Wait what? Activision Blizzard has been accused of bad labor practices? That's can't be true. They made video games! They're artists! Not a billion dollar multimedia empire deserving no loyalty, respect, or business. I really have to question this news story's validity.

Gold. The edgiest of precious metals. Should have went with a respectable silver imo.

It’s a card game? my enthusiasm plummeted. :(

And completely lost interest in the game...

I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that people decide to be passive aggressive in the most cloying ways possible for such mundane reasons. My brain can’t fully comprehend!

This. Also, I wonder at the quality of her queenliness if she raised a cretin like this.

If Bob Ross was alive today people would try and cancel him because afros are cultural appropriation. Just sayin’

It has the best comedy writing in the series because of the emphasis on characters. Also it foreshadows its biggest end-credits twist in the first line of narration.

>> If Bob Ross was alive today people would try and cancel him because afros are cultural appropriation.

It’s quite extraordinary that the very many responses explaining this article is wrong are based entirely on their not liking big outlandish games. “But I didn’t like Saints Row 4 for being so silly, so this is a bad take.”

“You couldn’t make a real Saint’s Row game today” is a weird take.

I disagree with basically everything John Walker writes on this site, and the one time he has a take I agree with the comments are roasting him for it. You couldn’t pay me to sit through a GTA clone, you can barely get me to sit through GTA, so SR1+2 did absolutely nothing for me. 3 raised an eyebrow, and I was all…

Thankfully Kotaku has several links to related articles for you to read and help inform yourself.

Don’t pretend like they don’t know why people have stopped playing, this isn’t some slow market shift away from their type of game. They know why people aren’t playing, it’s because they don’t want to fund a company knowingly employing abusive people.

I feel that if the employees wanted a 100% boycott then they’d all just up and leave

They mentioned concerns raised during the investor call over potential dips in monthly active users and big influencers leaving the community as a sign that players have gotten Activision Blizzard’s attention.

It is not unfair. if you have a problem with them. Stop giving them Money.  Any other solution doesn’t have any impact

“Personally, I’ve chosen to remain subbed, but I also think boycotting is a valid response,” they told Kotaku over email. “A combination of both sides working together is what’s going to grab the leaderships’ and shareholders’ attention.”

so... Players of a game are mad at a company about not taking action to remove references to an employee accused of (rather disgusting) sexual misconduct. To show their anger, they are... putting up signs in the game? If only there was another option that would have more immediate effects on the company in question,…