Come on blizzard just drop the countersuit, pay CA their blood money and this will all go away.
You are dragging this out and making fools of yourself with all this censorship that is just making everyone mad.
Ubisoft and riot paid the piper and no one talks about them, except when another company gets in trouble. After that they didn’t stupidly change anything in game just went on and people kept playing.
All you are doing is making yourself virtue woke for no reason, we know this is not Hello kitty island adventure, and what happens on game is not real life. Sure taking out names of bad devs is a good choice, but renaming things we will still refer to as the love rocket and the consorts is not going to change what you did at home.
And I get it, every company has its demons, Coke, Pepsi, Pfizer, delta airlines, the US government. I am not gonna boycott because it doesn’t help, but I am finally getting saddened by the fact you are doing all this to prove you changed, whilst your house still does not seem to be in order.
Pride is on the line. Corporations love to think that they are above the law and nobody holds any power over them. So when the law comes crashing down, they get butthurt and try to fight it.
Most actually don’t when it comes to this because of they paid the fine the whole thing would be over and done with. The SEC would not have gotten involved, there would not be multiple groups fighting against them and it would be over.
The thing is… the people who is responsible for the fine who should pay for it has already left the company. Employees left are just trying to keep their jobs. Maybe you want to help them. Try to sponsor for them. Buy and support their new games.
They won’t because paying it would be an admission of guilt
Honestly I think it would be rather noble if they just came out and said they screwed up, owned it, and did their best to make it right
Trying to fight it and get away with paying as little as possible makes it seem like they don’t care that they were wrong, as long as it doesn’t cost them money
It’s a 15+ Year old Game, it’s on old hardware, and someone at the top (Bobby has voiced his dislike of RTS games, as being “un-marketable”), decided to let go of this franchise, by letting it crash and burn in the worst possible way. and anyone still left working at Blizzard will suffer the same fate as Toys For Bob, being relegated as support staff for Call of Duty, Modern Warfare or some crap.
Nah, if they reach a settlement at mediation they can have NDA regarding the terms and everybody walks away and then this, like most things, just fades into the memory hole.
