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Original_Z posted:Apparently MS was aware of it which is why they stopped publishing their games: Microsoft had been aware of it for years before the investigation came out and they pulled funding because of the release of the information Microsoft isnt doing anything until it gets called out for it, but alas, they also bought Activision
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I don't know if this thread is for Blizzard employee updates but https://twitter.com/devolore/status/1506035252921180166?s=20&t=DEMJ1jjriy1UN1lzCV1LMw
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Bideo James posted:Microsoft had been aware of it for years before the investigation came out and they pulled funding because of the release of the information Ori 2 came out quite a while ago and Moon Studios is currently publishing through Private Division. This narrative doesn't really match the facts, whatever you might think of how Microsoft handles allegations (they're a big corp so it's not surprising that they suck at it).
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https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/1507076398476926992 Reset the clock.
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sharknado slashfic posted:I don't know if this thread is for Blizzard employee updates but The day after he announced this, a community poll, one of the first ever, got put out seeking input about some changes they're making to a wow game mode. Lore will not be missed by any part of the community, I think, which is not a great place for their community manager to have been at.
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Itzena posted:https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/1507076398476926992 Same day https://twitter.com/ebeinke/status/1507047389231603721 https://twitter.com/ebeinke/status/1507058470448615434 ABK loving up donating the money that their departing executive negotiated because of discrimination and unequal pay against her, literally farcical
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I was looking through the filing for the latest lawsuit, here's the named defendants: - Ben Kilgore, ex-CTO at Blizzard. You might be interested to know that Kilgore was one of the key people on the Xbox One tech team and also had a hand in creating the Kinect. He left Microsoft for Blizzard in 2014 and apparently disappeared from there in August 2018. This Vice article from last year says of his firing: quote:According to four former employees, Kilgore was fired following multiple allegations of improper behavior, particularly sexual harassment against female employees. - Mark Skorupa, ex-IT director at Blizzard. He joined Microsoft in 2009 and spent many years on the Xbox team with Kilgore. Joined Blizzard in 2015, left December 2019 and then he went back to Microsoft. He's currently head of the Mixed Reality project. From the lawsuit: quote:On Ms. Doe’s very first day, Defendant SKORUPA, Mr. Kou, Defendant PATEL, Defendant INGALLS and others from ACTIVISION BLIZZARD leadership took Ms. Doe out for an “initiation lunch” at a restaurant. During this lunch, leadership pressured Ms. Doe to drink many shots of tequila. And at this lunch, Defendant SKORUPA forced his hand on Ms. Doe’s lap. After lunch, they all headed to another place for more drinks and leadership pressured Ms. Doe to drink even more. On the car ride back to the office, ACTIVISION BLIZZARD leadership told Ms. Doe that, as part of the initiation, she needed to share an embarrassing secret to everyone. She complied and it made her extremely uncomfortable. quote:The employee added that speaking up against Ingalls "was putting a target on your back to get PIP'd then fired." quote:On Ms. Doe’s second day of work, Defendant PATEL sent Ms. Doe and a prospective ACTIVISION BLIZZARD employee an email with a comment about “hookers and blow.” quote:On November 21, 2019, Defendant NGUYEN, BLIZZARD Senior IT manager, invited Ms. Doe to dinner when he told her that he heard Defendant INGALLS and Defendant SKORUPA talk about Ms. Doe in a sexually explicit manner. After dinner, Defendant NGUYEN attempted to kiss Ms. Doe as she got in her car. Ms. Doe quickly drove away in fear with her car door open, leaving Defendant NGUYEN in the street. There's also details of retaliatory action against her and taking various benefits away, with management eventually hiring new temp employees to do the work she was already assigned.
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Mar 25, 2022 02:00
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Just burn the company to the ground and start over at this point
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Ori 2 came out quite a while ago and Moon Studios is currently publishing through Private Division. This narrative doesn't really match the facts, whatever you might think of how Microsoft handles allegations (they're a big corp so it's not surprising that they suck at it). Okay, its been since before Ori came out, good lord. The same problems are at Microsoft too, look at that suite! Bideo James fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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MiCrOsOfT wIlL cLeAn Up AcTiBlIzZ's RePuTaTiOn 
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Minera posted:The day after he announced this, a community poll, one of the first ever, got put out seeking input about some changes they're making to a wow game mode. Lore will not be missed by any part of the community, I think, which is not a great place for their community manager to have been at. Did people not like Lore? I never got that impression
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Mar 25, 2022 09:19
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People liked Lore a little too much if anything
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Community manager is a typically thankless job.
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Lore was well liked at first and had solid clout as the Tankspot guy,, but his interactions with the community steadily soured. In BfA he launched the extremely controversial Azerite post where he communicated that the devs were actively considering making Azerite harder to respec instead of easier. This blew up and players were pissed. (You can see the beginnings of the Covenant problem here). He ranted on Twitter about how awful and stupid the players were, like we couldn't read his public posts. That was basically the low point, and after that he stopped posting and apparently got reassigned to managing community partners, which ALSO started going to poo poo, so...
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Mar 25, 2022 12:54
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What a wretched place to work. I can't even imagine.
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Itzena posted:https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/1507076398476926992 
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Disargeria posted:Lore was well liked at first and had solid clout as the Tankspot guy,, but his interactions with the community steadily soured. In BfA he launched the extremely controversial Azerite post where he communicated that the devs were actively considering making Azerite harder to respec instead of easier. This blew up and players were pissed. (You can see the beginnings of the Covenant problem here). He ranted on Twitter about how awful and stupid the players were, like we couldn't read his public posts. there is literally no situation in which a community manager can win and when people are rightfully mega lovely you literally cant complain about it. it rules. i am so glad i do not do community management anymore!!
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anime was right posted:there is literally no situation in which a community manager can win and when people are rightfully mega lovely you literally cant complain about it. it rules. i am so glad i do not do community management anymore!! Tseric did nothing wrong!
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Disargeria posted:Lore was well liked at first and had solid clout as the Tankspot guy,, but his interactions with the community steadily soured. In BfA he launched the extremely controversial Azerite post where he communicated that the devs were actively considering making Azerite harder to respec instead of easier. This blew up and players were pissed. (You can see the beginnings of the Covenant problem here). He ranted on Twitter about how awful and stupid the players were, like we couldn't read his public posts. Christ Lore is a *PERSON*, I thought for a moment we were talking about them getting of Lore as a concept from WoW and thought I was losing it
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Magmarashi posted:Christ Lore is a *PERSON*, I thought for a moment we were talking about them getting of Lore as a concept from WoW and thought I was losing it Oh, no, that’s been gone for ages now. 
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Disargeria posted:Lore was well liked at first and had solid clout as the Tankspot guy,, but his interactions with the community steadily soured. In BfA he launched the extremely controversial Azerite post where he communicated that the devs were actively considering making Azerite harder to respec instead of easier. This blew up and players were pissed. (You can see the beginnings of the Covenant problem here). He ranted on Twitter about how awful and stupid the players were, like we couldn't read his public posts. It's been 11 months almost to the day since the absolute disaster of an Ion interview with preach that drove away nearly all of wow's major content creators and sparked WoW's mass exodus to ff14.
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I vaguely remember that being a thing but I don't remember why it was so bad. What did Ion say?
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Dick Burglar posted:I vaguely remember that being a thing but I don't remember why it was so bad. What did Ion say? Essentially “if we could do Shadowlands all over again with the benefit of hindsight, we still would have done it largely the same”, IIRC?
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Magmarashi posted:Christ Lore Is that what the kids are calling religion these days
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Dick Burglar posted:I vaguely remember that being a thing but I don't remember why it was so bad. What did Ion say? Yeah largely what Regalingualius said above. There were a few huge timesink mechanics gating the new content that the playerbase absolutely hated and hoped he would address and might be sympathetic to dialing down or even removing. Instead he doubled down on them, somehow seemed completely out of touch with pretty much the entire playerbase's feelings about the patch. Then on top of it all commented that why should they beta test stuff more, their players beta test it for them when it goes live.
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anime was right posted:there is literally no situation in which a community manager can win and when people are rightfully mega lovely you literally cant complain about it. it rules. i am so glad i do not do community management anymore!! Yeah, imagine all those retail horror stories you hear, but now it's on the internet and all the customers are teenagers who have never had a job. Good stuff.
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ColdPie posted:Yeah, imagine all those retail horror stories you hear, but now it's on the internet and all the customers are teenagers who have never had a job. Good stuff. lol they're not just jobless teenagers and also they will do poo poo like mail you death threats. absolute dogshit job thats basically the skillset of Comms + Marketing + Support all rolled into one except it pays nothing too.
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ColdPie posted:Yeah, imagine all those retail horror stories you hear, but now it's on the internet and all the customers are teenagers who have never had a job. Good stuff. You're thinking of people that send death threats over 1 year age gaps in fan fiction, not toxic WoW players who are sadly tax paying adults that should really know better
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Regarding the botched IGDA investigation into a harasser from a while back https://twitter.com/Charalanahzard/status/1507447129089855491
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Runa posted:Is that what the kids are calling religion these days Are they wrong?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Are they wrong?
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ColdPie posted:Yeah, imagine all those retail horror stories you hear, but now it's on the internet and all the customers are teenagers who have never had a job. Good stuff. I was recently told I deserved the rope by a 42 year old man because I lowered an ability's DPS by 2%. Teenagers they ain't.
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Kith posted:I was recently told I deserved the rope by a 42 year old man because I lowered an ability's DPS by 2%. i thought they got rid of blood and soil in warcraft years ago
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Kith posted:I was recently told I deserved the rope by a 42 year old man because I lowered an ability's DPS by 2%. Mouthbreathers threatening people over the internet because they're out of punching distance will always be a thing, sadly.
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https://twitter.com/FreeTheWolfVO/status/1508879878065586179
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Kotick made $155 million in 2020 alone, an $18 million settlement is ridiculous.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Regarding the botched IGDA investigation into a harasser from a while back If you don't have time for videos (who does?) she says this page is the basis for a lot of her investigation. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-02-07-igda-mishandled-complaints-of-harassment-conduct-violations
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Kith posted:I was recently told I deserved the rope by a 42 year old man because I lowered an ability's DPS by 2%. So they had never even experienced the previous proc rate, but I was obviously a stupid piece of poo poo who was ruining the game because I lowered it.
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