Final Fantasy 14 Players trying WOW?

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Most of the people tend to use the whole lawsuit situation as a way to justify their hate for a video game, while forgetting that all the victims were actually workers at Blizzard as well. That the entire discussion around the lawsuit was game dev industry and how Blizzard isn't the only company with these problems.
The victims of these actions also helped build the games. The people at Blizz Walkout are workers too.

Even the Activision employees said that boycotts aren't going to change anything and might do more harm than good. This just impact the workers' bonus.

Truth is, if WoW was in a good state or at it's prime time like FFXIV is now, many wouldn't bat an eye, since it doesn't serve their own narrative of treating a video game as some source of evil. People are just using a sad and grave situation to fuel their opinions about something that has little to do with it - a game.

They choose to remain at Blizzard even after the fact. I cannot feel any sympathy for anyone still at that company.

[Melorie]

They choose to remain at Blizzard even after the fact. I cannot feel any sympathy for anyone still at that company.

You cannot feel sympathy for people that worked in a creative project for years and depend on that work to feed their families and want to see things getting better? You lack so much empathy, I simply have no words. You don't know these people's choices nor what they are able to do and what is tying them to this company, and yet you judge. Life is not black and white, and you clearly don't care about the victims and just want to spread hate. I have pity for everyone that have to endure people like you with this type of mindset into their lives, honestly.

[YukikoKurosawa]

You cannot feel sympathy for people that worked in a creative project for years and depend on that work to feed their families and want to see things getting better? You lack so much empathy, I simply have no words. You don't know these people's choices nor what they are able to do and what is tying them to this company, and yet you judge. Life is not black and white, and you clearly don't care about the victims and just want to spread hate. I have pity for everyone that have to endure people like you with this type of mindset into their lives, honestly.

And they can work for another company in their industry with their skillset if they don't like working there, one that will treat them well. That they choose to continue doing so in spite of their complaints tells you that they don't actually dislike working there as much as they claim. Or perhaps they're claims of workplace misconduct are to some degree exaggerated if not outright falsified. The fact that Blizzard devs feel perfectly comfortable trash-talking not just their customerbase, but even their own CEO on their professional social media accounts tells me it must not be as oppressive to work there as they claim, else they'd be terminated instantly like at any sane company. My personal take on the Blizzard situation is, just judging by the devs' social media accounts, how they (much like Blizzard the corporation) speak, how they speak to their playerbase, how they behave, tells me that both Blizzard (the corporation) and it's devs are all equally reprehensible human beings and deserve each other.

I have zero sympathy for anyone still involved in that company, and neither should anyone else. The only good ending to all of this is if everyone top down, from management to developers, get canned and the entire company shut down and none of these people ever find work in the video game industry ever again.

[Melorie]

I have zero sympathy for anyone still involved in that company, and neither should anyone else. The only good ending to all of this is if everyone top down, from management to developers, get canned and the entire company shut down and none of these people ever find work in the video game industry ever again.

Keep on treating everything as black and white then and good riddance. I'm not going to spend energy discussing with someone that literally chooses to view the victims as a bunch of "unserious people" that deserves no sympathy, I already said what I think about people with your sentiments anyway. I can only but feel sorry for seeing such narrow mindset being spread out as if is justice, but such is life, you encounter nasty everywhere.

[YukikoKurosawa]

Keep on treating everything as black and white then and good riddance. I'm not going to spend energy discussing with someone that literally chooses to view the victims as a bunch of "unserious people" that deserves no sympathy, I already said what I think about people with your sentiments anyway. I can only but feel sorry for seeing such narrow mindset being spread out as if is justice, but such is life, you encounter nasty everywhere.

Said victims are perfectly comfortable continuing to work at a company that supposedly victimizes them while there are many, many companies that would hire them that will not only NOT victimize them, but pay them much better. And at the same time, they are opposed to any serious actions that would actually push the company to make the changes they claim they want, and want people to continue giving money to the selfsame company that is supposedly victimizing them. Strange, isn't it? Why, it's almost as if......

[Melorie]

Said victims are perfectly comfortable continuing to work at a company that supposedly victimizes them while there are many, many companies that would hire them that will not only NOT victimize them, but pay them much better. And at the same time, they are opposed to any serious actions that would actually push the company to make the changes they claim they want, and want people to continue giving money to the selfsame company that is supposedly victimizing them. Strange, isn't it? Why, it's almost as if......

Were they comfortable? Do you know them? Do you know how the game dev industry works and if it's indeed so easy as just switching jobs to another place?

Do you even understand that the whole point of the Blizzard's lawsuit turned into a huge debate of how the gaming industry is degrading to workers in general, and how treating it as a Blizzard-problem is losing the point? People in the industry were literally ASKING people to realize that this isn't exclusive to Blizzard.
Besides, I did not see the workers asking people to give them money? They simply said boycotts doesn't work and mostly impact's workers bonus, which isn't a lie. Just because these crimes happened, this doesn't also mean that the projects they worked on weren't things they loved to do and poured their hard work on it, seeing people bashing the games because of this doesn't really help anyone.

It's almost if you are seeing the lawsuit as one more reason to hate Blizzard and everyone involved there, and doesn't really care about the victims. Actually, it's quite clear.

[YukikoKurosawa]

They choose to remain at Blizzard even after the fact. I cannot feel any sympathy for anyone still at that company.

Probably my favorite part of this was seeing the ABK workers tweet about protesting against Blizzard, then the very same day tweet out how they just bought the recent $30 Cat mount. Absolute clownshow.