Activision Blizzard has now confronted the Creative Director of the MMPorpgsworld of Warcraft, Alex Afrasiabi, actually dismissed in 2020. He was mentioned in the action against Activision Blizzard namely. He should have sexually harassed women. It seems obviously the BlizzCon 2013.
That's the situation :
- Alex Afrasiabi was the boss creative at World of Warcraft and was considered a story boss and successor to Chris Metzen in this position. He had been with Blizzard since 2004, was the Creative Director for Legion and Battle for Azeroth. In 2020 he left Blizzard and the WOW team without a stir. There was no statement about his release.
- In the application against Activision Blizzard, Afrasiabi is one of only 2 people who are named by name: His sexual misconduct is accused. It is said to be his room at the Blizzcon as a "Cosby Suite", named after Bill Cosby, which was charged as rapist.
- Now Activision Blizzard admits: Alex Afrasiabi has not volunteered the company 2020, but he was fired after an internal determination.
These were the allegations in the action against Afrasiabi:
In the application it was said: Activision Blizzard has allowed Afrasiabi to exercise "blatant sexual harassment". He only had to experience "light or no consequences" for this.
During the Blizzcon, Afrasiabi have:
- on female employees ranking
- the women said he would marry them
- tries to kiss her
- tries to put his arms around them.
- The women harassed in his hotel room, known as the Cosby Suite.
- Given the women on corporate events "desirable designations".
As was known later, the incidents appear to turn around the BlizzCon 2013.
It is said in the application: Blizzard would have known from his behavior. The boss of Blizzard, J. Allen Brack, had several talks with him about his drinking behavior and that he was "too friendly" to female employees at events, but Brack had given him only a pat on his hand, so an oral admonition.
Therefore, Afrasiabi continued to approach women without having to do that. It belongs to it that he held a woman at his hand and invited to his hotel room or that he buried another woman, says the application.
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"I collect the Hot Chixx for the Coz"
These new details have now come to light: The US page Kotaku (via Kotaku) has a report on the hotel room of Afrasiabi, about the "Cosby Suite", published. There are pictures to see with a lot of alcohol; On another picture male staff posing with a big picture of Bill Cosby.
The spicy are chat news where WoW developers talk about how they bring "hot chicks" in the "Coz", so in the Cosby suite.
Afrasiabi is then quoted with "brings them!" - When he is then proved that he can not marry all, he says, "Can I! I am from the Middle East. "Another developer then points out, he certainly did not mean" marrying ", but" fucking ".
Hikel is also that someone like "Greg Street" appears in chat, who had publicly distant from this culture at Blizzard.
That says Activision Blizzard: In a statement on Kotaku, Activision Blizzard says:
"An employee has brought us the incidents of the event 2013 in June 2020. We immediately initiated your own investigation and conduct corrective action. At the time of the report, we had already completed the separate determination of Alex Afrasiabi and dismissed him because he has misconnected towards other employees. "
So the point of the lawsuit seems to be valid. Maybe Blizzard would now be better there if they had justified that in their first statement to the lawsuit. But in the first statement it was said that the lawsuit contained a "twisted, in many cases false representation of the past of Blizzard":
The reaction of Activision Blizzard to the sexism lawsuit was terribly wrong
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