A gender-bias lawsuit filed by California regulators against Activision Blizzard Inc. has reignited discussion about videogaming culture and whether the industry’s treatment of women is toxic.and which Activision is fighting, accuses the company of paying female employees less than their male counterparts and providing them with fewer opportunities to advance. It says Activision ignored complaints by female employees of blatant harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
Activision said that the lawsuit includes distorted, and in many cases false, descriptions of its past, and that it strives to pay all employees fairly. “We are confident in our ability to demonstrate our practices as an equal opportunity employer that fosters a supportive, diverse and inclusive workplace for our people, and we are committed to continuing this effort in the years to come,” the company said in a statement.
Videogaming has been marred for years by accusations of inequality and misogyny. In 2014, avid gamers who believed industry journalists were promoting a feminist agendaon social media to encourage verbal assaults and threats of violence against women game developers. In some cases, the developers were advocating for more progressive depictions of women in videogames, especially as the population of players grew beyond the early demographic of young men.
Between this and Jason Schreier it seems that journalists are trotting out the old Gamergate boogeyman to distract from valid criticism yet again. As they have done ever since the 'Gamers Are Dead' articles.
Lmao game journalists trying to damage control for their precious triple a companies.
The year is 2863 Journos still talk about gamergate like its some event caused by a genocidal austrian painter
this is a massive reach if i ever did see one
oh look, media outlet tries to blame the Gamer Gate boogie man again *rolls eyes* you know this crap really is a punch to the face of the victims here. Gamer Gate is not and never was the problem, and you still dont want to admit it.
It's been 7 years. You guys have gotta get past goobergate
Say it with me: GAMERGATE WAS RIGHT. The journalists knew/participated in all this shit then demonized the paying customer
why exactly is gamergate relevant in this? Why bring this up? What was the point? What was the goal? Was this relevant to the article? Is it relevant to the lawsuit? Is it mentioned anywhere in the lawsuit?
Gamers: 'Hey, maybe there is nothing inherently bad about sexy female characters in video games? Maybe they shouldnt be erased? Plenty of women enjoy them too.' WSJ: 'This just in, gamers harass women in gaming!'
That has nothing to do with gamergate. Isn't is a requirement for journalists to research the topics they report on, or are we full into the 'make shit up as you got' part?
If only there was a movement that was about exposing the illicit dealings game companies have with journos, then journos wouldn't be able to keep quiet about this for 15 years and someone would've reported on it earlier Ah, but I guess the movement itself was the issue
What happened at Blizzard_Ent was way before gamergate was a thing
Gamergate created Coof-19.
Gamergate Is the root cause of the delta variant of covid 😤😤😤😤
Reminder: gamergate burnt Joan of arc.
Gamergate journalists who are still trying to insert Gamergate into barely similar things seven years later are the journalist equivalent of 'peaked in high school'. Change my mind.
ALLof this crap is because of the Male Feminist who work their LMAO!!!! Get rekt!
Yeah this is part of what gamergate WAS about. People didn’t like that multiple games journalists could take advantage of a indie game gal.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GAMURGATE!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
To these people the day gamergate happened was the worst day of their lives, but to me...
way to try shift the blame.
Gamergate! You you did this!
Yeah, I definitely remember when the anti-Gamergate people went after all these game developers, and not just nerds with anime pfp's online. None of these devs were ever anti-GG either.
Pay attention to articles coming out for the next few months from the major gaming and electronics news publications. You'll notice that they are going to come out and deflect the blame away from the company to towards unrelated shit like this dead hashtag at an increasing rate.
Rent Free.
This just in: traces of gamergate hashtag found in Auschwitz, meaning they also caused the Holocaust. Just as factual as this farcical.
Massive shocker, devs and journos covering for each other and blaming it on the consumer
You thought it was Activision Blizzard being full of absolute scumbags but no
No wonder they say you enemy of the people: it's true.
Did Sarah's editor push her to include a ridiculous line about GamerGate? Doubt this story really needs that but hey, being a actual journalist is hard
Stop lying about gamergate or we will start asking about your female employees.
Those damn GamerGate time-travellers
Its been 7 years bro. Are you okay? Did you forget your meds today?
Abuse that started 7 years before the hashtags existence. Even so, you're telling me going 'Heh, Gamers' and desperately trying to dunk on a group of people online wasn't effective against Games Developers!?
Blizzard outright denounced Gamergate at blizzcon along with ALL their devs maybe you should check the other side cause alot of them have been arrested for sex crimes
The people responsible for all the sexual misconduct in the gaming industry were against Gamergate. You DO know this, right?
IT WAS WITHIN THE COMPANY ITSELF !!! If anything , it's corporate culture that is to blame
Damn those GamerGate trolls and their *Shuffles deck & pulls card* Forcing a triple A developer to sexual harass and discriminate against women
Before gamergate, and by the company, a company that journalist should of been scrutinizing for years
gamergate
More lies from journalists covering up the reality that they are the problem. A lot of the creeps & sex pest who have been exposed in the gaming industry over the past few years have been journalists
Literally not even gamergate related but you're not ones to do your jobs right anyway
The gamergate time machine strikes again
'This just in, experts claim there may be a link between Fortnite Autism and the assassination of President Lincoln.' At least mine was somewhat funny but you just did the same thing.
You know, this shouldn't bother me, but considering the same journalists at the center of GamerGate were sleeping on actual workplace discrimination and abuse in the industry, I'd say this is a pretty disingenuous and unhelpful way of framing it.
What the hell does Gamergate have to do with anything that AB did? The company is horrible from top to bottom, yet for some reason you journalist can't get the bogeyman out of their minds
You ignored the problem, not GG.
With 777 words in the post and 180 seconds of video, you can say whatever you want ,let the world see the truth in Gettr!
'We did this? GamerGate did this!'
To my experience at ubi, women had promotion way faster than men because they flirted with management. Then the boys were mad. Guys were saying; 'I gave the training to my boss a last week. She could not make an apple fall from a tree. Now she makes more salary than me.'
Of course it’s persists. Americans are sexist and racist till the end.
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Good and Bad... both people are available in each Country, Religion, Race, Language, Color and Gender. Good and Bad... both people are available in each Country, Religion, Race, Language, Color and Gender.
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Was she? I couldn’t tell people
Don't care. I like their games 🥳
Really going back to the well on that one, aren't ya.
wow
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