State of California sues Blizzard over "Frat Boy" culture

Stan546 22 Jul 2021 10:43:49 1,343 posts
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https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-07-22-state-of-california-sues-activision-blizzard-over-frat-boy-culture

Pretty crazy article.

I work in construction which is a pretty male focused almost frat boy culture at times, but this sounds much worse then what I've seen in construction.

Obviously the claimants lawyers will hype things up, but it sounds like it was really bad.

simpleexplodingmaybe 22 Jul 2021 11:07:42 19,992 posts
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I think it sounds pretty endemic in the industry when you see the stories from inside companies like Rockstar and Ubisoft too
Tuffty 22 Jul 2021 11:10:07 4,954 posts
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Shameful. Sounds like the WoW team was the worst at it. Hope this leads to sackings and not just reshuffling positions.

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Tuffty wrote:
Shameful. Sounds like the WoW team was the worst at it. Hope this leads to sackings and not just reshuffling positions.

There's been a rather large turn over of senior staff over the last year, including the named Afrasiabi (who notably left with very little of the usual thanks and good luck messages posted by Blizzard).

I do wonder how many left in connection to this investigation.

simpleexplodingmaybe 22 Jul 2021 11:28:56 19,992 posts
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All the stuff about Romero buying sports cars in Masters of Doom seems so quaint compared to the grim entertainment these guys with infinite money life cheats turned on have been getting away with

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