AT THIS POINT in World of Warcraft

[Avoidy]

Despite the troubles that Blizzard has gone through, they’ve greatly improved their workplace culture and no longer have the terrible crunch cycles that Square Enix still has. Square needs to do better.

This. The Blizzard work cycle is quite enviable, I'd say. They even have kumbaya breaks at work where they sit in a big breakroom circle and sip stolen employee breastmilk together.

[R041]

This. The Blizzard work cycle is quite enviable, I'd say. They even have kumbaya breaks at work where they sit in a big breakroom circle and sip stolen employee breastmilk together.

Yeeaahh I'm pretty sure JP Square Enix employees have done some weird shit too. You just don't see it all published in NA.

[Avoidy]

Yeeaahh I'm pretty sure JP Square Enix employees have done some weird shit too. You just don't see it all published in NA.

There's weird shit in every company, so I don't doubt it. Mostly brought it up because seeing someone talk up Blizzard's work culture made me fall out of my chair laughing. Wasn't even an attempt to defend SE, who I have no problem criticizing.

[Shinkuno]

There's weird shit in every company, so I don't doubt it. Mostly brought it up because seeing someone talk up Blizzard's work culture made me fall out of my chair laughing. Wasn't even an attempt to defend SE, who I have no problem criticizing.

Why did it make you fall out of your chair when they fired the harassers (if they even worked in the company still, most of the lawsuit stuff was ex-employees) and people that actually work there saying there is a positive trend?

[Raven2014]

Why did it make you fall out of your chair when they fired the harassers (if they even worked in the company still, most of the lawsuit stuff was ex-employees) and people that actually work there saying there is a positive trend?

Well, for one, some of the examples people are citing in this thread came from those years when the shit was going on. For two, it's called "workplace culture issue", not "workplace incident". Workplace culture is formed because most people are ok with it, or don't care about it, often in plain sight. That's why it takes a long time to form, and a long time to fix. Seeing it was just last year that they had to cancel Blizzcon 2022 and paid a 18mil settlement due to the fallout, I can totally understand the reaction why someone would "fall off their chair laughing" seeing what people have been posting the last few page.

I'm not saying Acti/Blizz should be held to this stain forever but ... well, I can put it a more polite way if it helps - it seems at least imprudent to bring them up "now" as a "good" example of workplace culture.