The president of Blizzard has responded, the developers of Warcraft III: Reforged have figured it out, and several media outlets are rejecting the Activision Blizzard dealing with its products until the publisher changes within the company…
We’ve outlined in great detail this week that a U.S. state ministry lawsuit sued the publisher. Since there are developments properly, we will now focus only on them. A writer for Bloomberg Jason screaming we obtained an internally sent statement from J. Allen Brack, President of Blizzard. For him, a lot of feelings came out the other day, and he knows his employees did the same. The accusations and pain of current and former employees can be said to be quite troublesome.
He could not comment on the details of the ongoing investigation, but all he could say was that the behavior mentioned in the accusations was completely unacceptable. He believes no one within the company should face discrimination and harassment, and sees the courage it takes for people to tell their stories, and has asked Activision Blizzard and management to take this seriously and investigate it properly. who what happened. People with different life histories, views, and experiences are important to Activision Blizzard, his teams, and our community of players alike, and he rejects an essentially male chauvinist culture because he fought against it throughout his career.
A company, Brack, says it’s more than something legally existing, which some papers confirm in an archive in the state of Delaware. The people who work there and their actions and creations make it what they are. Everyone has a role to play in building the Blizzard they want. Commitment is also important, as it is through which the company always strives to achieve more. This announcement struck a completely different tone anyway than the one Activision Blizzard used in response to the lawsuit…
A Bloombergen you can also read about Warcraft III: Reforged. The site spoke to eleven people familiar with the circumstances of the development, and they briefly outlined what was in the background: limited budget, poor management, small development team. That is, Activision Blizzard didn’t handle the whole thing in its place, although the renovation of the RTS game released in 2002 was confirmed by the publisher in 2018, which at the time also promised new content.
This did not materialize, as the project was not a priority for Activision Blizzard because it said it would not have run out of the number of copies it expected. Rather, the big franchises (Call of Duty, Overwatch…) got the attention and money, and the remake changed because the budget had to be cut and there was no complete consensus around the trend. There weren’t enough people working on the game and there was more work with it than they thought, so more employees had more jobs, and they had to work nights and even weekends…
Then we add the 2019 kicks to it, so they had less support left and the team building didn’t work for success. We promised to bug fix it weeks after the game started and make up for the missing content, but that didn’t happen a year and a half later. An Activision Blizzard spokesman said they offered a refund without a word. According to him, the central problem was that the concept was not clear and it was not fixed whether a remaster or remake was made from Warcraft III. This, in turn, led to further problems with the game’s viewing angle and features, communication was also inadequate, and this caused an increasing avalanche near the start. Several studios helped them, but bug fixes and other development-related work didn’t help fix the more fundamental bugs.
Meanwhile, Kirk McKeand, editor-in-chief of The Gamer a On Twitter Activision and Blizzard said they would not be dealing with the games until there was a real change within the company, and in the meantime, they would also report on developments related to the scandal. He also referred to an internally sent email sent to the staff by Fran Townsend, the vice president of corporate affairs who joined the firm in March. In it, he wrote that the recently filed indictment depicts a distorting, untrue picture of the company, and that the stories (which include what has been happening for decades) are out of context, old, and erroneous. Therefore, they must not allow the stories of others or unfounded litigation to damage their culture of respect or equal opportunities for all employees…
Communicating walkthroughs and hints Prima Games also joined “ActiBlizz-stop,” but they treat similarly problematic Ubisoft in a similar way (and we recently reported on their Singapore studio…). Due to sexual harassment and discrimination, Activision, Blizzard, and Ubisoft content are treated with a “hard stop” until it is withdrawn. Finally, the GameXplain also joined the protest: they will suspend Activision Blizzard for the rest of the year, or even longer, until there is a proven improvement in the work culture within the company.
Source: Gamesindustry, Gamesindustry, Gamesindustry
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