too busy drinking.
@Pappy and Poochy What are these behavioral patterns? Can you elaborate? 🤔
The inside of the temple for dranaei city was literaly untextured 😂
The dev working on it musta said “this is taking to long ima block this section off and go get a drink”
@@minuette1752 pretty sure this is a troll but if not, you are an alcoholic if you can’t go one day without alcohol or you get sick.
And explains WC:3 Reforged... And Shadowlands... And why OW2 looks like ass... I guess D4 is the outlier though lol
I fucking bailed on that shit right before garrisons 2.0.
Glad I did to this day.
Friend invited me to FFxiv, and I never looked back.
“Treat women like people and it won’t happen” bro I wish more lads understood thus
most do, it's just that people who have some sociopathic tendencies manage to wriggle themselves into these upper positions where they can flex their newfound power on those below them. While I was in the military, we had to do anti-rape/sexual harassment training like every other month. To those who wouldn't even think to do something like this, it's just tedious and stops us from getting actual work done. To those who don't give a shit and will do it the moment they think they can get away with it, the best it will do is show them what is expected so that they can use underhanded methods based on the reasoning that "The training said that we should never do 'A', but it said nothing about not doing 'B'." And since they have to present their case to other sociopaths, they often get away with it with but a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile the actually decent people have one minor screw up (JUST ONE!) and they get the entire book thrown at them with the maximum punishment to make them an example so that the sociopaths in power can tout your termination to the public as them doing a good job.
Again, most people understand this concept, but what we're not doing is not holding our leaderships accountable to the same rules that we're expected to abide by
@@weareharbinger914 this isn't oppression Olympics
@@highcouncil1302 I don’t think you know what that means
@@derek7284 yeah I actually do
@@highcouncil1302 no dude, you really don't. The point of the argument isn't to claim that people who are falsely accused should be considered "more oppressed" than actual rape victims. The point is to provide a counterbalance against the overzealous "believe all victims" (read: believe all accusations) types.
All truth is found dialectically through considering as many perspectives as possible. Discarding positions you don't like because they detract from your momentum does nothing but cause more problems.
Damn. I thought my hype for Overwatch 2 couldn't possibly have gotten more nonexistent.
Over… what?
@@V1CT1MIZED Damn you straight up gave Overwatch a "WH OMEGALUL"
Blizzard is unironically on the road of becoming a multi-dollar company
Or a Venezuelan millionaire company
As much as I wish that were true and that activistion and blizzard were going to burn for this, this scandal will not affect them at all lol
@@certifiedsexhaver8400 Yeah, I expect it to go like every other "boycott" in the last years, they're a few months of silence and a trailer away from this being completely forgotten.
@wowalinbie It's a big likely so it's not that big a if
They were already a multi-million dollar company by the time Diablo 2 released 21 years ago.
The fact that one of Blizz's employees tweeted that Asmon is an asshole for saying that WoW sucks and the company doesnt care about it, while said employee works in such a toxic workplace and is probably toxic himself, says a lot about this article here
Probably not. This was one studio I think.
Remember when blizzard slammed asmon for promoting toxic masculinity, peak fucking irony
@@Aegis--- harassment isn't masculinity, it's desperate beta behavior by sexually frustrated nerds
@@ForbiddenFollyFollower did you watch the video lmfao
@@kendob9642 it's toxic masculinity...
It’s like my boy Curze once said; “Dearth is nothing compared to vindication.”
A true man of culture
While nothing I have seen in the IT world got as bad as this, let's be honest: the tech world in general needs a lot of improvement in how women and minorities are treated. Those of us who aren't scum should speak out more when this crap happens.
Is it really that rampant of a problem? Large industries are scary if that's the case.
@@Slays_Media Big Tech pays really well and is fun work, but it is vastly overpopulated with white dudes who are socially inadequate
@@falseprophet3284 bullshit
@@Slays_Media from what ive heard, there's serious issues with abusive work culture/schedules in general in IT/software development/CGI/graphics work(id heard multiple reliable stories about software studios almost literally burning their staff up- mental/nervous breakdowns from extreme stress/sleep deprivation),
and whilst i had no idea things were THIS bad until the story about Ubisoft broke some time ago, its not ....
entirely surprising that a bare minimum of TWO major studio's/publishers are this .....i dont know. toxic is too mild.
fucked up internally?abuse/borderline rape cults?
structured like something from a tasteless political cartoon?
the current baseline is active suppression of unioniseation so that they can keep literally driving cheap,and to them,
disposable workers out of their minds, fire them,
and start over- if THAT is the Baseline in the "good" workplaces,
i am..finding myself wondering if Blizzard's work culture is even the worst out there now....
People do need to speak up. Never once has anything even close to this happened anywhere that I've worked because it's made abundantly clear that shit will go down on the spot of it does. It doesn't even need to be discussed after the first minor incident occurs. If you're capable of standing up for these people and you don't then I think you're almost as bad as the fuckers doing this. If you see something then you loudly say "hey what in the fuck do you think you're doing?" Guarantee you that stops 99% of this before it ever gets going.
this is disgusting. rest in peace to the woman who killed herself. i’m completely done with blizzard.
I dont believe the allegations
Ok since I got more replies than expected I guess I can explain myself.
1. I just dont like to pass judgement on anything until an official veredict has been reached. Right that agency has issued a lawsuit and blizzard denies it. If it they end up losing or settling then yeah its clear cut but until then I dont believe any side at all
2. The state of California has a record of bad descisions specially when it comes to corporations. There is a lot of corruption in that state more than people like to admit which is why Im especially sceptical about it.
Believe me I fucking hate blizzard and would love to see them burn. But I cant in good conscience let it be based on something they may not have done
@@hexagonalsheep2142 "I don't believe an official 2 year investigation by a government agency" look i know it's cool to say government bad in 2021 and yes there shitty parts of government. But I hope you realize your bad take in this situation.
@@hexagonalsheep2142 Name checks out
@@shinon748 lmao, everything government say is true. good job sheep
@@hexagonalsheep2142 This is a bit beyond mere allegations. This is a lawsuit stemming from a 2-year investigation, which ended up with enough evidence that the government feels they have a strong enough case to take it to court. To be frank, saying "I dont believe the allegations" is dumb as shit.
Love how one of their defences is, “since we started being investigated, we have made changes to how we handle employee complaints blahblahblah” imagine a serial killer saying “well your honour I’ve not killed a man for 3 years at least!”
if they had changed since the begining of the investigation their wouldnt be much evidence either. seems bs
That was physically painful to hear. It's like every single cookie cutter press release in response to negative news all wrapped into one.
So all these years our subs are used to feed these creeps, yuck
So funny. Didn't Ted Bundy use that line when he defended himself? Lol.
I've never seen someone so pissed that their eyebrows are constantly wiggling. Am I the only one seeing this?
XD
His eyebrows are always wiggling up and down haha.
If 10% of this is proven true... I'm glad I didn't get the job with them.
bro never work for such big companies. They are the worst! Work for smaller companies where there at least some control in there!
@@Ishizu09 i've worked for at least two multi-national corporations, there was some anthropological hierarchy going on. One can at least hope that game companies would be a bit more modern with this BS, but no. In other words, you're right, big companies are crap, no matter the industry.
Blizzard 2 years ago: “Don’t you all have phones?”
Us 2 years later: “Don’t you all have lawyers?”
You see that response, they sure as shit have lawyers
@@jamesgaston2745 damn you got fucked on
nice
BIG oof
jajajaj lol
Being drunk at work all day would explain both WoW's gameplay systems and story.
Explains the simpvanas trip we're going through
@@DonPetexX Which is ironic cause I hate what they've done with Sylvanas lol
I think it's much more easily explained by the fact that they hire women.
@@alexcnz92 women in the actual game development, programming part are less than 5%. The 20% comes from the art/story department. So no, the failure is all on men.
This is sad, and the most saddest part is that this happen in more work environment's. I am gay and work in a restaurant and every day by day my bosses and others make comments about gay sexual activities and myself. I am tired of it so I soon gonna stop working there after 3.5 years.
@Zheikon _ I am gonna finish the 31st August 👍 can’t wait.
13:40 this hits in the feels. Several times I stepped upon jobs where there were misconduct and/or inaction of any kind from senior management, but HR does nothing because 'too senior'. It ended in nothing at best; firing a scapegoat or the person with the issue at worst.
They give them honor points because work is like a fucking battleground.
Haha, yah, what assholes. 100 measely honor points to work in a shit show like blizzard.
They have no honor.. kinda ironic they give it out
Question is, can they buy mounts with those points?
These are not ingame Honor Points, but internal currency
@Bump thrust They bout to be like “Hey you’ve been good at doing whatever you’re doing in here, how bout a pony?”
"They didn't tell us what they were investigating so now we are pissed cause we couldn't sweep it under the rug."
Ain't that the Truth , Sing It to the Choir !
And do remember - Their Broom is Wide & their Rug is big & Plush too !
19:05 that's low level torture at the end of her statement holy shit.
Even though heavy drinking at work is the least objectionable part, it's still something that signals a carefree attitude about how employees behave.
People can drink, but if drunk employees harass and hurt others while being drunk, maybe that calls for some action to be taken.
"Don't you guys have phones?"
"Don't you guys have a SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSUIT to answer?"
Is this an out of season sexual harassment joke?
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@Florian false accusations regarding sexual harassment account to only 2% of those cases, same with false drug conviction(6%),false homicide conviction, false etc etc. Infact it has estimated that 2.5 to 5% of all us prisoner are wrongfully convicted.
@Florian False allegations are so rare that it's not worth bringing to the discussion.
Talking about my boy, Daniel, I went to high school with Red Shirt Dude, went to his wedding, he's a real chill guy. The one who asked Blizzard if their Diablo mobile game was an out of season April Fool's joke a few years back. He grew up on Blizzard back in the nineties, loved them to death, is the true definition of a super fan, and this is what has happened to his favorite game developer. Haven't talked to him recently, but I doubt he has any more fucks to give about the once great Blizzard. I'm sure he heard about this before me and is already done with the company, there is no way he would tolerate this behavior.
“It’s just gonna get worse” blizzards motto for the past 7 years
You mean more than 10.
Tbf overwatch was really good for like 1 year then they started ruining it
@@tameoregano5006 It was really fun at launch, everything was new and people were trying to figure stuff out, it was just one chaotic mess and it was a blast.
@@tameoregano5006 I never got the overwatch itch like all my friends. I play on release for a couple months but could never really go crazy over it, of course I was never a huge TF2 fan either.
The thing that bothers me about the focus on 'training' implies that we need to be told what's bad
10:10 so was Vic Magnolia... and Funimation destroyed him.
Jamie Marcie and Monica Rial just openly lied about him, even though there were countless videos of them being friendly and cordial!
Remember when Blizzard employees called Asmon 'Mysoginistic' OMEGALUL
Leftists ALWAYS project. Always.
@@Wesujin if this is your take from all this cringe
@UCLQU8A1Dm5TKH98eubOQORA fuck both left and right
It's typical of woke culture to project ....they are all racists and misogynistic deep down living in glass houses
righties ALWAYS project. always.
Why do we need Blizzard anymore? They ruined reforged Warcraft 3, they put microtransactions into TBC, the fans can make their own classic servers and there are other companies making better MMOs than Blizzard is
We don't. I myself moved on to better things that deserve my money.
@@phantombigboss8429 Exactly. I hope more people move on too
Time to move on.
TBC maybe its just me but while im not a fan of the boost id rather play blizzs game then go onto some shittier p server with mods who sell gold and gear
@@jasem1016 I was thinking of Nostalrius when I typed that out but that's a fair point
RIP
The people who did that to that woman are horrible.
@Documentary Detective II if someone leaves their wallet out and you take it, it's still theft. Taking advantage of someone is still wrong especially in a professional setting. It's reprehensible.
What kind of a person are you to fail to acknowledge that?
Also the pictures were taken in private with her sexual partner. The boss spread the photos around. She didn't post anything.
Not taking away anything from what happened to the victim, but I honestly think this has to do with not having a father or a good family home. Unfortunately this type of thing isn't reserved for the gaming industry but instead has spread into and infected all parts of society. Public education doesn't help, hell I think it makes it worse because of the frenzied chaos and worthless texts.
This is the state of society.. Blizzard is just a microcosm.....
The legendary blizzard died long time ago, my doods. This is disgusting.
The sad truth is, a lot of this was likely going on during the good days of Blizzard, too, judging by some of the names going around.
StarCraft 2 and Blizzard ended after Legacy Of The Void came out, its all been downhill since.
I've been saving wow is dead long time ago
@@Brekner I'm sure there were some. Blizzard has been big for a very long time. And that actually makes it even more likely for the women who were there at the time that they would get harassed, since there would be fewer other women in the workplace to support them.
When exactly? One of the guys that mentioned by name, he started there almost 20 years ago, before WoW was launched.
"We've updated our Code of Conduct to emphasize a strict non-retaliation focus"
How about a strict non-rape focus?
@@Ashuowl This has happened.
Remember when hearing "Blizzard" reminds you of good and fun games?
Me neither.
Imagine being a fly on the wall at Blizzard right now. 😎
the story about them making her read that paper and report to the two men about how she wouldn't complain anymore makes my fucking skin crawl. that is fucking cruel.
Reminds me of our government
Yah they should be strung up like the puppets they are
Same. I literally got an irrational fear of going outside in that moments after hearing that. That is straight up psychological torture. The word discrimination doesnt even do it justice...
Not the same exact thing but reminds me when I was given an assignment in college and I wrote about something profound that I experienced in the military on deployment. The next day instead of having it be handed in, the teacher decided we would all read to the class our written work and analyze the assignment as a class based on what we had been taught so far. This was not what we were told was going to happen when given the assignment nor had it happened prior in the class to believe it was even a possibility of happening. Naturally I didn't want to speak to 25 strangers about one of the most traumatic experiences in my life that none of them would even be able to begin to relate to, but I was given the option to read it or get a zero on the assignment. I ended up going to the Vice Dean(who was also a veteran) and explaining the situation and it got taken care of, but it was embarrassing and quite tense and the rest of the semester was awkward in that class. Those teachers really get a god complex when they have tenure and feel untouchable I tell ya.
@@joshbull623 Those teachers really get a god complex when they have tenure and feel untouchable
We have investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.
better than Californias: we investigated for 2 years and provided no real evidence and used a brick of a vague language and he saids she saids.
But good luck assuming people are guilty based on allegations alone, thats not at all what Blizzard was doing for years and what you probably cried about.
Sounds like the Government.
@@xelloskaczor5051 when you do a case you don't release evidence to the public, that's only shared between the lawyers for Blizzard and those who are suing them. Only time all the evidence is released to the public is when the court case actually happens and it gets used in court
@@xelloskaczor5051 vague evidence that tens of employees have confirmed, a girl died due to this culture.... Yeah super vague my guy.
@@knicknevin9975 yeah, I'm more or less saying that we won't see any of the evidence till the case happens since almost all cases that actually make it to court are in public record. We won't have access to all the evidence or even a lot of the specifics but we get to see some of it. That's if it even makes it to court. But yeah since it's the state thats suing they must have some really strong evidence
35:47 holy shit. He's actually psychic, this was before the Bill Cosby sweet was made public.
Walked away because the game got shit, never going back because of this.
Same
Who would've thought the end of Blizzard was going to be getting tag teamed by FF14 Bald Man and the State of California?
His eyebrows have more autonomy than Emilia Clarkes!
Sent a ticket for support about a quest being bugged for over a month and still not a word from them.. I guess now I know what the employees do instead 🤦♀️😂
If the claims of abuse are false then why did they have to make changes to their culture and update code of conduct, etc?
How dare you go on a youtube comment section and use common sense and logic!
You should compare the time lines on this. Might be interesting
Because you have to show that you care, because ignorant people such as yourself and how many ever are going to click like on your comment.
Even if the claims were untrue the accusation and non believers will still exist
@@Oragami1337 really so you mean a department of the USA did jack shit for 2 years then they said let's file a lawsuit for the heck of it damn wish i had ur iq accused of SH of employees they scream for diversity and inclusivity wow
Because they are gettimg sued. Wether what happened is true or not, it went public and they need to show they care or at least pretend to care. If those allegations were false they would react the exact same way.
When I worked at Best Buy, we had an employee who had previously appeared in Playboy. A guy thought it would be funny to go find it on his phone and show a few buddies he worked with. When this was discovered, he was immediately fired, and we all moved on.
That's how you handle situations like this.
"You never said I couldn't shit on the floor in orientation!?"
Had me dead 🤣
The problem is that no one on the Blizz team cares and only now they feel forced to comment. I had and still have a stalker issue on Wow where an ex guildie made a blog calling me Myra Hindley, bombarded me with vile messages, created a horde guild to gank my guildies and paid gold for anyone who left the guild because of it. The guy even made a clone guild which Blizz after 7 years has finally changed the name of. I have another player who when he discovered I am female thanks to my stalker keeps saying vile sexual comments to me on trade. All Blizz said was 'block him' and yet low and behold he still does it on other Characters. All Blizz wants is your money. Has anyone noticed that there is absolutely no way of contacting them outside the game. No phone number .. nothing.
@John Nopey yes but all this happened before the laws on internet abuse changed. My bugbear is that I was just expected to ignore the guy , nothing was done to make him stop via Blizz.
When asmon whips out words like “Sanctimonious” that’s when you know he’s past infuriated.
I'd let Zaddy Asmon sanctimonious me any day uWu
It was truly a beautiful moment
I imagine Saurfang on the blizzcon stage asking "Don't you guys have morals?"
Even Garrosh would be appalled.
"Honor, no matter how dire the battle...NEVER forsake it" That line alone was good enough for me when it comes to morals and integrity. Too bad they didn't take their own advice
Nah red shirt guy
Didnt they canceled it already? XD
@@JessicaSunlight i think they did, i guess they have no fresh content to show, and covid and stuff...
"The picture the DFEH paints is not the Blizzard workplace of today"
I think the point Blizzard is missing is: the picture the DFEH paints should not be the workplace of ANY corporation EVER.
It got so bad because Blizzard management tolerated those acts. It's like a parent giving in to their kids' tantrums and buy whatever they were crying for. It would just get worse after that.
Exactly. What a disgrace. I hope decent people create a mmo replacement for WoW.
Man, that story about girl on a trip is terrifying. That's nothing near what "restructurization" can solve. Blizzard is truly unsalvageable.
@@Sorrowdusk And Riot is unsalvagable too. Good god in all these stories, it's miracle that EA isn't somewhere there too.
@@cracmar03 Funnily enough, EA is a great employee environment despite making shit that consumers hate.
@@cracmar03 ah, Not yet. They are Not on that lvl as of now
@@lunadead is that why it has been rewarded with it being the WORST company to work at multiple and consecutive years ?
it isn't just Blizzard, or Riot, or Ubisoft, or whoever else has been shown to be a disgusting work environment. they are just the ones who have been caught.
Feels like calling it "frat boy culture" is severely underselling the severity of what Blizzard did.
@@Sorrowdusk Toxic corporate culture.
@JoeysRattata a lot of shady gross stuff has been known to happen in all sorts of places. Fraternities are far from one of the worst.
"Childish immature culture"
@@Sorrowdusk that's better and more accurate
Calling it a frat at all is a joke. These guys are all nerds (not saying that's wrong, i'm a nerd)
Likely people with no confidence or social understanding that got a massive ego boost, from working for one of the biggest companies, who thought they could be the chads they wished they were because of their positions.
I once worked in a telecommunications company and my job entailed being in customer service on the phone most of my day. My Supervisor used to do "sneak tickle attacks" on me WHILE I was on the phone with a customer. I quit after a month of starting because it got worse when I tried to ignore it and then I was ignored when trying to resolve it. It was a 90% male employed company. I couldn't do my job in a way that made me feel satisfied and I knew my customers and company value was suffering because of it. Even today I always ask about company policy and atmosphere when I go in an interview.
damn, Im sprry to hear about that. At college A man I knew would escalate any form of contact he got into a fist grab or a smack. He would physically hit us as hard as he could.
The only thing left to do is ask two things:
1) Names?
2) Prison?
Now we know why they can't build a competent expansion.
This goes way back, and people who were around "when WoW was good" are mentioned by name as abusers.
@@JackgarPrime or he could just be talking about the being drunk at work... it kinda shows these days
Too busy drinking and harrassing
Letting all the women do the work?
A competent mmo honestly
Ngl blizzard 100% needs to release the names of the management that were part of the issue that took place so they can actually see how stressful harassment is. A young girl took her own life and they are concerned with thier image and victim shaming?! Throw them to the angry mob and see how well they deal.
you going after people with harm in mind is just as bad as people witchhunting girls in the blizzard offices, what they should do is fork over everything, including statements, securityfootage and such to the police so people can be prosecuted. The old testament things you suggest will just keep the circle of bastard behaviour alive
@@andezonsexi18 Nah, fuck them up maybe if their was fear of being beaten and shamed maybe people would stop humans are fucking dumb.
johan andersson lmao yeah right. You’re saying releasing the names of the people responsible is just as bad as sexually harassing women at work and causing a suicide? Yeah fucking right. Maybe scumbags will think twice if they’re shamed for it
@@andezonsexi18 They should be held accountable by law. They were told that sexual harassment was taking place within their place of business and they swept it under the rug time and time again.
I don't think you know what victim shaming is. What Blizzard did was deflecting when they blame other causes for the suicide. Victim Shaming is when you blame the victim for what happened to them, which they didn't do.
Good thing my dad will never hear this. Would have broken him
"This is why you don't drink... it's like giving yourself a world buff... it's like giving yourself the Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer." So accurate, lulz!
Just like Ubisoft
"You're treating your employees like shit."
"We're committed to diversity and inclusion!"
What do you mean. Ubisoft is happy to have diverse pallette of abuses on employees and will be so inclusive that they inclueded everyone to take part in these.
We might be seeing an explanation here rather than a contradition.
@@cracmar03 😂 you killed them
@@ki11ukw1k what did he said?
@@ki11ukw1k Seconded, what and when on his Alt Stream?
I love how blizzard literally uses gaslighting at the end of their response. It's a shame you didn't talk to us about what you THINK YOU SAW. It's like they think they'll get away with it as long as they make it sound like California is just misremembering or just seeing things that aren't real.
Yup. It's the same tactic as telling people you apologise if they felt insulted, aka it's not your actions you're apologising for, but rather something they made up in their mind.
Treating the state of california like they do women.
Not just a blizzard thing though. This conversation was trying to happen with gamergate, and neckbeards insisted crazy SJW mommy was just trying to ruin video games by idk... Openly talking about how they're treated in gaming spaces, how female characters are portrayed in games etc.
The culture in these big corporations is reflected in most of the social cultures in the bigger online games. Breathe the word "feminism" and you're a pariah, because why would we need feminism in a perfectly equal world where women get mistreated, silenced or blamed for it in almost every facet of society that is dominated by straight dudes.
@@KattReen Maybe if real feminists didn't let the movement get hijacked by 3rd and 4th wave nutjobs who see bad dates as the same as rape, ANYTHING bad that happens to them as sexists, and abusing men as justice and just deserts then people would take it seriously. Here is the bottom line, you can say women have it bad more times then men, but the unfair and unequal treatment is both ways whether women want to admit it or not. The only difference is men are not allowed to talk about, bring it up, or are fought by fake feminists the whole way trying.
RAINN is the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the U.S. and they show that since 1998 to today over 2.78 million men in the U.S. had been victims of attempted or full rape, neverminded sexual harassment. Most organizations concede that at minimum 10% of all victims are men. The American Sociological Association did a long term study and found 37% of men reported experiencing some level of sexual harassment in the workplace. 90% of all work place related deaths are men. The Census Bureau show only 20% of custodial parents are fathers, this is the highest it has been in decades. Maybe if these issues were not one sided or worst, actively covered up or fought when it happened to men, men might give 2 shyts when it happened to women.
CA state through their courts due to a lawsuit of unequal pay by them analyzed National Women's Soccer League pay and found the womens team “on both a cumulative and an average per-game basis” made more then men. What happened? The leagues new policy is not for both teams despite men making less to split broadcast, sponsorship, prize money and ticket revenue. Similarly women filed an unequal lawsuit against google and an audit showed men received less money then women in that same role forcing a near 10 million payout to the men that would have otherwise ignorantly kept working for unequal pay with the perception they were making more instead. You think this country is dominated by straight dudes? How many women were fired, expelled from university, or had their children ripped from their lives until they paid an absurd ransom on an unsubstantiated and sometimes factually proven false word? Society has catered to the whims of women for two generations now, don't feed people that CA/NY left wing fantasy BS unless you have some facts to back up your propaganda.
I’m just finding out about all of this and it’s blowing my mind. I haven’t played since the being of summer but I definitely don’t think I’ll ever be returning to wow, or any blizzard game for that matter, again.
When he brought up the wow post with the purge image it reminded me of one of the final bosses in ff14 the repeatedly calls out '"Sickness must be purged!" throughout the fight.
My man Charibert
Yeah. This seems pretty serious. Sexual harassment isn't 'typical workplace drama', it's an actual crime. I really hope justice is served and we get the full story.
@Larry why do u care about this delineation?
@@Namehjeff its pretty obvious that he's differentiating between harassment and assault, because op clearly said harassment.
@Larry okay super specifically detailed edge lord teen, but the woman that killed herself was sexually harrased by having her nudes be sent around and the sentence for that is a 5 years
@L M Not really, he just had to spell it out for the drama queens what the definitions were. Don't assume your male feminist theories on everyone to make them seem lesser because it only makes you look dumber
"Treat women like people, and it probably won't happen."
Blizzard: *surprised pikachu meme*
For a company that treats its employees like machines I didn't see this coming at all.
@armed felon you must think pretty poorly of people if you think I'm taking this bait
@armed felon I'll bite. If even 1/10th of what was claimed in the documents was true, then there absolutely is a gender pay gap.
True
@@shortyorc121 bro you actually think they're capable of that simple thinking??? Jesus christ your putting these half brained off springs of orcs at a pedastal (maybe went too far but either way some of these guys were never thought to think simple or think out of the box or even in the box)
33:32 i agree with your arguments in this video, but i think what the post was talking about was the harassment a lot of women get from other players in game. countless times my girlfriend has complained that players are relentlessly bullying and harrassing her, just for playing a video game as a female. This is even more of an issue in games like COD but it happens in WoW too.
I don't understand why this can go on for so long and stays as is especially in publicly traded companies ? I've seen harassement and HR covering it, as soon as it reached the level above those bad people, the culprits were fired on the spot ,some escorted out of the building by security, end of story don't know of any case after that
Since he began to play FF14 Asmon started his biggest bossfight ever. Against Activision Blizzard. We’re now in phase 2. ✌🏼
He's been fighting the boss fight for years
@@jovee6155 Yeah, the dev haven't nerf them until very lately, now the fight while challenging is far more managable
They lived long enough to become the villains, a story old as time.
apparently this shit has been going on since Vanilla... So it's more like they were the villains all along.
From some of the accounts, they always were.
No king rules forever
@@Vinewood8 they were never kings
I guess we know why they didn’t kill off slyvans
I used to be sad for having to retire from WoW due to the arthritis crippling my hands. Now, even if my hands were fine, I'd retire anyway because I refuse to support any company or business, or hell even any person that pulls this crap. Thanks for the posting, Asmo.
Not just a "disgruntled e-girl"? Just because someone comes out about harassment and abuse on Twitter doesn't mean it's invalid or untrue.
We are aware.. but the individual should file a formal complaint to the respective people before taking it to social media. Especially accusations doing it backwards just seems like attention seeking.
His talking about that this different from previous cases where the situation maybe swept under the rug. It's not the short attention internet that attacking them, it's a litteral state.
Spotted the disgruntled e-girl
@@IparanoiaZ The "respected people" aka HR are the first people to make sure the complaint isn't heard. You have absolutely no idea if they hadn't already tried to complain to the right channels. You are assuming. The reason why social media is a hot bed for controversies is because those "respective people" ignore it and the victims are forced to find other ways to make their plight known. You are ignorant to why these incidents continue to happen.
If its some degenerate like you. Nobody should give a shit.
Now i understand what Metzen, after leaving Blizzard, mean when he said that he was tired of arguing with too many "alpha geeks". God...
Caplin also made a cryptic message at the end of his open letter of resignation a few months ago:
'I think those of you at blizzard who supported our game teams and game developers' then went on to say something about everything isn't always what it seems.
People at the time was wondering why he didn't just thank the employees of Blizzard but only thanked a few with a cryptic message following it.
So it could be that the people that left wasn't leaving as they was involved and jumped ship but they didn't want to work at a place where that was the culture.
@@harambe4267 Oh shit did he? Damn...
Best case scenario he was looking through them thinking he might be falsely accused
@@Yominication He commented "Chris Metzen" and instantly deleted it, on the red shirt guy's twitter thread about this.
@@mustardwhore So what. He wanna know if they're trying to fuck him too. Because he was in Blizzard when all of this was happening. Doesn't mean he is involved. In fact, i believe that most developers that left Blizz at that time did it to avoid the situation.
Remember how Metzen at blizzcon 2019 flatted Afrasiabi about his so called "sex appeal".
And I strongly hope he wasn't aware of Afrasiabi's problems to tell him this at this time... or we could ask ourselves more questions...
"Blizzard is now facing a lawsuit over the very things they accused me of..." Makes sense, projection is very common among those lacking in self awareness.
Thank you for bringing attention and validity to this issue. As a woman and as someone with countless friends and loved ones (male and female) woking in games, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you speaking up in support of victims, and how important it is to make the industry a better, safer place so that we can get better games made by happy employees. Thank you for using your voice for good.
I agree with all that you have said in this video. Only problem i have is "IF" this has had a negative affect on the game (World of Warcraft) then why continue to support the company by purchasing their gaming? Doing so tells them "its ok to bring the quality down. They will still buy it".
I quit paying shortly after WotLK because it went to crap
Mind you, they fired Kael'Thas' voice actor over allegations that have been proven to be false.
Yeah thats such a shame, activision and blizzard are jokes
Quinton Flynn also wasn't subject to a 2-year investigation to confirm those allegations.
And didn't they have updated voice lines already on hand?
Nice berserker SP
Gotta throw out the whole studio