Its not about you, its not about me, its not even about women, its not even them trying to be politically correct. Every change they are doing isn’t about the players OR their employees. Every change is for an audience of ONE.
The judge whose desk their case lands on.
They want to be able to go in front of that judge and say
“Your honor this isn’t who we are as a game company. We have terminated the offending employees and have made significant changes to our culture.”
Then they will hand the judge a 300 page document listing every change they have made to their company and to their games as evidence. Then they will ask the judge to lessen any damages based on the fact that they have voluntarily gone through and cleaned things up before the judge had to order it.
The people making these changes aren’t devs who found “wokeness” or even some employee group demanding them.
One of the reason why they may be hesitant to settle in California is the Riot Games case, where Riot agreed to a settlement for $10 Million…but the CA DFEH came back and is now trying to get $400 Million.
And their insurance companies who will ultimately be paying out any settlements and thus driving up costs of WoW OR leave us with a diminished product quality. All because boobs and Hodir.
I have been involved in two lawsuit and everything is fair game. And when you can be proven to be in the wrong, or at least negligent, proving you have made serious changes is key to mitigating the damages.
And yes, demonstrating you have changed your service, as well as policies, procedures, training, ect, whether it is a RL resort or pixels on a screen, is a part of that.
I am surprised at the number of people that just don’t get that.
I can’t figure out if it is because they are honestly naive about how a court battle works or they just don’t want to surrender this opportunity to rage. Given some of the nonsensical posts on the subjects, I am beginning to suspect it is the latter.
This is the only thing any of us should be considered about, and changing the game is a distraction to keep us occupied arguing.
I’m guilty of it, trying to be clever, shame on all of us for caring more about a pixel characters name than the humans that were abused and neglected.
And let this serve as notice, until Blizzard makes public those changes to protect and pay fairly the humans responsible for developing and supporting this game, I will never buy another of your products.
Now, delete this and put me back in the corner if you like, I no longer care.
The lawyers didn’t ask for this stuff to be changed. They didn’t remember things that made them uncomfortable in this game. They didn’t point out things they felt weren’t right to have in there. The employees did.
Was Blizz asked to talk to the employees about it? Maybe. But it’s still how the employees felt.
a bunch of the devs said so themselves on tweeter, they were the ones that wanted to make all these changes. it wasn’t the higher ups, or the players, or the lawyers. it was their call
here we go https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/pzcznn/some_blizzard_employee_reactions_on_twitter_to/
Making changes in the game is not “making changes in our culture”.
Not letting dirty little monkeys thinking their work allows them to be sleazy to co-workers and dealing with them appropriately when they DO something sleazy is the right “change in culture”.
You can be in any industry that deals in cheeky humor, sex work, or other things that are not seen as “mainstream”, but if you aren’t willing to detach yourself from your personal feelings about said industry, you don’t belong there.
Do you honestly think adult movie stars sleep with everyone because they just had sex in a room filled with other people watching and filming them?
This is 100% victim blaming and WE are being punished rather than the people who caused these situations.
a bunch of the devs said so themselves on tweeter, they were the ones that wanted to make all these changes. it wasn’t the higher ups, or the players, or the lawyers. it was their call