Whoever is responsible should answer for it.
He is trying to brush it under, when a company manager wants to move forward, it’s already clear he is just looking to save the appearances and make this whole thing forgotten asap.
He is not looking to give these people justice and clean the company of scum.
And regarding the third point, it might be a stretch, but as a victim I wouldn’t have the courage to speak out in such an environment, most definitely not with such corrupt leadership.
No, the OP is making a statement and drawing conclusions based on nothing.
I can understand people don’t believe when someone says they didn’t know it was happening but the rest of that is pure fiction.
Ye i’m not paying much attention to op’s points. Just making up my own.
Simple. Odds are that he’s trying to salvage the situation best he can, since he is in the position he is in. Odds are that he is trying to not lose employees that didn’t know that was going on or didn’t know the extent to which it was going on. Odds are he’s trying to stem a new tide of employees from going to the prosecutor’s office now that the accusation is public and providing even more ammo. And he 100% is acting as if he didn’t know this was going on for years, which could happen to either someone who’s practically blind or is simply bad faith.
Still, it’s a major upgrade from their other, public communique.
People who perpetrated the offences or anyone who allowed this to happen. Yes.
I see no evidence of that
I see no evidence of that
It’s a huge stretch. It’s worthy of those nasty tabloids that make up any rubbish to sell their publications.
You’re really grasping at straws here. Seeing what you want to see.
Your statements are not an objective assessment of that mail.
Projecting your bias. You don’t KNOW any of this.
When it’s Blizzard, every one goes “BRUHHHH BLIZZURD” but when other companies do so, all the sudden, it’s not that bad. Riot and Ubi had similar cases, yet those CEO are still in place nowadays and it looks like many gamers forgot what happened in there.
On companies leaving CA, it’s more aboot moving to states that actually don’t tax income and businnes and leaving L.A metro area which is really expensive.
Did you read the email?
This is NOT about the statement.
Which include him among others.
I see no evidence that he is trying to make things right either. Based on everything that’s been happening, I don’t trust him one bit. I have no reasons to.
If that is offensive I will remove it. My first two points stand though.
And this whole situation is a tabloid worthy rubbish.
Call me Karen or projecting my bias or whatever.
Those of you that still believe in this company keep defending them, I don’t.
He specifically states that people can speak anonymously to someone outside of blizzard if they feel more comfortable doing that and gives the details of how to do that, so how do you come to the conclusion he is trying to get victims to expose themselves?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/2/21499334/ubisoft-employees-workplace-misconduct-ceo-yves-guillemot-response
The CEO, Guillemot, is still in place, but many “executives and creative leaders have either been fired or stepped down”. So no, that’s false.
In a rotten company like this, nobody is looking out to help the victims, but to silence them. That’s what they’ve been doing all this time anyway.
I removed this part because it seems offensive and it’s not my place to offend anyone here. It’s my opinion and I stand by it but nobody has to agree with me.
Yeah, just like when he apologized for the banning of that Hearthstone player who protested against China’s invasion of Hong Kong. JAB is just Bobby’s puppet and writes whatever the Activision legal team tells him to write.
More optimisticly, this could instead mean that he wants to address the situation and make things right as fast as possible.
However, since he was specifically named in the legal doc as having known about some of the allegations and having not taken appropriate action, the fact that he appears to be “playing dumb” about this does make the email come across as somewhat hollow.
To be fair, he probably is not allowed to say anything actually honest like “I failed to take appropriate action and I’m sorry” (as such a thing could be used as admission of guilt etc in the court case) so I don’t know if we could really expect anything more.
Thats not the vibe I got from that at all, then again I’m not looking to further my outrage so that might be it.
I am curious, and not looking to instigate, but what do people want from him exactly? What move could he make that would please any of you…
He’s in charge of running the company, it’s ridicilous that he’s supposedly shocked and appalled.
If he didn’t know that this kinda stuff was going on under his leadership, what is he even doing at work?
That’s pretty much it.
Being a president of public company means nothing because you are just a face of it and people tell you to say w/e is good for the company.
The main issue I have with that email is it implies everyone within the company has shared responsibility, and therefor shared blame.
Look at the language:
Bringing up equality and how there is so much more to do (implying this is a big picture issue)
“It goes - without saying” (implying leadership is hands off. You know better. You should take action.)
“The people that work at a company”
“Each of us play a role”
“Up to each of us to continue”
“How we can move forward”
The issue is entirely up top. The email is directing you to the very same people that are under fire.
There is an anonymous third party point of contact referenced, which is honestly nice, but it’s a small sentiment.
That is why it stinks of playing the fool and brushing serious issues aside. Oh, we’ll have a chit chat about it and work it out.
I mean, he is most likely trying to save his own skin, he can sit back and tell the world what a saviour of women and women’s rights he is blah blah blah “Just look at this email! Aren’t I great!”
I just wondered why why you concluded that particularly when he does give the option for people to speak to someone outside of the blizzard community anonymously, that definitely gives the victims the option to stay under the radar if they so choose
Blizzard and their games inspired me to strive for perfection and greatness, and help me get through some very tough times in my life. I will always compare today’s Blizzard with Blizzard of old, and I will never accept anything else than what they were back in the days.
Blitzchung incident, siding with communist China, for profit.
Incorporating King/Candycrush metrics into all their games to milk whales instead of making good games that can stand on their own.
Fireing 800 QA/support staff and then act surprised as their games suffer immensely.
Releasing Warcraft III in the state it was in even tough they knew it wasn’t finished and lacked many of the features players where promised. Basically duping pre-order fans and unloading garbage onto them - for profits.
Ignoring the cries from the wow community FOR YEARS - releasing beta-expansion after beta-expansion.
Not paying their low tier devs a living salary, stating that “you have the privilege to work on franchisees you love”. You know what I love ******* food on my table…
Shutting down Blizzard EU, because workers had more rights than Blizzard where comfortable with…
Letting REAL misogyny fester throughout Blizzard pushed so far that buttplugs and lube are brought to a company retreat where nudes of a female worker was passed around. That female worker later killed herself on that retreat. (Jesus F Christ …)
Always spouting SJW/Inclusion/LGBTQ+/Buzzwords, especially after a scandal, whilst they themselves are a hundred million times worse. Hypocritical virtue signaling behavior from the people in charge.
Cutting ties with Kael’thas voice actor and immediately replacing all voice acting and then not saying so much as a peep when it turned out he was innocent.
Cutting ties and erasing other high profile community members from existence based on rumors, many of whom later turned out to be false accusations.
Do you guys not have phones - doubling down on not releasing Immortal on PC through an emulator - again for Asian market and profits, pissing on core Blizzard fans.
Oh how the mighty have fallen - no king rules forever.