An internal e-mail of the Blizzard Chef J. All Brack became public today. In the e-mail, Brack turns to the thousands of employees at Blizzard (WOW, Hearthstone, Diablo 3, Overwatch). He takes a position to claim a Californian authority, which shows deep mismatches at Activision Blizzard.
That's the situation:
- A Californian authority has filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard. One raises the company to discriminate female employees. They would be paid worse and Activision Blizzard refuses to promise opportunities. In addition, examples of sexual harassment were mentioned in the lawsuit that many shocked.
- ACTIVISION Blizzard was developed by the lawsuit in a first public statement. They threw the officials, they would act irresponsible and shameful. Activision Blizzard threatened between the lines even to leave the state of California. Above all, that a suicide of an employee became part of the application, they were outraged. It was said that the culture at Blizzard has improved significantly in recent years.
- Now an email became public in which J. all Brack turns to the employees of Blizzard: It becomes clear how deep the uncertainty at Blizzard is enough.
Internal e-mail to Blizzard employees Lakt out
** Where does the mail come from? The Journalist Jason Schreier has published. She was apparently played by a source at Blizzard.
Is the e-mail real? You can go out. It is known that Jason Schreier has many contacts in large studios and thus early access to insider information, which later turn out to be true.
He has been publicly presenting himself in recent years as the person, which one can cover as an angry or disappointed staff of a gaming company, if one has a problem and wants to ensure that the journalist is the confidentiality of the source.
This is in the internal mail: Brack starts the mail with:
"For myself, a lot of feelings came up yesterday and I know: with you too. The allegations and pain of current and earlier employees are extremely worrying.
I know that many of you want more clarity. But we can not respond to the details of an ongoing procedure. But what I can say: the behavior that is described in the allegations is absolutely not to accept. "
J. Allen Brack
Brack emphasizes that things such as women's antiquity, discrimination or harassment refuses. Everyone should feel safe at Blizzard. He admire the courage it need to publicize such allegations. Brack promises, internal and - if necessary - to initiate external examinations.
It is important that Blizzard works as well as his culture, as at his games. The values would have to be the conductive northern star.
It is said that leadership team and brack themselves would now lead meetings with many employees to answer questions and discuss how to continue from here. People could appeal to every manager, every partner of the staff department and everyone from the right team and also everyone of the bosses. In addition, they could also turn anonymously to people outside Blizzard if they are more comfortable.
At the end of the mail, Brack says he himself is "trouble and anger", but he is thankful for being able to work with as great leaders and thousands of employees together to achieve constant improvements.
On Twitter Wine ex-employee from joy and in WOW slaughter a NPC
That was the mail preceded: The closer employment with the application and the first reactions caused in the course of yesterday's day, on 22.7, for more and more anger against Blizzard, who even led to protests in the games:
- In Wow there were sit-ins protest. Players also slaughtered an NPC, which stands for a developer who was named in the application by name as a sexual harasser
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In Hearthstone, Influencers said protest from their card revelations for the next extension
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In the public forums the mood is pressed to hostile to Blizzard
New Blizzard boss was the hate figure of the fans of WoW-Classic
After the action against Blizzard became public, Twitter has reported some previous employees and further confirmed and even reinforced the allegations in action. Suddenly there was talk of sex in game lounges and cocaine in the toilets (Via Twitter).
In the tweets, the women showed like traumatized from their time at Blizzard. A former employee said she would have been killed in recent years when she read that her previous torchers were now so successful at Blizzard. It was a great relief to feel that the allegations are now public (Via Twitter). The original answer from Blizzard was criticized harsh. In her first answer, the company had emphasized that many of the allegations would be "in the past" and have made great progress since then. With the content of the lawsuit, we have dealt with Meinmmo in detail in detail: State authority sued Activision Blizzard - bad allegations against WOW developers
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