This followed a two-year DFEH investigation of the company’s workplace practices.

Who is suing Activision Blizzard?Ĭalifornia’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) filed suit against Activision Blizzard on Jfor 10 violations of state employment law. What’s going on? Who’s left the company? What does this mean for the games they make? We’ll attempt to recap all of the developments in this story, updating this post as more details emerge.

Two senior executives are out at Blizzard, and others who no longer work for the company are still being called to account for what took place during their time there. The company’s stock price has slid more than 12 percent since the story first broke. The company faces wide-ranging, highly damaging allegations that it maintains a toxic workplace environment that is hostile to women, employs a disproportionately low number of them, pays them less, and subjects them to sexual harassment, whose perpetrators are not meaningfully punished.Ī two-week cycle of bad news and lackluster responses from the company has demoralized developers, particularly within Blizzard Entertainment, and the players and fans of its games. Activision Blizzard, the developer and publisher of mega franchises like World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Call of Duty, is in crisis.

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