Because I'm not sure this as it is is HN material. I saw the title with the domain next to it and assumed it was a blog post by the company before seeing a random forum.
Edit:
Ok thanks for the information everyone. I didn't realize that this was such a well known story and I was out of the loop.
I saw no signs of the former, so I would say the latter. We don't need that kind of "point" here. Matter of fact it violates the intention of the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
NYT:
>After a two-year investigation, the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court that Activision fostered a “‘frat boy’ workplace culture.” Executives sexually harassed women, the agency said, and male employees openly joked about rape and drank alcohol while engaging in “inappropriate behavior” toward women at their cubicles during events known as “cube crawls.”
>The lawsuit added that women were routinely paid less than men for similar work and were less likely to be promoted. ... >In one case, the lawsuit said, a female employee died by suicide during a business trip, as a result of her sexual relationship with her male supervisor. Before her death, male colleagues allegedly shared explicit photos of the woman, the lawsuit said.
[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/business/activision-blizz...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/07/22/activision...
And finally, the most haunting story documented in the lawsuit. Again, a content warning:
A female employee died by suicide on a company trip. The lawsuit alleges this was “due to a sexual relationship she had been having with her male supervisor,” who was found by police to have brought sex toys to the trip. Additionally, it was cited the female employee had previously faced intense sexual harassment at work, including an incident where a photo of her genitals was passed around by male employees at a holiday party.
I don’t want to see other sources back up this claim. But if credible evidence comes to light, I wouldn’t wait for a court to make some personal choices about Blizzard and its products.
Serious allegation.
I'm not saying whether this did happen one way or the other, but I will wait for more information before judging Blizzard on this specific serious allegation.