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PC Gamer: Activision Blizzard CEO: 'People will be held responsible for their actions'

 

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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