Here’s the problem for you.
Blizzard is a very large company.
Hearthstone was a small part of it (smaller than it is today) when the bulk of these things were happening.
So even if the allegations are true, it doesn’t mean Dave Kozak and Dean Ayala were doing these things. It doesn’t mean anyone in the HS team was acting like that.
You don’t know who were the alleged perpetrators (except for Afraciabi) were.
How do we know it’s not an employee with a very large chip on their shoulder who’s making this stuff up? Also, guys are generally course with bants with each other. That isn’t a Blizzard thing, that’s a general thing. Although they should probably do that in a private conversation and not in a public space.
Just curiously, would people be just as upset if it was women in ‘cube crawl’ visiting the mens work spaces? I like to think it goes both ways.
How does someone’s suicide has to do with card design?
I despise sexist behaviors, but linking them to game design is stupid.
To be fair, the current version of Elemental Shaman does sound like the product of a severely inebriated mind
We know because Mike Morhaime apologized.
It happens everywhere where there is a power dynamic at play.
Abuse happens in gaming companies where men are in power, and abuse happens in schools where women are in power.
There’s a good amount of data about WW2 prison camps where there was a huge power dynamic. The data shows that the camps with women in power, women were the abusers…the camps with men in power, men were the abusers. The men and women were just as abusive, the only thing that mattered is how much power they held over other people. The more power, the more abusive.
People who believe this is related to gender, that one sex is more abusive than the other, should read up on who Irma Grese was. It is the power dynamic that creates the harassment, someone having power over someone else.
Big gaming and tech companies have these giant vertical power structures in their company. These corporate ladders create power dynamics where one person controls another. It is a breeding ground for abuse.
I am pretty sure Peverin is still searching it in the net.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57929543