Neat, but those “grave concerns” are just talk because nearly everyone is still going to take the payout lol. Virtue signaling is neat and all but it tends to go away pretty fast when someone is waving cash in your face.
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Is settling a lawsuit not taking accountability
Agree, OP.
And I’m beyond disappointed the judge agreed to $18million, which is Bobby Kotick’s sofa change.
rich people offer to pay and they in no way have to agree to settlement but evidently they want the money or would of said no way so they agree to settlement. why you mad they agreed to it guess it was good enough for them. it happens all the time when money is involved rich people pay and the person or persons go away.
They dont actually have to agree to the settlement. They can always take it to court and take their chances.
I don’t care. I will keep paying and playing.
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Glad someone posted about the new allegations.
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They’re not sorry it happened. They are just sorry they got caught out in the open
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Well the employee signed the TOS when they got the job and it IS Blizzards workspace, the employees have no right to anything in their world…
/sarcasm off
what the law says is that they cant tell you you cant talk about it. It says nothing about they have to put it in your personnel file. You can put a bill board up about it and thats ok, they cant stop you. The company isnt hiding it. Removing it from the personnel record protects the employee from having that held against them at a later date. What that law prevents are agreements that prohibit you from writing a book about it or going on a talkshow to talk about it.
judge is an idiot…
overall 18mill? how much does each person get?
and what about the family that lost a loved 1 due to well, we all know what happen there…
blizzard showing how bad they are again.
typical rich people not caring.
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The wrongful death is not likely part of this. Just one group. Their lawyers are probably good enough to negotiate for them. This is just the first wave.
To clarify this one. That horror was not at Blizzard. I don’t know if they are going to sue Activison though or ATVI as the stock holding company.
Sadly, no matter how terrible things are, holding others responsible for a suicide is something the courts don’t really do. It is VERY hard to prove that the actions of a person, much less a company, are directly responsible for the final action of that person.
Has anyone found out if the parents are suing the man who was involved with her who supposedly led to this? That has a much higher chance of having some sort of legal result.
Your first time reading a settlement huh?
Settlements mean payout, and other party admitting no liability.
So they agreed to be paid out and the actions stricken from the record. That’s how settlements work. If you want money AND admitting of guilt you better have iron clad evidence and a world class legal team, and even then it’s still iffy. That’s not even for sexual harassment, that’s for everything. If they admit liability a lot of things happen that cost a lot of money long term.
Most of the time companies admit liability ONLY when there’s a threat of criminal charges, or the evidence is so overwhelming they mea culpa
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Blizzard does not exist.
Activision blizzard is one entity. That’s like when someone gets a heart transplant, then later on they have q clogged artery and someone comes along and says “ohh that wasn’t THIS cardiovascular system because they got a heart transplant”.
No, they are one and the same. ATVI is Activisionblizzard.
As much as the forums like to pretend Blizzard Entertainment, Activision Publishing, King Games (the biggest part of ATVI), etc don’t exist, they do.
Same for a ton of other companies out there there that function under a holding company.
The three main units under ATVI are not the same and don’t do business the same, at all.
I know it has been popular for years to blur the lines for internet points, but that does not make it accurate. Provide criticism to the proper portions when deserved - which is pretty often. Just don’t lump it all together falsely. There is a reason ATVI, Blizzard Entertainment, and Activision Publishing are all all three named separately in the CA lawsuit and that King is not part of it even tough they are are part of ATVI.
The building exists, the devs exist, the company does not. Atvi functions under a singular management structure. It does not operate as multiple completely independent bodies. If tomorrow “blizzard ent” was spun off it would not function for very long without filling a lot of roles that were made redundant when it was first purchased.
Pretending they are independent bodies because you don’t like Activision doesn’t change the corporate structure, nor the fact they are, in fact, a single company with separate divisions.
So tired of hearing about this. You’re not bringing anything to light. Some people care (you), some people don’t (me).
When I think of accountability for Blizzard letting people run wild in their company, I personally imagine three things:
Getting criminals off the payroll
Improving HR policy and procedure
Paying fines and compensation for their negligence
I think they working on or have done all that stuff. We’ll see if it holds depending on how many new cases of abuse and neglect surface in the future. I think overall it is or will soon be a resolved issue in the public discourse. Bernie Sanders wants the FTC to double check to make sure the merger doesn’t interrupt any fines, good on 'em.