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Boogle posted:This just sounds like MAGA chuds on staff trying to sneak racist poo poo through again and hoping nobody will notice. They've been called out on this before with class abilities having questionable names. thank you for your service
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imweasel09 posted:For the record the swastikas were an anthem thing not a destiny thing. thanks
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Poil posted:Like... from behind? I'm not an expert on making graphics for games but that seems like a camera angle that would come up at least once. thank you
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Looper posted:thank you Looper posted:thanks Looper posted:thank you for your service Looper posted:thank you Looper posted:thank you Looper posted:thank you you're welcome
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Chasiubao posted:Edit: my original response was a bit aggressive. hobbesmaster posted:https://www.levels.fyi/company/Riot-Games/salaries/Software-Engineer/ Google LA salaries are AWFULLY similar, especially for junior/mid positions.. In any case, Riot keys their pay to be competitive with amazon because there were some major engineering departures to amazon early in its life. Amazon recently increased their pay to be competitive to google - new packages for seniors in seattle are now 400-480. So I suspect you're going to see riot packages increase over the next year and a half. EDIT: Also worth noting that since riot mostly does profit share instead of stock, there's a big chunk of (somewhat unreliable) pay not represented in an offer letter. Assume the bonus line for all those packages is 50-100% higher than listed. 30.5 Days fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Nov 22, 2021 |
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RagnarokZ posted:Wait, the StarCraft Confederacy was the bad guys, as in comically bad guys, turned a planet into a nuclear wasteland bad guys. yep, and the confederate flag is still all over the place in starcraft 2, unrelated to the faction.
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# ? Nov 22, 2021 23:33 |
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Kith posted:yep, and the confederate flag is still all over the place in starcraft 2, unrelated to the faction. They can't take those flags out now, they're Starcraft heritage.
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Dieting Hippo posted:They can't take those flags out now, they're Starcraft heritage. I do find it funny that the Confederacy has now gone 0 for 2 in that timeline since they got their asses kicked on Earth and in space too
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Dick Burglar posted:There are swastika buttons on the shoulders. How are you this loving credulous. And just in case anyone was still willing to give this the benefit of the doubt, notice the same pattern a little to the right, but inverted. Meaning they would have had to deliberately rotate the pattern on the button to make it look like that.
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https://twitter.com/FanbyteMedia/status/1462926552417538048quote:An email sent by Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser sent on Friday, November 19 addresses the Activision-Blizzard report. The email went out to all levels of Nintendo of America, including internal development houses like Retro Studios and the newly-acquired Next-Level Games.
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# ? Nov 23, 2021 00:51 |
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I'm not going to be impressed unless they actually *do* anything, personally. Talk is cheap when the cause is popular and wins you points. Good on them for saying it, and it's probably bad for Activision, but now that I've had time to cool down I'm not really impressed with just statements. The way Activision's board has been acting, I'm skeptical that merely talking is going to change anything.
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# ? Nov 23, 2021 00:57 |
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It seems like they're hoping that if they talk like they're going to do something, activision will get rid of kotick on their own, but of course if they don't, then all the platforms that have acted like they're going to do something to em will look like jerkoffs when they end up not doing anything at all. The plan for these sorts of things is always to have a bunch of statements and resolutions but not do anything- the PR value of these motions are reduced substantially if the ESA comes out with a bunch of anti-harrassment policies but everyone's still working with kotick.
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The ESA is extremely worthless and going to them is not a sign of uh, doing anything.
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Yeah, I really doubt that they’d ever publicly declare that they’re done with ABK until they get their poo poo together, since it could have huge repercussions for the rest of the gaming industry.
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I'm sorry, but I'm still just amused that the President of Nintendo of America is named Bowser.
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Clarste posted:I'm sorry, but I'm still just amused that the President of Nintendo of America is named Bowser. Nintendo are also currently suing the poo poo out of a completely separate man with the name Bowser
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# ? Nov 23, 2021 04:01 |
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ActiBlizard got shunned hard from Smash (as in not even a trophy or a mii costume) so thats something, at least. That said, is map exclusivity still a thing for sony? I could see that (and the liquid funds its brings) quietly getting dropped if so.
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I foresee listening sessions in Activision's future https://kotaku.com/activisions-damage-control-reaches-sad-new-low-1848107710
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https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/1463210625778266126quote:In the lawsuit, the former IT security analyst, Emma Majo, said women at the company were not paid equally to male employees with similar titles and roles, and were denied promotions and equal compensation. She alleged that Sony “tolerates and cultivates a work environment that discriminates against female employees.”
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# ? Nov 23, 2021 22:47 |
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Yahoo finance says Kotic needs to step down. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/activision-blizzard-ceo-bobby-kotick-needs-to-resign-right-now-180019724.html?guccounter=1 For whatever reason, Yahoo! Finance is taken more seriously than their search engine or web portal. IMO this is a bigger deal for investors and board members than Nintendo finger-wagging them. quote:Activision Blizzard (ATVI) CEO Bobby Kotick needs to step down. The CEO of one of the country’s largest video game companies, Kotick has reportedly told executives at Activision Blizzard that he’ll resign if he can’t resolve the company’s myriad harassment scandals in short order.
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# ? Nov 25, 2021 13:17 |
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It's staggering to imagine any CEO weathering a scandal that cut the company's stock price by a quarter in a month. Activision's board is insanely ineffectual.
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I would imagine that the board is a carefully cultivated group of yes-men and empty suits that exists solely to rubber stamp whatever Kotick orders.
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30.5 Days posted:It's staggering to imagine any CEO weathering a scandal that cut the company's stock price by a quarter in a month. Activision's board is insanely ineffectual. From what I understand, Kotick has a clause in his contract that means they have to pay him a lot of money if they fire him so it’s cheaper to just keep him around
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# ? Nov 26, 2021 11:07 |
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A lot about the executive class makes sense when you realise their job is in effect indistinguishable from feudal nobility being assigned fiefdoms.
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# ? Nov 26, 2021 11:27 |
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feudal lords were still accountable to kings, which is a key difference here
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# ? Nov 26, 2021 11:37 |
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thetoughestbean posted:From what I understand, Kotick has a clause in his contract that means they have to pay him a lot of money if they fire him so it’s cheaper to just keep him around It's genius. As a CEO, you basically control the business, so just sign yourself a contract with an insane buyout to make yourself unfireable. If anyone opposes this, fire them immediately. Amazing.
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The Gadfly posted:It's genius. As a CEO, you basically control the business, so just sign yourself a contract with an insane buyout to make yourself unfireable. If anyone opposes this, fire them immediately. Amazing. The board approves the appointment. AFAIK the one responsible for Kotick is filled with barely functional imbeciles. Case in point; Kotick's contract. Even people with room temperature IQs seem like goddamn geniouses when numbers are going up. *waves towards the crypto bullshit* Burn it all down.
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thetoughestbean posted:From what I understand, Kotick has a clause in his contract that means they have to pay him a lot of money if they fire him so it’s cheaper to just keep him around yup firing him without cause is $265~ mill with cause is $265k The Gadfly posted:It's genius. As a CEO, you basically control the business, so just sign yourself a contract with an insane buyout to make yourself unfireable. If anyone opposes this, fire them immediately. Amazing. Contract and CEO remuneration is set by the companies board which is supposed to govern and limit this poo poo but well, in activision's case..
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tithin posted:yup Company wide sexual harassment with CEO himself being involved seems like a "cause" to me, but I'm not CEO so I dunno
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The Board sees it as protecting one of their own, because they're also in the same social class and if something can happen to this guy who they go golfing with or whatever, then it can happen to them too. The value of the company overall is far less important to them than the value of making sure people at their level never have to face any consequences ever.
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Shareholders should control the company, and they have royally hosed up by not appointing independent non execs to reign in Bobby, an independent remuneration committee, and all the other bells and whistles that any entry level business class would recommend. For all that they are self interested bastards, shareholders absolutely have no interest in losing money and paying legal fees to head off an employee uprising because HR couldn't do its basic job of ensuring the company wasn't vulnerable to massive lawsuits
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# ? Nov 26, 2021 15:26 |
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Does blizzard really care if they completely brain drain all of the programmers and artists etc? Couldn't they just restructure into only having management, marketing and sales to sit on the licenses and subcontract out all the actual work?
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Poil posted:Does blizzard really care if they completely brain drain all of the programmers and artists etc? Couldn't they just restructure into only having management, marketing and sales to sit on the licenses and subcontract out all the actual work? I see you're familiar with publicly traded software companies.
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Poil posted:Does blizzard really care if they completely brain drain all of the programmers and artists etc? Couldn't they just restructure into only having management, marketing and sales to sit on the licenses and subcontract out all the actual work? The idea is that if they allow every scrap of talent that actually built up the inherent value of those IPs to run away screaming, the value of those IPs will fade and become worthless as it becomes increasingly difficult to produce new entries with that IP that live up to or exceed previous entries. Blizzard in particular already has a glaring example of how easy it is to horribly mismanage and gently caress up a slam dunk with subcontracting with War3 Reforged(which, to be fair, was entirely on Blizzard because the subcontractors they hired were not incompetent). The present definition of "good business" doesn't give a poo poo about long term investments because they involve sometimes not making zoinks profits every quarter, so yeah they could just turn them into an IP farm house for a few years to squeeze some money out of people who are desperate for Diablo 4 or whatever until people stop caring about the new stuff they're making. For another example of this process, see Bioware! Kanos fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Nov 26, 2021 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:feudal lords were still accountable to kings, which is a key difference here Also we don't have a pretender to the throne of Activision Blizzard King being violently installed in Bobby Kotick's place after losing the confidence of the court Well, not yet anyway
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tithin posted:firing him without cause is $265~ mill How on earth can you justify a payout if he's fired with cause? He could murder twenty employees in the company cafeteria and be paid for it.
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Poil posted:Does blizzard really care if they completely brain drain all of the programmers and artists etc? Couldn't they just restructure into only having management, marketing and sales to sit on the licenses and subcontract out all the actual work? Thanks to Karl Marx and his terrible invention of the TRPF, this is not a great way to make big money and hasn't been so for a little while. The best way to make money is to have people make something really valuable and then not pay them a commensurate wage, and video game companies are the masters of this. Activision pays companies who do what you're describing and keeps the lions share of the cash.
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stev posted:How on earth can you justify a payout if he's fired with cause? He could murder twenty employees in the company cafeteria and be paid for it. Reading the actual contract posted a while back, that's not a monetary payout of he's fired for cause, it's a money value of health insurance that doesn't immediately cancel.
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Poil posted:Does blizzard really care if they completely brain drain all of the programmers and artists etc? Couldn't they just restructure into only having management, marketing and sales to sit on the licenses and subcontract out all the actual work? In theory, they could and I bet the company could last decades simply sitting on existing IP however the value of company would continue to plummet and eventually become worth even less than it is today. I can't imagine any shareholders being happy about that at all.
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Strategic Tea posted:Shareholders should control the company, and they have royally hosed up by not appointing independent non execs to reign in Bobby, an independent remuneration committee, and all the other bells and whistles that any entry level business class would recommend. The problem is that Kotick was making them money hand over loving fist for years with no oversight. Why employee all of these things and cut into your bottom line when the man running the company seems competent and keeps making you gigantic stacks of cash?
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