I don’t know why a video game company is hiring political operatives, but you can certainly tell this person does not fully understand the business world or about creating and maintaining a positive image in the marketplace. I think these types of statements are a bad look for Blizzard-Activision, if they are purposely attempting to destroy the company they’re doing an excellent job of it.
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Yikes. It reads like a pollical campaign.
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There’s also this:
Which I feel kind of explains the “We’re the real victims, California is chasing businesses away” vibe of the first official note.
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The real problem is they are getting out of hand doing horrible things to women and ruining the game it needs to be stopped
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The first thing I thought of when I read that statement was a circus clown show, that’s not the type of thing a reasonable business executive of an international company would put out.
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Jfc, now we know who wrote that tonedeaf official statement.
BTW in case you were wondering, Fran Townsend is a woman😬
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She is doing a disservice to women and to her company. How can they not see how damaging that is?
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Anyone else momentarily see a message on the forums that it was in read-only mode? Not the usual “extreme load” message we get but a new “read only, no replies or likes allowed” message.
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Yep, same here, about 5 minutes ago.
Yes, I assume mods are doing some cleanup.
It’s job security for Fran! She’s not representing the females, or males at Blizzard. Fran is a mouthpiece and talking head. Anyway, do any of us really think Blizzard executives have a true pulse reading on the daily office activities at Blizzard? California says, “NO”, and California says, “NO MORE”.
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Tightening the noose on themselves.
That email is infuriating.
“I’ve been here four months and haven’t seen any sexual harassment or been harassed myself, and some complaints were a decade old so they must be untrue, but here are some things we are doing to combat the harassment that didn’t happen.”
I am absolutely disgusted that someone would put those words down, send it off, and think that it would be the right course of action to take.
I am finding it incredibly hard to express exactly how pissed off I am at the official responses so far without liberal use of swearing.
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I wonder why they hired these politicos none of these people had any game development and or gaming industry management background, seems very sus.
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She is clearly not a business person and her moral values are questionable to say the least.
It takes alot to make me angry and I’ve got steam coming out of my ears right now.
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I have never been sexually harassed therefore sexual harassment doesnt exist… I really hate these type of women.
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Ugh such a disgusting response. I mean this is def the worst timeline for blizz they just keep making things worse on themselves.
Next expansion- paid battle pass, 6 month sub for a pet, mage and pally only op class everything else sucks, taking away some customization cause they want too, no new classes two new allied races skinny human and fat goblin.
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holy shirt.
that changes my weight and see to a big old Nope.
man that really sucks.
this druid is my favorite video game character that I’ve ever made.
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It’s honestly disgusting to see another woman dismiss these claims as false because you know, ‘I didn’t see it’ or ‘it didn’t happen to me’, then it must be untrue.
It’s like that person that sides with the bully in order to not get bullied herself.
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For anyone interested in who she is or why she’s saying what she’s saying, her wikipedia article is short but incredibly telling.
100% she wrote that “businesses are fleeing California” statement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Townsend
Let me also note that it’s sort of insane that the best public statement we’ve gotten so far in this debacle has come from J. Allen Brack. At least he’s actually acknowledging that some sick stuff has been going down.
This denial trash from Townsend and co. is just sickening.
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