California filed suit against Activision Blizzard 𝔍on Wednesday following a two-year inves♛tigation into what it calls a "frat boy workplace culture." Which might be understating things--the suit recounts numerous instances of specific Activision Blizzard employees allegedly abusing, harassing, and silencing female employees over a lengthy pe🐼riod of time.
One of the people named in the suit is Alex Afrasiabi, a former 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:World of Warcraft creative director who quietly left Activision Blizzard in June of 2020. The court documents devote an entire paragraph to Afrasiabi detailing a particular instance at BlizzCon where he allegedly got drunk and began hitting on female employees, “telling them ൩he wanted to marry them, attempting to kiss them, and pu♏tting his arms around them."
His hote𝄹l room at BlizzCon was nicknamed the Cosby Suite after alleged rapi🅺st Bill Cosby.
Blizzard ex💖ecuti🌱ves knew about Afrasiabi’s behavior, including Blizzard president J. Allen Brack, but took no effective remedial measures.”
As noted by , Afrasiabi left Blizzard in 2020 to minimal fanfare. Compare that to someone like Jeff Kaplan, who got a momentous sendoff 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:when he left earlier this year, and you getꦯ the sense that something might have been amiss.
WoW players have also started putting and have started . As a former creative director, Afrasiabi has quite a few in-game references, including two NPCs a🐷nd several items such as Fras Siabi’s Cigar Cutter and Siabi’s Premium Tobacco.
Besides posts on Reddit and the demanding Afrasiabi's scouring from WoW, players themselves have started leaving "go away" signs in front of Field Marshal Afrasiabi in the city of Stormwind.
Not only that, WoW players have also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:started an in-game protest in Oribos, where a number of players from both factions are perf𓆉orming a sit-in outside of th🎉e inn.
None of the allegations against Afrasiabi or Activision Blizzard have been proven in court and the company 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:denies the allegations against it.