Sure, individual boycotts aren’t super effective at enacting change when compared to an organized mass boycott, but at least you won’t be implicitly condoning the toxicity by continuing to give those board members more of your money. Get enough people to take a personal stand and the shareholders will have to start…

It’s a shitty situation, but in our capitalist dystopia, the only action consumers can do to show their disdain for the toxicity in the company is to hit the board and shareholders where it hurts...their pocketbooks. If people continue to buy Acti/Blizz products allowing the company to continue to make money, the…

This is especially true of the type of people that seem to be inundating the right-wing, nowadays. When conspiracy theories make more sense to them than reality, expecting them to grasp satire is just asking for the moon.

Ah, my mistake. Seemed like the implication was that Activision was the source of the rot.

You’re making the faulty assumption that the Blizz side wasn’t an active participant in this toxicity. I personally know several people who have been the target of, or have witnessed, sexual harrassment by Blizz devs who tried to use the “prestige” of being a Blizz dev as justification/ammo, and quite a few of those…

..you have absolutely no idea what game designers actually do, do you?

Congrats, you are that guy.

Why stop at Best Direction?  Why not just prevent any game that forced its devs to crunch from receiving any accolades.  Sure the devs deserve recognition for their work but at the end of the day, these awards have absolutely no tangible benefit for the devs themselves.  Meanwhile, the publishers can go around…

That token system they used is absolute BS, forcing people to choose between a bonus and a proper work-life balance and open for managerial abuse via favoritism. The fact that this was on top of an already BS review requirement that leaves the financial fate of their employees in the hands of outside third parties who…

I don’t need to make any assumptions.  You’re laying it all out in these comments.

Spoken like a true entitled privileged person. I’m a “dark skinned” person and I’m stoked to not have to play yet another game with a generic white male template as the main character in a main stream game.

Why are you so threatened by people with more melanin than you? Why do you only feel safe when you only see…

Seriously, who comes up with this shit and convinces society to play along? If the omission of a single, seemingly superfluous letter in a reply (k vs kk) causes a swath of society to judge you as a raging asshole, then there really is something wrong with society...with all the shit going wrong in the world, why do…

Companies spend millions of dollars on their marketing plans, which is usually included in the calculations for whether a game meets a return on investment for bonuses for developers....it’s a pretty big deal.

Seriously, responses like this are part of why society is so messed up, nowadays. You take the time to write out a whole post about how game development isn’t supporting minorities, yet when someone asks for clarity and context to help them understand what’s being said, you jump all over him and act like you can’t be…

It’s sad that the Republicans have pretty much turned into stereotypical movie villains, and still manages to maintain the support of nearly half this country.

Considering your request will likely cost them millions, i don’t think they really NEED to do that, at all...

What are you talking about?  Rise of the Tomb Raider was fairly well received and they don’t make mobile games...

Sadly, the more entrenched the internet becomes in people’s lives, the less decency people seem to have towards each other.  Much easier to ignore those decent impulses when all you’re dealing with are user names of people you’ll never meet.

Dude broke the law and essentially gets rewarded for it. Not surprising, but still sad to see.

In my experience, tourists aren’t the only ones that block the walking lane.  There are plenty of oblivious, self-absorbed locals that do that, as well, in every city i’ve ever lived in.

The point still, largely, stands. If the artists are in crunch mode, that usually means the amount of content they’re being asked to make surpasses their ability to create the content in a reasonable amount of time, so they get stuck in a cycle where they churn stuff out at a rapid clip to try and meet the deadline.…