In case you didn't know, all of the allegations of sexual misconduct, abuse, harassment, and "frat boy culture" was entirely fake and the state of California even admitted that there was no evidence substantiating any of the claims.
The ENTIRE controversy around Blizzard was setup by California to force the company to stop hiring White men using MeToo allegations to strong arm them.
Some of these accusations were so bizarre and insane that they included:
- Theft and consumption of breastmilk during work hours
- A "rape room" named after Bill Cosby
- Sexual harassment to the point of an employee ending her own life
All of these claims were essentially a theatre performance over the fact that ONLY 1-in-5 of Blizzard employees were women.
As a result, Blizzard agreed to pay roughly 18M in fines and setup HR hiring practices that would discriminate against White men.
Internal messages between California Civil Rights Divison officials showed that the entire thing was a ploy to "send a message to the industry" to literally ruin videogames.
It was SO FUCKING FAKE that Brack and Kotick literally PAID THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES TO STAGE A WALK OUT.
After Blizzard capitulated and announced it would discriminate in its hiring the state walked back from a billion dollar lawsuit to a 55M settlement and announced that all the allegations were false.
Say what you may about the breast milk brotherhood but those guys were apparently holding back a tidal wave of unfunny millennial women taking complete control of this franchise. Look at this dawg we are never getting anything cool from blizzard ever again