If it's gone on that long it sounds like it's not so much a "boycott" as much as they've just lost you as a customer.
I can't remember the last time Activision made a game that I was interested in.
Activision-Blizzard Lawsuit
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I can't remember the last time Activision made a game that I was interested in.
ParadiseLost
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Game is bad =/= Game is not your taste/interesting to you.
Yeah I can't think of the last non-Blizzard Activision game I've played. 
Didn't play Sekiro or any recent Call of Duty titles AFAIK. Must be at least like six or so years now that I think about it. I think the problem is I need to consoom more games clearly.
Didn't play Sekiro or any recent Call of Duty titles AFAIK. Must be at least like six or so years now that I think about it. I think the problem is I need to consoom more games clearly.
ParadiseLost
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Yeah I can't think of the last non-Blizzard Activision game I've played.
Didn't play Sekiro or any recent Call of Duty titles AFAIK. Must be at least like six or so years now that I think about it. I think the problem is I need to consoom more games clearly.
Sekiro isn't really an Activision game, its a From Software game.
Abyssgazer
Failed Inventor of the Banana Gun
Having paid little attention outside having read the court document, a rather even handed video from Hoeg Law and tid bits from here and there.
My take is rather simple.
The framing of this being around harassment is pure narrative, the court document spends little more than a page on them, while spending pages on prattling about money. The inclusion of those into the lawsuit are clearly used as 'Come back to the table' tactics and to tar Activision-Blizzard, being hot button/favorite issues of the 'games journalism' it's hardly a surprise bottom feeders like Kotaku and Polygon leap like starving dogs at that tiny piece of the lawsuit and ignoring the meat that is all about money.
Could some of that shit happened, probably, but the lawsuit itself doesn't seem to give a crap about it. While the it's the surrounding media circus that loves it.
Recalling someone mentioning one of their sources pinned the 'Call of Duty' incident as on the activision side of this. People have monofoused on the fact this is a lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard, not just Blizzard. The same goes for in talking about pay its addressing the whole company, not Blizzard. Which people have laser focused on due to broader frustrions and irritations with them.
I laugh in the face of idiots who think this is some wind of change in the industry. No, what incidences like this have always led to is: Corporate harder, electric bogabloo revenge of the HR department. Businesses these days are hilarious risk adverse, shit like this gets the 'Lock it down harder' treatment because owning up and fixing it rarely rewards compared to suppressing the fuck out of it and never admitting fault.
Also Bobby and Activision are now the one and only captains of Blizzard now. Boy, did Bobby take down and power move this situation as taking advantage of the bad press and keeping it on Blizzard he's annihilated any pillars of resistence to him or activision quite ruthlessly there.
My take is rather simple.
The framing of this being around harassment is pure narrative, the court document spends little more than a page on them, while spending pages on prattling about money. The inclusion of those into the lawsuit are clearly used as 'Come back to the table' tactics and to tar Activision-Blizzard, being hot button/favorite issues of the 'games journalism' it's hardly a surprise bottom feeders like Kotaku and Polygon leap like starving dogs at that tiny piece of the lawsuit and ignoring the meat that is all about money.
Could some of that shit happened, probably, but the lawsuit itself doesn't seem to give a crap about it. While the it's the surrounding media circus that loves it.
Recalling someone mentioning one of their sources pinned the 'Call of Duty' incident as on the activision side of this. People have monofoused on the fact this is a lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard, not just Blizzard. The same goes for in talking about pay its addressing the whole company, not Blizzard. Which people have laser focused on due to broader frustrions and irritations with them.
I laugh in the face of idiots who think this is some wind of change in the industry. No, what incidences like this have always led to is: Corporate harder, electric bogabloo revenge of the HR department. Businesses these days are hilarious risk adverse, shit like this gets the 'Lock it down harder' treatment because owning up and fixing it rarely rewards compared to suppressing the fuck out of it and never admitting fault.
Also Bobby and Activision are now the one and only captains of Blizzard now. Boy, did Bobby take down and power move this situation as taking advantage of the bad press and keeping it on Blizzard he's annihilated any pillars of resistence to him or activision quite ruthlessly there.
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Bassoe
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update, apparently this is delaying Overwatch Two
metro.co.uk
Overwatch 2 likely delayed until 2023 claims new rumour
The problems at Blizzard seem to have caused a new delay for Overwatch 2, as more big name sponsors pull out of the Overwatch League.
metro.co.uk
Val the Moofia Boss
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update, apparently this is delaying Overwatch Two
Overwatch 2 likely delayed until 2023 claims new rumour
The problems at Blizzard seem to have caused a new delay for Overwatch 2, as more big name sponsors pull out of the Overwatch League.
Not hard to predict. For years Blizzard has been incapable of releasing games. HotS was put into maintenance mode. Titan languished in development hell for years and years until Overwatch was salvaged out of it. D3's second expansion was cancelled. D4 and OW2 are in development hell and OW2's director left half way through development. Blizzard's incubation unit hasn't released anything. All other Blizzard games are outsourced to mixed results (SC1 remaster being decent, WC3 Reforged being neglected by Blizzard, rushed, and given too little budget, Diablo Immortal is in development hell). I'd wager Blizzard's inability to release games is one of the reasons for the company's brain drain. It's demoralizing to spend years at a company but you don't have any work to show for it. At this rate, the new startups by former Blizzard devs will put out new games before Blizzard does.
ParadiseLost
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From what I've heard its worse.
A youtuber I follow was given access to play Diablo Immortal; he's stated the game is pretty much done, and the most likely reason Blizzard has delayed it is because they probably feel like they don't have the resources to bring the game online.
Which is worse than the game being in development hell, if you think about it. Things are fucked at Blizzard right now.