If you havent been paying attention to our lovely namesake you may have missed one of the numerous articles that have been circulating the "tech" sphere about sexual harassment and a "frat boy" atmosphere. This has now escalated to an "open letter" decrying Activision for saying the allegations are false. I want to make sure you read this right, company was accused, company refutes accusal, people protest company for not instantly ceding guilt. The term victims was already used in the open letter which is making me scream allegedly more than Micheal Jackson. These troglodytes dont want to make you games, they want to parasite off of the company that was supposed to make you games.
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I read the complaint, while the allegations in the complaint are bad, at this point that's really all they are, allegations.
That's not to say that California doesn't have evidence to back up these allegations and it's very likely that they do. However, like all lawsuits, there's going to be a discovery period where Blizzard's lawyers can examine the evidence and present their own. Witnesses will likely deposed for testimony and there will likely be pretrial hearings about evidentiary issues, it's possible that some of the evidence won't be admissible because it's hearsay, speculation, etc.
It's possible, hell I'd say probable, that this whole thing ends in a settlement agreement where the State of California and the people who claimed to have been victimized will end up getting an undisclosed amount of money, that Blizzard will be forced to pay some type of fine to the state of California or be required to implement/publish policy changes in order to demonstrate that this type of incident won't happen again.
Or it could be that the allegations against Blizzard can be disputed/disproven and that going to trial is the best option. It could be that Blizzard wins the lawsuit and doesn't have to pay anything.
The thing about most trials/lawsuits is that unless you were there in the courtroom you probably have no idea what is actually going on. But unfortunately news media and social media is full of armchair "legal experts" who do more harm than good.