Think we are about to see another wave.

[Jojoya]

Peruse the Twitter link:
https://twitter.com/JeffAHamilton/st...15702569472003

That doesn't sounds like an official stop to development. It sounds like employees unable to focus on work as they try to process what's happening right now, which can take a couple of weeks.

When the company has seemingly decent people step forward like that guy did, Blizard can make the argument that they are not actually fostering a frat-boy culture which is the allegation they are being sued for.

They may or may not longer be fostering that culture now but that's not a defense against the suit. The suit is about what happened before and during the investigation. The company is still liable if found guilty regardless of what changes they've made since the investigation began.

[Goji1639]

Hopefully Blizzard gets this figured out and it doesn't impact development of Diablo4. I need that game.

[Pirana1]

That doesn't sounds like an official stop to development. It sounds like employees unable to focus on work as they try to process what's happening right now, which can take a couple of weeks.

It would appear so.

[Wavaryen]

My wow friends are being annoying with all the jokes about it, but I guess that is part of their charm also. If I hear one more, no wonder shadowland is bad, they had all the women work on it. Or, Blizzard needs to learn from raiders. Females and hardcore raiding don't mix. Men act stupid around women.


Either way, Blizzard response was so clueless, not only that they got the female leader who only been working at the place for four months to come out and say it is not true.

[ItMe]

Don't know, don't care. I provided a link when a question was asked. I don't engage in forum drama. Ask the person in question, it's very simple.

And I appreciated it.
Thank you very much <3

[Wilford111]

Well, WoW is a pretty old game at this point and it had a lengthy run. It's been steadily losing subscribers for a while now and after a certain point ceased revealing the number of active subscribers despite gleefully doing so in the past. For a while, it seems as though the game leaned on optional purchases to make a profit but that isn't likely to be enough after a string of very public controversies. I can't imagine the company wanting to burn down everything they own, so they may very well be prepared to discontinue World of Warcraft, lay off/fire a number of employees and focus on Call of Duty which is probably much more profitable and valuable.

Of course, not everybody playing WoW is going to come over to FFXIV. Some will, others may decide to make GW2 or ESO their new home instead. Or wait for one of the new, upcoming MMO's such as Pantheon, New World, Blue Protocol and Ashes of Creation.

I highly doubt WoW is going offline after this controversy. I doubt it will even lose most of it's playerbase. This is just how things go. Already the controversial hype is dying down and people are forgiving and/or forgetting. Diablo 2 remake and Diablo 4 will probably sell like hotcakes, and WoW will continue to be a terrible MMO with a substantial playerbase.

[Wilford111]

...crap. Disregard my last post, as I just heard that WoW development has basically been suspended for the time being.
This being reported around the same time yet another big WoW YouTuber quitting the game.
idk, these are interesting times.

[BunnyChain]

As an FF14 player in a game that has playboy bunny's holding up this example is not exactly a good idea.

It only becomes a problem if there is no alternative to it. A.k.a. playing a female character? Have this bikini armor. But that wasn't the point...

Instead, they chortled, made jokes about 'magazines,' and visibly diminished her with a series of blow-off replies. THAT'S what makes it sexist... not that the content is in the game (because it is in almost all games), but that, when confronted about it, they couldn't treat her like a human being asking a legitimate question in front of a crowd that, in all likelihood, was hostile towards her interests (deep down, I doubt too many of those guys present really wanted the plate bikinis to vanish). She was brave, and they handled it like cowardly imbeciles.

Yes, exactly. I'm sure them bringing up the "cow race" there couldn't possibly have been taken the completely wrong way.


Also, so many cowardly men are now covering their tracks "I was too far away", "I had no idea", "I have a wife and daughters btw, I can't be bad". It's really pathetic...

[TeraRamis]

Oh my God, this is getting so pathetic. This is from one of the developers:

https://twitter.com/azgaz/status/1419398240105996288

Geesh. GEEEEEESH. I mean, yes, I get that they need to get their house in order. But people are paying you for a product, and you're now using your own internal turmoil - stemming from an issue that no responsible corporation EVER sees at this level - to makes excuses on delays, and then turning around and calling players who had absolutely nothing to do with this disaster 'part of the problem' because they have the audacity to suggest that you need to do your job?

Bro, you accidentally got some face on that ugly.

[Pirana1]

Oh my God, this is getting so pathetic. This is from one of the developers:

https://twitter.com/azgaz/status/1419398240105996288

Geesh. GEEEEEESH. I mean, yes, I get that they need to get their house in order. But people are paying you for a product, and you're now using your own internal turmoil - stemming from an issue that no responsible corporation EVER sees at this level - to makes excuses on delays, and then turning around and calling players who had absolutely nothing to do with this disaster 'part of the problem' because they have the audacity to suggest that you need to do your job?

Bro, you accidentally got some face on that ugly.

Just read that, deflection 101.

Laughable and pathetic.