Law Activision Blizzard to pay roughly $50 million in discrimination case settlement

[Hog-train]

You wanna provide an actual example that isn't a game demo in the Unreal Engine that any dev team can create? You're literally complaining about Dove marketing to women. Like...what?

There's a long history of naming video game characters after the folks who worked on the game, or even using them for character models.

It's an example of woke or feminist ideology permeating into the gaming industry. The actual consumers don't want that.

 

[KaNesDeath]

That's indeed good. Clearly failures that are being addressed. The PR was WAAAAY worse than the fine I would think!

This is their second fine bringing it to 70 million total. For these fines are meant purely for former and still current employees. For in these employee contracts they sign away all legal recourse where all complaints must go to private arbitration. Civil cases can only be brought on by state/federal entities.

Earlier this year Activision/Blizzard were also found guilty of violating labor laws by silently instituting a player salary cap by the Department of Justice.

So when someone says this is Activision/Blizzard being anti-woke and or a drop in the bucket for them. They only understand the headline of the most recent fine total. For Activision/Blizzard have been liquidated of their assets over these past two years.

 

[avenue94]

It's an example of woke or feminist ideology permeating into the gaming industry. The actual consumers don't want that.

It's a demo comissioned by Dove for a marketing campaign for its customers. It's literally a marketing campaign that consumers want. It's for people who buy Dove's more feminine-geared products, not for gamers. What part of this do you not understand, and why does it offend you so much?

You might as well be complaining because a stranger somewhere on god's green earth is wearing a shirt in a color you hate. It's that off base.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Activision/Blizzard being sued again:

Ex-Activision Blizzard exec’s lawsuit alleges he was laid off for being an ‘old white guy’

The lawsuit comes after Activision Blizzard was order to pay millions to its female employees

www.polygon.com

Before those claim "wokeness". Since late 2018 Activision/Blizzard have been aggressively shuttering entire departments and senior staff positions. To then rehire fledgling staff at a decreased salary in lower numbers to increase profit margins. This has gotten Activision/Blizzard in numerous regulatory problems across multiple EU countries these past six years.