My problem was the community reaction in that thread, asking for proof, saying that the victim might have instigated, etc.
Thankfully, most said posts were deleted. I even congratulated the mods for it, and one of them briefly upvoted my post before withdrawing it. The people who said that stuff need harsh penalties. You can’t “choose renewal” with everyone. Many posters who have said gross things about women, LGBT+ people, and ethnic minorities are still posting to this day.
I remember in a Covid thread, an antivaxxer went off on a rant about how the Left denies science, because they don’t believe in the “intelligence differences between the races.” And no, she wasn’t talking about the in-game races. Nothing was done about it.
We all joke that WoW fails pretty much at every level except their art but even that one is limited by their technology.
So if Blizzard employees were supposed to be compensated fairly how much should they be compensated? We all joke that some departments have to be fire wholesale.
We have been shown time and time its not just couple of execs. This is why this whole community council thing is a joke.
Have you noticed there barely any engagement from the blues? The last private forum crashed and burned because the developers did not want to hear negativity.
This is a total top to down failure.
They got to clean house and start over.
Long article, but very interesting. It has the stories of three women who worked at Blizzard. One of them criticized oversexualized character designs, and another criticized an unspecified “racist creative decision.” I don’t know if any of them worked on WoW.
I should answer this now. The reason I deleted that comment about male sexual assault being played for laughs in the game was because I already made a large GD thread about one example of this that was mostly just filled with nasty comments from trolls, and some of those trolls are Story Forum regulars. The first comment was a guy saying that it was funny, that ratioed me. I’m mad to this day, traumatized by some of the stuff. I had my mental health insulted a couple of times. I don’t even have the heart to go through that thread, look at the disgusting comments, and see who upvoted them, especially since some of them are people I thought were decent. This community is disgusting, and I have a hard time dealing with it.