Okay?
Companies have to deal with humans who come with their own inherent problems. It is inevitable they will face some time of problem. However, and to be fair, that’s very, very different than harboring or being ignorant to a culture that surfaces multiple complaints.
I don’t know who actually says stuff like that besides the guys that repeat it to themselves to reaffirm its trueness…
It has everything to do with what the in thing is…
or did you forget that the whole movement was about “Equality”?
Equality isn’t fighting for one gender and saying too bad so sad for the other.
Awful story. Genuinely feel for the victim. It’s horrible having to continue in a workplace like that. Really hope he’s found a better place since this was posted 2 years ago.
Blizzard is being sued by the state of California. I imagine that’s adding to the intensity of reactions from people as opposed to an anonymous story posted by a random YouTuber.
I hope this thread doesn’t get the typical flood of “where’s the evidence?” “where’s the proof?” “most accusations are fake” comments.
Thanks for sharing.
It’s almost like every single woman in and around the lawsuit keeps saying “this is an industry-wide problem, not just with blizzard, and flocking to another company solves nothing”
Like, there is no gotcha. This is what women have been saying. Harassers get away with their garbage because the culture supports it.
I haven’t unsubbed from WoW.
I am not unsubbing from FFXIV.
You do know that this thread is about a Male Victim who was harassed by a Woman right?
Better throw your android and iphones in the bin, they were manufactured by slaves in a nation that tortures its own citizens. But nah let’s not do that. Evil is cool when it benefits us.
It is interesting watching this evolve, we are slowly getting close to critical mass. Soon to be burning your own kind, an example: going through the Blizzard Vault destroying archives related to the founders because they had connections to ‘wrong doings’
Yeah, broseph.
Male or female, tech and gaming supports a culture of harassers getting away with their garbage.
Alright. I was confused because your entire post was about Women.
It’s almost funny how hypocritical these replies are in this thread. All the same people who are saying “innocent until proven guilty” are the ones saying “Doesn’t fit the narrative, so no one cares”. While most of the people who have been supporting the Blizz employees are saying this is also horrible, and the higher-ups should be punished there as well.
It’s almost as if one side of this argument is picking and choosing who can be a victim, while the other is believing the victims no matter who they are 
sarcasm is hard… especially when the very next sentence starts with ‘in all seriousness.’ Traditionally that would imply that the former statement was not meant to be viewed as anything but facetious
The women who have tweeted their stories about working at blizzard have been saying the same thing as OP. That this is an over-arching industry wide problem, and you can’t just vote with your dollar somewhere else. We need to fix the companies and cultures as they exist rather than jumping ship to whatever you see as unproblematic.
God that comic is way too relevant in my life.
It’s almost like every single industry in the world is infected with human nature, good and bad, and Blizzard isn’t some safe haven for predators like people have been saying for no reason.
Bad people are bad, and they are bad in every industry and company that you’ve ever even purchased as much as a kit kat bar off of.
No, blizzard has been a safe haven for predators because they have policies and personalities in place to protect predators
Other companies also having those same culture issues does not mean blizzard is safe from blame.
btw it’s not just sexual harrassment. I worked as a “professional” video game tester for a triple A studio for 8 years. 90% of the testers were treating like crap, from devs and other higher up testers. The testers have clique groups. Most of the tester leads in QA are 99% male. I am male, and while I have never been sexually harrassed by another guy, there were girls i worked with that hit on me all the time. I didn’t mind so I didn’t complain. I often flirted back and they didnt mind either. BUT… the male leads were horrible, treated most of us like disposable garbage and the studio head didn’t care cause it was a “QA thing” that should be dealt by QA. Anyways, it was just a crappy environment working in QA at an AAA studio.
Rhuor, it’s been a hell of a ride. I know that you’ve been around forever, and I’ve been around for probably half that. You’ve always been noble and wise like the oak tree, and I’ve bounced between speaking my mind and being a provocateur. I’m backing out now too for similar reasons. I know that people like us both love the game in own ways, just wanted to let you know I always enjoyed seeing your character on the forums even though I’m sure we’ve argued before.
Gaming needs to rediscover the power of unions. All these stories are heartbreaking.
Unionize. Unionize.