They better hope that there is no chat system that accompanies broadcasts of their events. Uh oh

Thanks for reporting on this. Blizzard has shut out all discussions on the topic and are on complete radio silence. They want this to blow over quickly.

South Park, thankfully, ditched the whole tryhard libertarian schtick years ago. They’ve been pretty consistently critical of Trumpets, while every single internet libertarian I’ve seen has been more concerned with strawman socialists and keeping their guns than they’ve been with America’s side into neofacism.

Hey, every once in a while, it’s ok to be proud of South Park. 

We've fought wars and let our young and brave countrymen die to protect our democracy and isn't it fascinating to watch how fast we'll sell it out for cold hard cash.

Thanks for reporting on this. Blizzard has shut out all discussions on the topic and are on complete radio silence. They want this to blow over quickly.

NBA: Bends over backwards and gets down on their knees to make China feel better after a GM expresses support for Hong Kong.

I agree. But pushing into the Chinese market this greedily has been a VERY Activision thing. (the Diablo Immortal debacle, for instance. Doubt Blizzards main teams care much about mobile development. That’s activision trying to cash in their Blizzard IPs in China)
It’s no wonder most of Blizzard’s original founders…

This reeks of Fear Of Missing Out (of the Chinese market)
Simple business strategy. you need to make more profit every year, otherwise the shareholders will dump you. China is now that possibility for expansion, so every company does whatever it needs to, to please their future customers.

This smells of Activision.
God, what a fucking DISASTER this merger has been.

Ah and your point related to this article is... ?

When you hire people that “get” your fan base it should be of no surprise that your work force will end up being just as toxic as the player base.

Great article, great ad placement.

“I have a hard time believing a modern software company “dismissing feedback based on gender.”

Find me some men who work for a salon but are systematically discouraged, belittled and harassed by the salon’s female leadership and constantly having their own nail beautician cred questioned by interviewers and superiors (just a “fake nail boi,” all the jock nail women say) and sure, someone will run that. Probably…

*Reads that Riot only hire ‘Core gamers’ and people that fit the ‘LoL culture’*
*Looks at all chat in any ranked LoL game*

Honestly... I expected worse.

That doesn’t even make sense. If you go on record in an article slamming your employer, whether you’re right or wrong, other employers won’t want to hire you. This is especially true in the very small and insular games industry. It makes perfect sense that someone speaking up about the sexism at Riot wouldn’t want to…

i.e. “women, please destroy your careers or else I won’t believe that anything is wrong, because I don’t want to believe it.”

Holy shit.

The first few words of this seemed a bit weird... woman in leadership role gets upset because she hasnt been able to hire a woman in a leadership role.. despite being that.

Then I got to the next bit and cringed... what a fucking gut punch that must have been. Pretty fucking disgusting.