Activision Blizzard is being sued for years of alleged harassment and professional discrimination. What good is a preview of Diablo II: Resurrected's open beta?
On July 21, 2021, Bloomberg News delivered a report about a lawsuit from the State of California on behalf of former Activision Blizzard employees, detailing years of alleged harassment and professional discrimination. Multiple women were included as part of the report. Dozens more have since come forward on social media and other platforms. One woman allegedly lost her life to suicide following the abuse she received at the company. This is a.
The open beta was held over the past two weekends. If the other players had the lawsuit on their minds, the numbers didn’t seem to show it. My multiplayer games were always full. I wonder if anyone felt as conflicted about playing the game as I did. Obviously, playingisn’t an endorsement of Blizzard’s behavior.
But as I played the open beta, I thought a lot about how I would cover Activision Blizzard games in the future. Or if I’d cover them at all. I don’t like contributing to the fame that facilitated the abuse, and to a certain extent, the wound feels personal. Not just as someone who went through something similar, but as a person who respected the people who made those games and now realizes how many of them were incapable of respecting her back.
To be honest, I don’t know. Every time there’s a scandal at a big publisher, fans and the press are in a rush to redeem them. “Those incidents were years ago! They happened on other teams! Most of the company didn’t know! They fired everyone involved!” And I know that Blizzard games are made by a lot more people than just the jerks who sexually harassed everyone.
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