https://www.dexerto.com/overwatch/behind-the-scenes-at-the-owl-reactions-to-the-lawsuit-and-the-future-of-the-league-1642147/?amp
“It was a few days after the lawsuit when we all got together and it wasn’t the usual people that we talk to,” one source present during the call told us. “Instead of league ops, it was a legal representative from Activision and Brandon Snow (Head of Activision Blizzard Esports). They flat out denied multiple claims in the lawsuit and told us that they’d be challenging it.
“Obviously multiple representatives expressed their concerns about the nature of the lawsuit because no one wants to be associated with that type of thing. The way Brandon [Snow] handled the call also left a bad taste in many of our mouths – he referenced his being on vacation multiple times during the call, as if his inconvenience was somehow relevant in the context of the allegations and the pending suit”
I will never not be amazed at the snowballing incompetence of leadership at the company. Keep shredding that evidence, maybe the OWL will believe you.
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TBF I would be annoyed if I had to talk to people lawyers about my dumb coworkers while I was on vacation too.
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I mean, they were clearly floundering on PR responses for a few days there. Remember the torture enthusiast’s press release? I’m not surprised that their esports people were on that page too. Doesn’t really mean much.
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I expect a company to acknowledge when they are in a lawsuit so they don’t incur shareholder damages suits, which is what did / is happening.
These things have precedents and blizzard did the absolutely wrong thing. They lied about their financial health and stability to shareholders opening themselves up to lawsuits.
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Has a shareholder suit actually been filed, or is it still just in the fishing phase?
I’ve read various articles about firms, but not being an insider, all I have is what’s published. However, any ambulance chaser has a pretty sweet case since Blizzard has been exposed for blatantly lying and doing coverups.
https://www.dexerto.com/overwatch/overwatch-leagues-xfinity-sponsor-disappears-amid-activision-blizzard-lawsuit-1644057/?amp
Like, if you lie about the optics of your game, and then a bunch of sponsors drop, team owners are mot going to be happy about their investments.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/shareholder-alert-gross-law-firm-230700886.html
Found this posted yesterday
Ah, okay. I don’t really care about investors losing money, and I definitely don’t care about Overwatch esports, so 
Can’t say I really see the point of this thread.
Well what criminal easily admits crime? I don’t know of anyone admitting wrongdoing by just being asked…
This thread is about bobby definitely not getting a new yacht this year and that brings me joy :>
They could have easily acknowledged it, downplayed it and told investors that they would fix the issue and settle out of court.
That is a smart criminal thing to do. A dumb criminal thing to do is flat out deny-and-lie because that leaves you open to any ambulance chaser who can files a damages suit.
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I mean, alright
Don’t let the guy live rent-free in your head, he can afford to pay.
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It’s been a super rough year, I gotta get my joy where I can and if rich people are suffering even the tiniest consequences for being Awful™ I’ll take it.
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Maybe we should let him pay $15 a month to every player 
Perfect way of changing the sub model without switching to a different model and everyone could be happy 
Biznes 
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In my head cannon this all happened because they overrode the PR department for the 10,000th time and broke them. That PR department is now like suuuuuuuurrrrrrrreeee let me just type that out for you. Naaa it’s fine, oops let me just minimize this job listing.
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Of course they’re challenging it. They’re going to eventually settle this and hopefully the net result will be a better workplace but challenging it is an expected part of that.
More than likely there are things in the lawsuit that they still deny (but not publicly because of obvious PR reasons)
None of this means they didn’t engage in plenty of unacceptable practices.
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There are two layers of lies going on, however.
"We did not harass that woman" - This is the sort of opinion the suit is based on. Able to be challenged in court, but ultimately benefit of the doubt applies.
"We are not currently in a lawsuit" - provable. Denying reality. Very bad. Very dumb. Blizzard did this one.
Yep, no one is going to do that 
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Nothing new. This is a corporate level lawsuit - these companies all kinda act similarly. I can imagine how awkward, bad etc that experience must of been but not surprised it happened.
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There is a very common, successful cynical play in quietly acknowledging wrongdoing, settling out of court and burying the whole thing.
That is basically how most major sexual harassment cases have operated in the past century.
Woman proves company did bad, they slap on the wrist, she gets a payout and an NDA.
The dumb thing to do is flat out deny that you are in a lawsuit, which is not reality, and which is very provable to the most inexperienced bar graduate.
What blizzard did was extraordinarily dumb.