May as well just extend this to the entirety of AAA game development and publishing.  

At this point, just burn it down. Burn Blizzard down to ashes, and just start over fresh. I thought it was bad when it was Riot and Ubisoft, but every day it’s something new with Blizzard. A new story, and it’s not just he said she said allegations but actual hard proof, pictures, video, emails, text chains.  Just…

Greg Street’s “apology” was a passive aggressive, “I’m sorry you were upset (but not sorry for what upset you)“ nonanswer, and is totally fitting with what I would expect a sexist pig to say. He feels no shame in his past behavior, only that he’s getting called out on it.

“I guess Greg Street now knows who I am now. Cool. OK. And also that wasn’t really an apology, but sure you do you. Whatever gets you to sleep at night,” she said. “I was joking with a friend when I saw it, when I saw everything he was writing about that, just, you know, ‘Oh, I couldn’t see her react, I couldn’t see…

I was working as a contractor at Microsoft Game Studios several years ago, when some game studio (I can’t remember which one) made headlines by setting up a pavilion outside the Expo that included a stripper pole. I said something about that being not at all cool, and some of my (male) coworkers spoke up in defense of…

In the video she asks the question, people in the crowd cheer and the men on the panel looks chastened. Then men in the audience start booing loudly and you can see the panel become emboldened to start openly making fun of her. There is a lessen here about the fact that the misogyny in the game industry is reinforced…

“I couldn’t see her reaction, so I didn’t know I was hurting her,” says man who employed a sneering, hurtful tone, and dismissed a perfectly valid question with a weak joke.

Fuck off, Bobby.

Gardevoir does 3000 damage with a single skill

Thats literally the complaint here. Like the actual complaint the whole article us about. There are people who have to do it day one so have spent exuberant amounts of money to get the best everything already before the rest of the people and that does ruin the fun.

I really hope your kid doesn’t start coming across people who’re as loaded as Cr1TiKaL - that fun might go south real fast, especially the more people do it.

And yet here the idiots are, trying very hard to sell us on that.

Not to say that there isn’t a culture of covering up for motherfuckers - particularly in gamedev - but it’s likely that some folks didn’t feel comfortable breaking stories out of fear of outing the victims.

Yves and pals probably sat in an office somewhere, fingers crossed, hoping the attention on AB makes the Ubisoft story go away no doubt.

That’s where being unionized would come in handy methinks.

Unionize, strike, unite, make it industry standards of working so none of this power of abuse happens and the workers can organize and fight back again sexual assault and death from their shackles of oppression.

“To this end, we propose that Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, and other industry-leading publishers and developers collaborate and agree to a set of rules and processes for handling reports of these offenses.”

What the fuck.

“We called it the ‘Hitler Suite’ because the art on the walls wasn’t very good.”

Oh I hope all these fuckers fry.