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TheAylix

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Hahahaha holy shit - talk about names from the dark past of the internet. I actually knew Stephanie Krutsick and met her at a meet-up ages and ages ago - she used to call herself "thebitingfaery" on LiveJournal/FARK/DeviantArt/Portal of Evil and a bunch of other Web 1.0 sites way, way, way back in the early 2000s. You can probably still find some of those old archives around, if you care to look; here's her DeviantArt page that appears to have shots of her from right around when she started at Blizzard in 2006:

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thebitingfaery - Hobbyist | DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com www.deviantart.com

As I recall, she was always pretty insufferable and desperately hungry for attention, both online and in-person, so it isn't really surprising that she's claiming to have been the victim of harassment (again).
 
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jayrebb

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jayrebb

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wormie said:
Man I might have to resubscribe.
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You're going to resub to a game where the designers sat on Call of Duty instead of working and delegated development to interns, yeah no.

If you need someone to throw your PC out the window let me know.

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mkopec

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LOL either this office was ran like a fucking middle school gym class, or all of this is a bunch of bull shit.
 
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Big Phoenix

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mkopec said:
LOL either this office was ran like a fucking middle school gym class, or all of this is a bunch of bull shit.
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Would be a great explaniation as to why Blizzard has such an abysmal development pace.
 
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wormie

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jayrebb said:
You're going to resub to a game where the designers sat on Call of Duty instead of working and delegated development to interns, yeah no.

If you need someone to throw your PC out the window let me know.

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A game where the developers shat on female employees? Sign me the fuck up.
 
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Bubbles

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Incoming Bellular videos in a few days

What happened at Blizzard?
Is this the end of Blizzard?
Is this the end of Wow?
The future of Blizzard
The future of Wow
What does this mean for WoW?
 
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krismunich

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They hired so many weird women in the past, who cares if in some departments they are joking about their trannies. Reading the article I really can envision how that went in the office day by day and is now blown out of proportion. But of course: "we need more trannies, need to cut the payment of better performing males - yes we know in IT there are about 99% guys, but the press and all - need more diversity and people of color who cares about the product."

Also:

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how the hell everyone had these pictures?
 
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jayrebb

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i know privacy and revenge porn laws have tightened up a good bit since then, especially in California after the fappening.

Blizzard could be looking at criminal prosecution regarding the photos.
 
Qhue

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The filing, as a whole, is pretty damning. It tells a story of established repetitive issues, not just a few one-off allegations. Sounds like the HR dept was buddy-buddy with the higher up devs which is a red flag for internal corruption.

It also has the ring of truth about it. All of these allegations sound very much on-brand for what we have seen of Blizzard as a whole (especially during their 'rock star' years).

Acti-Blizzards response to the allegation is also quite telling. References to 'The Blizzard of today' (aka after we knew we were in trouble we fired some folk) and hollow statements like pointing to how diverse their board of directors is. They don't call out a single allegation as false...
 
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Xerge

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Not often ya wake up and have to catch up on several pages in a thread.

Holy fuck. The biggest and I mean the biggest take away here is this: the sate of Cali went through at LEAST 2 years of investigation to even come to this level of we're suing you. The company is pretty much a ship on fire in the sea.

Battleship sunk
 
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swayze22

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The chicks probably sent out the nude photos because they are losers and needed attention in real life and not just online. And a bunch of dorks would give it to them. Just need one non-beta in their to get them.

All these fucking purple hair poly am tranny school busses started working there after WoW was released seemingly, we can see why they haven't done fuck all in 14+years and have devolved. This among other reasons is why DEI shit is terrible.

But maybe we all re-sub for Retail in support of the non-woke / non-made up word / non pronoun crowd? (but I guess that wouldn't work if only the deplorables are still there) I'm torn.
 
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jayrebb said:
Not so fast. Tigole was crickets just the same.
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What?!??! There were articles on every major gaming website about him leaving AND Blizzard released a gushing statement about what Kaplan meant to the company. Could not have more different.
 
Mist

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Big Phoenix said:
Would be a great explaniation as to why Blizzard has such an abysmal development pace.
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Exactly. Even Big P gets it.

People spend years trashing Blizzard for putting out shitty content at a glacial pace, and now we suddenly have evidence that fits the observable facts, that they were playing video games and literal grab-ass all day, and then a bunch of people suddenly come to the defense of Blizzard because "women must be lying on the internet!"

This is not a some random accusations, states don't bring suits like this without a mountain of evidence, and it does fit with what we've seen out of this company for years. I'm so incredibly outraged by this that I'll be thinking about it every time my demon hunter go brrrrrrrrr for at least the next 8-10 hours!
 
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