DisturbedSwan Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 PC Gamer: Activision Blizzard CEO: 'People will be held responsible for their actions' Quote In the wake of a lawsuit alleging widespread discrimination and sexual harassment at the company, Activision Blizzard expressed a "commitment to a safe working environment" in today's second-quarter 2021 financial results, and promised to take "swift action to ensure a safe and welcoming work environment for all employees." In his opening statement during today's investors call, CEO Bobby Kotick spoke bluntly on the matter, promising that "people will be held accountable for their actions." "There is no place at our company where discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment of any kind will be tolerated," Kotick said in his opening statement. "Our work environment—everywhere we operate—will not permit discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment. We will be the company that sets the example for this in our industry." Kotick referenced today's ouster of J. Allen Brack as the president of Blizzard, saying that he is confident new co-leaders Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra "will ensure that Blizzard provides the welcoming, comfortable, and safe workplace that is essential to foster creativity and inspiration." He also committed to investigating all employee complaints, and said that Activision Blizzard will be hiring new staff and resources to its Compliance and Employee Relations teams. And he promised that Blizzard will not hesitate to fire people when necessary. "People will be held accountable for their actions," Kotick said. "That commitment means that we will not just terminate employees where appropriate, but will also terminate any manager or leader found to have impeded the integrity of our processes for evaluating claims and imposing appropriate consequences." 13 hours ago, Maryokutai said: People have been pointing out that this might actually be a really bad thing, as they basically replaced a president with two co-presidents, meaning that Bobby Kotick now has even more power over Blizzard. I wonder if the name Blizzard will still exist on five years or so or if everything will just be released under the Activision banner. Yeah, it's sounding like the real power lies with Kotick and has done for awhile now, with Blizzard leaders being no more than puppets. I do think the name Blizzard will definitely still exist but they'll be used to pump out Diablo/Starcraft/Overwatch/Warcraft sequels year after year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Coca-Cola and State Fram (some insurance thing according to google) are re-evaluating whether they will continue sponsoring Overwatch league after this whole thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/08/05/activision-blizzard-sponsors-overwatch/ Not a good look if Coca-Cola of all companies is pulling the plug, that's going to bother quite a few suits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 I dunno if it got mentioned here but the suits are also suing acti-blizz, cause the value of the company was artificially inflated by them hiding all this or something like that https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/shareholders-sue-activision-blizzard-for-withholding-harassment-info/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Blizzard is going to change the name of McCree, an Overwatch hero, because he was named after someone who was involved in some of those harassment scandals: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/26/22638947/blizzard-overwatch-mccree-name-change-lawsuit I'm torn a bit here because he was one of the most recognisable and beloved characters in the game but I understand why they're doing it. They're also saying they won't name any character after a real person again which seems like a good idea at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HandsomeDead Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 Spoiler jk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Maryokutai Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Jim Ryan already seeing his paycheck shrinking if CoD should stop selling as much as it used to on PS systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 I don't think it works like that lol. I think it's good he's spoken out about it, directly to Activision too, haven't seen any other CEOs of rival companies doing so yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 Phil Spencer already seeing his paycheque shrinking if CoD should stop selling as much as it used to on XB systems. Spoiler /s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 No need to be an ass about it, both Sony and Microsoft make a lot of money off the licensing fees of a series as big as Call of Duty. Of course they want a healthy Activision on the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Maf Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 already seeing his paycheque shrinking if CoD should stop selling as much as it used to on Nintendo systems. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 On 18/11/2021 at 20:10, DisturbedSwan said: Phil Spencer already seeing his paycheque shrinking if CoD should stop selling as much as it used to on XB systems. People memed on Blakey for this, y'all owe this guy an apology now 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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