***... Blizzard is really not the same company anymore..

 

***... Blizzard is really not the same company anymore..

What makes you think this type of frat party company there didn't exist before?
They weren't the same company even before activision merged with their parent company. They changed like 4 hands (or a bit more) before that.
You have no idea what has been going on in there since.

 

And some people still think they aren't capable of incorporating sbmm/eomm into cod.

[Youtube] Activision Accused of Hampering Skilled...

Content Customization Based on Player Skill Level [0075] In a first implementation of the present specification, the system enables players of different skill levels to play together, in the same level of a gaming session, by providing players of different skill levels challenges tailored to...

www.overclock.net

People have been sounding the alarm about them for a long time from internal to the things they do to their game(s).

Come to think of it SBMM/EOMM does have a 'frat boy' mentality to it.

Edit:
Oh yeah, remember this?

Bungie has given a final salute and a long goodbye to their publisher Activision. As reported by Kotaku, the Bungie office supposedly celebrated with a huge announcement of what the future holds as well as champagne and cheering.

Now I know why.

 

Damn, had no idea about the suicide thing. That's pretty horrible. Everyone she worked with seeing nude pics of her, man that must have been an extremely hostile workplace.

 

I cannot imagine the mindset that would forward pictures like that. Of a work colleague too?

It sounds like a lot of people need to be fired ASAP, they need enough turn over to change the culture, which is not easy to do. Finding a scapegoat won't be enough and fining the business doesn't really do anything. That would just be "cost of doing business" if the managers/executives are still the same people.

 

I think whoever shared the pics probably committed a crime and can be charged.

 

I knew ActiBlizzion had to be a ****ed up place, but damn.

 

Jail time needs to happen.

 

According to the complaint, filed Tuesday in the Los Angeles Superior Court, female employees make up around 20% of the Activision workforce, and are subjected to a “pervasive frat boy workplace culture,” including “cube crawls,” in which male employees “drink copious amounts of alcohol as they crawl their way through various cubicles in the office and often engage in inappropriate behavior toward female employees.”

 

That's messed up, I knew it was bad but not THIS toxic...

 

 

It looks like the employees are staging a walk out.

 

This is a very undisciplined, entitled generation of kids.

 

What on earth does this generations kids have to do with any of this?

 

Yea this is bad. Really bad. This is the kind of stuff that can kill a company. Spend years (decades?) building up a reputation only to have it come crashing down because of a bunch of losers. These companies need to go after the individual employees who did this ruthlessly. The company, although has a lot to be blamed for by taking a lackadaisical attitude toward such shenanigans, is ruined because of the behavior of a few bad apples in the organization. The livelihood and reputation of EVERY Activision-Blizzard employee is now suspect (especially for the males) whether they had anything to do with this scandal or not. And that, is most definitely a sad thing.

What happened to professionalism? Integrity? Hard-work? These words seem to be absent from the current culture at many companies.

 

What happened to professionalism? Integrity? Hard-work? These words seem to be absent from the current culture at many companies.

This is a very undisciplined, entitled generation of kids.
Simon Sinek does a great 15 minute piece on this, millennials he calls them.

 

Activision Blizzard employees walk out of work to protest rampant sexism and discrimination

Hundreds of people showed up.

www.theverge.com

 

So this frat boy culture is to cultivate dopamine do to insecurity and lack of self worth?

 

It's going to be interesting to see how this ends up

 

Blizzard’s head of HR is out

www-theverge-com.cdn.ampproject.org

Heads are rolling?

 

I know this is late also but

New Leadership at Blizzard

A message for the Blizzard community.

news.blizzard.com

Bobby doing swift /GKick right now.

 

Three more high-profile Blizzard employees are no longer at the company, including Diablo 4’s director

Luis Barriga, Jesse McCree, and Jonathan LeCraft were let go.

www.theverge.com

Three prominent Blizzard employees have been let go from the company, as first reported by Kotaku, marking the latest departures from the studio following a major sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the state of California. Diablo 4 game director Luis Barriga, lead designer Jesse McCree, and World of Warcraft designer Jonathan LeCraft are not employed at Blizzard anymore, according to Kotaku. Activision Blizzard confirmed the departures in a statement to The Verge after we published this story, but declined to comment on whether or not Barriga, McCree, and LeCraft were fired.