Define swept under the carpet. Have the cases been dropped? (also i cant find anything. Might be my google). Or have they just ceased to attract media attention? Media attention dropping is a completely normal phenomenon. That doesnt mean that the cases have been dropped however.
Take the panama papers for instance. Media attention dropped not even a month after they were published. Those papers are still under investigation and are being handled. You just dont hear about them unless you dig into it to get your information.
Ye thats my point. The state cant run out of resources. Well it can, but its more than just unlikely.
Media attention and public scrutiny was gone. There was talk of abandoning their bars, yet, come the first opening they were packed. Humans are very ostrich like.
I think Activision-Blizzard will announce lot of new microtransactions suddenly 
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You’d be surprised how strapped for cash the state is. It’s why the taxes are insane, but also why the homeless problem is something you have to see to believe.
They have a lot of money. A LOT…
In law, a State cannot bankrupt. It is a circulation of public money.
But that’s not the topic’s subject.
Another forumer already linked this US post, but I’ll raise it again here. Interesting take from an attorney.
For myself, I just suspect Blizzard is a mixed box of good and rotten eggs. They need to take this lawsuit as the reason to conduct deep investigations of who’s covering for who, who’s closing ranks to conceal what, and who’s the victim of workplace misconduct.
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The state has a record deficit.
Whilst not a state, a city (Detroit) went bankrupt and several large parts of the rust-belt are barely holding on.
A state can struggle with funding in the same vein that UK council can.
California State budget for a year seems to be ~200 Billion $, Activision-Blizzard net worth ~72 Billion $. Yeah thats a lot of money.
GamersTM. As a man I am too disgusted by some of the reactions.
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Yeah not surprising. Thats just how it goes.
Legal battles are something that the state is ALWAYS covered on. And i bet with you that the US has for their states an system in place that, if the needs ever arrives for whatever reason, that the state (as in the US) would cover the expensive to keep the case going. And for a state the sums these cost are peanuts and a long time investment because after they win they get more money back than they spent.
Oh yeah but more saying that they wouldn’t go for something unless they’re going to be confident of the outcome.
As suggested above, can see it being pinned on the name employee from 2004 to present, NDAs signed all around, and the state getting a sum, all done behind closed doors.
They will come out of this fairly well, we all know that. You don’t have giants of Blizzard’s size sinking this quickly over sexual harassment. I can only hope that their reputation will forever be stained and this will not be forgotten easily. They need a lesson in humility.
Wow players on average are angels to women compared to the toxic wasteland that is Dota. And people wonder why more women dont play games.
Oh thats always the case even if the state is swimming in money. If the state is suing you youre in deep poop. It rarely ever ends well for one if that happens (unless ofc someone is free of any guilt. But then odds are that the state sues you in the first place are pretty much non existent)
Lol Blizzard’s response is incredibly unprofessionnal, accuses wrongfully the State, dangerous for themselves and will springtrap on their butt. Who wrote this?
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For sure indeed! I think pvp / esports games in general are much more toxic than lets say Animal Crossing.
If Ubisoft, Riot, Rockstar, CD project red is anything to go by, nothing will happen and it will be forgotten within a week.
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