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I really wouldn't boycott anything over workplace culture. If their product is good I will buy it. In the case of Blizzard their products haven't been good for

I really wouldn't boycott anything over workplace culture. If their product is good I will buy it. In the case of Blizzard their products haven't been good for a long time. I'm ok with supporting a company that's evil. I am consuming petroleum, plastic, the news media, etc. all the time. Anyone who suggests otherwise comes across as somewhat delusional and a little self obsessed to me. Blizzard would be the least of my sins.

TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
There are both good and bad people at Blizzard. Like each of us, they are complex and complicated and nuanced. No one and no thing is pure evil or pure good.
seventhtiger 5y ago
Reminds me of when gamers voted EA as the worst company of the year.
johnhenry 5y ago
We can improve ourselves one step at a time.
WaxProlix 5y ago
This is a pragmatic approach in some regards, but misses nuance. I can't really live my life as a part of society without some of these 'sins', and I don't think my opting in or out of plastic consumption on a choice-by-choice basis will move any needles. My choices will not effect the behaviors of these corps. But I can live without buying the next loot box, and I can still be a productive member of society without the new Call of Duty game. And forgoing those might move a needle, as sales are a closely tracked metric, and being one of a few million is a much larger impact than being one of many billions.
- pm90 5y ago
  > But I can live without buying the next loot box, and I can still be a productive member of society without the new Call of Duty game. You could live on slurried nutrient paste instead of regular food. Yet we choose to pursue good food because it gives us happiness and satisfaction. To a lot of gamers, video games offer happiness and fulfillment. What Blizzard folks did was terrible, and I reduced willingly spending on them. But when they released Diablo 2 remastered, I bought it immediately and relived my childhood experience. I don’t regret it.
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dgellow 5y ago
“workplace culture” sounds like an unwarranted euphemism for what is very clearly sexual harassment.
- fareesh 5y ago
  Im not familiar with all their problems I assumed there were more than one. Not everything has to be drama, it was just a word with no hidden cunning evil meaning
  - dgellow 5y ago
    So you did not read the article, and are not familiar with the topic, but believe it’s not worth boycotting the company. I’m not implying that you’re trying to be in bad faith or cover the company actions, but your comments sound uninformed and misleading.
    - fareesh 5y ago
      I read the article and everything in there I would summarise as company culture
bertil 5y ago
> Anyone who suggests otherwise comes across as somewhat delusional and a little self obsessed to me. I have responded to repeated opening from several oil companies, including one last week, by saying that I have seen their employee brag about sponsoring genocides and war crimes, and more of us were hoping they would be prosecuted at ICJ in The Hague for that, their action on climate change, and their relentless campaign to deny their role. It was explicit that several of those crimes incurred the death penalty. That’s not just the right thing to do: those companies will face economic difficulty very fast as neighbourhoods are destroyed by hurricanes, heat waves, fires, famine, droughts, that scientist unambiguously tie to global warming. I don’t understand why hoping that humanity will survive makes me self-obsessed, but you don’t seem to be the right person to explain collective responsibility so I probably shouldn’t ask.
JohnWhigham 5y ago
One can be more discerning of where they spend their discretionary income than other necessities like gasoline.

TedDoesntTalk 5y ago

There are both good and bad people at Blizzard. Like each of us, they are complex and complicated and nuanced. No one and no thing is pure evil or pure good.

seventhtiger 5y ago

Reminds me of when gamers voted EA as the worst company of the year.

johnhenry 5y ago

We can improve ourselves one step at a time.

WaxProlix 5y ago

This is a pragmatic approach in some regards, but misses nuance. I can't really live my life as a part of society without some of these 'sins', and I don't think my opting in or out of plastic consumption on a choice-by-choice basis will move any needles. My choices will not effect the behaviors of these corps. But I can live without buying the next loot box, and I can still be a productive member of society without the new Call of Duty game. And forgoing those might move a needle, as sales are a closely tracked metric, and being one of a few million is a much larger impact than being one of many billions.

pm90 5y ago
> But I can live without buying the next loot box, and I can still be a productive member of society without the new Call of Duty game. You could live on slurried nutrient paste instead of regular food. Yet we choose to pursue good food because it gives us happiness and satisfaction. To a lot of gamers, video games offer happiness and fulfillment. What Blizzard folks did was terrible, and I reduced willingly spending on them. But when they released Diablo 2 remastered, I bought it immediately and relived my childhood experience. I don’t regret it.

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dgellow 5y ago

“workplace culture” sounds like an unwarranted euphemism for what is very clearly sexual harassment.

fareesh 5y ago
Im not familiar with all their problems I assumed there were more than one. Not everything has to be drama, it was just a word with no hidden cunning evil meaning
- dgellow 5y ago
  So you did not read the article, and are not familiar with the topic, but believe it’s not worth boycotting the company. I’m not implying that you’re trying to be in bad faith or cover the company actions, but your comments sound uninformed and misleading.
  - fareesh 5y ago
    I read the article and everything in there I would summarise as company culture

bertil 5y ago

> Anyone who suggests otherwise comes across as somewhat delusional and a little self obsessed to me. I have responded to repeated opening from several oil companies, including one last week, by saying that I have seen their employee brag about sponsoring genocides and war crimes, and more of us were hoping they would be prosecuted at ICJ in The Hague for that, their action on climate change, and their relentless campaign to deny their role. It was explicit that several of those crimes incurred the death penalty. That’s not just the right thing to do: those companies will face economic difficulty very fast as neighbourhoods are destroyed by hurricanes, heat waves, fires, famine, droughts, that scientist unambiguously tie to global warming. I don’t understand why hoping that humanity will survive makes me self-obsessed, but you don’t seem to be the right person to explain collective responsibility so I probably shouldn’t ask.

JohnWhigham 5y ago

One can be more discerning of where they spend their discretionary income than other necessities like gasoline.