I doubt it matters, but I hope this merger clean slates the sub-par employees involved in this game. The strategy to make 2-3 decks the meta to buy more packs is a fair business model, but this is getting old.
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If microsoft had spent the last year (since the buyout was announced) actually saying they would address player concerns, QA issues, workplace culture and so on, people might actually be happy for the change.
But all’s they have done is fluff announcements about DEI, and there’s been some clearly shady stuff behind the scenes involving the workplace harassment suit getting settled for less than half of what weinstein paid for the same offenses, and the questionable decision to let the merger through unchallenged from an appeals court that generally doesn’t favor these types of decisions.
It’s trading one set of inept and corrupt corporate overlords for another: only the nmaes on the front of the building changed.
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Hit it on the head. Seeing it everywhere to the detriment of all things business related. Fill the “right people in the right spots.” It’s a shame meritocracy has become a taboo.
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If a victim accepts to settle out of court for whatever amount, that’s their decision to do so and irrelevant to Weinstein in every respect. If you want to attack the victims for their decisions to resolve their issue with Blizz, then that doesnt speak highly of you at all. Settling out of court is one way to ENSURE the victim isnt screwed over twice by taking the case to a jury and then the jury not being able to arrive at a decision based on physical evidence that is in the Victims favor. No one wants that but many might find themselves being screwed once already by being the victim of the assaults in the first place, and then later if they lose in court, they are now worse off and have to pay insanely high legal fees for not only themselves but Blizzard’s lawyers too. Big lose on the gamble if you lack irrefutable physical evidence of your case. Settling out of court is a lot of times the best path forward for all parties involved, especially the initial victim. Not an ideal scenario in an ideal world, but thats not where we live.
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Different clowns, same circus.
actiblizz defense force projection at its “finest.” Though I expect nothing less from the company that illegally retaliates against whistleblowers, and worse. Naturally their defenders follow suit. Only in 2023, and only with this company and its defenders can pointing out the company’s misdeeds (you know, the authors of “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”) and twist it into trying to making it an attack on the victims.
Especially when it was about the company’s interference in said lawsuit at the state level, and microsoft’s convenient timing with that buyout, the timing of the buyout and settlement, and the strange out of character decision of the court of appeals in not opposing the buyout.
Like the saying goes: the more things change, the more they stay the same.
And scrotie, nine inch nails…really?