@@shadowthehedgehog1024 Do not reply, report and move on. These accounts exist purely to get attention by saying absolute bogus shit in Reply sections.
LMAO at Blizzard's statement. They're mad that the investigators didn't go to them first so they could try and bury it with bribes and corruption or prepare for the storm in advance. Just like they buried employee complaints that came their way apparently. F them.
@@Artetr1s The Overwatch team seemingly has nothing to do with it. Lots of women have said that they were thankful for being able to work in a good team (being the overwatch team)
The reason for 'obligatory training for anti-harassment etc' is because once it is in place, management can say that they have done their part and can throw the book at accused employees for basicaly breach of contract. It has nothing to do with actually preventing anything.
That is so goddamn true. It's literally the reason why they implement it: they don't wanna be liable so they chuck the accused to the curb. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Collective punishment is illegal according to the geneva convention. That includes forcing you to be reeducated as though you're a computer that is programmed to rape until you watch the video and you'll be deactivated. It clearly doesn't do anything because everyone, literally 100% of people, would correctly indicate on a test that sexual harassment is wrong. Its just insulting, degrading and hasn't been proven to do anything.
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso lthe amount of false accusations is nothing compared to the amount of actual sexual harassment and assault, you’re worried about a problem that doesnt exist
people saying there was a time when blizzard was not bad. me: *reads about the senior director who commonly sexually harassed women at blizzcon to such a extent that in a legal court document transcript it is quoted they called his suite's at those blizzcons "the cosby room" *
Or Hafu tweet about how when she was 17 Blizzard allow a team in competitive WoW with the name "Gonna rape Hafu" in 2008. So yeah this shit dates waaay before Activision was in the picture of Blizzard.
Wasn't their official response to dismiss the 'allegations' of the two year government investigation as being incorrect and made up, and then shamed them for bringing up the girl that THEIR OWN employees harassed to suicide?
The biggest problem I have with this whole thing is that they are trying to use drinking as an excuse. It's not an excuse, it's just not. If you're drunk, high, over-caffeinated, or otherwise you're not allowed to do anything you wouldn't sober. People really need to look at this from the angle of the people are just bad people, ON TOP of possibly being alcoholics as well. The responsibility of each individual really needs to be addressed and brought to light as well. Otherwise they are likely to just move to the next company and repeat said behavior.
@Nick Moore curious to what you mean? Are you referring to a specific instance where they made money off a campaign of some sort? I'd like to look into these social hate movements they are backing. Just down right deplorable.
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso at least stay on topic. your assumptions are so ass at this point. I don't understand how trolls exists. is it not exhausting put so much time into being stupid?
To any woman who's been a gamer, programmer, or in animation this isn't a surprise. I headed a small niche fan club for an anime character 15 years ago, it went off fast and I had to get ahold of the writers and animators for an interview. I BEGGED them not to out me as a women because I knew the Hell that would come my way. They not only understood, but actively helped conceal my identity. Geesus. It shouldn't be this hard. The industry is rife with abuse from the top ceo to the lowly fan and gamer. Sh!ttalk use to be fun... but it's gone way way beyond that. I'm not surprised by any of this.
I've had similar experiences and i'm not surprised by these cases:/ was looking to work in gaming and am currently studying to doso but i'm not even sure i want to anymore
@@Clouded-Logic I would love to but alas, due to some weird internet happenings, when the show became defunct due to being shelved by Sony, and MySpace died of internet herpes, my real name got mixed up with the character. Still to this day if you Google my name the character pops up in background checks as my photo. 🤣 I mean I'm glad the internet doesn't know what my face looks like. But being immortalized as this off shoot character is utterly hysterical. I've even had future employers ask me why the internet thinks I'm this random anime dude. It makes for good laughs.
i feel like lots of people are underselling just how dark this lawsuit is, reading through it and getting to the paragraph about a woman committing suicide was horrific considering how people were talking about it
@@jomother142 I have a feeling it was consensual but the guy who shared her nudes literally caused her to kill herself, I hope that guy gets life in jail. Its fucking ridiculous how people like that are allowed to walk free after only a few years in jail.
@@emz1412 She was having a sexual relationship with a superior. There's an unequal power dynamic there already, and that's before we get into the disgusting environment at Blizzard. It could be consensual, and I'd argue it's still squicky even it were, but it could also be him coercing her into a relationship through his power over her financials or taking advantage of a person in a vulnerable mental state.
I agree Blizzard sucks in everyway. To clarify on sexual harassment training some more; In most fields with multiple employees, it is mandatory training among everyone. You don't go to sexual harassment training after harassing someone, you get fired. Sexual harassment training is a preventative measure that's meant to hold you accountable. If people walked into interviews saying things like they hate women, etc., they would not be hired. If you are a hiring manager and get a "bad vibe" from someone, you don't hire them. These people don't have to be loud, incel, assholes to be capable of sexual harassment, therefore you can't always spot them. Sexual harassment training is meant to be a warning that we do not put up with this type of behavior in our workplace. Some people get super comfortable at work and begin making inappropriate comments and jokes, while others might not feel the same. Some people are psychopaths that are capable of hiding their true selves extremely well. Sexual harassment training is a yearly reminder that how you effect other people in the workplace matters, especially when it comes to sexual harassment, and you will be held accountable. Sounds like Blizzard is having serious issues with upper management neglecting their job of keeping the house clean and promoting frat buy culture which should have no merit in any workplace. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
I get the reason why sexual harassment training is implemented and its importance on maintaining a healthy work environment. But the training is so laughably awful that no one takes it seriously; it's just a yearly chore we all have to do. Plus, the training means nothing if there is a case of sexual harassment and nothing is done about it since the higher ups either don't care or actively promote this sickening behavior. Not all companies do it, but it's still a problem. Hopefully those that do start to be held accountable like Activision Blizzard.
As a European this whole Training thing feels damn weird to me tbh. It sounds like companies don't even do it to prevent sexual harrasment but just to be able to act like they've done everything they could have to prevent it whenever it happens.
It's also for the company to distance themselves from liabilities so that if something does happen well they gave the training so it cant possibly be their fault
As a baby animator in college, my teacher worked for some of these companies... now I understand why he told me and the other girls not to apply to places like these bigger names. Sure he kinda warned everyone, but he pointedly looked at the girls. I remember the cautionary look on his face. Not a look of condemnation, like he didn't think we were good enough, no-he looked stressed and worried. he just didn't want his students to end up in that work place. "Go work for someone else; there is plenty of other places you can go that are better- be good to yourself." Thanks for the heads up man, you did right by us
that's a legitimately sweet thing. glad there are still some decent men. so sad he has to warn you guys. if only ppl can just not feel fear of being harassed.
Seems like a no-win situation. Warning you not to work there may be of the best intentions, but the effect is not much different from getting harassed out of the workplace after the fact. Not sure what I'd do in your teacher's shoes though.
@@tehkill3r download times? yes. loading times? no. infact, the loading times would be severely affected in a negative way if they compressed the game files. Same happens in blender when you compress .blend saves, or compress files into a rar file. You can take something large and make it smaller, but if the idea is making faster load and download times, just don't pack a bunch of shit in it. If the idea is to make it take less space and download faster, compress it. It needs uncompressed if you want uncompromised quality which leads to longer loading times. Uncompressed, and then loaded. So basically loaded twice every time you open the game. (not arguing just saying compression doesn't fix everything, it has its own issues. So saying they should just do this because 0 drawbacks, is incorrect and I'd personally rather wait 3x as long downloading, than wait 2x longer every single time I start a game) If it takes 2 minutes to load into a game uncompressed, and it takes 2 hours longer to download the game uncompressed. I'd rather spend 2 hours than have it constantly build up 4 minutes of time every time it's opened. Pick your battles kind of thing. Think about it, there are 120 minutes in 2 hours, which means opening the game in this example 30 times. Everything after this you're just losing time
Every game from them fucking sucks, especially wow. But what can you expect when all the work gets put on overstressed and harassed female employees while the rest gets drunk or plays games during work.
Just FYI these guys never say they “hate women,” they will say they “love” women (which is also weird), but the thing you have to find out in an interview is whether they respect women the same way they respect men. That one’s a resounding no for all of them.
Isn’t it strange to treat other human beings correctly? Wierd how you can’t treat a living being any better than a blow up doll. I’m just saying this is just crazy.
Thanks for talking about it. This shit is soul crushing when youre a female aspiring artist finding out your favorite companies are like this. Riot, pixar, now blizzard, who knows what else. Good thing people are bringing awareness to force them to change (even if its just for the sake of the $$$)
Serious change has to happen.. Literally my biggest fear is nothing happens. We all call attention to this situation, and no real change occurs. I hope this genuinely propels change, not only to Activision but the gaming industry as a whole. Hold companies like Activision accountable.
As a woman this is absolutely fucking terrifying. It’s extremely sad how common this shit is too. I’m only 17 and I’ve dealt with unwanted harrasment from men literally my entire life and there’s a lot of misogyny in the gaming community as dumb as that sounds there really is.
That’s just so gross. Especially the woman who had her pictures spread among the work place. People need to start taking things like that seriously. That kind of behavior is too normalized and you have people like that woman who will take their lives out of shame and humiliation for two seconds of someone else’s ego flex.
No I totally agree. You think teaching people to not grope female coworkers would just be a think people would know. Like did you parents teach you to respect personal space and not make unwanted advances?
Maybe I'm just too cynical and correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that the people who sexually harass others are unaware that what they are doing is wrong. In most cases, I think they know but they just clearly don't care. In reality, the sexual harassment training is not actually aimed at educating them, it's just meant to protect the company from any liability in cases of sexual harassment, so the only guilty party is the employee. That's why they make everyone sign a contract at the end of the training which attests that they understood everything that was taught. If the training was truly about learning, they'd give them a test they have to pass instead of a dumb piece of paper written by the company's lawyers to sign.
@@CosmicTeapot they know that shit is wrong most of the time, it just doesn't matter to many of them because they are often higher on a societal ladder so they get away with it
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso Not that false accusations isn’t an issue (I think people who destroy other people’s reputation should get the same sentence the accused would have gotten if he’d been guilty) but when you focus on complaining about that when discussing sexual harassment... it’s a bit like complaining about losing your cell phone in the middle of a house fire. Sure, losing your cell phone sucks but there are more pressing issues to resolve first. And focusing on putting out the fire does not mean we won’t try to find your cell phone afterwards. Right now, people are just focusing on trying to stop people from acting like actual neanderthals because in terms of proportions, it is the larger problem.
@UCJO_a0XfHG5Z5kWdIUXMEzg Believe me, I’m tired of this too. And not only because it’s unfair to those falsely accused but also because it discredits people who are actual victims. Imagine you were raped by your boss and when you tried to speak out, people told you you were just lying for money/attention because of the behaviour of devious opportunistic shitstains. You just gotta keep in your mind that in the grand scale of things, the number of real victims of rape/sexual harassment still far outweighs the number of victims of false accusations and you don’t want to intimidate them into keeping quiet. Most importantly, I think society as a whole needs to quit it with its extremist black and white stances on every issue. Every topic is polarized nowadays between two fronts just sticking labels and buzzwords to those who hold opposing views and it’s just childish/immature. It doesn’t has to be this way... god forbid people actually hold a constructive open-minded conversation focused on fixing issues for once... but yeah, I’ve long lost hope that people will start acting like balanced/rational individuals. We’re pretty much doomed as a species.
I hope with this case being presented by the state more people feel comfortable going forward and Speaking out against what happened in the workplace and it would be awesome if they had documents too.
@@charlespanache7047 Sadly, these things mostly go unpunished. Charlotte over in animation is gonna keep getting groped, HR gonna stick up for their bros and careers, and since sexual harassment doesn't often leave that much evidence unless by text messages/social media this will keep happening. And people thought women were joking when they said the gaming industry was sexist. It's because it is.
@@oluftheexplorer9476 bruh. That Die Hard game sucked ass lol.. It was cool and unique for the NES sure but the game sucked so hard lol. I still habe nightmares about using my ome arm to try and beat the shit out of a guy turning my game into a bullet hell
@@oluftheexplorer9476 true true. They made some very classoc and very good Atari 2600 games way back when. Thats probably all the credit I can give to them
Hilarious because a lot of the anti-SJWs like The Quartering and whoever actually are mad at Blizzard too. WoW has become kinda shit lore-wise so that does tend to piss anti-SJWs off. They also see Blizzard as a "woke" company just like all the other Western video game companies, probably adding fuel to the fire.
@@icyr0bin-794 "xyz group bad, not getting mad at company" "xyz group is mad at company" "xyz group bad, getting mad at company for wrong reasons" I advise you to care less about other people's ideologies. Splitting everything into groups of bad versus good and what you like versus what you dislike will only poison you.
For me the most insane thing out of all the allegations is that somebody literally exposed nude photos of a female employee in a relationship with her supervisor and she killed herself shortly after. Of course we don't know what was going on in her life at the time, but the harassment and shitty behavior definitely did not help. I just hope there can be some sort of legal consequences, not only for Activision blizzard, but also for the horrible human beings that subjected the female employees to this.
@Midas no, it's their fault for spreading the pictures that lord only knows how they got them around to god only knows how many people, without her consent.
@Midas Which assumes she took those pictures willingly, and not that the mentally fucked people there took them without her knowledge. And also, even if she did take them herself, that does NOT excuse them being shared. When someone trusts you enough to send something like that, it's expected you have the basic human decency to keep it private. It is never under any circumstance okay to share someone else's nudes without their permission.
No one has considered Blizzard of being a dream job for over a decade. They should be ashamed of the quality of their games not to mention all the other stuff.
They are one of the biggest game dev companies out there dude. Trust me. TONS of folks think of it as the crown jewel to work for in gaming. Glad those idiots are waking up more now lol. Saying it's a dream job to work there is like saying it's a dream job to work fast food.
See... Here's a comment I just found lol. "It’s scary as a woman entering the gaming industry. I’m still in school for it and my dreams to work for Riot and now Blizzard are pretty much fucked."
I remember one coworker talking about how it would be his dream to work at Blizzard. Granted, pretty sure he hit multiple girlfriends so he'd probably fit right in.
No one is immune to propaganda. Blizzard has managed to maintain for many an unblemished image of a company too big to fail. Some people simply love the IPs and want to contribute to them. Yes, such people are more vulnerable to exploitation by these companies, but instead of blaming them, we should blame the evangelists for propagandizing and the companies themselves for exploiting.
Horrible is an understatement. Someone lost their life. This is just fucked up, this is the type of shit I imagine that goes on in hell. Seriously, Activision and Blizzard used to be such good companies back in the day. How far the great have fallen
"i have required skill and it has been my dream to work here" Blizzard: "Sorry sir but you do not meet the requirements" "i can harass women and give rape threats" Blizzard: "You are hired"
@卍 SMOKING THAT DADSEPTICEYE PACK 卐Look a troll who crawled out of his Cave of Incels to try to get clout from people trying to dislike bomb his videos xD
A victim being harassed reports it to HR who is hanging out in sexual harassment suite with the offender doing the harassing. This goes above and beyond the workplace. *They monopolized the company and Human Resources*.
As someone in the games industry, I’d like to personally say to each of you who was planning on getting into this industry, but is now thinking otherwise, we can be the ones that make a difference. If enough of us won’t stand for this we can change the industry bit by bit. The old guard will eventually be forced to drop their posts and, when that happens, it’s up to us to decide who picks up the torch. The cruel souls they’ve hand crafted with their malicious ideals or those of us who want games to be a place where everyone has a voice
@@MrTheclevercat you're under several comments sounding extremely bitter about the fact that women are speaking up, pull your head out of your ass and realize not everything is about you
Don’t forget people, anyone saying that it’s *just* allegations is conveniently ignoring how the *STATE* investigated them for 2 *years* and found enough grounds to bring it to court.
I guarantee the men denying all this are the same guys who believe that sexism doesn't exist anymore.. "Oh that kind of thing can't possibly happen anymore. All men are angels and perfect gentlemen!"
@Maldito Mur By that standard there are no progressives at all; Since you are just going to invalidate them at the moment they inevitably betray your expectations.
@Maldito Mur Im merely illustrating your scotsman fallacy. Your standards for what is ought to be considered a progressive person does not reflect the reality of progressive people; Its practically the same shit as christians disowning other christians when they do bad shit because "thats not what a real christian would do".
@Maldito Mur So what? The existence of such phenomena is independant of the mindset of employees; You dont need permission or instructions from your higher ups to be a feminist or an ecologist. Its still as much of a guess to assume the perpetrators are one or the other.
Just look at how they treated disguised toast, invited him for a convention, got toast to pay for the flight and accommodation all himself and then didn't tell him until he was at the airport that the whole event was cancelled...
And there's men who don't see a problem with it, honestly this isn't a problem within the company, it's just how everyday life is for women Edit because people are mad, yes men get harassed too, but why do you only bring that up when things like that when women are the victims? It's not hard to comprehend that majority of victims of sexual crimes are women, so why foam at the mouth at a statement. If you feel the need to always say "not all men" or "not all women", rethink and re-evaluate why you feel the need to say those things
@@slep6431 technically it means someone that wants to have sex but can’t find anyone that wants to have sex with them, but no one really cares about that anymore. It’s evolved to basically mean a misogynist that blames women for all of their problems rather than taking accountability.
That story about the woman committing suicide was simply unexpected. This is the kind of stuff you expect to see in make-believe movies as they're just THAT unbelievable. People should keep in mind that this was a FEDERAL investigation over two years.
Bethesda and F76 can finally breathe deeply, for WoW has officially rewritten the definition of a game killing itself. Congrats, bluzzturd, you lowered the bar.
Yeah, that one was really fucked, and that was literally DURING the fight of ridiculous amounts of Chinese Police Force (that instigated goddamn brutality), and the protests of the innocent people of Hong Kong. It was so fucked up, and I can never, EVER forget that.
"WE DO NOT HATE WAMEN. Haven't you played Overwatch??? We have... you know... females in there... and one of them is lesbian too!!!" -Blizzard, probably
I feel so bad turning a blind eye to all of this stuff for so long. Making excuses just so I could stay in my bubble. Done with that. Man I will be sad to leave my friends behind but I just cant support this anymore
This is actually what it says on their website "Activision Blizzard not only creates fun, we know how to have it-a lot of it. We are a community of people who work hard and play hard, and our camaraderie is fueled by our passion for gameplay. We know it takes heroes to make heroes, so if you're ready for a new cape, we invite you to apply to join our team" fucking disgusting
@@Drunk0nCustard The website message is enticing people to apply to a company with the promise of fun times at work. Those "fun times" included getting drunk on company time and hitting on female coworkers.
As a woman who once dreamed of working for a game company I’m glad that I stuck to just playing the games rather than producing them. This situation makes me sick. It’s not just Activision and Blizzard, it’s the fact we’ve seen this exposed in many companies before that just leads me to think that this won’t be the last time we see a company doing this unethical shit. I can’t put into words how much it hurts me to see the gaming community be so gender divided. Plenty people are nice when playing games but from experience I admit I’d had my fair share of abuse from the opposite gender whilst I’ve played a game. It’s disheartening that for some reason games are seen by some as an ‘exclusive to men’ activity, or that because I’m a woman I’m immediately bad at the game or I don’t belong because I’m not playing the Sims or Animal Crossing (the typical ‘girl’ games listed). Now to hear once again that not only does the abuse happen as a player but to the very people that help make the game (and the abuse is to an even greater degree with real threats of rape), it sickens me. I truly don’t see a day where women will feel like they belong in the gaming crowd which is the most disheartening statement I’ve ever admitted. Sorry for the rant if anyone reads this. I’m just very passionate about gaming, it’s been a long term escapism from some traumatising experiences so I care very deeply about the direction of the gaming community and my place within it.
There are a lot of assholes out there but you don't have to give up on producing games because of this news. Find your people, learn how to code, and start up your own company if no where else seems to match your ideals. There are plenty of good men and women out there who will help you do this. I know it's disheartening to read news like this but the fact is at the same time, the state of California itself is taking action. The law is on the right side when it comes to this, it's just ideally we'd get to a point where nothing this awful happens in the first place. For what it's worth, I found good friends who absolutely made me feel like women belong in gaming and I hope one day you can too.
@@bitteralmonds5717 I didn’t give up my dream of game developing due to news like this, I just found a new passion and decided my hobby of enjoying gaming should stay as just that, a hobby. My ranting above is just simply myself being thankful that I didn’t get wrapped up within that as I dodged a bullet it seems. Super glad to hear that the state is taking action to preventing this as it gives hope to those who do actually pursue this career path. These days I mostly stick to single player games, but whilst I find it’s partially due to the constant harassment I received for simply being a women in online games, I also just mostly enjoy single player games for their stories. I find myself escaping easily into well written stories and as a very emotive person they make me feel ways that no movie or book could ever do, one of the main draws for why I believe games are just phenomenal as an art form. So it’s not all doom and gloom, I do enjoy what I’ve found in single player games even if the push towards them was because of the harassment. As you said though, the people you play with make all the difference, I have friends (both genders) who I play games like online versions of dungeons and dragons with but I guess you wouldn’t call that an online video game. Most of the proper online games I would play would be with strangers so it makes sense that I had not so great of a time compared with if I played with friends. Maybe I’ll find my people one day, maybe I won’t, for now I’m satisfied with my single players and a few online games here and there. Not every online experience has been bad of course. Honestly I’m just happy that the topic of women belonging in gaming is being brought forwards again as it really has been a huge escapism within my life that somewhat got destroyed by a few people that can’t grasp the fact that games aren’t exclusive to just them. To anyone who may read this just realise that women enjoy games as much as you, our gender doesn’t define whether we find them instantly boring, we can be a pro player or we can suck as much as some men do too, don’t destroy our passions and just treat us like you would one of the guys, we don’t need sexual harassment or any kind of harassment whilst we’re trying to no-scope you. Many thanks if you actually spent time to read this.
@@ZNemerald My comment above should hopefully clarify that I no longer intend to be in the industry because of new passions and not because of the claims of the field being awful. If you want to give it a read then go ahead, it’s mostly just more context to how I feel about games. If you don’t read it then hopefully the first sentence to this will provide you with the context of why I wouldn’t start a gaming company. Although I would love to see how a female run game company turns out (with some male employees obviously because I am against gender exclusivity). I’m sure the gender prejudices within the development team would be better handed and tackled than they are at Blizzard or Activision if the top dog understood the struggles women have to find their place in the community. Thanks for reading.
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso dude chill. I support equality for both genders and am against gender exclusivity, literally said that in a prior comment. If you’re suggesting the claims made at Activision and Blizzard are false then I think you need to re-evaluate the fact that maybe some people tell the truth since we’ve seen this stuff happen before in companies (backed up by proof). I’m just saying that obviously women’s place in gaming is unsteady when you compare it to men in games (excluding your typical ‘women’ games like sims - once again that game shouldn’t be gendered either, anyone can enjoy it). Thought that was common knowledge so just chill. We can all agree that gaming should be a place for all, nobody should put up with harassment directly because of their gender, race, sexual orientation or whatever. Simple.
As a female gamer, this shit sadly doesn’t surprise me. Anyone else notice why most avid female gamers keep their usernames (usually) gender neutral? No? Because every time a woman is outed for playing a game she gets abused and sexually harassed for just playing by some idiot who thinks that shit is funny. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not everyone. But even that small minority are enough to ruin the experience for everyone. I can only imagine how much more of that shit developers, coders, artists and women in other gaming industry sectors have to put up with. This is disgusting and appalling behaviour, and I hope these allegations lead to real change in the game development industry as well as in the player community. Everyone should be allowed to enjoy games without fear of being abused simply for their gender.
@Maldito Mur Unfortunately, I don't expect anything to change. Gamers will complain about this type of thing, but that's what they always do: complain. They still buy the games they hate. The MW2 PC boycott is a good example.
I’m honestly sad that I’m not surprised by these allegations of sexual harassment and bullying, considering how they write women in their stories. It’s especially apparent with the trauma and abuse survivors in WoW. They portray them as crazy and evil for wanting justice against the people who wronged them, but write the abusers who gaslight them as heroic and the ‘real heroes’. Then at the end of the day, the victims either die, get imprisoned and tortured, or are pacified into not wanting justice. They basically say ‘hey, trauma surviving women? We hate you and want you to suffer.’
I don't know nothing about blizzard's characters, but if they have any strong female characters, is just marketing. No company believes in their website mission page, that is always marketing, a lie to sell. That is why I say to you, what I say to everyone else. Don't give any money to any company, because they don't deserve your money, and you should not sustain the salaries of this people. You can get any game for free on internet, so do it. Don't give any money to sick people.
Water is not wet wetness is the the ability for a liquid to adhere to a solid it's like say fire is burned. It can burn things but it is not burned. But yes Activision is horrible
Upper Echelon Gamer discussed how Activision Blizzard seems to be trying to end this "company problem". They hired a law firm (WilmerHale), known to "minimize the likelihood of claims and potential liability", to review their company policy. Sounds like an Anti-Union Trust Busting firm. Not gonna be surprised if this issue gets co-opted by "social justice movement", separating all the employees affected into tiers of grievances. And then the ones at the bottom of the tiers left, since now they're getting abused by the company and the top of the grievance tier. Each layer slowly dissolve from the bottom, since the tier above the bottom tier becomes the new bottom, each time the bottom disappears. Classic divide and conquer. The walkout has already been taken over by the SJWs. Just like during the demonstration following the 2008 financial crisis. Introduce a dividing element (like which group is more or less affected, therefore creating tiers), into a uniting issue (financial crisis affecting the 90%) that affects people of all variety. Not gonna be surprised if no meaningful changes happen, since the dividing issue is still quite popular and easy to use right now.
Of course. Money is the only thing that moves companies, and who knows what moves these individual employees. The only thing that matters is this shit is finally coming out and people are finally listening.
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso please show me a case where a lying woman’s word was enough to put a man behind bars. It’s not enough. Which also is why most SA cases can’t be proven/convicted, unless the attacker happened to film their attacks or something.
as a woman who has been sexually assaulted and harassed; thank you. hearing a man take this as seriously as women do it's relieving. you're doing a good thing for any young men that might see this. also fuck blizzard. all their female characters would vomit if they knew who created them
A lot of women I know actively avoid anything gaming related because of the horrible ways not just companies but gamers act in general. And I can't say that's exactly an illogical position to have.
@@TheVeryBestBaby Wake up who? Lol. Everyone knows what's going on. What are you gonna do about it? Blizzard is a multi-billion dollar corporation. China is probably the strongest country on Earth. The fuck are ordinary plebs gonna do about it?
@@amp4105 I'm just amazed at the "wake up sheeple" type of person. Like, most people know what's going on. The system cannot be overturned by typing fucking woke hashtags and calling others sheep. It's a ridiculous mindset keyboard warriors seem to love.
@@stankobarabata2406 i mean he can type what he typed..just without the "wake up people" because yeah we do know whats going on and he's really annoying haha. It's good that the info is out there, even if it turns into boring lectures for those that already knew. The more that people type this stuff at least it'll either inform new people or shake their trust, and maaaybe join the good side...even though it's in a comment section on youtube...still
3:38 the sass, ohh the sass I love it. This may seem like a ridiculous thing to say but I love seeing big male youtubers/ streamers commenting on the issue, just makes me feel much safer to express my opinion and thoughts on the matter. Thank you, Charlie, stay awesome
"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. While we find this behavior to be disgraceful and unprofessional, it is unfortunately an example of how they have conducted themselves throughout the course of their investigation. It is this type of irresponsible behavior from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State’s best businesses out of California." -Activision-Blizzard spokesperson Dude. That last line tells me everything about how scum Blizzard has become. From my understanding, this whole "Businesses fleeing California" has to do with extremely stringent infrastructure permits. So by blizzards logic rampant sexual harassments to the point of serious legal trouble = "No the dishwasher can't go there"
@Louielolbruh3 I know you want attention and all that since your words irl hold no power and mean nothing, so you target kids to feel something and all, but why in the comment section of jesus? like if u were to say that in a jacksepticeye comment section you would get like 100x more attention Like its obviously a troll but like... why here?
It’s absolutely disgusting, one of the worst responses from a company to date. Also, the fact that they claim the woman who committed suicide during THEIR company retreat after multiple of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES shared nudes of the poor woman during the event is unrelated to the sexual harassment problems in Blizzard Activision is an absolute insult to the woman and her family. Soulless company at its finest.
every time I see some news like this it makes me want to cry. I literally love all of the blizzard franchises and to see them slip further and further into the abyss is depressing.
The only problem with Charlie's take on anti-sexual harassment screening is that there are probably a lot of people out there who know how to seem respectful and decent on the outside in an interview, all the while concealing their true degenerate nature. Therefore, companies probably find it a safe option to just give everyone the training as standard practice... But on the other hand, there are also probably lots of pervs that laugh at the anti-harassment stuff they are fed, check the boxes they know they are supposed to, and just go on to harass women anyway, so there is that too.
I think the key is to have systems that let companies hold those subhumans accountable. HR needs to stop protecting abusers because oh noes we have to protect the rich peoples. Just make it more expensive to keep sexual abusers around
It’s extremely counterintuitive and dumb because corporations will cite their utilization of anti-harassment training (which is obviously useless bullshit) as defense in court to “disprove” their negligence in their response to employee complaints
I can't help but feel a bit uncomfortable when you use vocabulary such as ''degenerate''(like op) and ''subhumans''(like kkcat). Just think about the history of these words, and how they were used. You can show disdain against sexual abusers without that.
I think it’s funny how one guy in the chat was like Valve must be the only good place to work when apparently Valve has a whole other list of problems employees have listed.
Because they don’t know what it’s like to be harassed literally every day while everyone around them minimizes the pain they are going through. Also there’s a lot of losers out there that can’t get any female interaction that back these frat fucks up because they wish they were them
It could be a joke, but jokes can end up taking a serious, real, and dark turn. So either way, it’s still wrong. “It’s just a joke” is not a valid excuse.
Aside from literal crimes, blizzard/Activision have no sense of community and have no plan for real longevity in their games. On the esports side, they kill games intentionally for the next one. Starcraft was murdered, hots was murdered, and overwatch was murdered. On the casual side, wow only has bursts of activity for like weeks after an expansion. Diablo mobile was something nobody asked for. The call of duty games have been ass up until recently and still theyre mediocre, and they still release every year (same formula). The company just rinse repeats with killing dedicated players and their passions for a quick buck. This is opposed to games like eso or counterstrike which are built to last. Eso with constant events and great content and community outreach. Counterstrike with tournaments and hype and competitiveness (blizzard intentionally shut down tournament orgs for years with their licensing idea. In reality it was to make room for overwatch league, but then they decided to kill that too with a quick cash to youtube). Please don't give this company money anymore.
I still cant forgive them for how overwatch was killed, had so much fun with it and I feel like it could have been on level with League of legends in terms of popularity.
COD has been ass for the last like 6 years. And each year has just been progressively worse. I hate that company, and this stuff just puts the cherry on top.
I didn't realize people thought they were a good company. They rival EA in the shittiest company category. When EA is #2 most hated company, Activision Blizzard is #1, when EA is #1 most hated company, Activision Blizzard is #2.
@@oliver-04 EA does way more shit than that. You probably don't know that because you're not a game dev, you don't work in the industry or look into the industry that much, but EA has been top of the list of shit for DECADES with their garbage business practices and horrible working standards. Just read EA_Spouse's open letter from 2004. Not much has changed.
You are all fools, this shit has been going on for years, they make there employees crunch all the time. Almost every big game company does it, Gear box ceo lays people off during a pandemic to line his pocket, wake up people
@@Delta9Church yeah if this is what has gotten out, im sure there's even worse which is hard to believe something can be worse than driving a woman to commit suicide.
Blizzard is trash, they've had very unkind attitude towards their consumers and content creators throughout the years based on the stories heard over the years...and what is also sad is the behaviour of these self-righteous internet vigilantes that find satisfaction through harrassing others that are mostly innocent and have no involvement.
Stopped engaging with them years ago just because every product they put out seem like a copy paste or just a $40 expansion of the same thing I'm already playing except I get 10 more levels I know it's easy to hate on them right now due to their rape culture but when is the last time they put out an original game ? I guess when you spend all of your time harassing female employees getting blacked out drunk the best you can do is Magic the Gathering rip off.
As someone who was an avid Hearthstone player I started to just feel guilty for even supporting the company and had to quit. The amount of scandals and just bad things that they did since the game launched was crazy, most of which never made major headlines like this. On one occasion they banned a professional player of the game for showing social media support of the Hong Kong protests when they were happening, along with a range of money-grabbing schemes in game which just got worse. Sucks man.
The best way to make a company change its way is to stop supporting them. Support the talented people who are trying to work hard in these horrible companies.
@@charlespanache7047 The only reason blizzard is still alive is a lot of people love to buy their games out of habit; Overwatch loot boxes also help keeps them afloat.
The gaming industry as a whole is beyond trash at this point. And people always defend the weirdest stuff but idk how people are even interested anymore
As a whole? No. The majority of the most innovative, fun and even thought provoking games have been independently developed games by people who have focus and passion in their vision, the stagnant AAA industry giants and premium currency mobile goblins are the problem, we need to the democratize by giving more focus and attention to the indie gaming space. What AAA giants do is stay stagnant on their ass till they see the revenue drip and only do ANYTHING after the fact, seriously how the fuck can you release such a game like the Avengers in 2020 when the gameplay is less complex has less depth than something from 20 years ago, plus you have to pay big bucks just to have miniscule amounts of additional content. Fuck man I can buy ULTRAKILL (release 2020 the highest rated game of all time highly recommend) for the price of a bunch of lootboxes that contain retextured shit some student intern made for free. Yeah haha that's Late-stage capitalism . SUPPORT GAMING INDEPENDENCE
As a woman who studied game design, this is terrifying I know young 20-something women who ended up working for blizzard, and I'm scared to know how much of this effected them. Their response was disgusting and pathetic. There needs to be change in the industry
btw are you working in any company now/if you are, can u plz tell me the name of the company.Im currently in 12th grade in India and im interested to work in a good environment
I'm actually currently studying game design and everyone's the goal is to end up working for a big popular company and settle, I guess it's wrong of us to assume they'd have good company policies but dear god, I didn't think it would get NEARLY as bad. I can't imagine being those women in Blizzard thinking they hit the jackpot only to find working downright miserable. I'm fucking terrified.
@@dokadoka4922 Blizzard was one of my goals when I first started to study. I graduated last year right into this pandemic so I didn't go to California and I'm so happy I didn't. My professors warned us (by which I mean myself and the TWO OTHER GIRLS IN MY ENTIRE GRADUATING CLASS IN MY MAJOR) that we would have to be able to stand up for ourselves to be heard... but this is more than I ever expected. My best advice is to follow connections you know and trust. Network and support each other. Make sure you know people there and that you keep contacts, especially if you go to a company as big as blizzard. And if all else fails... don't be scared to go indie. The most important thing my professors said to aid in the change is for more women to take control of the industry and have a louder voice. Acknowledge your fear, but do not let it hold you back. I wish you (and Music in My Mind) the best ♡
@@simbadg13 are you serious? Thank god they deserve something for turning probably the best fps game of its generation into a big fucking flop after only one year
That can happen no matter where you work. I've seen it happen in factories, I'm not surprised it happens in offices too. But you shouldn't be afraid of it. Just be aware that you can't rely on HR and your safety is your responsibility. Tell other people who will help you and watch out for you if you're ever harassed but going into a job with that fear is no way to live.
5:24 With how often this happens, at this point I am starting to think that all the applications have some sort of discriminatory remark, and they just roll a D20 to decide.
Valve is easy to work for. There are no managers, all employees can choose what they want to work on, can Greenlight new projects, and can pretty much do whatever.
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Whenever a company gets popular, they have their top people come together to decide what terrible crime to commit
Except for Rockstar, unless they did something horrible too.
@@sirwaylonthe1st239 Just give it time. Also don't they have some massive Crunch problems?
@卐Savetion卍 Hmm, today I will be an edgelord for literally no reason. Surely people will find me funny
Morality quickly becomes a matter of simple convenience once a person or people accumulate enough money.
@@shadowthehedgehog1024 Do not reply, report and move on. These accounts exist purely to get attention by saying absolute bogus shit in Reply sections.
LMAO at Blizzard's statement. They're mad that the investigators didn't go to them first so they could try and bury it with bribes and corruption or prepare for the storm in advance. Just like they buried employee complaints that came their way apparently. F them.
Maybe this is why Jeff left :((
@@Artetr1s maybe he just couldn’t deal with it anymore and left I mean if you could leave you would probably to
If only employee complaints were the only thing they had to bury.
@@Artetr1s The Overwatch team seemingly has nothing to do with it. Lots of women have said that they were thankful for being able to work in a good team (being the overwatch team)
@@tiversus4304 It was WoW team.
The reason for 'obligatory training for anti-harassment etc' is because once it is in place, management can say that they have done their part and can throw the book at accused employees for basicaly breach of contract.
It has nothing to do with actually preventing anything.
so true, just like all that bullshit police sensitivity training
That is so goddamn true. It's literally the reason why they implement it: they don't wanna be liable so they chuck the accused to the curb. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Collective punishment is illegal according to the geneva convention. That includes forcing you to be reeducated as though you're a computer that is programmed to rape until you watch the video and you'll be deactivated. It clearly doesn't do anything because everyone, literally 100% of people, would correctly indicate on a test that sexual harassment is wrong. Its just insulting, degrading and hasn't been proven to do anything.
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso lthe amount of false accusations is nothing compared to the amount of actual sexual harassment and assault, you’re worried about a problem that doesnt exist
Exactly. Check the box.
people saying there was a time when blizzard was not bad.
me: *reads about the senior director who commonly sexually harassed women at blizzcon to such a extent that in a legal court document transcript it is quoted they called his suite's at those blizzcons "the cosby room" *
They said it was for ugly sweaters but no one in that image was wearing a sweater.
Or Hafu tweet about how when she was 17 Blizzard allow a team in competitive WoW with the name "Gonna rape Hafu" in 2008. So yeah this shit dates waaay before Activision was in the picture of Blizzard.
@@aeowinh Dudes rock
I'll never forget SC1
I Hope a better Studio gets the Diablo and Wow ip.
Their attempt at a defense was, “Hey we don’t do that. Anymore.”
It'll work, too.
Wasn't their official response to dismiss the 'allegations' of the two year government investigation as being incorrect and made up, and then shamed them for bringing up the girl that THEIR OWN employees harassed to suicide?
"Anymore" xd
Kinda same as admitting that they did all those thing but NOW they don't? What a whacked company.
@@Rowdy422 correct
Literally what they just said lmao
The biggest problem I have with this whole thing is that they are trying to use drinking as an excuse. It's not an excuse, it's just not. If you're drunk, high, over-caffeinated, or otherwise you're not allowed to do anything you wouldn't sober. People really need to look at this from the angle of the people are just bad people, ON TOP of possibly being alcoholics as well. The responsibility of each individual really needs to be addressed and brought to light as well. Otherwise they are likely to just move to the next company and repeat said behavior.
@Nick Moore curious to what you mean? Are you referring to a specific instance where they made money off a campaign of some sort? I'd like to look into these social hate movements they are backing. Just down right deplorable.
Blizzard: you mean alcoholics aren't above the law???
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso at least stay on topic. your assumptions are so ass at this point. I don't understand how trolls exists. is it not exhausting put so much time into being stupid?
Accountability is something that is low in demand and low in supply, unfortunately.
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To any woman who's been a gamer, programmer, or in animation this isn't a surprise.
I headed a small niche fan club for an anime character 15 years ago, it went off fast and I had to get ahold of the writers and animators for an interview. I BEGGED them not to out me as a women because I knew the Hell that would come my way. They not only understood, but actively helped conceal my identity.
Geesus. It shouldn't be this hard. The industry is rife with abuse from the top ceo to the lowly fan and gamer. Sh!ttalk use to be fun... but it's gone way way beyond that. I'm not surprised by any of this.
I've had similar experiences and i'm not surprised by these cases:/ was looking to work in gaming and am currently studying to doso but i'm not even sure i want to anymore
Which anime character, if you don't mind me asking?
@@Clouded-Logic Pico from Boku No Pico
@@Clouded-Logic Like they said, they don't want to be outed. So you're not gonna get an answer anytime soon.
@@Clouded-Logic I would love to but alas, due to some weird internet happenings, when the show became defunct due to being shelved by Sony, and MySpace died of internet herpes, my real name got mixed up with the character. Still to this day if you Google my name the character pops up in background checks as my photo. 🤣 I mean I'm glad the internet doesn't know what my face looks like. But being immortalized as this off shoot character is utterly hysterical.
I've even had future employers ask me why the internet thinks I'm this random anime dude. It makes for good laughs.
Blizzard: They rushed their investigation.
How long do they have to investigate? They investigated for 2 years.
Don’t you see how they rushed it?? Clearly they should’ve given blizzard enough time to hide and bury evidence to look better!
That's a self-report.
"We have done so much vile stuff, that you wouldn't even be able to make your case after just 2 years."
What they really meant was, they rushed to announce it, instead of rushing to us so we could cover it up.
an investigation that takes a long time doesnt make the allegation true, it just means theres little evidence to actually finish the investigation
@@smegmuhfondue3021 That logic doesnt quite check out
i feel like lots of people are underselling just how dark this lawsuit is, reading through it and getting to the paragraph about a woman committing suicide was horrific considering how people were talking about it
Yo and based on all of the sexual harassment claims I pray to whatever’s up there that at least their relationship was consensual…
@Koen van Kempen She committed suicide because people she worked with were sharing her nudes around
@@ceedee876 Jesus fucking Christ
@@jomother142 I have a feeling it was consensual but the guy who shared her nudes literally caused her to kill herself, I hope that guy gets life in jail. Its fucking ridiculous how people like that are allowed to walk free after only a few years in jail.
@@emz1412 She was having a sexual relationship with a superior. There's an unequal power dynamic there already, and that's before we get into the disgusting environment at Blizzard. It could be consensual, and I'd argue it's still squicky even it were, but it could also be him coercing her into a relationship through his power over her financials or taking advantage of a person in a vulnerable mental state.
I agree Blizzard sucks in everyway. To clarify on sexual harassment training some more; In most fields with multiple employees, it is mandatory training among everyone. You don't go to sexual harassment training after harassing someone, you get fired. Sexual harassment training is a preventative measure that's meant to hold you accountable. If people walked into interviews saying things like they hate women, etc., they would not be hired. If you are a hiring manager and get a "bad vibe" from someone, you don't hire them. These people don't have to be loud, incel, assholes to be capable of sexual harassment, therefore you can't always spot them. Sexual harassment training is meant to be a warning that we do not put up with this type of behavior in our workplace. Some people get super comfortable at work and begin making inappropriate comments and jokes, while others might not feel the same. Some people are psychopaths that are capable of hiding their true selves extremely well. Sexual harassment training is a yearly reminder that how you effect other people in the workplace matters, especially when it comes to sexual harassment, and you will be held accountable. Sounds like Blizzard is having serious issues with upper management neglecting their job of keeping the house clean and promoting frat buy culture which should have no merit in any workplace. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
That was actually pretty useful information!
I get the reason why sexual harassment training is implemented and its importance on maintaining a healthy work environment. But the training is so laughably awful that no one takes it seriously; it's just a yearly chore we all have to do. Plus, the training means nothing if there is a case of sexual harassment and nothing is done about it since the higher ups either don't care or actively promote this sickening behavior. Not all companies do it, but it's still a problem. Hopefully those that do start to be held accountable like Activision Blizzard.
As a European this whole Training thing feels damn weird to me tbh. It sounds like companies don't even do it to prevent sexual harrasment but just to be able to act like they've done everything they could have to prevent it whenever it happens.
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It's also for the company to distance themselves from liabilities so that if something does happen well they gave the training so it cant possibly be their fault
As a baby animator in college, my teacher worked for some of these companies... now I understand why he told me and the other girls not to apply to places like these bigger names. Sure he kinda warned everyone, but he pointedly looked at the girls. I remember the cautionary look on his face. Not a look of condemnation, like he didn't think we were good enough, no-he looked stressed and worried. he just didn't want his students to end up in that work place. "Go work for someone else; there is plenty of other places you can go that are better- be good to yourself." Thanks for the heads up man, you did right by us
Good advice
Respect to that teacher
that's a legitimately sweet thing. glad there are still some decent men. so sad he has to warn you guys. if only ppl can just not feel fear of being harassed.
Seems like a no-win situation. Warning you not to work there may be of the best intentions, but the effect is not much different from getting harassed out of the workplace after the fact. Not sure what I'd do in your teacher's shoes though.
@@aes0p895 The same thing, every fucking time, guy was a champ
That’s probably why warzone update files are so big. Everyone is so busy getting drunk and harassing women that can’t compress the files.
if only they compressed games these days, could cut down, loading and download times by at least 50% easily.
This actually makes sense
5 bucks says over 50% of the files downloaded for Warzone are unremoved, default Blender files from their half-hearted and half-drunk game production
@@tehkill3r download times? yes. loading times? no. infact, the loading times would be severely affected in a negative way if they compressed the game files. Same happens in blender when you compress .blend saves, or compress files into a rar file. You can take something large and make it smaller, but if the idea is making faster load and download times, just don't pack a bunch of shit in it. If the idea is to make it take less space and download faster, compress it. It needs uncompressed if you want uncompromised quality which leads to longer loading times. Uncompressed, and then loaded. So basically loaded twice every time you open the game. (not arguing just saying compression doesn't fix everything, it has its own issues. So saying they should just do this because 0 drawbacks, is incorrect and I'd personally rather wait 3x as long downloading, than wait 2x longer every single time I start a game) If it takes 2 minutes to load into a game uncompressed, and it takes 2 hours longer to download the game uncompressed. I'd rather spend 2 hours than have it constantly build up 4 minutes of time every time it's opened. Pick your battles kind of thing. Think about it, there are 120 minutes in 2 hours, which means opening the game in this example 30 times. Everything after this you're just losing time
Every game from them fucking sucks, especially wow.
But what can you expect when all the work gets put on overstressed and harassed female employees while the rest gets drunk or plays games during work.
Just FYI these guys never say they “hate women,” they will say they “love” women (which is also weird), but the thing you have to find out in an interview is whether they respect women the same way they respect men. That one’s a resounding no for all of them.
This is what happens when losers grow up. I honestly can't understand how hard it is to treat women equally. It blows my mind.
Isn’t it strange to treat other human beings correctly? Wierd how you can’t treat a living being any better than a blow up doll. I’m just saying this is just crazy.
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Thanks for talking about it. This shit is soul crushing when youre a female aspiring artist finding out your favorite companies are like this. Riot, pixar, now blizzard, who knows what else. Good thing people are bringing awareness to force them to change (even if its just for the sake of the $$$)
Wait what happens with Pixar?
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso Imagine getting mad because women dont want to be groped
Does make one wonder how long this shits been going on and I'm sure it's not just these companies.
Okay
Serious change has to happen.. Literally my biggest fear is nothing happens. We all call attention to this situation, and no real change occurs. I hope this genuinely propels change, not only to Activision but the gaming industry as a whole. Hold companies like Activision accountable.
well said man
As a woman this is absolutely fucking terrifying. It’s extremely sad how common this shit is too. I’m only 17 and I’ve dealt with unwanted harrasment from men literally my entire life and there’s a lot of misogyny in the gaming community as dumb as that sounds there really is.
If you idiots would stop buying there shit, this would solve the problem. Cancel your WoW sub (game sucks anyways) stop buying cod. Its not hard.
Bots are a big fucking problem now huh?
Normies have ruined gaming.
"Rest in peace Activision Blizzard am I right?"
No, rest in piss Activision Blizzard.
Rest in number 1
In shit
ok
Im GAY
@@turkia6148 in shit and piss
That’s just so gross. Especially the woman who had her pictures spread among the work place. People need to start taking things like that seriously. That kind of behavior is too normalized and you have people like that woman who will take their lives out of shame and humiliation for two seconds of someone else’s ego flex.
I completely agree with your comment but when I saw the word "among" I almost had a heart attack
No I totally agree. You think teaching people to not grope female coworkers would just be a think people would know. Like did you parents teach you to respect personal space and not make unwanted advances?
Maybe I'm just too cynical and correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that the people who sexually harass others are unaware that what they are doing is wrong. In most cases, I think they know but they just clearly don't care. In reality, the sexual harassment training is not actually aimed at educating them, it's just meant to protect the company from any liability in cases of sexual harassment, so the only guilty party is the employee. That's why they make everyone sign a contract at the end of the training which attests that they understood everything that was taught. If the training was truly about learning, they'd give them a test they have to pass instead of a dumb piece of paper written by the company's lawyers to sign.
@@CosmicTeapot they know that shit is wrong most of the time, it just doesn't matter to many of them because they are often higher on a societal ladder so they get away with it
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso please never bring yourself around people, let alone women
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso Not that false accusations isn’t an issue (I think people who destroy other people’s reputation should get the same sentence the accused would have gotten if he’d been guilty) but when you focus on complaining about that when discussing sexual harassment... it’s a bit like complaining about losing your cell phone in the middle of a house fire. Sure, losing your cell phone sucks but there are more pressing issues to resolve first. And focusing on putting out the fire does not mean we won’t try to find your cell phone afterwards. Right now, people are just focusing on trying to stop people from acting like actual neanderthals because in terms of proportions, it is the larger problem.
@UCJO_a0XfHG5Z5kWdIUXMEzg Believe me, I’m tired of this too. And not only because it’s unfair to those falsely accused but also because it discredits people who are actual victims. Imagine you were raped by your boss and when you tried to speak out, people told you you were just lying for money/attention because of the behaviour of devious opportunistic shitstains. You just gotta keep in your mind that in the grand scale of things, the number of real victims of rape/sexual harassment still far outweighs the number of victims of false accusations and you don’t want to intimidate them into keeping quiet.
Most importantly, I think society as a whole needs to quit it with its extremist black and white stances on every issue. Every topic is polarized nowadays between two fronts just sticking labels and buzzwords to those who hold opposing views and it’s just childish/immature. It doesn’t has to be this way... god forbid people actually hold a constructive open-minded conversation focused on fixing issues for once... but yeah, I’ve long lost hope that people will start acting like balanced/rational individuals. We’re pretty much doomed as a species.
This is just straight up criminal, employees being harassed left and right in a company as if it was nothing it's just disgusting.
I fully Agree
I hope with this case being presented by the state more people feel comfortable going forward and Speaking out against what happened in the workplace and it would be awesome if they had documents too.
@@charlespanache7047 Sadly, these things mostly go unpunished. Charlotte over in animation is gonna keep getting groped, HR gonna stick up for their bros and careers, and since sexual harassment doesn't often leave that much evidence unless by text messages/social media this will keep happening.
And people thought women were joking when they said the gaming industry was sexist. It's because it is.
Activision Blizzard is honestly a menace
Funny
“Activision Blizzard is horrible”
smoking is unhealthy
stop saying the same fucking thing
@@louielolbruh255 Sad and obvious troll is obvious
@卍 SMOKING THAT DADSEPTICEYE PACK 卐 sad and obvious troll is sad and obvious
@Heinous Anus eating shit is also unhealthy
@YTr cretor No
"It`s easy to boycot Activision/Blizzard since they don't make anything good anymore" Savage but true.
I wouldn't really blame Blizzard themselves, but Activision. Last decent thing Activision did was a Die Hard game for the NES
Okay
@@oluftheexplorer9476 bruh. That Die Hard game sucked ass lol..
It was cool and unique for the NES sure but the game sucked so hard lol. I still habe nightmares about using my ome arm to try and beat the shit out of a guy turning my game into a bullet hell
@@sebastianriz4703 That's kinda the point. Like I said, it was the only half decent thing from Activision and that was 30 years ago
@@oluftheexplorer9476 true true. They made some very classoc and very good Atari 2600 games way back when. Thats probably all the credit I can give to them
wait until people start whining that “Activision blizzard is being cancelled by the woke feminists”
Hilarious because a lot of the anti-SJWs like The Quartering and whoever actually are mad at Blizzard too. WoW has become kinda shit lore-wise so that does tend to piss anti-SJWs off. They also see Blizzard as a "woke" company just like all the other Western video game companies, probably adding fuel to the fire.
@@randomperson8571 honestly im not surprised over those losers getting mad because of bad lore and not abuse in the workplace
@@icyr0bin-794 "xyz group bad, not getting mad at company"
"xyz group is mad at company"
"xyz group bad, getting mad at company for wrong reasons"
I advise you to care less about other people's ideologies. Splitting everything into groups of bad versus good and what you like versus what you dislike will only poison you.
@@Vedlom ok now point to me the sentence where i mentioned any sort of group and said they were bad lol
your comment is dumb as shit dude
@@icyr0bin-794 "people" classifies as a group, does it not?
You really need to calm yourself down.
“Activision blizzard is horrible”
“This trees a birch, you can tell because of the way it is”
Neature reference out of the blue
@@Greg_Rock *neature*
how neat is that?
Pretty neat.
Hmmm this floor is made of floor
For me the most insane thing out of all the allegations is that somebody literally exposed nude photos of a female employee in a relationship with her supervisor and she killed herself shortly after. Of course we don't know what was going on in her life at the time, but the harassment and shitty behavior definitely did not help. I just hope there can be some sort of legal consequences, not only for Activision blizzard, but also for the horrible human beings that subjected the female employees to this.
@UCHLLEUBMJSdCTMccwKobS4Q do you have a statistic for the 99% thing?
@卐Savetion卍 not this shit again
@Midas no, it's their fault for spreading the pictures that lord only knows how they got them around to god only knows how many people, without her consent.
@Midas Which assumes she took those pictures willingly, and not that the mentally fucked people there took them without her knowledge. And also, even if she did take them herself, that does NOT excuse them being shared. When someone trusts you enough to send something like that, it's expected you have the basic human decency to keep it private. It is never under any circumstance okay to share someone else's nudes without their permission.
@Midas How long have you been single?
No one has considered Blizzard of being a dream job for over a decade. They should be ashamed of the quality of their games not to mention all the other stuff.
They are one of the biggest game dev companies out there dude. Trust me. TONS of folks think of it as the crown jewel to work for in gaming. Glad those idiots are waking up more now lol.
Saying it's a dream job to work there is like saying it's a dream job to work fast food.
See... Here's a comment I just found lol.
"It’s scary as a woman entering the gaming industry. I’m still in school for it and my dreams to work for Riot and now Blizzard are pretty much fucked."
I remember one coworker talking about how it would be his dream to work at Blizzard.
Granted, pretty sure he hit multiple girlfriends so he'd probably fit right in.
No one is immune to propaganda. Blizzard has managed to maintain for many an unblemished image of a company too big to fail. Some people simply love the IPs and want to contribute to them. Yes, such people are more vulnerable to exploitation by these companies, but instead of blaming them, we should blame the evangelists for propagandizing and the companies themselves for exploiting.
If you were working for a indie dev for pennies it would be a dream job
I feel like a lot of guys in positions of power like this don't really understand how consent works, and it leads to shit like this.
No, they believe that if they're in a position of power, they don't need consent
@@thecaptain6520 well sure, some of them think that too. But there's a lot of guys, for example, that believe that 100 no's and a yes is a yes
@@ShazyShaze good point
"you mean cat calling *doesn't* display ownership?" -some asshole working at Activision blizzard
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Blizzard: “there claims are false because they didn’t report them the correct way so thus we shouldn’t be held accountable even if it did happen”
Legally that’ll probably work too… the law doesnt care if someone is guilty or not. Its fucking disgusting
This is unlikely the California state gov has been compiling a case for two years.
@@og403 Money talks
@@og403 yeah the technicalities with laws and legal stuff can be fucked up
Worked for Cosby, apparently.
Blizzard: WeLl NoBoDy ToLd Us WhAt We WeRe DoInG wRoNg
The fuck are these bots fr fr jesus
absolute idiotic statement by them
@@itsdebeast5280 the guy behind these bots weird 😂
Blizzard is a frat part
Activision Blizzard needs to fire and imprison more than 50% of they're people 😐
Horrible is an understatement. Someone lost their life. This is just fucked up, this is the type of shit I imagine that goes on in hell. Seriously, Activision and Blizzard used to be such good companies back in the day. How far the great have fallen
There definitely needs to be some arrests made
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain." Exhibit A: Activision Blizzard
in other news, there is going to be a giant hole in the market that can be filled.
@@steves578 *EA stares menacingly from around the corner*
@@TheLilbigBlack
_Ubisoft behind EA readying hidden blade and phone_
"Activision Blizzard is horrible"
Every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa
This is racist. Stop using an entire continent as the butt of your jokes.
@@samseed666 ...what?
@@samseed666 ???????
@@samseed666 okay but this is not racist,mentioning a continent is not racist lmao,just get the joke my guy
It's okay he just copied that comment, so he is probably a racist
"i have required skill and it has been my dream to work here"
Blizzard: "Sorry sir but you do not meet the requirements"
"i can harass women and give rape threats"
Blizzard: "You are hired"
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso ok incel
Lmao
Okay
To the girl who took her own life because of the toxic environment ActiBliz created, may her soul rest in peace.
fr
@卍 SMOKING THAT DADSEPTICEYE PACK 卐Look a troll who crawled out of his Cave of Incels to try to get clout from people trying to dislike bomb his videos xD
Fr hope she found peace ...
People die that’s life
Jk but fr Rest In Peace
@@thatguygonzo6937 just ignore them. They're just pest that that can't be swatted easily
"Activision Blizzard is horrible"
"People die when they are killed"
"you really think killing me will male me die"
make*
fate fan?
@@saiko_akd first one was better
@@jeremiahjung1126 laughs in Gilgamesh
A victim being harassed reports it to HR who is hanging out in sexual harassment suite with the offender doing the harassing. This goes above and beyond the workplace. *They monopolized the company and Human Resources*.
As someone in the games industry, I’d like to personally say to each of you who was planning on getting into this industry, but is now thinking otherwise, we can be the ones that make a difference. If enough of us won’t stand for this we can change the industry bit by bit. The old guard will eventually be forced to drop their posts and, when that happens, it’s up to us to decide who picks up the torch. The cruel souls they’ve hand crafted with their malicious ideals or those of us who want games to be a place where everyone has a voice
I'm sure some diverse company of supreme gentlemen and their ladies is going to take off here. Totally.
@@MrTheclevercat you're under several comments sounding extremely bitter about the fact that women are speaking up, pull your head out of your ass and realize not everything is about you
@@RainsChannel women have been speaking up for 50 years, its time for the underground lizard people to speak up.
Don’t forget people, anyone saying that it’s *just* allegations is conveniently ignoring how the *STATE* investigated them for 2 *years* and found enough grounds to bring it to court.
@Louielolbruh3 Bad person. Report
@Louielolbruh3 Your channel will go down troll bot.
@@Rammni i’ve been seeing a ton of these bots
@卐Savetion卍 Your also reported troll bot!
@@astronb6350 They’re everywhere!
Thanks for addressing it man! Stuff have been wild around Blizzard recently and people definitely deserve to know about these things.
captain grim? more like i shit buckets 😄 i filled the display toilets at ikea 😁
@@hmmtodayiwillguy okayyy...
Lol as if Charlie was the beacon of light that showed everyone this front page news lol
@@hmmtodayiwillguy myles capslock? more like i ripped a stinker 😜 i gassed whole rooms in the 1940s 🥴
@xLeo200x its not
I guarantee the men denying all this are the same guys who believe that sexism doesn't exist anymore..
"Oh that kind of thing can't possibly happen anymore. All men are angels and perfect gentlemen!"
nah, they are male feminists
@Maldito Mur By that standard there are no progressives at all; Since you are just going to invalidate them at the moment they inevitably betray your expectations.
@Maldito Mur Im merely illustrating your scotsman fallacy.
Your standards for what is ought to be considered a progressive person does not reflect the reality of progressive people; Its practically the same shit as christians disowning other christians when they do bad shit because "thats not what a real christian would do".
@Maldito Mur You dont know that; It might as well do.
@Maldito Mur So what? The existence of such phenomena is independant of the mindset of employees; You dont need permission or instructions from your higher ups to be a feminist or an ecologist. Its still as much of a guess to assume the perpetrators are one or the other.
Just look at how they treated disguised toast, invited him for a convention, got toast to pay for the flight and accommodation all himself and then didn't tell him until he was at the airport that the whole event was cancelled...
@@kingklaus2115 yeah he goes into depth about it on his channel somewhere if you can find the video. Super messed up
They really did him dirty
the suicide/revenge porn part was just heartbreaking. seeing people blame the victims online too.
And there's men who don't see a problem with it, honestly this isn't a problem within the company, it's just how everyday life is for women
Edit because people are mad, yes men get harassed too, but why do you only bring that up when things like that when women are the victims? It's not hard to comprehend that majority of victims of sexual crimes are women, so why foam at the mouth at a statement. If you feel the need to always say "not all men" or "not all women", rethink and re-evaluate why you feel the need to say those things
i cant imagine being such an incel to think this shit is okay
@@hoesmad3568 hot pfp
@@hoesmad3568 what is an incel? sorry if i sound ignorant
@@slep6431 technically it means someone that wants to have sex but can’t find anyone that wants to have sex with them, but no one really cares about that anymore. It’s evolved to basically mean a misogynist that blames women for all of their problems rather than taking accountability.
That story about the woman committing suicide was simply unexpected. This is the kind of stuff you expect to see in make-believe movies as they're just THAT unbelievable. People should keep in mind that this was a FEDERAL investigation over two years.
2 years of work to take down a mega corporation
Seems alot but it takes alot of work to challenge their lawyers
A dev of blizzard confirmed the treatment
Activision Blizzard is like the movie Grandmas Boy, except terrible.
Woah woah woah, don’t insult Grandmas Boy like that!
@@FOxXyYgRaMpA Grandmas Boy is one of the best, man!!
Bethesda and F76 can finally breathe deeply, for WoW has officially rewritten the definition of a game killing itself. Congrats, bluzzturd, you lowered the bar.
They raised the bar for how low they could dip, that’s more impressive than if they made a proper Warcraft reforged game
I've hated blizzard for a while but the tipping point for me was when they kicked Blitzchung out of the tourney for his support of Hong Kong.
Heheh, money
Yeah, that one was really fucked, and that was literally DURING the fight of ridiculous amounts of Chinese Police Force (that instigated goddamn brutality), and the protests of the innocent people of Hong Kong.
It was so fucked up, and I can never, EVER forget that.
@@Meow_Meow_Hurts_Real_Bad yeah, china has been kind of an asshole lately
@@micalzoncillo249 They’ve always been an asshole. It’s just more obvious now.
@@micalzoncillo249 lately?
"WE DO NOT HATE WAMEN. Haven't you played Overwatch??? We have... you know... females in there... and one of them is lesbian too!!!"
-Blizzard, probably
“Diversity is very important in our games-“ *insert your example*
Overwatch has a lot in reality
The community is fucking dog cheeks though, love the game but very plain lately
@@Artetr1s true
You can make a female character in WOW too!
I feel so bad turning a blind eye to all of this stuff for so long. Making excuses just so I could stay in my bubble. Done with that. Man I will be sad to leave my friends behind but I just cant support this anymore
Honestly. same. It's just so abhorrent. The sad part is that nothing will change, no matter what happens to them.
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso wth is wrong with you
If a company needs training for sexual haressment, there is something seriously wrong. Like wtf???
Rats always sneak a way in...assuming they haven't already set up house and infested everything.
This is actually what it says on their website "Activision Blizzard not only creates fun, we know how to have it-a lot of it. We are a community of people who work hard and play hard, and our camaraderie is fueled by our passion for gameplay. We know it takes heroes to make heroes, so if you're ready for a new cape, we invite you to apply to join our team" fucking disgusting
i dont get it
Aah, classic hr shit
There's nothing wrong with this. If they had a good history of treating their employees well, this mission statement would be just fine.
@@Drunk0nCustard The website message is enticing people to apply to a company with the promise of fun times at work. Those "fun times" included getting drunk on company time and hitting on female coworkers.
Nice Wormrot pfp bro, fckin awesome band
As a woman who once dreamed of working for a game company I’m glad that I stuck to just playing the games rather than producing them. This situation makes me sick. It’s not just Activision and Blizzard, it’s the fact we’ve seen this exposed in many companies before that just leads me to think that this won’t be the last time we see a company doing this unethical shit. I can’t put into words how much it hurts me to see the gaming community be so gender divided. Plenty people are nice when playing games but from experience I admit I’d had my fair share of abuse from the opposite gender whilst I’ve played a game. It’s disheartening that for some reason games are seen by some as an ‘exclusive to men’ activity, or that because I’m a woman I’m immediately bad at the game or I don’t belong because I’m not playing the Sims or Animal Crossing (the typical ‘girl’ games listed). Now to hear once again that not only does the abuse happen as a player but to the very people that help make the game (and the abuse is to an even greater degree with real threats of rape), it sickens me. I truly don’t see a day where women will feel like they belong in the gaming crowd which is the most disheartening statement I’ve ever admitted.
Sorry for the rant if anyone reads this. I’m just very passionate about gaming, it’s been a long term escapism from some traumatising experiences so I care very deeply about the direction of the gaming community and my place within it.
There are a lot of assholes out there but you don't have to give up on producing games because of this news. Find your people, learn how to code, and start up your own company if no where else seems to match your ideals. There are plenty of good men and women out there who will help you do this. I know it's disheartening to read news like this but the fact is at the same time, the state of California itself is taking action. The law is on the right side when it comes to this, it's just ideally we'd get to a point where nothing this awful happens in the first place.
For what it's worth, I found good friends who absolutely made me feel like women belong in gaming and I hope one day you can too.
I heard the field is god awful. Might be best to just make your own company.
@@bitteralmonds5717 I didn’t give up my dream of game developing due to news like this, I just found a new passion and decided my hobby of enjoying gaming should stay as just that, a hobby. My ranting above is just simply myself being thankful that I didn’t get wrapped up within that as I dodged a bullet it seems.
Super glad to hear that the state is taking action to preventing this as it gives hope to those who do actually pursue this career path.
These days I mostly stick to single player games, but whilst I find it’s partially due to the constant harassment I received for simply being a women in online games, I also just mostly enjoy single player games for their stories. I find myself escaping easily into well written stories and as a very emotive person they make me feel ways that no movie or book could ever do, one of the main draws for why I believe games are just phenomenal as an art form. So it’s not all doom and gloom, I do enjoy what I’ve found in single player games even if the push towards them was because of the harassment.
As you said though, the people you play with make all the difference, I have friends (both genders) who I play games like online versions of dungeons and dragons with but I guess you wouldn’t call that an online video game. Most of the proper online games I would play would be with strangers so it makes sense that I had not so great of a time compared with if I played with friends. Maybe I’ll find my people one day, maybe I won’t, for now I’m satisfied with my single players and a few online games here and there. Not every online experience has been bad of course.
Honestly I’m just happy that the topic of women belonging in gaming is being brought forwards again as it really has been a huge escapism within my life that somewhat got destroyed by a few people that can’t grasp the fact that games aren’t exclusive to just them.
To anyone who may read this just realise that women enjoy games as much as you, our gender doesn’t define whether we find them instantly boring, we can be a pro player or we can suck as much as some men do too, don’t destroy our passions and just treat us like you would one of the guys, we don’t need sexual harassment or any kind of harassment whilst we’re trying to no-scope you.
Many thanks if you actually spent time to read this.
@@ZNemerald My comment above should hopefully clarify that I no longer intend to be in the industry because of new passions and not because of the claims of the field being awful. If you want to give it a read then go ahead, it’s mostly just more context to how I feel about games. If you don’t read it then hopefully the first sentence to this will provide you with the context of why I wouldn’t start a gaming company. Although I would love to see how a female run game company turns out (with some male employees obviously because I am against gender exclusivity). I’m sure the gender prejudices within the development team would be better handed and tackled than they are at Blizzard or Activision if the top dog understood the struggles women have to find their place in the community. Thanks for reading.
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso dude chill. I support equality for both genders and am against gender exclusivity, literally said that in a prior comment. If you’re suggesting the claims made at Activision and Blizzard are false then I think you need to re-evaluate the fact that maybe some people tell the truth since we’ve seen this stuff happen before in companies (backed up by proof). I’m just saying that obviously women’s place in gaming is unsteady when you compare it to men in games (excluding your typical ‘women’ games like sims - once again that game shouldn’t be gendered either, anyone can enjoy it). Thought that was common knowledge so just chill. We can all agree that gaming should be a place for all, nobody should put up with harassment directly because of their gender, race, sexual orientation or whatever. Simple.
The people saying it's all jokes ARE the frat kids
It’s all jokes tho
It's all jokes tho
@@Rexet1961 YIKES YOU MUST BE REBEL BADASS WHO GETS THE MEGA BIG FEMALE GENITALIA
@@theepicjs5541 yeah true hes so cool and quirky i wanna be like him more
@@Vyclops @THE EPIC JS yall completely ignored the dude above me but ok lol
Btw sarcasm, idk about him tho lmao
Atari: You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.
This may have won Comment of the Year
I can't decide if I want to hear this in a dark powerful mysterious voice or in a tails voice
As a female gamer, this shit sadly doesn’t surprise me. Anyone else notice why most avid female gamers keep their usernames (usually) gender neutral? No? Because every time a woman is outed for playing a game she gets abused and sexually harassed for just playing by some idiot who thinks that shit is funny. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not everyone. But even that small minority are enough to ruin the experience for everyone.
I can only imagine how much more of that shit developers, coders, artists and women in other gaming industry sectors have to put up with.
This is disgusting and appalling behaviour, and I hope these allegations lead to real change in the game development industry as well as in the player community.
Everyone should be allowed to enjoy games without fear of being abused simply for their gender.
@Maldito Mur Unfortunately, I don't expect anything to change. Gamers will complain about this type of thing, but that's what they always do: complain. They still buy the games they hate. The MW2 PC boycott is a good example.
"Activison Blizzard Is Horrible
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Every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa
and together we can stop this
Every 365 days a year goes by in Africa
@@amcaljosh now that's a problem that together we can fix
Davie504
This was oddly educational
I’m honestly sad that I’m not surprised by these allegations of sexual harassment and bullying, considering how they write women in their stories. It’s especially apparent with the trauma and abuse survivors in WoW. They portray them as crazy and evil for wanting justice against the people who wronged them, but write the abusers who gaslight them as heroic and the ‘real heroes’. Then at the end of the day, the victims either die, get imprisoned and tortured, or are pacified into not wanting justice.
They basically say ‘hey, trauma surviving women? We hate you and want you to suffer.’
I don't know nothing about blizzard's characters, but if they have any strong female characters, is just marketing. No company believes in their website mission page, that is always marketing, a lie to sell. That is why I say to you, what I say to everyone else. Don't give any money to any company, because they don't deserve your money, and you should not sustain the salaries of this people. You can get any game for free on internet, so do it. Don't give any money to sick people.
Cheers love! The abuse is here!
"Must be a dream to work at."
You joke but a nightmare is technically a dream.
Oh, you got a point
"Activision Blizzard is horrible”
Water is wet
Hello certified commenter,
We meet again
Water is NOT wet.
Water is not wet wetness is the the ability for a liquid to adhere to a solid it's like say fire is burned. It can burn things but it is not burned. But yes Activision is horrible
it literally isn’t wet.
Even though I think water is wet, it’s still debatable
The trainings aren't because they are trying to course correct bad behaviors...it's meant to absolve the company of any liability for those behaviors.
Upper Echelon Gamer discussed how Activision Blizzard seems to be trying to end this "company problem". They hired a law firm (WilmerHale), known to "minimize the likelihood of claims and potential liability", to review their company policy. Sounds like an Anti-Union Trust Busting firm.
Not gonna be surprised if this issue gets co-opted by "social justice movement", separating all the employees affected into tiers of grievances. And then the ones at the bottom of the tiers left, since now they're getting abused by the company and the top of the grievance tier. Each layer slowly dissolve from the bottom, since the tier above the bottom tier becomes the new bottom, each time the bottom disappears. Classic divide and conquer.
The walkout has already been taken over by the SJWs. Just like during the demonstration following the 2008 financial crisis. Introduce a dividing element (like which group is more or less affected, therefore creating tiers), into a uniting issue (financial crisis affecting the 90%) that affects people of all variety. Not gonna be surprised if no meaningful changes happen, since the dividing issue is still quite popular and easy to use right now.
Of course. Money is the only thing that moves companies, and who knows what moves these individual employees. The only thing that matters is this shit is finally coming out and people are finally listening.
@@yyg4632 Brack is out at Blizzard. That was inevitable.
Correct. That's also what HR divisions are for. They aren't there to help employees. They're there to protect the company.
@Exiest(ex)Osas Saso please show me a case where a lying woman’s word was enough to put a man behind bars. It’s not enough. Which also is why most SA cases can’t be proven/convicted, unless the attacker happened to film their attacks or something.
"Activision Blizzard is horrible"
"Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes."
Game art alumni here, and from my experience I can say it’s currently really hard breaking into the games industry
"activision blizzard is horrible"
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
The lysosome is the trash compactor of the cell
The trash is commonly known as "activision blizzard"
YOURE SO FUNNY AND ORIGINAL AHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHA
@@smegmuhfondue3021 you are not
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@@smegmuhfondue3021 poggers
"Activision Blizzard is horrible"
Fire Is HOT
Edit .God Damn 1.9K likes didn't expect that
No. Fire is TOO HOT.
The sky is blue in recent news
@@jankemjunkie6564 In even new recent news, apples are a fruit.
Steel is hard
@@opdog7222 steel can be molded into liquid steel
as a woman who has been sexually assaulted and harassed; thank you. hearing a man take this as seriously as women do it's relieving. you're doing a good thing for any young men that might see this. also fuck blizzard. all their female characters would vomit if they knew who created them
A lot of women I know actively avoid anything gaming related because of the horrible ways not just companies but gamers act in general. And I can't say that's exactly an illogical position to have.
“Activision Blizzard is horrible”
“The floor here is made out of floor”
@@TheVeryBestBaby Wake up who? Lol. Everyone knows what's going on. What are you gonna do about it? Blizzard is a multi-billion dollar corporation. China is probably the strongest country on Earth. The fuck are ordinary plebs gonna do about it?
@@stankobarabata2406 Let them have naive hope
@@amp4105 I'm just amazed at the "wake up sheeple" type of person. Like, most people know what's going on. The system cannot be overturned by typing fucking woke hashtags and calling others sheep.
It's a ridiculous mindset keyboard warriors seem to love.
@@stankobarabata2406 i mean he can type what he typed..just without the "wake up people" because yeah we do know whats going on and he's really annoying haha. It's good that the info is out there, even if it turns into boring lectures for those that already knew. The more that people type this stuff at least it'll either inform new people or shake their trust, and maaaybe join the good side...even though it's in a comment section on youtube...still
@@TheVeryBestBaby And also fired the people who interviewed the person showing support for HK
It’s scary as a woman entering the gaming industry. I’m still in school for it and my dreams to work for Riot and now Blizzard are pretty much fucked.
try microsoft
Work for a smaller gaming company or start up, giant companies can get away with more for less.
Same, im going straight to Rockstar instead.
The most pathetic thing is that you want to willingly work in the gaming industry. Go into a real industry.
@@Spiffo0 yeah let's go work in a "real industry" like you because we're all too fuckin' stupid to get a job in coding or I.T.
3:38 the sass, ohh the sass I love it. This may seem like a ridiculous thing to say but I love seeing big male youtubers/ streamers commenting on the issue, just makes me feel much safer to express my opinion and thoughts on the matter. Thank you, Charlie, stay awesome
So basically half of Activision’s employee base is Todd Packer from the Office. Yikes
"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. While we find this behavior to be disgraceful and unprofessional, it is unfortunately an example of how they have conducted themselves throughout the course of their investigation. It is this type of irresponsible behavior from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State’s best businesses out of California." -Activision-Blizzard spokesperson
Dude. That last line tells me everything about how scum Blizzard has become. From my understanding, this whole "Businesses fleeing California" has to do with extremely stringent infrastructure permits. So by blizzards logic rampant sexual harassments to the point of serious legal trouble = "No the dishwasher can't go there"
Y'all bots go away. This isn't funny. This isn't a place to make" jokes".
@Louielolbruh3 I know you want attention and all that since your words irl hold no power and mean nothing, so you target kids to feel something and all, but why in the comment section of jesus? like if u were to say that in a jacksepticeye comment section you would get like 100x more attention
Like its obviously a troll but like... why here?
@@beanman1806 There's no point homie it's not people, it's bots.
It’s absolutely disgusting, one of the worst responses from a company to date. Also, the fact that they claim the woman who committed suicide during THEIR company retreat after multiple of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES shared nudes of the poor woman during the event is unrelated to the sexual harassment problems in Blizzard Activision is an absolute insult to the woman and her family. Soulless company at its finest.
@@katiegrayx3637 Some of them are real people sadly, oh well
I'm hoping this lawsuit is just an out-of-season April Fool's Joke.
Because goddamn, I don't wanna believe that stuff happened there
Ayy seems like i was right on time
every time I see some news like this it makes me want to cry. I literally love all of the blizzard franchises and to see them slip further and further into the abyss is depressing.
Gay
Hey act man
but it did happen.
"When i think of frat boy I think of the gamers that work at blizzard" 💀
its cute how charlie and mutahar watch each other
The only problem with Charlie's take on anti-sexual harassment screening is that there are probably a lot of people out there who know how to seem respectful and decent on the outside in an interview, all the while concealing their true degenerate nature. Therefore, companies probably find it a safe option to just give everyone the training as standard practice...
But on the other hand, there are also probably lots of pervs that laugh at the anti-harassment stuff they are fed, check the boxes they know they are supposed to, and just go on to harass women anyway, so there is that too.
It's not like that they take it to heart or follow it through
I think the key is to have systems that let companies hold
those subhumans accountable. HR needs to stop protecting abusers because oh noes we have to protect the rich peoples. Just make it more expensive to keep sexual abusers around
It’s extremely counterintuitive and dumb because corporations will cite their utilization of anti-harassment training (which is obviously useless bullshit) as defense in court to “disprove” their negligence in their response to employee complaints
I can't help but feel a bit uncomfortable when you use vocabulary such as ''degenerate''(like op) and ''subhumans''(like kkcat). Just think about the history of these words, and how they were used. You can show disdain against sexual abusers without that.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 what's the history of this words? the words degenerate and subhuman
I was contacted for an interview by them the day before this story came out. I was excited but not sure how to feel now.
I think it’s funny how one guy in the chat was like Valve must be the only good place to work when apparently Valve has a whole other list of problems employees have listed.
how can people defend them saying they were jokes when someone literally committed suicide
@thedummy what
Because they don’t know what it’s like to be harassed literally every day while everyone around them minimizes the pain they are going through. Also there’s a lot of losers out there that can’t get any female interaction that back these frat fucks up because they wish they were them
Because they do the same. Idiots always defend people who are like them.
Read the actual court findings and the charging docs. These articles don’t even come close to how bad it really was.
It could be a joke, but jokes can end up taking a serious, real, and dark turn. So either way, it’s still wrong. “It’s just a joke” is not a valid excuse.
Aside from literal crimes, blizzard/Activision have no sense of community and have no plan for real longevity in their games. On the esports side, they kill games intentionally for the next one. Starcraft was murdered, hots was murdered, and overwatch was murdered. On the casual side, wow only has bursts of activity for like weeks after an expansion. Diablo mobile was something nobody asked for. The call of duty games have been ass up until recently and still theyre mediocre, and they still release every year (same formula). The company just rinse repeats with killing dedicated players and their passions for a quick buck. This is opposed to games like eso or counterstrike which are built to last. Eso with constant events and great content and community outreach. Counterstrike with tournaments and hype and competitiveness (blizzard intentionally shut down tournament orgs for years with their licensing idea. In reality it was to make room for overwatch league, but then they decided to kill that too with a quick cash to youtube). Please don't give this company money anymore.
I still cant forgive them for how overwatch was killed, had so much fun with it and I feel like it could have been on level with League of legends in terms of popularity.
@@negativekda8730 As someone who has never played Overwatch, what exactly killed the game?
Game isnt dead
COD has been ass for the last like 6 years. And each year has just been progressively worse. I hate that company, and this stuff just puts the cherry on top.
Jokes on you I've never give ActiBlitz money
"When you reach rock bottom, grab a pickaxe."
Activision/Blizzard, 2021
This aged like fine wine.
I didn't realize people thought they were a good company. They rival EA in the shittiest company category. When EA is #2 most hated company, Activision Blizzard is #1, when EA is #1 most hated company, Activision Blizzard is #2.
And all EA does is support gambling on their games, which is bad.
But this shit that has been going on at Activision is awful and disgusting
@@oliver-04 EA does way more shit than that. You probably don't know that because you're not a game dev, you don't work in the industry or look into the industry that much, but EA has been top of the list of shit for DECADES with their garbage business practices and horrible working standards. Just read EA_Spouse's open letter from 2004. Not much has changed.
You are all fools, this shit has been going on for years, they make there employees crunch all the time. Almost every big game company does it, Gear box ceo lays people off during a pandemic to line his pocket, wake up people
@@dustbargames6371 Capitalism's finest.
@@hexoson Go to Cuba then
Them calling this "Frat Boy Culture" is them desperately trying to downplay the severity of this.
“Frat Boy Culture” is already bad enough though.
@@DJTREMADEIT I dunno, is it normal for frats to drive women to commit suicide? If so maybe we should look more into that.
@@Nekrotix12 probably should though if we are being honest. Probably a lot we should be looking at more.
@@Delta9Church yeah if this is what has gotten out, im sure there's even worse which is hard to believe something can be worse than driving a woman to commit suicide.
Exactly
I have many fond memories of playing WoW and HS, sad to hear what was going on behind the scenes.
My heart sank when I heard about the woman...
Blizzard is trash, they've had very unkind attitude towards their consumers and content creators throughout the years based on the stories heard over the years...and what is also sad is the behaviour of these self-righteous internet vigilantes that find satisfaction through harrassing others that are mostly innocent and have no involvement.
Stopped engaging with them years ago just because every product they put out seem like a copy paste or just a $40 expansion of the same thing I'm already playing except I get 10 more levels
I know it's easy to hate on them right now due to their rape culture but when is the last time they put out an original game ?
I guess when you spend all of your time harassing female employees getting blacked out drunk the best you can do is Magic the Gathering rip off.
As someone who was an avid Hearthstone player I started to just feel guilty for even supporting the company and had to quit. The amount of scandals and just bad things that they did since the game launched was crazy, most of which never made major headlines like this. On one occasion they banned a professional player of the game for showing social media support of the Hong Kong protests when they were happening, along with a range of money-grabbing schemes in game which just got worse. Sucks man.
@@kiri7678 ikr. hearthstone used to be a legendary game but this is painful to listen to
The best way to make a company change its way is to stop supporting them. Support the talented people who are trying to work hard in these horrible companies.
@@charlespanache7047 The only reason blizzard is still alive is a lot of people love to buy their games out of habit; Overwatch loot boxes also help keeps them afloat.
The gaming industry as a whole is beyond trash at this point. And people always defend the weirdest stuff but idk how people are even interested anymore
The triple-A-budged game industry*
Big company game industry*
Techland is still good and that's what i care about :D
As a whole? No.
The majority of the most innovative, fun and even thought provoking games have been independently developed games by people who have focus and passion in their vision, the stagnant AAA industry giants and premium currency mobile goblins are the problem, we need to the democratize by giving more focus and attention to the indie gaming space.
What AAA giants do is stay stagnant on their ass till they see the revenue drip and only do ANYTHING after the fact, seriously how the fuck can you release such a game like the Avengers in 2020 when the gameplay is less complex has less depth than something from 20 years ago, plus you have to pay big bucks just to have miniscule amounts of additional content. Fuck man I can buy ULTRAKILL (release 2020 the highest rated game of all time highly recommend) for the price of a bunch of lootboxes that contain retextured shit some student intern made for free.
Yeah haha that's Late-stage capitalism .
SUPPORT GAMING INDEPENDENCE
Indies are still doing great!
Its really just activision, Ea that have the majority of the fuck ups. (Admittedly 2k games/gearbox can be a mess)
"Activision Blizzard is a horrible company."
Skynut is a nutfest
Basically
"Charles is hot"
As a woman who studied game design, this is terrifying
I know young 20-something women who ended up working for blizzard, and I'm scared to know how much of this effected them.
Their response was disgusting and pathetic. There needs to be change in the industry
btw are you working in any company now/if you are, can u plz tell me the name of the company.Im currently in 12th grade in India and im interested to work in a good environment
Working in the Midwest?
I sincerely hope the women you know who have worked for Blizzard are okay. As a woman getting prepared to study game design, I’m petrified.
I'm actually currently studying game design and everyone's the goal is to end up working for a big popular company and settle, I guess it's wrong of us to assume they'd have good company policies but dear god, I didn't think it would get NEARLY as bad.
I can't imagine being those women in Blizzard thinking they hit the jackpot only to find working downright miserable. I'm fucking terrified.
@@dokadoka4922 Blizzard was one of my goals when I first started to study. I graduated last year right into this pandemic so I didn't go to California and I'm so happy I didn't.
My professors warned us (by which I mean myself and the TWO OTHER GIRLS IN MY ENTIRE GRADUATING CLASS IN MY MAJOR) that we would have to be able to stand up for ourselves to be heard... but this is more than I ever expected.
My best advice is to follow connections you know and trust. Network and support each other. Make sure you know people there and that you keep contacts, especially if you go to a company as big as blizzard.
And if all else fails... don't be scared to go indie. The most important thing my professors said to aid in the change is for more women to take control of the industry and have a louder voice. Acknowledge your fear, but do not let it hold you back.
I wish you (and Music in My Mind) the best ♡
When the news first broke about this, it didn't surprise me.
This actually made me sick…
How inhuman do you have to be to enjoy doing this to our fellow human beings
The only decent thing blizzard has done in the last decade is overwatch. And they ruined that after like a year
Made a Pixar esq game about heros, with gambling mechanics...
Jeff Kaplan just left recently....
Good job blizz
@ shut up
@ Mercy requires no skill lmao
Yeah maybe in your bronze tier games where you just hold left click.
@@simbadg13 are you serious? Thank god they deserve something for turning probably the best fps game of its generation into a big fucking flop after only one year
“Activision is horrible”
“Activision is horrible”
So true! 👍
Lol
Lol
The Blizzard part as well
The lawsuit is specifically just the world of warcraft team. So blizzard is horrible too
The update on this is even more insane
Activision-Blizzard has guys like Bobby Kotick and J. Allen Brack running the ship. Nothing surprises me anymore with that company.
“Activision Blizzard is horrible”
Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
And it needs to be stopped now!
@@sechabatheletsane9784 you don't want minutes to pass in africa?
@@tcmine Only the support of people like you can help bring ZA WARUDO!
together we can stop this
@@tcmine yes
People on the internet: Blizzard must be drunk with how shitty their games are lately
Blizzard employees: *Literally backout drunk*
blackout
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Where have I heard this before.
When I was much younger I had an older female cousin who worked at blizzard and she said she was completely miserable there, now I know why.
"Activision Blizzard Is Terrible."
For anybody who stuck around with the Black Ops series, you already knew this.
I think bo 1 and 2 were cool bo 3 campaign tho 😐
@@thelieutenant6141 bo3 zombies is arguably playable
Zombies carries cod by far. God I love that shit
@@whomadethisandwhy301 A lot of people agree that bo3 has the best zombies. Multiplayer wasn't too bad either.
@@rainy4177 yeah
Crazy that if ever wanted to go into that field, that would be a legitimate fear. Being harassed and nothing being done about it.
Just remember, HR is there to protect the company, not the individuals
That can happen no matter where you work. I've seen it happen in factories, I'm not surprised it happens in offices too. But you shouldn't be afraid of it. Just be aware that you can't rely on HR and your safety is your responsibility. Tell other people who will help you and watch out for you if you're ever harassed but going into a job with that fear is no way to live.
Well something is being done about it now
Just watch out for yourself and stand your ground in a very neutral way. A lot of men keep their distance from stoic women.
Just learn some karate and you’ll be A ok
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With how often this happens, at this point I am starting to think that all the applications have some sort of discriminatory remark, and they just roll a D20 to decide.
Valve is easy to work for. There are no managers, all employees can choose what they want to work on, can Greenlight new projects, and can pretty much do whatever.