Bungie, Mike Morhaime, and Chris Metzen were also critical of it Activision Blizzard company.
There will only be talk of new developments in the scandal surrounding the company, because there is still something to talk about. Let’s start with Bungie, which was previously a partner of Activision Blizzard (but they broke up in early 2019 and also withdrew the release of Destiny 2), and from them On Twitter we can read a announcement. The company strives to empower its people, regardless of how they identify themselves, who they are and where they come from. They have a responsibility to recognize, reflect, and do what they can to curb the harassing, abusive, and unequal work culture because it is strongly present in the gaming industry.
Bungie feels a responsibility to ensure that such behavior is not tolerated within the company at all. There’s no excuse for that, and they don’t sweep under the rug. It’s hard to read the news that popped up this week, but the company hopes it will lead to accountability, justice, and awareness. They do not tolerate this frustrating work culture at all and insist on removing it from the roots of the company, protecting those who may be in danger.
Women, non-white skin, and underrepresented communities have no use in experiencing trauma, so Bungie believes in those who advance with their stories of harassment. The company doesn’t pretend to be perfect and that no one has experienced anything like this within Bungie, but zero tolerance and the confrontation with it remains every day to make the company better, with the goal of giving every employee have a better work experience and to be more inclusive of the gaming industry as a whole.
A Massively OP he discovered that although J. Allen Brack, the current president of Activision Blizzard, used a more grounded, apologetic tone in a leaked internal email, he was still named in the indictment. Alex Afrasiabi, formerly a senior creative director at World of Warcraft, has been accused by several developers of his harassing behavior. Document 15. side it can be read that Brack was verbally taken down several times, but the hand-to-hand inspector Afrasiabi continued to make offensive remarks and the female employees were detained and sexually harassed… so Brack did not handle the matter in his place.
And Mike Morhaime, former president (and co-founder of Activision Blizzard!) Of an open letter he shared his thoughts. It was hard for him to read it all, and he is ashamed of himself. She feels that everything she stood up for has been washed away, but more importantly, real people have been hurt and some female employees have had a pretty horrible experience within the company.
Morhaime spent 28 years at Blizzard, meanwhile wanting to create a safe, inclusive work environment, regardless of their gender and background. You know it wasn’t perfect, but they were far from the goal. The fact that many women were mistreated and not given adequate support disappointed them. Blizzard has not been successful in telling people the truth with confidence, nor does the fact that other companies face similar challenges help. Morhaime wanted Activision Blizzard to be different or better.
He sees harassment and discrimination as existing in the gaming industry and believes it is the responsibility of management to ensure that all employees (regardless of gender and background) feel safe with equal treatment and support. They should eliminate toxic work ethic and harassment at all levels of the company. She also apologized to female employees of Activision Blizzard (who experienced this in any form) because she was unsuccessful.
He knows these are just words, but he wants to admit that he had someone who had a bad experience working for Blizzard. Morhaime believes them and knew that whoever wanted to share her stories with him would listen to them. As one of the leaders in the gaming industry, he wants to use his influence to initiate and fight positive change against discrimination, male chauvinism, and harassment.
Morhaime believes the gaming industry could be better and become a place where both the minority and women would be received, supported, and rewarded, so that they too would have the opportunity to contribute to its development. He would like to leave a mark on the gaming industry that everyone can be proud of.
Josh “Devolore” Allen, who currently works for Activision Blizzard, called it “100% Horse___” Morhaime communicationbecause he thought he knew everything, and he was constantly informed of this, to which Morhaime did nothing. So far, he didn’t want to talk about Activision Blizzard’s situation because it would be worth listening to more important people now, but the unnamed Morhaime announcement annoyed him because he didn’t do anything despite his knowledge and is in trouble with the current management as well. But let him not believe that it is the person who has been leading only Blizzard for three years that is responsible for all this, because it was Morhaime who was responsible for building the culture.
An ex-Blizzard employed lady as well spoke Against Morhaime: He wrote to him in 2018 because a man’s employee was promoted despite his scandalous behavior, and in the email, he said people like the unnamed gentleman would later cause financial damage to the company and its reputation would be damaged. As long as men in power have such hunting behavior towards women, it will be impossible for women to feel comfortable, esteemed, or safe, so it would not be easy for the company to retain talented ladies either…
And until his retirement in 2016, Chris Metzen was Senior Vice President of Stories and Franchise Development at Activision Blizzard. He also apologized to the On Twitter even from those he had never met, for he too was involved in a culture that fueled harassment, inequality, and ignorance of the problem. He has no objection, for too many people were disappointed when they needed someone and who wanted Metzen as leaders did not get the space they were given. He knows that an apology will not and cannot change that.
You read the stories, which are mostly a Redditen they were also collected. The friends, colleagues, and people he had respected for years were directly concerned, for he was not present to ask questions, to listen, or to see these stories when they were needed. He feels ashamed of the amazing difference between seeing him and serious reality. The words are “cheap,” and the big promises may not be different. This is because, according to him, the responsibility starts with the people, not with the companies or values that were cast in iron around a statue (this is an internal reference).
He got questions about this, of course, because he worked closely with Afrasiab. For this it he replied Metzen, that he loved working with him, and thought he excelled in his work, but did not interact with him outside of the meetings about the story, and that he found out in retrospect what he was doing essentially behind his back, simply shocking and Called it “feces to be condemned”. Metzen now leads Warchief with Mike Gilmartin (who was vice president of quality control at Blizzard anyway). This company deals with board games.
Well, that’s why we’re not summarizing what’s happened so far: we should be publishing a book by then.
Source: WCCFTech, VG247, PCGamer
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