After reading on her I kinda like her. She is not a knee jerk Uber feminist token appointment but someone with a long history of success born out of hard work. She had said herself before that she did not think of herself as some icon because of her gender even though other women did.
She clearly has respect established game titles because she got high praise for her work on remaking old games with her former team. If only we had her for the Warcraft 3 remake.
It’s a sliver of hope but I’m not going to get too exited just yet.
Im guessing that Ion simply put forward the attorney concept of never ask a question of a witness that you do not already know the answer to in open court. J. Allen Brack as President of Blizzard might be privy to information that Blizzard would not want leaked out but that would be necessary to include in any question asked by an investor or an analyst (its not just investment firms (okay its mostly investment firms) who ask questions on earnings calls). You can get questions from market analysts on the call too. One of which might be wanting to make a name for himself as the analyst/reporter who took down Activision Blizzard and J. Allen Brack. Much easier then if J. Allen Brack is not an employee when that call happens, especially in light of the fact that said callers will know all that we know (and more besides) and have a vested interest in knowing whats up.
Again, Shareholders care about making money. If they for one second believed that allowing harassers to do their thing would increase their profits they would be all for it. They do not care about the allegations. They care about what affects their pocket book. Full stop.
My understanding is that he’s kind of asocial and keeps to himself when he’s working. He must have had some idea that things were happening on a continuing basis. But if that is the depth of his “guilt”, that would make him one of the most innocent there.
Yet. They can’t really make changes to the game until this blows over and the workforce has been put back together.
I hear Activision has been looking into taking more control over development decisions at Blizzard for a while. I heard about this last year and wondered what they might want to change. Some people said it would be a bad thing, because they would want more monetization. I felt that probably wasn’t it, since Blizzard has been doing an amazing job at squeezing players for more money. The “leak” said they weren’t liking the content release cycle with a 6 month mount followed by a weak patch. But really, only time will tell what will happen.
Yeah well… if people is screaming this much for changes…
there’s still a game and a reason why people are still being employed. Having a product with this garbage state and a reason why isnt going to help to “fight” as much as people expect.
I have an extremely unpopular opinion that people don’t want to read.
Some people isnt allowed to discuss anything about the game currently because of this situation.
So you just want to get rid of the best raid designer the game has ever seen because he’s not doing a very good job as game director…well damn we might as well just make you CEO so you can make all the decisions.
He kind of did have something to do with the current situation (being: the matters involved in the lawsuit). He knew about what was happening and did nothing.
With the current state of retail WoW, I don’t think you should be saying anything lmao. Also, go do your REQUIRED dailies, queue LFR, run Choreghast and whatever the hell else there is to do in Systemlands
Jokes on you CLOWN.
Don’t need to do the dailies since I raid Heroic and the dailies/rep isn’t needed.
Don’t need to do the emissary since I could care less about the rep and also banking 3m.
Don’t need to que LFR like you and every other CLOWN who can’t raid to save their life because I’m not anti social.
Don’t need to run Torghast anymore, already have my 262 made.
As I said the investment firms do not care about anything but making money. The thing is you cannot make money if your investment is getting pummeled (down 8% in the last 5 days) in the rumpus that follows any allegation of impropriety on the part of their investment towards employees and/or customers. When allegations of the kind that have come out happen against a company (any company) Much is usually done to suppress deflect and invoke nda’s and other measures to keep things hushed up. That did not happen in this case. An investor is going to be realistic and if he has access to the live investor call then that investor and/or analyst is LIKELY to ask questions that Blizzard does not want to answer. Blizzard at that point has two options: Ignore the question invoking the Cone of Silence. Or answer the question. Since its already been all over the news, the investment firms and analysts are going to be compelled to ask “difficult” questions because those firms investors will feel like the investment manager on the call did not do a sufficiently thorough job in getting all the details they could wring out of Blizzard on the call that would allay those investment firms managers and their investors concerns on what is currently happening both in game in public and in the boardroom to harm those investment firms investments. Thus the Cone of Silence approach would do more damage than good. So then they would have to try to be “transparent” in front of the investors. Much easier to do THAT if there is only a single voice (Bobby Kotick’s) speaking for Blizzard even if that is through a surrogate. Thus getting rid of J. Allen Brack may be the smartest move from an investment standpoint that Activision Blizzard has done in a long long while
WoW is killing it financially and with the launch of Slands it was at highest number of subs in the past decade (including classic numbers). Not only Ion isnt getting canned hes pbbly getting bonuses and payrises and will get promoted. Thats how companies work in the real world when u make em money. Many on the forums and social media either dont know that or just dont hang out in the real world
