Its never ever been about the so called harassment. They're just using it as excuse for the woketards to take over. So they can skin yet another popular franchise. So they can wear its skin and use its nostalgia popularity to push their vile diseased ideology. Its similar to Stolen Valor, were someone who never served wears the uniform and pretends to be a veteran. To take on the accolades and glory it brings and abuse it for their own ends. They've done it to StarWars, Marvel, DC, He-Man ect and they're now doing it to 40k too.
Bro that snippet in the beginning shows the problem with the whole company in 5 seconds. Instead of apologizing in his opening, he goes on to explain why people are wrong and don't know what they're talking about. Incredible.
@@ayron419 yes fake yes. 0 proof of anything. just RUclipsrs spreading drama and misinformation so they can farm views on youtube. who are they kidding man. how can u people believe everything they see on social media elt alone coming from these pretentious RUclipsrs? most content on youtube is fake
Now to cover this up, they will remove all taunts in the game. Also, weapons and the killing of mobs still under consideration for removal. Possible painting updates as well. Some of them have knives and forks depicted, which could be used to threaten someone.
all weapons will be replaced with like and dislike buttons, dislike puts the enemy in the naughty corner and like puts a band-aid on a teammates booboo and kisses it better.
He's a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. A guy who sold his mom's ash tray at school, a man who made Activision the way it is. Of course all he cared about was himself, he runs the whole show like a tech company
Regarding Bobby's "magnanimous" gesture of reducing his salary to minimum wage: it's important to keep in mind that's just his *salary* . The bulk of his compensation comes from things like stock options, benefits, and bonus. To him, reducing his salary to minimum wage is the same as tossing a few pennies into the dish at the gas station.
The pay cut was total compensation, so it did include his stock options, etc. However, and I think this is the more important thing to realize here, 62.5k is far from minimum wage. That's how far these mother fuckers are separated from reality.
@@HoHhoch That's never true, tax brackets are progressive. If your income breaks into a new bracket, ONLY the income above that watermark is taxed higher, it does NOT retroactively increase the taxes on the money you made before that point.
jesus just that clip of bobby at the beginning. never heard him talk but WHAT?? what a demon.. "anyone that's complaining about our terrible environemnt doesn't appreciate how much i care WAAHHH"
@@SonOfHubris It's the ability to turn any situation, regardless of severity, into a selfish moment. Trump does it in many, MANY, interviews. This is an apt analogy. And also... it hasn't been NEARLY 2 YEARS. It's been less than a Year. January 20, 2021
@BaxiTube Bro I know a lot of real sex crime victims and I can say with 100% certainty that I do hope they get their justice. What you said is just dumb as fuck and I hope that you step on a lego. Twice. So why you trying to get clout off my comment?
@BaxiTube bro I got no clout to give you. I got no brand, no platform, nothing. I said what I said because those people deserve justice. I have nothing to gain or lose from saying what I said. Find something better to do with your time then crying about my comment.
If this guy with 400 million dollars in his pockets is threatening his employees without punishment just imagine what he does for "fun" home and gets away with it.
Who ever had to live with rich people will attest to the fact that most of these rich people are miserable as hell, they enjoy manipulating others and they are the biggest cheapskates you ever seen... their lives are not happy at all... don't put priority of your life into being "rich", once you're there you have to play into the mind games
People do nothing BUT doubt you Bobby. No one in the public eye actually likes you lol. The only people that like you are the ones that only care about the profit they can make with you
@@solblackguy I was literally thinking that when he gave his speech. His demeanor to me seemed to be that of a threat and not reassurance, if I was one of the investors I would be doing anything and everything I can to get out of Activision-Blizzard right now.
@@Midnightgamer00 They are lmao. All of em outright said they never would've invested a cent into this cesspool and that's why Bobby lied and why they're now investigating him and possibly suing him aswell
It's really sad we need things like classes and training for employees. When it should just be natural to want to treat another person in the workplace with dignity and respect.
The classes and trainings are there to keep the company from getting sued because they "did what they could". They aren't there to stop the behavior. Telling people that rape is bad in a boring meeting no one pays attention in anyway isn't going to stop a rapist. It's about as effective as "gun-free zone" signs at stopping armed criminals. HR is there to protect the company's ass, not yours.
A 23 yo game developer fresh out of college will obviously not have 100% correct idea about how to behave professionally in corporate culture. These classes draw the line about what you can actually do or not do in corporate culture. But no amount of classes/training can cure the unholy in blizzard...
Most of those training programs just make the workplace more annoyingly SJW, where you are expected to be more sheepish, to kill any individuality you have as an employee. Fall in line, or be punished. Communist ideology. Treating people nicely is great and all, but you should not be required to do government imposed, corporate HR training, just to "have the privilege" of doing your job. Watching this whole debacle shows just how worthless and pointless all that training is. Problems will still occur, regardless of HR ploys.
@VaderxG Its a lot more complex in reality from my personal experience. Sexual assault is the extreme end of things and there is a whole gray area in between. The dark humor jokes that made every1 laugh in college is a big no no in corporate. It isnt just about grabbing hoo haas. Personal comments that u wud pass in college with no thought becomes the basis of office tensions. Talking about politics is considered unprofessional. These are the things that some1 new to corporate won't immediately understand. These trainings arent teaching "Dont sexually assault them", they are teaching you what actions can be considered uncomfortable by the other side when you have never really given thought about these things before. These trainings are absolutely necessary...
Yeah, but there's also a reason: -why safety scissors come with instructions -why machinery has safety precautions signals and correct usage instructions -why there's safety lids in pill bottles Because there's people who goes through safety measures like water through cracks, either by dumbness or bruteforce So people have to receive classes of what would happen if they go against the received instructions, the same goes with other people
@-Redacted- Bread Careful what you say. Bobby may see your comment and report you to the police (or worse). And he has WAAAAAY too much power AND money!
@@Earnest1G well its like 3 minutes in the video, although I dont know for sure if that's the actual picture or not. His name is spelled incorrectly after all, but who knows.
"reduced his salary to minimum wage" Yeah, but he has stock at this point, like every other executive of his level. The company still profits him personally at an obscene rate relative to everyone else, regardless of actual salary. Salary is just the part he has to pay *some* taxes on.
Whenever you try to search up about how he took a 150+ Million bonus you get his stupid "brave" pay cut he 100 percent did that too cover his ass lmfao
He’s 58 years old, with 150 mil made last year, I guess he has enough already anyway made in the last few decades without even mentioning any stocks owned.
He’s “sacrificed” something that would be of immense value for 99% of people but is barely anything to him unless he’s living absurdly extravagantly for no reason. Not much of a sacrifice.
I've told my boss about many things that have happened at work. Either things I've witnessed or have heard being gossipped about. She generally doesn't care and blows it off. It usually results in people quitting or later being terminated and she acts blindsided to out of touch HR when it happens. Were down 3 people now because of misconduct from a crazy coworker who wasn't dealt with in time. Bad leadership and letting rampant misconduct run wild is a reflection of the company. I'm quitting next week, it's not worth it anymore.
For the record, no I don't work at blizzard. It might as well be though. Its a nepotism incompetence party. My boss doesn't even know how to use basic computer programs and has zero background in management. She'll spend all day working on a Excel document that would take any average person 15 mins. She constantly deletes all files and progress because she doesn't know how to use Save As or Save. So the next time she needs to edit the document she restarts the entire thing from scratch. She received her job because she was friends with her direct boss. Nothing gets done under her because she sits in her office all day on her phone. Her direct boss worked in a completely unrelated field before this as well. Neither actually have any background knowledge pertaining to the job. They both cover for each other because the director in charge of the department is a pushover. As you can imagine, a nonexistant boss leads to constant bad behavior when people know they have no supervision. Tons of inappropriate shit happens. Boss finds out about it, but knows it will reflect her poorly for allowing it, so it just magically disappears and shit continues until it escalates into a big spotlight that needs to be dealt with. In steps her boss to save her and rinse repeat.
I just want to say that I think what you're doing for the gaming community in general is important. Your opinions on things are not rushed, they are rational, and usually well thought out. This is very good for the fans to absorb how to act and how to think for themselves. You have a lot of influence and I believe you've earned it. Keep doing what you do, I'm a big fan.
I agree, people give asmon shit for "talking shit" about blizzard, thats been happening for over a decade now, and as one person said "its just drama," obviously cant look at the big picture. What asmon does is incredibly important and without him, or people LIKE him who speak for the majority of us, our games would be held to even LOWER standards, if thats even possible.
@@emdubb1381 it is but while I agree with many things he says, casually throwing out that it's completely fine there are strippers at a work event is kind of thoughtless. Many of his points are good, others are just.. Not thought out till the end.
@@emdubb1381 Asmon is literally just making drama at this point. idk how people can actually take him seriously. these RUclipsrs take popular posts from cancer redddit and act how much they care about those issues when in reality just farming ezz views with drama. who are they kidding. they rarely give good criticize the game itsself- half of the issues and drama we have is because of content creators and people spreading out misinformation. and people's careers get ruined over it. u all have 0 prooff like always when it comes to accusations.and did FFXIV or WoW improve anything? no. still outdated- nothign changed. the studio still going in the worng direction. the comments on ffxiv update videos stilld isabled..they don't even give good suggestions how the game can be improved. they are just like leeches going from one content farm to another
2:30 As a corporate employee, I'd like to level a PSA with you guys, HR is there for the company, not you. They will turn on you in an instant if it's convenient and are most often numero uno on why you didn't get even an interview despite being highly qualified. They're there to cover the company's liability, that's it, that's all.
And it’s not a bad thing that they are there to cover company liability. Because a GOOD hr department will take your complaints seriously BECAUSE it is in the company’s best interest to root out the rot. However, we see HR departments try to shove everything under rug that doesn’t make the company seem great. They can only hide it for so long, see this shitshow.
@@Torreyhuff Not necessary. Name's pretty open about how they see employee, resource to be spent untill theres nothing left or set on fire if it proves more trouble than its worth.
@@jacobsegal6390 Sure, you're not exactly wrong, but the problem is that the incentive structure ensures that that idealistic vision is never actually carried out. People in big corporations aren't trying to succeed, they're just trying not to fail, which ironically leads to a cascade of failure inevitably. I maintain that it's a bad idea to trust an HR department to help you out.
I gotta say thank you Bobby and the rest of Blizzard/activision... ive finally been able to quit wow and stay clean. i cant even imagine returning to wow xD. My wow addiction is 100% gone. THANKS.
Yeah same here, been playing WoW since original TBC, but the interrest and desire to play the game is completely gone, and got no hope that Blizz manage to "fix" it.
@@madsnielsen390 Word! Ive been playing since the original vanilla 2005. feels good to finally be free. the only difference between me and you, is that im called Larsen as my last name, and you are called Nielsen ;).
Big true. I quit before and came back almost immediately but after this shit I quit and for some reason, I have absolutely no desire to come back, it actually really surprised me. Blizzard helped cure my WoW addiction lmao.
@@OdinWannaBe Well, ive tried alittle bit of everything, but addiction is addiction and for some they need a good reason to stop, just like with me and wow. But wow can be just a real of an addiction as any other drug :P weed can also be "easy" to quit, just like with wow, just sometimes is good to have a reason not to come back, even if they "patch" something.
As a female developer, Asmon hit on something I've been pissed about for years - boiling down a woman's success dur to her gender or skin color. We see it way too much these days where women are promoted obviously only because they are a woman. Hell, we have a VP who is only VP because she is a female minority - Biden even said he'd only choose a woman and most likely a minority as his running mate. I would 100% be shamed if I found out that any of my successes with promotions were only because of either my gender or my disability to help a company look good in today's social climate.
Hit the head on the woke politics. They had no other choices but to place a female there just because of what is between her legs. This undermines real women and minorities who worked their ass off just like the men to prove that they are capable individuals. Problem is with extreme left politics it will always be outshined by their gender. Hell it is the reason they are fighting for jeopardy to have a female host and canceled every male placed in charge. Racism and sexism is openly acceptable and sadly we will have to wait for qualified people filing roles again till the political climate dies down. I would hate a position was given to me just because of my skin color or sex because that would mean that now all that pressure of representing that falls on my shoulders and if I fail I would fail everyone of them rather than just myself.
That’s the real issue and the woman they picked is just as crooked as Biden is. There’s no intelligence there ether there are many many highly intelligent and energetic female upcoming politicians out there who have more integrity in their pinky than our current VP does in her entire life.
@FR oh I agree, that's life and play any cards you can to get ahead. There is a reason there is a saying fake it till you make it. No matter what you identify in life, you have to seize opportunities before you and have that drive to just get it done. Problem with this, is it makes women look bad when they get these token positions in companies already in trouble. Guess who gets the blame....
Blizzard Activision: FATHER!, Is it over? Blizzard North: At long last. No king rules forever, my son. Blizzard Activision: I see, only darkness before me.
With respect, 'consent' is a strange word in this day and age. One day, it applies, the next it does not, as its definition turns with feelings and not logic.
I think what joyde was saying was, that these days. You could end up sleeping with someone and it's all cool and copacetic in the moment. Then a day or two later you could be hit with (g)rape charge if said person regretted the sex. Didn't happen to me personally but I've seen it happen to a handful of people, and I got to watch the whole thing go down, even the point where the woman confesses they lied and nothing happens to them. Do all people lie about (g)rape? No. However, it makes me look at everyone with a discerning eye with little trust.
As much as Blizzard / Activision would want to silence Asmon, there’s little they can do to ban him. Plus, they’d just cause all his fans to leave too, killing WoW faster xD
Everytime one of these Blizzard scandal videos gets posted I think to myself "It really can't get any worse than this." It's insane how I get proven wrong over and over again.
Well you're not supposed to make it inclusive, you're meant to want talent and those that care about WoW. Otherwise you end up with talentless wokesters, who push nothing but their vile diseased ideology. So I guess Bobby is just getting what he deserves. But at the cost of WoW for good.
more welcoming and inclusive diverse workers = even worse games and less profits. You hire people who are qualified to do the job,not look at their skon color or genitals.
People defending these pieces of garbage saying things like that they are “alleged” or “circumstantial evidence”. What they don’t understand is that when you have SO MANY individual allegations and separate pieces of evidence come forward. It stops being a valid excuse, both morally AND IN A COURT OF LAW! Even if only HALF of what is being said is true, this guy is still guilty and should not be a part of the company.
This is basically just "Privatize the profits, socialize the losses", but for sexual assault claims. "Im the reason we did so well" "I have no control over the company itself, that was all everyone else"
0:20 If you stare at his eyes, you can feel there is a chill and bloody cold spirit behind them. It literally makes me goosebumps in a very bad feeling.
Never played WoW but began watching shit about it again few years back on this channel. Been nice watching Asmon clear-headedly communicate decent nuance to a large crowd like this. Gives me faith we can handle shit better than previous generations.
Lets be blunt: Bobby Kotick is the one who first introduced the 'Game Devs need to do their job out of fear for their upcoming paycheck, not out of passion' mindset into game development at a large scale. And it took off so well, that it is now the industry standard. Also, his 'reduce his compensation to minimum wage' was, even when he actually did it, already pretty much just fake virtue signaling. When he already squeezed the company dry by basically pocketing a multiple of what each year's fired employees would get combined, on the regular, he can go with 'min wage' for 1 or 2 years.
@@darkman452 "CRT practices in the employee level" what the fuck does that even mean genuinely curious what you think the study of systemic racism and it's outcomes have anything to do with....coca cola employees and a terrible CEO?
Yeh, thats what all the Hollywood actors, both male and female would say about Harvey W in interviews and when they were collecting their awards........."The best guys, so kind and generous even though he raped me and forced me to do sexual acts to advance my career". Yup they are such great people.
When I tell my boss I wasn’t aware of something not getting done or being done wrong, I get the… “it’s your job to be aware of these things”… weird how the excuse works when you’re higher up in the company.
I suspect this is all why Ben Brode, Hearthstone's amazing ex-game director, abruptly left the company at the height of the game's success back in 2018.
trial? ahaha what trial. over some fake RUclipsrs and reddit making drama to farm views? they have 0 proof of anything. just lies and misinformation like the usual. these content creators constantly making dram to get ezz vies on youtube should be held accountable
@@witmanntheinfinite no u found logic. sometimes u who belive everything these fake and pretentious RUclipsrs and social media say. They are abusing your goodwill to farm views on youtube. and u let em do that. okay. 0 logic anymore
@@GamingDualities How about the actual lawsuits against activision by the government of california? Fake news? How about the articles made about the company by actual journalists? Still fake news? You're an idiot.
@@JJ_436 doesn't prove a thing. "government of California" u man few old people that went to court that has 0 clue about anything? oh actual journalist? hahahahha they are all paid to force their opinions. reddit? u mean that joke site where people spread misinformation around and downvote any1 that disagree? most content on yotuube is fake and social media is full of sheet. ur rather belive some pretentious youtube content creators that take popular issues from reddit and pretend how much they care? drama is a business. okay than. if ut think they actually give a sheet about you or any of these issues u just been played bro.what about all the fake accusations? and people playing victim? do u have any clue how many carers have been ruined over false accusations in the last few years?
Dude I gotta say, I wonder if we'll ever know the full story of how all this happened over the last, what, 30 years of blizzard? One hell of a tv series it would be to watch from their start to their fall.
From a group of nerds trying to make a video game, they themselves want to play, to being bought into the old blood money echelon. A tale as old as 16th century Mephistopheles.
I'm a software quality assurance engineer for an international enterprise company. (the point of view I'm taking) I can assure you, a lot of things people should be ashamed for is part of standard practice in companies. Turns out the average joe employee is exactly that; mediocre at best. What you're seeing is what happens when the above average competent employees are micro managed and unable to take lead when it matters (like now with ActiBlizz). This is most likely because the competent employees are one of the first to leave, as they will be able to get a new job relatively quickly and they aren't insecure about the acknowledgement of others that much (because they're competent and have a record). A lot of stuff should be hidden until its under control in a company. If all the internals of a company were to be public, there is NO company in the world that could survive the criticism of the public. A scandal in this regard isn't that hidden stuff became public, but that its beyond the company's control to compensate for it before it escalates. And honestly at that point, they deserve all the consequence you get since that's below mediocre level management. In software engineering, there is no such thing is recurring failure (over a long period of time). If it does, you're not engineering but messing around. Though some mediocre developers will argue that failure is part of the process, which I agree during prototype development projects, but not for deployed services. This is what happens in software/game companies where all competent people have been bullied away and nobody can create the oversight. This is what happens when commercial-orientated companies do not listen to their technical staff.
I mean it's a bit odd he's fully named after a higher up anyway and presented as "badass dude who's good with ladies and bad things happen to him when he's doing good things" comes off as a little bit of a vanity thing
Thanks for analyzing the wording of the texts and putting things together in a level-headed way. This helped me more to fully understand the situation and all its impacts than any of the angry reaction videos. You are an intelligent and wise man, Asmongold.
When you have all the money you can ever spend you crave power. Of course he did all of this and probably worse. Payoffs and money gets things silenced for these people.
Bruh I'm convinced that the rich are just sick and depraved. It's like that squid game show part of the reason it struck me so much is that I could totally see the filthy rich doing stuff like that. Especially after the whole Jeffery epstien thing. I mean honestly we probably know very little about the f'd up things people like Bobby, Jeff bezos, Trump, etc do. It's honestly really scary.
@@judebarry3739 I think they live just like in the disturbing movie Salò. When you have it all, material things and security aren't needed or thought about. Every day worries of the overwhelming majority of people aren't even things they think about... So depravity and perversions are the only thing they feed because they don't have them.
@@masterpain7742 my guy ive read several comments from you and youre literally just hating on ff14 when it has 0 connection to the serious topic at hand lmao
@Master Pain Didn't know Bobby Kotick had a bunch of slaves to shit on other socmed users for him. How much is he paying you? Two cents a post? Hope he doesn't do to you what he did to that assistant.
Man, the WoW dev team can’t catch a break. They announce something like a new raid or announce a new patch and immediately get shit on by suits forcing them to release a store mount or more dirty Activision laundry is discovered. Sorry team, but I still ain’t returning to Azeroth any time soon.
I 100 percent agree. I feel bad for the people who are actually trying to make good games there, but I still won't play a blizzard product until all of these bastards leave the company.
At this point, I believe they should just, go out of the company and build a new one themselves. I know it's gonna be hard, and I know they will have little resources to work on, but what other options are there? To work with a shitty company on a shit game that the devs are trying to improve, but gets shat on the moment a scandal comes out?
I swear, it's funny how I know someone who blindly hates people like Asmongold because of hearsay. Then you've got actual content from Asmongold like this that makes it hard to hate him, and appreciate what he's trying to do in terms of scandalous news in gaming.
I don't understand how all this is known and acknowledged yet players still support the company by playing the game. Is it some sort of Stockholm syndrome ?
@@oriain81 I disagree with Allistair, I believe it is a mix of addicted to the game in some way or they don't care/read the news about the company and just want to escape from life
Wow, the moment I read the headline and listened to the video, I practically almost dislodged my jaw from sheer shock and frustration, I am so disappointed with Blizzard and Activision, I simply cannot support any of their products anymore.
Oh boy here we go cancel culture, the most toxic culture to exist. The problem isn't the products it's about no one actually going after legal action. It's about the people that need to be arrested and jailed, not the game that you are going to hurt many innocent people's jobs and families because of a few bad apples.
Bro they don’t have to buy stuff from anyone, they choose whatever they buy it’s a free country and they can have opinions jeez no need to call them a pos dude
@@joshuaherd1015 look, dumbass, the game is also shit. the idiocy of blizzard in dealing with this issue was only the straw that broke the camel's back.
@@joshuaherd1015 oh, shut up. fuck blizzard. them people need to work for different companies. im tired of activision and everybody else in this slew of a disgusting mosh pit of snakes getting paid for key people keeping quiet or tunnel visioning on stupid shit to avoid real problems meanwhile the players who suffer on multiple games, not just WOW, have to suffer for in a massive domino effect. obviously buying their shit while speaking a different tone than your wallet doesnt do much for change. wow, i couldnt have fucking guessed. fucking brilliant minded folk we have here. yea, tell them they are doing wrong but pay them to enable it. money speaks louder than any words or court documents ever will. that stands true for now and any time in the future pretraining to anything and anyone.
Just gonna add, no, honestly, it didn't feel like anything was turning around at Actiblizz after that statement was made. I feel like the only people who really thought that are the people still holding on to hope that redemption for the company is possible. As someone who has given up on Blizzard,. that statement and everything around it just felt like more PR bullshit. We were still hearing about problems happening in the company, the game hasn't gotten any better other than in the piecemeal player-placation patches that should have happened a long, long time ago. They're trying to reboot the community council yet again which they have a tangible history of completely fucking ignoring. Nothing has changed other than Blizz going deeper onto damage control. It helps nobody to pretend otherwise. Not us, and not the genuinely decent people still trapped working in that hellhole. If the day comes a genuine turn-around occurs I'll happily rejoice along with the rest of the fandom who have loved Warcraft for so many years, but we need to be looking at this entire situation objectively, not be blinded by what we /wish/ was happening. I get that Asmon wasn't saying that was the case (He outright clarified he wasn't), but I've seen a LOT of people who have been trying to tow that line, and they need to understand they're doing more harm than good.
amen! Had some buddies resub and be like "Well the CEO is taking minimum wage" like OKAY!?!? HE'S already super rich so that means literally nothing to me. I love WoW. I started playing in Burning Crusade, but that's why I have to stay away until they actual fix shit. If that day ever comes. I don't want the legacy to end in this biting betrayal.
I love looking deeply into Bobby's soft, soulless and quietly threatening eyes as he tells me that they are "the most welcoming and inclusive workplace". Lie harder, Daddy Kotick. I hope he is finally deposed and shoved off his throne.
Guy ruined company, ruined mental health of his employes, ruined wow, ruined everything.... Blizzard meanwhile: ye lets keep this guy as ceo, he's awesome.
@@vukkulvar9769 Oh I know, but court wise it is always "allegedly" and it has lost its meaning the past few years so it's me just poking at it in parentheses.
@@BobbyCurtiss We can start by applying The Brandenburg Test to bobby. one of the many factors to failing this test is seeing if you have administrative power and if so, how much. A man who is very wealthy and has connections does pose a high chance of actually carrying out that threat. granted it is not enough for a full on conviction but it is a start.
@@BobbyCurtiss We thought that too, then Bobby ended up in Epstein's book. If you can be linked to a guy that ran an international child sex ring... Is the possibility that Bobby knew about sexual misconduct in the company for years and didn't report on it that outlandish anymore?
@@nhagan001 being in a flight log book doesn't make you guilty of random accusations. There burden of proof is on the accusers. I'm not saying he didn't do it... but, to just assume he did because of a random article is pretty wild.
I really appreciate how you separate the adult behavior from the borderline rapey behaviour. There is a distinction and frankly it doesn't matter if you make a million dollars or live in a box. As an adult there's things you wanna do whether they involve drinking or drugs, sex, gaming, whatever. There's a line.
WoW fan....like you. I 100% support you. Sorry for the loss of you mother, and thank you for being real. Viewers can see that you live with your life on your sleeve. Speaking truth is what you do best. Mad respect for you
I hear this word "diversity" being thrown around in Ion's last interview, and Kotick/The AB Board these last 6 months. This is the exact reason people are leaving the company, like Ms O'Neal. It makes employees of a non-minority group feel like they are getting passed on opportunities(which is naturally true on some cases) and it makes members of said minority groups who get promoted feel like they are at where they at because of skin color/gender/sexual orientation. It hurts everyone involved and thus makes WoW a worse game.
As far as dealing with Blizzard, I love the raid analogy. If this were an 8-boss raid, the 2nd boss has been killed and they're clearing trash for the third.
It has been said before, but I'll say it again. HR is not there to protect you. It's there to protect the company. In these cases, you gather as many reliable witnesses as possible, and call a lawyer. You can inform HR but know that HR most likely will do nothing about it.
They should be called Organic Company Resource Management dep. They are there to ensure labour does only the best for the company. HR is hypocrate everywhere, no matter how much they want to persuade you about the opposite.
"Anyone who doubts my conviction to be the most welcoming and inclusive workplace doesn't really appreciate how important this is to me." This coming from the guy who has been quoted as saying he specifically wanted to take the fun out of making video games, and furthermore he was quite proud of how he managed to foster a workplace culture of pessimism and fear. For fuck's sake, Bobby "Please Stop Drawing Devil Horns On All My Pictures" Kotick has enough money that he could personally write a 1 million dollar check to every employee at ActiBlizz and he'd have more money by the time he finished than he had when he started, yet the actual employees of the company have to choose between eating in the company cafeteria or *paying their rent* . Clearly Bobby is a man that truly cares about his employees.
The FFXIV Dev team is far superior and I'm an FF fanboy, but what is this new age? The game is super overhyped right now. It's fun, but it's not very innovative. I'll grant you the story is top notch.
They've been doing it quietly for some time now... the only thing that's changed since the ARR revamp is WoW players waking up to the possibility their entertainment doesn't have to be at the hands of an abusive developer.
@@karl7487 Sure it won't usher in a new age but you just said it's fun. Mission accomplished? Plus we do get new features every now and then to get excited about so...idk. I'd rather a solid game stay about the same than totally changing each expansion like WoW. At that point it becomes a coin flip if you'll even like the game each time they tinker with it.
Hi, I'm latching onto this comment because it mentions FFXIV. I'm a new viewer for Asmon and disconnected to what he's doing. Is he still playing XIV? I ask since his last video of the game was a good while ago.
People still playing WoW are addicted to it, this won't change much. Actually this kind of activism boycott never really works. WoW is dying mostly because the game sucks, not because Blizzard employees are perverts.
It’s sad. Let’s simplify a CEO’s job: manage people, have a vision, set a long term plan, and be a good person. He sucks at managing people, has no vision on how to improve WoW, plan is crap, and he can’t keep his hands to himself. 0/10 I would let him run a lemonade stand. It’s sooo simple. No way that job is hard. He has all the power to make great change and doesn’t do crap. He is worth a bag of dog crap at the most.
i wonder how much longer people will support this game even tho this is like the 7000th scandal. the wow community sets a rly good example for the whole gaming community
if people enjoy playing the game why tf should they care about what the companies conduct is? Unfortunately these actions have directly and indirectly destroyed the game itself due to shitty work and terrible updates, but if the game was still good no one would be jumping off.
People are too hooked and psychologically invested. I know someone who quit when the lawsuit first broke, said they wrote a long angry message in the "tell us why you are leaving" bit and they are already back resubbed and playing 4+ hours a day. They didn't get suckered back by the fruitbowls or the removal of dick jokes, they just couldn't stay away despite acknowledging the game is garbage and offering them almost no actual enjoyment.
@@bobby45825 For a lot of us it's like getting your dream job like anyone else. You get hired there and think "Holy shit I fucking made it." and it's the best day of your life....and then this shit. It's really awful.
@@bobby45825 to be fair, booze in the office is relatively common in some countries. We usually have a few glasses of wine on Friday and often a bit more around Christmas time. We just don't assault people so it's just fun instead.
At this point there's so much rot in Blizzard that I honestly don't think they'll be able to redeem themselves. At least not for a very long time. Especially if they keep not learning from their mistakes.
Same, I started with Diablo 1 and even had fun with Diablo 3. Well Diablo immortal is a water down version of Diablo 3, with some p2w elements. At least it is easy to pass on that.
You should stop your copium and move on. You will never get the real Diablo feel again. You should try out lost ark, it feels like how Diablo 3 should have been, u will like it
Thank you, Asmongold. For making this video and speaking with intelligence, honesty and empathy. I came close to tears listening to you reveal a working environment that practically every woman in the world has experienced in some form or another. The righteous anger and sincere indignation in your words made me feel relieved, almost. It's demoralizing working under such men as Kotick. Made even worse knowing if you complain, seek justice or attempt to expose the d***heads, you have basically lost your job, your livelihood and your reputation. The more powerful the men/company, the more backlash and retribution you can expect. When a voice like yours speaks out with a video like this, it gives me hope. I know your Mom would be proud!
Bobby Kotick seems like a guy who would dress up as the Green Goblin and throw pumpkin bombs at superheroes. His hair even sort of resembles Norman Osborne.
Michael Morhaime: You must answer for your crimes Bobby. Bobby Kotick: All I did was done for the money! Michael Morhaime: You failed Blizzard and the players. Bobby Kotick: You made me in charge, you left me to pick up the pieces. You failed me and the stock holders! You never had the strength of a true sellout. Michael Morhaime: I do not rely on strength alone Bobby, my power are the players around you. Bobby Kotick: Michael! You made me what I am. Michael Morhaime: No you chose your own destiny.
There's absolutely no way the higher-ups in Blizzard didn't know about these things because sexual scandals are usually super loud, the word spreads rapidly and these are things that can shake the foundations of any corporation. So there were two alternatives, either good ole Bobby is grossly incompetent and has no clue of what is going on inside the company he leads, or he is actively allowing and encouraging deviant behavior. In both cases, investors will not be happy.
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It's almost as if he's a deplorable human being, just like we thought he was.
He not only have no respect to women and people around him, but also to himself, how sad
You're my favorite score in all of music. I just hate that so many call you by the wrong name.
Look, a robber baron who acts in a repugnant manner. Who'da thunk it?
@@lizardqueen272 hey don't Compare Bobby to the Robber Barons, that's an Insult to the Robber Barons.
@Shots Fired Shit bait, try harder next time
It's going to take a lot of fruit bowls to cover this up.
😄💯
“We are excited to introduce that all bosses will now be replaced with Bowls of Fruit!”
Ar least 3 more fruit bowls should do it.
Its never ever been about the so called harassment. They're just using it as excuse for the woketards to take over. So they can skin yet another popular franchise. So they can wear its skin and use its nostalgia popularity to push their vile diseased ideology.
Its similar to Stolen Valor, were someone who never served wears the uniform and pretends to be a veteran. To take on the accolades and glory it brings and abuse it for their own ends.
They've done it to StarWars, Marvel, DC, He-Man ect and they're now doing it to 40k too.
@@covahredro8370 Yikes
Bro that snippet in the beginning shows the problem with the whole company in 5 seconds. Instead of apologizing in his opening, he goes on to explain why people are wrong and don't know what they're talking about. Incredible.
Textbook Narcissistic Behaviour.
why would he apologize? because some pretentius RUclipsr and social media spread fake drama about you?
@@GamingDualities fake?
@@ayron419 yes fake yes. 0 proof of anything. just RUclipsrs spreading drama and misinformation so they can farm views on youtube. who are they kidding man. how can u people believe everything they see on social media elt alone coming from these pretentious RUclipsrs? most content on youtube is fake
@@GamingDualities so are you saying just this one instance is fake, or everything so far about Activision-blizzard being a fucked up company is fake?
Now to cover this up, they will remove all taunts in the game. Also, weapons and the killing of mobs still under consideration for removal. Possible painting updates as well. Some of them have knives and forks depicted, which could be used to threaten someone.
You're missing the most important part. The part that will definitely fix all of these problems for everyone.
New store mount.
The change killing mob into crawl under cubicle....
What if you have to pay taxes for use roads ? A little bit of immersion is what will fix it.
You forgot the removal of the ability to chat as well.
And even more wow shop stuff like even more store mounts.
all weapons will be replaced with like and dislike buttons, dislike puts the enemy in the naughty corner and like puts a band-aid on a teammates booboo and kisses it better.
Bobby was concerned about himself, not about the company, the community, or the players. All he is concerned about how this effects "me".
And money. Himself and money.
Bobby is a generous man. He pays his mansion servants, his private yacht personnel and private jet flight crew.
He's a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company.
A guy who sold his mom's ash tray at school, a man who made Activision the way it is.
Of course all he cared about was himself, he runs the whole show like a tech company
Typical small hat tribesman
@@thehatter9400 "a multi-dollar company" FTFY
If it was truely "zero tolerance" they would remove Kotick for the death threats he sent.
It's a fair point, otherwise it's just words.
@@protess5 Guess what, a death threat is also just words
@@kenshin7315 true true, we should wait for Bobby to actually kill some of his employees and then arrest him
My question is did they not have this policy prior?? Like?
zero tolerance is such an empty phrase
Yes, all the nice guys need to explicitly tell people that they're nice...
I'm a nice guy, and let me tell you.....
@@lawson1989 me too
If everyone says theyre bad guys, then yes.. They need to say otherwise.
This is the same dude who publicly asked people to stop photoshopping devil horns on his picture, because it hurt his dating life. LMAO
Shameless money sucking mysoginist
Holy shit. Those are some soulless eyes, Bobby. Guess all of those horns on your photos aren't photoshopped.
@@DerelictSong wtf you on about lolol
Those eyes are soulless for a reason. He is on epstein book. He most likely did horrible things to kids with no remorse.
@@DerelictSong Wait, do you think Gollum is his own race or something? VAFranky is just comparing him to Gollum.
He's apart of the small hat tribe, they're all soulless husks
Seems a lot of wealthy have those dead eyes. Look at zuck.
Regarding Bobby's "magnanimous" gesture of reducing his salary to minimum wage: it's important to keep in mind that's just his *salary* . The bulk of his compensation comes from things like stock options, benefits, and bonus. To him, reducing his salary to minimum wage is the same as tossing a few pennies into the dish at the gas station.
The pay cut was total compensation, so it did include his stock options, etc. However, and I think this is the more important thing to realize here, 62.5k is far from minimum wage. That's how far these mother fuckers are separated from reality.
You also get tax cuts if you pay people above the minimum wage as well.
Moreover, reduction in salary means less taxes to pay. He could make MORE money from being paid less depending on the situation.
@@HoHhoch That's never true, tax brackets are progressive. If your income breaks into a new bracket, ONLY the income above that watermark is taxed higher, it does NOT retroactively increase the taxes on the money you made before that point.
him putting his wage to the lowest like that only helps him, thats how most the top 10 richest get away with loopholes.
jesus just that clip of bobby at the beginning. never heard him talk but WHAT?? what a demon.. "anyone that's complaining about our terrible environemnt doesn't appreciate how much i care WAAHHH"
Sounds like trump. Mee Meeee Meeeee!
@@AndTecks what the fuck does trump have to do with this, the guy stopped being a president like 2 years ago, get over it already
@@SonOfHubris It's the ability to turn any situation, regardless of severity, into a selfish moment.
Trump does it in many, MANY, interviews.
This is an apt analogy.
And also... it hasn't been NEARLY 2 YEARS.
It's been less than a Year. January 20, 2021
@@AndTecks at least he didn’t sell out our country
@@cjw4g63 "2021 United States Capitol attack"
Sure about that?
I hope that every victim gets their justice out of this.
the government is taking some cash and they forget the whole thing.. That's justice for the victims according to society.
damn thats like millions of victims
@BaxiTube Bro I know a lot of real sex crime victims and I can say with 100% certainty that I do hope they get their justice. What you said is just dumb as fuck and I hope that you step on a lego. Twice.
So why you trying to get clout off my comment?
@BaxiTube Yeah TheFamilyDogs is really trying to build up their brand. What a loser, they actually are the ones raping women.
@BaxiTube bro I got no clout to give you. I got no brand, no platform, nothing. I said what I said because those people deserve justice. I have nothing to gain or lose from saying what I said. Find something better to do with your time then crying about my comment.
If this guy with 400 million dollars in his pockets is threatening his employees without punishment just imagine what he does for "fun" home and gets away with it.
squid game VIP
u believe too much these fake social media and pretentious youtubers say
Who ever had to live with rich people will attest to the fact that most of these rich people are miserable as hell, they enjoy manipulating others and they are the biggest cheapskates you ever seen... their lives are not happy at all... don't put priority of your life into being "rich", once you're there you have to play into the mind games
He is worth anywhere between $600 M and $7 BILLION my guy.
@@RelentlessOhiox funny how he's still worthless
"Anyone who doubts me?!" Calm down Bobby
People do nothing BUT doubt you Bobby. No one in the public eye actually likes you lol. The only people that like you are the ones that only care about the profit they can make with you
@@solblackguy I was literally thinking that when he gave his speech. His demeanor to me seemed to be that of a threat and not reassurance, if I was one of the investors I would be doing anything and everything I can to get out of Activision-Blizzard right now.
yo, he gotta chill.
@@solblackguy his eyes while he said it.. 😰
@@Midnightgamer00 They are lmao. All of em outright said they never would've invested a cent into this cesspool and that's why Bobby lied and why they're now investigating him and possibly suing him aswell
It's really sad we need things like classes and training for employees. When it should just be natural to want to treat another person in the workplace with dignity and respect.
The classes and trainings are there to keep the company from getting sued because they "did what they could". They aren't there to stop the behavior. Telling people that rape is bad in a boring meeting no one pays attention in anyway isn't going to stop a rapist. It's about as effective as "gun-free zone" signs at stopping armed criminals.
HR is there to protect the company's ass, not yours.
A 23 yo game developer fresh out of college will obviously not have 100% correct idea about how to behave professionally in corporate culture. These classes draw the line about what you can actually do or not do in corporate culture. But no amount of classes/training can cure the unholy in blizzard...
Most of those training programs just make the workplace more annoyingly SJW, where you are expected to be more sheepish, to kill any individuality you have as an employee. Fall in line, or be punished. Communist ideology.
Treating people nicely is great and all, but you should not be required to do government imposed, corporate HR training, just to "have the privilege" of doing your job.
Watching this whole debacle shows just how worthless and pointless all that training is. Problems will still occur, regardless of HR ploys.
@VaderxG Its a lot more complex in reality from my personal experience. Sexual assault is the extreme end of things and there is a whole gray area in between. The dark humor jokes that made every1 laugh in college is a big no no in corporate. It isnt just about grabbing hoo haas. Personal comments that u wud pass in college with no thought becomes the basis of office tensions. Talking about politics is considered unprofessional.
These are the things that some1 new to corporate won't immediately understand. These trainings arent teaching "Dont sexually assault them", they are teaching you what actions can be considered uncomfortable by the other side when you have never really given thought about these things before.
These trainings are absolutely necessary...
Yeah, but there's also a reason:
-why safety scissors come with instructions
-why machinery has safety precautions signals and correct usage instructions
-why there's safety lids in pill bottles
Because there's people who goes through safety measures like water through cracks, either by dumbness or bruteforce
So people have to receive classes of what would happen if they go against the received instructions, the same goes with other people
i want to quote something out of chat: "why is this happening, i just want a good game to play wtf NotLikeThis"
...true
@-Redacted- Bread
Careful what you say. Bobby may see your comment and report you to the police (or worse). And he has WAAAAAY too much power AND money!
i dont see why all of this is hindering your gaming, in the end the player shouldnt care.
@-Redacted- Bread and how much hinders that you ingame expirience? these are 2 diffrent things.
Bobby Kotick was in Jeffrey Epstein's black book. That's all you need to know.
source?
@@Earnest1G well its like 3 minutes in the video, although I dont know for sure if that's the actual picture or not. His name is spelled incorrectly after all, but who knows.
@@audiolols spelled incorrectly with activision email.
@@Earnest1G did you even watch the video lol
So were some victims, if course he was probably involved but not everyone in the book is.
Gotta love how he always reverses the blame. Bobby is the absolute master of gaslighting. It's painful to even hear him talk.
Lefties do that
@@BenDover-sc5du Yeah, those damn left handed people never taking the blame for anything.
@@224ryan It's not my fault its the scissors! 😡
to be a master of something, don't you have to actually be good at it?
Bobby cries out in pain as he hits you
"reduced his salary to minimum wage"
Yeah, but he has stock at this point, like every other executive of his level. The company still profits him personally at an obscene rate relative to everyone else, regardless of actual salary. Salary is just the part he has to pay *some* taxes on.
Whenever you try to search up about how he took a 150+ Million bonus you get his stupid "brave" pay cut he 100 percent did that too cover his ass lmfao
He’s 58 years old, with 150 mil made last year, I guess he has enough already anyway made in the last few decades without even mentioning any stocks owned.
He’s “sacrificed” something that would be of immense value for 99% of people but is barely anything to him unless he’s living absurdly extravagantly for no reason. Not much of a sacrifice.
You pay taxes on stocks too, but these are good points.
“There’s a whole lot of quacking, it might just be a duck!!!!”
😂😂😂😂
It’s funny, because ducks are serial-rapists.
I've told my boss about many things that have happened at work. Either things I've witnessed or have heard being gossipped about. She generally doesn't care and blows it off. It usually results in people quitting or later being terminated and she acts blindsided to out of touch HR when it happens. Were down 3 people now because of misconduct from a crazy coworker who wasn't dealt with in time. Bad leadership and letting rampant misconduct run wild is a reflection of the company. I'm quitting next week, it's not worth it anymore.
Reddit antiwork is a good sub for you to post your story. It's cathartic, believe me.
More power to you
Good Luck to you, I hope you find a good workplace where crazy bs like that doesn't happen.
thats basically everywhere. its cheaper to keep someone on than it is to hire someone new.
For the record, no I don't work at blizzard. It might as well be though. Its a nepotism incompetence party. My boss doesn't even know how to use basic computer programs and has zero background in management. She'll spend all day working on a Excel document that would take any average person 15 mins. She constantly deletes all files and progress because she doesn't know how to use Save As or Save. So the next time she needs to edit the document she restarts the entire thing from scratch. She received her job because she was friends with her direct boss.
Nothing gets done under her because she sits in her office all day on her phone. Her direct boss worked in a completely unrelated field before this as well. Neither actually have any background knowledge pertaining to the job. They both cover for each other because the director in charge of the department is a pushover. As you can imagine, a nonexistant boss leads to constant bad behavior when people know they have no supervision. Tons of inappropriate shit happens. Boss finds out about it, but knows it will reflect her poorly for allowing it, so it just magically disappears and shit continues until it escalates into a big spotlight that needs to be dealt with. In steps her boss to save her and rinse repeat.
I just want to say that I think what you're doing for the gaming community in general is important. Your opinions on things are not rushed, they are rational, and usually well thought out. This is very good for the fans to absorb how to act and how to think for themselves. You have a lot of influence and I believe you've earned it. Keep doing what you do, I'm a big fan.
lmao he is just using drama from reddit to get views. all this drama and content creators bullsheet
thats nice and all but I think youre reading too much into it bro... lol
I agree, people give asmon shit for "talking shit" about blizzard, thats been happening for over a decade now, and as one person said "its just drama," obviously cant look at the big picture. What asmon does is incredibly important and without him, or people LIKE him who speak for the majority of us, our games would be held to even LOWER standards, if thats even possible.
@@emdubb1381 it is but while I agree with many things he says, casually throwing out that it's completely fine there are strippers at a work event is kind of thoughtless. Many of his points are good, others are just.. Not thought out till the end.
@@emdubb1381 Asmon is literally just making drama at this point. idk how people can actually take him seriously. these RUclipsrs take popular posts from cancer redddit and act how much they care about those issues when in reality just farming ezz views with drama. who are they kidding. they rarely give good criticize the game itsself- half of the issues and drama we have is because of content creators and people spreading out misinformation. and people's careers get ruined over it. u all have 0 prooff like always when it comes to accusations.and did FFXIV or WoW improve anything? no. still outdated- nothign changed. the studio still going in the worng direction. the comments on ffxiv update videos stilld isabled..they don't even give good suggestions how the game can be improved. they are just like leeches going from one content farm to another
2:30 As a corporate employee, I'd like to level a PSA with you guys, HR is there for the company, not you. They will turn on you in an instant if it's convenient and are most often numero uno on why you didn't get even an interview despite being highly qualified. They're there to cover the company's liability, that's it, that's all.
They should rename Human Resources to Corporate Resources.
And it’s not a bad thing that they are there to cover company liability. Because a GOOD hr department will take your complaints seriously BECAUSE it is in the company’s best interest to root out the rot. However, we see HR departments try to shove everything under rug that doesn’t make the company seem great. They can only hide it for so long, see this shitshow.
@@Torreyhuff Not necessary. Name's pretty open about how they see employee, resource to be spent untill theres nothing left or set on fire if it proves more trouble than its worth.
@@Torreyhuff it's the right name. Human Resources. You are a disposable resource that just happens to be a human.
@@jacobsegal6390 Sure, you're not exactly wrong, but the problem is that the incentive structure ensures that that idealistic vision is never actually carried out. People in big corporations aren't trying to succeed, they're just trying not to fail, which ironically leads to a cascade of failure inevitably. I maintain that it's a bad idea to trust an HR department to help you out.
I gotta say thank you Bobby and the rest of Blizzard/activision... ive finally been able to quit wow and stay clean. i cant even imagine returning to wow xD.
My wow addiction is 100% gone. THANKS.
Yeah same here, been playing WoW since original TBC, but the interrest and desire to play the game is completely gone, and got no hope that Blizz manage to "fix" it.
@@madsnielsen390 Word! Ive been playing since the original vanilla 2005. feels good to finally be free. the only difference between me and you, is that im called Larsen as my last name, and you are called Nielsen ;).
Big true. I quit before and came back almost immediately but after this shit I quit and for some reason, I have absolutely no desire to come back, it actually really surprised me. Blizzard helped cure my WoW addiction lmao.
yeah so many addict ... imagine people that struggle with physical addiction , tell you that some are addicted to shit game others heroin
@@OdinWannaBe Well, ive tried alittle bit of everything, but addiction is addiction and for some they need a good reason to stop, just like with me and wow.
But wow can be just a real of an addiction as any other drug :P
weed can also be "easy" to quit, just like with wow, just sometimes is good to have a reason not to come back, even if they "patch" something.
As a female developer, Asmon hit on something I've been pissed about for years - boiling down a woman's success dur to her gender or skin color. We see it way too much these days where women are promoted obviously only because they are a woman. Hell, we have a VP who is only VP because she is a female minority - Biden even said he'd only choose a woman and most likely a minority as his running mate. I would 100% be shamed if I found out that any of my successes with promotions were only because of either my gender or my disability to help a company look good in today's social climate.
But it's true and it's good cuz otherwise woman have no chance ... 5 of richest woman are rich of divorce ;)
Hit the head on the woke politics. They had no other choices but to place a female there just because of what is between her legs. This undermines real women and minorities who worked their ass off just like the men to prove that they are capable individuals. Problem is with extreme left politics it will always be outshined by their gender. Hell it is the reason they are fighting for jeopardy to have a female host and canceled every male placed in charge. Racism and sexism is openly acceptable and sadly we will have to wait for qualified people filing roles again till the political climate dies down. I would hate a position was given to me just because of my skin color or sex because that would mean that now all that pressure of representing that falls on my shoulders and if I fail I would fail everyone of them rather than just myself.
That’s the real issue and the woman they picked is just as crooked as Biden is. There’s no intelligence there ether there are many many highly intelligent and energetic female upcoming politicians out there who have more integrity in their pinky than our current VP does in her entire life.
@FR oh I agree, that's life and play any cards you can to get ahead. There is a reason there is a saying fake it till you make it. No matter what you identify in life, you have to seize opportunities before you and have that drive to just get it done. Problem with this, is it makes women look bad when they get these token positions in companies already in trouble. Guess who gets the blame....
@@Fernrirx I have news for you, men and women are not the same and men dont give a f*** about a womans career/success
Blizzard Activision: FATHER!, Is it over?
Blizzard North: At long last. No king rules forever, my son.
Blizzard Activision: I see, only darkness before me.
Thank you asmon for covering all this madness. The mmo community and ESPECIALLY the WoW community is glad to have you.
Bro does our community even exist anymore? I feel like we've had our asses hollowed out now.
@@tahmkench118 feelsbatman, and here i was hoping to actually see a return to form
@@VAFranky Good way to say it mate, we're still here, breathing and hoping one day, this will be better, for the most part..
The fact that Asmon had to explain the concept of consent to his viewers is depressing.
With respect, 'consent' is a strange word in this day and age. One day, it applies, the next it does not, as its definition turns with feelings and not logic.
@@Helman114 Normal people don't struggle with consent. Get off the internet for a while.
@@Helman114 yeah, bad take dude. It's really not that strange and I think anyone with a bit of common sense knows exactly what consent is.
@@Helman114 It really isn't unless you lived under a rock and fail to understand basic laws. We've got some bad news for you.
I think what joyde was saying was, that these days. You could end up sleeping with someone and it's all cool and copacetic in the moment. Then a day or two later you could be hit with (g)rape charge if said person regretted the sex.
Didn't happen to me personally but I've seen it happen to a handful of people, and I got to watch the whole thing go down, even the point where the woman confesses they lied and nothing happens to them.
Do all people lie about (g)rape? No. However, it makes me look at everyone with a discerning eye with little trust.
This is how Asmongold gets banned from all Activision/Blizzard games.
oh god, what if he can never play shadowlands again. the horrors
As much as Blizzard / Activision would want to silence Asmon, there’s little they can do to ban him. Plus, they’d just cause all his fans to leave too, killing WoW faster xD
@@pepesaur3874 We are Number one, but whenever you hear 'One', ActiBlizz has another scandal pop up, and WoW dies faster?
Who gives a fuck, Acti/Blizz games aren't even good anymore lmao
asmon brings more to blizz than blizz brings to asmon
Bobby Kotick was "The Caligula of Blizzard"
Flight Log Bobby.
At least Caligula did a few decent things for Rome. While it’s myth that he fiddled as Rome burned, Bobby was getting bonus’s as blizzard burned.
You mean Nero, right?
@@MrGameonthis yeah that was Nero, Caligula was a wacko
@@omologo95 ah got my Roman emperors mixed up for a second there lmao. I’ll see myself out
Everytime one of these Blizzard scandal videos gets posted I think to myself "It really can't get any worse than this." It's insane how I get proven wrong over and over again.
"If you think I'm lying, you're insulting my commitment to believe my own lie."
“Anyone who doubts my conviction to make this the most welcoming and inclusive workplace is definitely the problem, not me LOL.”
If I didn't know any better I'd assume he has a degree in being completely abhorrent.. but then again, maybe he does, or we should award him with one.
@Cthulhu and not even in a convincing way..
Well you're not supposed to make it inclusive, you're meant to want talent and those that care about WoW. Otherwise you end up with talentless wokesters, who push nothing but their vile diseased ideology.
So I guess Bobby is just getting what he deserves. But at the cost of WoW for good.
more welcoming and inclusive diverse workers = even worse games and less profits. You hire people who are qualified to do the job,not look at their skon color or genitals.
he said the words out loud, from a teleprompter, but you can tell he doesn't believe them
People defending these pieces of garbage saying things like that they are “alleged” or “circumstantial evidence”.
What they don’t understand is that when you have SO MANY individual allegations and separate pieces of evidence come forward. It stops being a valid excuse, both morally AND IN A COURT OF LAW! Even if only HALF of what is being said is true, this guy is still guilty and should not be a part of the company.
People defending these people are probably rapists themselves. I said what I said....
This is basically just "Privatize the profits, socialize the losses", but for sexual assault claims.
"Im the reason we did so well"
"I have no control over the company itself, that was all everyone else"
"The most responsible person for the business has claimed that he has in fact no responsibility for the business"
The ceo said this like wtf
@@cinnamon4ada7 They're all like this, too. Maybe not all of them are guilty of sexual misconduct, but they're all narcissists. To a man.
0:20 If you stare at his eyes, you can feel there is a chill and bloody cold spirit behind them. It literally makes me goosebumps in a very bad feeling.
Those are the eyes of someone of Coca Cola's boards... He is just a terrible human being
@@testi_test reading your comment sipping on some Coca Cola
Never played WoW but began watching shit about it again few years back on this channel. Been nice watching Asmon clear-headedly communicate decent nuance to a large crowd like this. Gives me faith we can handle shit better than previous generations.
Lets be blunt: Bobby Kotick is the one who first introduced the 'Game Devs need to do their job out of fear for their upcoming paycheck, not out of passion' mindset into game development at a large scale. And it took off so well, that it is now the industry standard.
Also, his 'reduce his compensation to minimum wage' was, even when he actually did it, already pretty much just fake virtue signaling. When he already squeezed the company dry by basically pocketing a multiple of what each year's fired employees would get combined, on the regular, he can go with 'min wage' for 1 or 2 years.
He’s also on The Board of Coca Cola which might be aware of the CRT practices in the employee level
Also hes a owner off a large stocks of blizz, so hes profits are apart of his salary,..
He could never get paid a cent ever again and he still would be overpaid.
@@darkman452 "CRT practices in the employee level" what the fuck does that even mean
genuinely curious what you think the study of systemic racism and it's outcomes have anything to do with....coca cola employees and a terrible CEO?
Don’t forget the insane annual performance bonuses.
"The most gracious, the most selfless, the most kind person you'll every meet" LOLOLOL
If I was guessing who that quote was from and I had to bet the house on it I'd have to say Trump.... guess they share some personality traits.
Yeh, thats what all the Hollywood actors, both male and female would say about Harvey W in interviews and when they were collecting their awards........."The best guys, so kind and generous even though he raped me and forced me to do sexual acts to advance my career". Yup they are such great people.
It’s basically satire at this point. It’s fucking hilarious.
@@D1str1ct except for Ricky Gervais. Dudes a beast.
When I tell my boss I wasn’t aware of something not getting done or being done wrong, I get the… “it’s your job to be aware of these things”… weird how the excuse works when you’re higher up in the company.
I suspect this is all why Ben Brode, Hearthstone's amazing ex-game director, abruptly left the company at the height of the game's success back in 2018.
2018 wasn't biggest height.
2018 was the height? Seems like it was earlier
Somehow the game has become only better since the amazing ex director left. Although he seemed to be a nice and funny dude.
@@reycole8837 Better? lol.
Covah Redro you d better add some reasoning if don’t agree
It just feels like they're trying to put out the fires with dollar bills, rather than by taking out the trash.
"Anyone who doubts my conviction" those words are going to be hilarious after the trial.
trial? ahaha what trial. over some fake RUclipsrs and reddit making drama to farm views? they have 0 proof of anything. just lies and misinformation like the usual. these content creators constantly making dram to get ezz vies on youtube should be held accountable
@@GamingDualities found Bobby's fanboy
@@witmanntheinfinite no u found logic. sometimes u who belive everything these fake and pretentious RUclipsrs and social media say. They are abusing your goodwill to farm views on youtube. and u let em do that. okay. 0 logic anymore
@@GamingDualities How about the actual lawsuits against activision by the government of california? Fake news? How about the articles made about the company by actual journalists? Still fake news? You're an idiot.
@@JJ_436 doesn't prove a thing. "government of California" u man few old people that went to court that has 0 clue about anything? oh actual journalist? hahahahha they are all paid to force their opinions. reddit? u mean that joke site where people spread misinformation around and downvote any1 that disagree? most content on yotuube is fake and social media is full of sheet. ur rather belive some pretentious youtube content creators that take popular issues from reddit and pretend how much they care? drama is a business. okay than. if ut think they actually give a sheet about you or any of these issues u just been played bro.what about all the fake accusations? and people playing victim? do u have any clue how many carers have been ruined over false accusations in the last few years?
If he gets in trouble for anything it'll be breaching his fiduciary duty by failing to inform the board (who all knew but are covering themselves)
Dude I gotta say, I wonder if we'll ever know the full story of how all this happened over the last, what, 30 years of blizzard? One hell of a tv series it would be to watch from their start to their fall.
The Office but more sexual assault.
From a group of nerds trying to make a video game, they themselves want to play, to being bought into the old blood money echelon. A tale as old as 16th century Mephistopheles.
sounds like a job for the Internet Historian
@@BloteAapOpVoeten Dude imagine a michael scott type character for bobby kotick. I would be rolling.
We already have a great TV show dedicated to what happened behind-doors at Blizzard. The fireplace channel.
That was the driving nail in the coffin, Blizzard just can't seem to run out of nails.
Soon, their coffin is gonna look like a spiky torture box!
Long once screwed once bent once, once without a sharp end, once that can't be removed and some that belong at ancient temples aka are too damn big.
Just imagine how many more skeletons of innocent people are hidden in the closet, it’s just a peak of the iceberg.
thats the sad reality
I'm a software quality assurance engineer for an international enterprise company. (the point of view I'm taking)
I can assure you, a lot of things people should be ashamed for is part of standard practice in companies. Turns out the average joe employee is exactly that; mediocre at best. What you're seeing is what happens when the above average competent employees are micro managed and unable to take lead when it matters (like now with ActiBlizz). This is most likely because the competent employees are one of the first to leave, as they will be able to get a new job relatively quickly and they aren't insecure about the acknowledgement of others that much (because they're competent and have a record).
A lot of stuff should be hidden until its under control in a company. If all the internals of a company were to be public, there is NO company in the world that could survive the criticism of the public. A scandal in this regard isn't that hidden stuff became public, but that its beyond the company's control to compensate for it before it escalates. And honestly at that point, they deserve all the consequence you get since that's below mediocre level management.
In software engineering, there is no such thing is recurring failure (over a long period of time). If it does, you're not engineering but messing around. Though some mediocre developers will argue that failure is part of the process, which I agree during prototype development projects, but not for deployed services. This is what happens in software/game companies where all competent people have been bullied away and nobody can create the oversight. This is what happens when commercial-orientated companies do not listen to their technical staff.
imagine all of this and thinking the first step of fixing it is changing the cowboys name on overwatch
I mean it's a bit odd he's fully named after a higher up anyway and presented as "badass dude who's good with ladies and bad things happen to him when he's doing good things" comes off as a little bit of a vanity thing
@@vld7759 is that why they changed the cowboys name? Sexual Harasser had the same name/named him?
@@ellierayne1380 Jesse McCree was a wow dev, bunch of npcs, a whole zone and overwatch hero were named after him
Thanks for analyzing the wording of the texts and putting things together in a level-headed way. This helped me more to fully understand the situation and all its impacts than any of the angry reaction videos. You are an intelligent and wise man, Asmongold.
When you have all the money you can ever spend you crave power. Of course he did all of this and probably worse. Payoffs and money gets things silenced for these people.
Bruh I'm convinced that the rich are just sick and depraved. It's like that squid game show part of the reason it struck me so much is that I could totally see the filthy rich doing stuff like that. Especially after the whole Jeffery epstien thing. I mean honestly we probably know very little about the f'd up things people like Bobby, Jeff bezos, Trump, etc do. It's honestly really scary.
@@judebarry3739 I think they live just like in the disturbing movie Salò. When you have it all, material things and security aren't needed or thought about. Every day worries of the overwhelming majority of people aren't even things they think about... So depravity and perversions are the only thing they feed because they don't have them.
@@masterpain7742 my guy ive read several comments from you and youre literally just hating on ff14 when it has 0 connection to the serious topic at hand lmao
@Master Pain Didn't know Bobby Kotick had a bunch of slaves to shit on other socmed users for him. How much is he paying you? Two cents a post? Hope he doesn't do to you what he did to that assistant.
As a wise man once said, “This used to be a nice neighborhood!” -Coach, L4D2
When you explain things with MMO references, that makes my day everytime
Man, the WoW dev team can’t catch a break. They announce something like a new raid or announce a new patch and immediately get shit on by suits forcing them to release a store mount or more dirty Activision laundry is discovered. Sorry team, but I still ain’t returning to Azeroth any time soon.
I 100 percent agree. I feel bad for the people who are actually trying to make good games there, but I still won't play a blizzard product until all of these bastards leave the company.
I should noted that Blizzard co-leader who was female also left the company because she got paid less than her male co-leader (Mike Ybarra)
that s your 6roblem ? they 6romised some shit content? and not delivered"? :)))))))))
At this point, I believe they should just, go out of the company and build a new one themselves. I know it's gonna be hard, and I know they will have little resources to work on, but what other options are there? To work with a shitty company on a shit game that the devs are trying to improve, but gets shat on the moment a scandal comes out?
@@rises889 why are you ty6ping like that
Just look into his eyes, it's feels like staring into the abyss.
His eyes are worse than any big tech founder or politician
Looking at him in the eyes gives me the run ot fight feeling and i don't think thats normal, he looks like he has done some fucked up things
@@nephilim8559 he gives me the same feeling Professor Umbridge in Harry Potter gave me as a kid.
All these CEO's, owners and leaders lookin' like they're completely fking dead inside.
So let me get this straight. He got sued, got a bonus, and then magically the charges got hushed, in that order?
Some f'ckery is afoot.
@@masterpain7742 fortnite first solo win 2 kills
@@masterpain7742 oh my bad I did you an injustice! It was 4! I was just so distracted from the other bs you’re saying in the comments my bad man!!!
@@lolsurtr4744
It's crazy how many people come out of the woodwork like sleeper agents to defend someone like Bobby.
@@masterpain7742 You click your spells and you're talking shit.
These toxic replies dont even have anything to do with the original comment...
I swear, it's funny how I know someone who blindly hates people like Asmongold because of hearsay. Then you've got actual content from Asmongold like this that makes it hard to hate him, and appreciate what he's trying to do in terms of scandalous news in gaming.
Hate the character, not the man. Zack's just another guy trying to survive. He's a nice lad.
I don't understand how all this is known and acknowledged yet players still support the company by playing the game. Is it some sort of Stockholm syndrome ?
@@allistairkumaran3582 fair enough, it's one of the explanations I guess.
@@oriain81 I disagree with Allistair, I believe it is a mix of addicted to the game in some way or they don't care/read the news about the company and just want to escape from life
Most Asmongold hate is bad faith.
but y'all still gonna pay for WoW subscription, buy new CoD, buy new Diablo and continue to support this company
15:00 "The language tells the truth, but the message lies."
Thanks Asmon, I'll remember these words whenever I do analysis.
Yeah, it's common practice, especially in politics: tell only part of the truth to omit all the parts you don't want to lie about.
@BaxiTube Care to explain what you mean about this radicalized left wing propaganda?
Wow, the moment I read the headline and listened to the video, I practically almost dislodged my jaw from sheer shock and frustration, I am so disappointed with Blizzard and Activision, I simply cannot support any of their products anymore.
Oh boy here we go cancel culture, the most toxic culture to exist. The problem isn't the products it's about no one actually going after legal action. It's about the people that need to be arrested and jailed, not the game that you are going to hurt many innocent people's jobs and families because of a few bad apples.
Cancel culture is very bad for general employees. So think of those lives
Bro they don’t have to buy stuff from anyone, they choose whatever they buy it’s a free country and they can have opinions jeez no need to call them a pos dude
@@joshuaherd1015 look, dumbass, the game is also shit. the idiocy of blizzard in dealing with this issue was only the straw that broke the camel's back.
@@joshuaherd1015 oh, shut up. fuck blizzard. them people need to work for different companies. im tired of activision and everybody else in this slew of a disgusting mosh pit of snakes getting paid for key people keeping quiet or tunnel visioning on stupid shit to avoid real problems meanwhile the players who suffer on multiple games, not just WOW, have to suffer for in a massive domino effect. obviously buying their shit while speaking a different tone than your wallet doesnt do much for change. wow, i couldnt have fucking guessed. fucking brilliant minded folk we have here. yea, tell them they are doing wrong but pay them to enable it. money speaks louder than any words or court documents ever will. that stands true for now and any time in the future pretraining to anything and anyone.
“A lot of quacking…It just might be a duck” Asmondgold is better than CNN
CNN… yeah, right.
Anything is better than CNN, well, mainstream media in general.
What an odd comment.
Just gonna add, no, honestly, it didn't feel like anything was turning around at Actiblizz after that statement was made. I feel like the only people who really thought that are the people still holding on to hope that redemption for the company is possible.
As someone who has given up on Blizzard,. that statement and everything around it just felt like more PR bullshit. We were still hearing about problems happening in the company, the game hasn't gotten any better other than in the piecemeal player-placation patches that should have happened a long, long time ago. They're trying to reboot the community council yet again which they have a tangible history of completely fucking ignoring.
Nothing has changed other than Blizz going deeper onto damage control. It helps nobody to pretend otherwise. Not us, and not the genuinely decent people still trapped working in that hellhole.
If the day comes a genuine turn-around occurs I'll happily rejoice along with the rest of the fandom who have loved Warcraft for so many years, but we need to be looking at this entire situation objectively, not be blinded by what we /wish/ was happening. I get that Asmon wasn't saying that was the case (He outright clarified he wasn't), but I've seen a LOT of people who have been trying to tow that line, and they need to understand they're doing more harm than good.
amen! Had some buddies resub and be like "Well the CEO is taking minimum wage" like OKAY!?!? HE'S already super rich so that means literally nothing to me. I love WoW. I started playing in Burning Crusade, but that's why I have to stay away until they actual fix shit. If that day ever comes. I don't want the legacy to end in this biting betrayal.
I love looking deeply into Bobby's soft, soulless and quietly threatening eyes as he tells me that they are "the most welcoming and inclusive workplace". Lie harder, Daddy Kotick.
I hope he is finally deposed and shoved off his throne.
Looks like a wrak old man. Guess millions of profits is better than any benefit working out would grant. Dude has too much money and it shows.
Guy ruined company, ruined mental health of his employes, ruined wow, ruined everything....
Blizzard meanwhile: ye lets keep this guy as ceo, he's awesome.
He made them a lot of money but is about to lose it all
That's California for ya it dosent matter weather he's a good CEO or not it matters weather he can be controlled or not thats what it boils down too
Bobby: "I will kill her." (allegedly)
Board of Directors: "Actions have been taken, please don't hate Bobby."
A spokeperson of Activision confirmed it by saying "he apologized 16 years ago for that !". That's admitting he did it.
Guys he said sorry stop bullyiing hiimmmmm.
@@vukkulvar9769 Oh I know, but court wise it is always "allegedly" and it has lost its meaning the past few years so it's me just poking at it in parentheses.
If I really thought someone planned on killing me I'd go to the cops not hr.
Bobby "The Devil" Kotick. There's a reason his nickname is "The Devil".
Also, shit rolls downhill.
yup, there's a nice saying in Russian, Ukranian and likely many other slavic languages: "Рыба гниет с головы" - "The fish rots from the head".
Bobby looks like the old version of Bilbo beggins from Lord of the rings.
At this point it just feels like Activision Blizzard will likely dissappear.
Kotick needs to be prosecuted immediately.
With what evidence? I highly suggest you wait and see.
@@BobbyCurtiss We can start by applying The Brandenburg Test to bobby. one of the many factors to failing this test is seeing if you have administrative power and if so, how much.
A man who is very wealthy and has connections does pose a high chance of actually carrying out that threat. granted it is not enough for a full on conviction but it is a start.
@@Beejayvei , again, on what evidence? Taking the word of a random article without proof is dangerous.
@@BobbyCurtiss We thought that too, then Bobby ended up in Epstein's book.
If you can be linked to a guy that ran an international child sex ring...
Is the possibility that Bobby knew about sexual misconduct in the company for years and didn't report on it that outlandish anymore?
@@nhagan001 being in a flight log book doesn't make you guilty of random accusations. There burden of proof is on the accusers. I'm not saying he didn't do it... but, to just assume he did because of a random article is pretty wild.
I really appreciate how you separate the adult behavior from the borderline rapey behaviour. There is a distinction and frankly it doesn't matter if you make a million dollars or live in a box. As an adult there's things you wanna do whether they involve drinking or drugs, sex, gaming, whatever. There's a line.
Bruv, Kotick looks like the living embodiment of Gallywix. You don't end up looking like that on accident.
WoW fan....like you. I 100% support you. Sorry for the loss of you mother, and thank you for being real. Viewers can see that you live with your life on your sleeve. Speaking truth is what you do best. Mad respect for you
I hear this word "diversity" being thrown around in Ion's last interview, and Kotick/The AB Board these last 6 months. This is the exact reason people are leaving the company, like Ms O'Neal. It makes employees of a non-minority group feel like they are getting passed on opportunities(which is naturally true on some cases) and it makes members of said minority groups who get promoted feel like they are at where they at because of skin color/gender/sexual orientation. It hurts everyone involved and thus makes WoW a worse game.
As far as dealing with Blizzard, I love the raid analogy. If this were an 8-boss raid, the 2nd boss has been killed and they're clearing trash for the third.
It has been said before, but I'll say it again. HR is not there to protect you. It's there to protect the company. In these cases, you gather as many reliable witnesses as possible, and call a lawyer. You can inform HR but know that HR most likely will do nothing about it.
They should be called Organic Company Resource Management dep. They are there to ensure labour does only the best for the company.
HR is hypocrate everywhere, no matter how much they want to persuade you about the opposite.
Yes, but what happens when HR is taken over by blue haired land whales who believe in the lie of Social Justice.
@@AethyrPrime It's not nice to call yourself a land whale.
"Anyone who doubts my conviction to be the most welcoming and inclusive workplace doesn't really appreciate how important this is to me."
This coming from the guy who has been quoted as saying he specifically wanted to take the fun out of making video games, and furthermore he was quite proud of how he managed to foster a workplace culture of pessimism and fear.
For fuck's sake, Bobby "Please Stop Drawing Devil Horns On All My Pictures" Kotick has enough money that he could personally write a 1 million dollar check to every employee at ActiBlizz and he'd have more money by the time he finished than he had when he started, yet the actual employees of the company have to choose between eating in the company cafeteria or *paying their rent* . Clearly Bobby is a man that truly cares about his employees.
Final Fantasy XIV is going to to usher in a new age. I couldn’t be happier.
The FFXIV Dev team is far superior and I'm an FF fanboy, but what is this new age? The game is super overhyped right now. It's fun, but it's not very innovative. I'll grant you the story is top notch.
@@karl7487 thing is, people don't want innovative right now, they want functional. Walk before you run and all that.
They've been doing it quietly for some time now... the only thing that's changed since the ARR revamp is WoW players waking up to the possibility their entertainment doesn't have to be at the hands of an abusive developer.
@@karl7487 Sure it won't usher in a new age but you just said it's fun. Mission accomplished? Plus we do get new features every now and then to get excited about so...idk. I'd rather a solid game stay about the same than totally changing each expansion like WoW. At that point it becomes a coin flip if you'll even like the game each time they tinker with it.
Hi, I'm latching onto this comment because it mentions FFXIV.
I'm a new viewer for Asmon and disconnected to what he's doing. Is he still playing XIV? I ask since his last video of the game was a good while ago.
If this doesn't get people to cancel their WoW subscriptions despite their sunk-cost fallacies, then people are truly lost.
People still playing WoW are addicted to it, this won't change much. Actually this kind of activism boycott never really works. WoW is dying mostly because the game sucks, not because Blizzard employees are perverts.
@@masterpain7742 Gay? Really? Try a better insult next time and I might actually take your comment serious
It’s sad. Let’s simplify a CEO’s job: manage people, have a vision, set a long term plan, and be a good person. He sucks at managing people, has no vision on how to improve WoW, plan is crap, and he can’t keep his hands to himself. 0/10 I would let him run a lemonade stand.
It’s sooo simple. No way that job is hard. He has all the power to make great change and doesn’t do crap. He is worth a bag of dog crap at the most.
every photo I see of Bobby he looks like he gains another chin
He looks like a wax figure
He's been collecting these billions of dollars over these years in his effort to find a cure for his severe Goblinism.
He earns a new chin every time a Blizzard employee is sexually assaulted to the brink of suicide
@Negative-Ad7576 j**en!!!
His opening comment says it all eh
he's even wearing the daddy sweater to look more sympathetic xD
A "Cosby" sweater you could say...
You're laughing but everything in that video was thought over, even what he's wearing
@@saki1333 that's just what makes it more obvious that he's guilty. "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
Even if I didn't hear all that about this person, his face looks very vicious and cruel.
But hey! They changed a painting to a bowl of fruit.
@@masterpain7742 Ya don't say...
@@masterpain7742 It's only a war when both sides are equal... Don't worry. I'm sure someone will have a fun run for you soon ☺
i wonder how much longer people will support this game even tho this is like the 7000th scandal. the wow community sets a rly good example for the whole gaming community
Copium must be a hell of a drug man.
People are already walking out...sure, a lot come back, like a damaged puppy that gets beaten and kicked, but still crawls home, but not all do.....
if people enjoy playing the game why tf should they care about what the companies conduct is? Unfortunately these actions have directly and indirectly destroyed the game itself due to shitty work and terrible updates, but if the game was still good no one would be jumping off.
People are too hooked and psychologically invested. I know someone who quit when the lawsuit first broke, said they wrote a long angry message in the "tell us why you are leaving" bit and they are already back resubbed and playing 4+ hours a day. They didn't get suckered back by the fruitbowls or the removal of dick jokes, they just couldn't stay away despite acknowledging the game is garbage and offering them almost no actual enjoyment.
@@zanmato3103 That's called addiction
>"We are a progressive company that treat wamens as equals!"
>Goes to a stripclub for company-party
lol
@@bobby45825 yeah...pretty much everything about Kotick, from his practices to his mentors just scream inclusivity. 🤣
@@bobby45825 For a lot of us it's like getting your dream job like anyone else. You get hired there and think "Holy shit I fucking made it." and it's the best day of your life....and then this shit. It's really awful.
@@bobby45825 to be fair, booze in the office is relatively common in some countries. We usually have a few glasses of wine on Friday and often a bit more around Christmas time. We just don't assault people so it's just fun instead.
The irony is making a very loud whistling noise.
As it flies straight over Bobby's head.
Its not irony when pedos pull strings on woke puppet slaves, its working as intended.
You don't become as rich as Bobby boy by being a good person.
Ya all rich people are pieces of shit
Eeeeeeexactly.
thats one pathetic point of view but ok
Being a successful man and being a good person dont intersect
Eh not exactly, but a majority of time. Most broad and sweeping statements do not fully hold, there are always exceptions.
At this point there's so much rot in Blizzard that I honestly don't think they'll be able to redeem themselves. At least not for a very long time. Especially if they keep not learning from their mistakes.
You can't pay yourself a multimillion dollar yearly bonus then pretend you not responsible when stuff goes wrong.
Sure you can, you just have to have zero sense of shame
Imagine seeing his red face coming down on you. Terrifying.
The more I hear about stuff like this, the less I want to invest in ANYTHING Blizzard. And I’m a huge Diablo fan.
Same, I started with Diablo 1 and even had fun with Diablo 3. Well Diablo immortal is a water down version of Diablo 3, with some p2w elements. At least it is easy to pass on that.
You should stop your copium and move on. You will never get the real Diablo feel again. You should try out lost ark, it feels like how Diablo 3 should have been, u will like it
Dude piracy is a thing .....
@@MeldinX2 it works
It just get's worse and worse dosn't it? Holy shit. I'm not sure Blizzard or Activision will ever really come back after this.
Thank you, Asmongold. For making this video and speaking with intelligence, honesty and empathy. I came close to tears listening to you reveal a working environment that practically every woman in the world has experienced in some form or another. The righteous anger and sincere indignation in your words made me feel relieved, almost. It's demoralizing working under such men as Kotick. Made even worse knowing if you complain, seek justice or attempt to expose the d***heads, you have basically lost your job, your livelihood and your reputation. The more powerful the men/company, the more backlash and retribution you can expect. When a voice like yours speaks out with a video like this, it gives me hope. I know your Mom would be proud!
I just wanted to farm mounts as background fodder while watching Netflix... but Activision/Blizzard just feels unclean.
There are always other games
Literally dozens of other games.
And some are even critically acclaimed.
@@KutluMizrak Perhaps with even... an unlimited free trial
@@VAFranky fucking christ 350? i couldnt even imagine that. in FFXIV if the mount drops from a fight its guranteed within atleast 99 kills.
@@angulardrift1537 up to the Heavensward expansion
How can anyone trust him? This guy even looks like a generic disney villian (Bobby, not Asmon)
what a shit take
These people are literally just a bunch of dudes who run a Wallmart, The structure and etiquette of their business as a whole has degraded.
Bobby Kotick seems like a guy who would dress up as the Green Goblin and throw pumpkin bombs at superheroes. His hair even sort of resembles Norman Osborne.
Hey! Not cool man. Bobby can't help it, he has a severe case of Goblinism, and he needs these billions of dollars to find the cure!
Y'all, this is live action gallywix
You know, Bobby Kotick is something of a scientist himself.
Michael Morhaime: You must answer for your crimes Bobby.
Bobby Kotick: All I did was done for the money!
Michael Morhaime: You failed Blizzard and the players.
Bobby Kotick: You made me in charge, you left me to pick up the pieces. You failed me and the stock holders!
You never had the strength of a true sellout.
Michael Morhaime: I do not rely on strength alone Bobby, my power are the players around you.
Bobby Kotick: Michael! You made me what I am.
Michael Morhaime: No you chose your own destiny.
I dont understand what’s so hard about keeping your hands to yourself.
There's absolutely no way the higher-ups in Blizzard didn't know about these things because sexual scandals are usually super loud, the word spreads rapidly and these are things that can shake the foundations of any corporation. So there were two alternatives, either good ole Bobby is grossly incompetent and has no clue of what is going on inside the company he leads, or he is actively allowing and encouraging deviant behavior.
In both cases, investors will not be happy.
Yeah drama spreads fast
That Boy Ain't Right - Hank Hill