Blizzard was a very well-established and respected video game company, making some of the best games. But now, not only they do not make the best games, but they are apparently totally insane predators.
A California investigation in Blizzard that lasted for 2 years, has now become a lawsuit, suing Blizzard for rape culture. And I am the first to be skeptical of such claims, but this is totally insane lol, they are out of their god damn minds. This is not a fringe company, it's a multi-billionaire company, one of the giants in the industry.
I will make a list, then post some links. Here are some of the main points:
- Men are busy getting drunk, instead of working, harassing women, sexually, as if its casual banter
- They do these cube crawls: they get drunk and start moving through the open office space, which is basically divided in cubes, and as they crawl through them, they harass the women on the way
- Women actually get payed less than men
- Women are hired for their looks, not their expertise
- When a woman complains to HR, not only nothing happens, but she gets threatened
- These men are their superiors, not just their colleagues, imagine your superior goes behind you as you work and grope you and tell you how he wants to fuck you
- The biggest one yet: on a company trip, a female worker was told to come with a butt plug by her male supervisor. On that same trip, pictures of her vagina were passed around. After this trip, she killed herself.
- During company events, they would have scantily dressed female dancers, which is OK on its own, but adds to the following atmosphere: during the parties, the DJ encourages, by talking, not some vague bullshit, that female employees get drunk, so the male ones have a better time.
- All of this was known to many superiors. Nothing was done.
They also have some suit called the "Cosby Suite", like Bill Cosby, but I think this was created before his rape allegations, so I am not sure it's related, I think it's some internal company meme. It has a big picture of Cosby in it.
Here is a link to an article on the subject:
Here is the lawsuit itself:
https://aboutblaw.com/YJw (check 46, 47and 48)
This is only the beginning, I will post more.
