Activision Blizzard was hit with a lawsuit b🍷y the 😼state of California earlier this year, accusing the studio of harboring a toxic work environment and some former and current employees of various forms of harassment. The suit has moved on and evolved since then, yet 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Activision Blizzard is yet to take any meaningful form of action. Then this week, a report alleging 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:𒊎CEO Bobby Kotick knew about harassment c🌌ases and even saved the job o♍f one male employee who had been involve💛d emerged.
The allegations led to most believing the situation had finally come to a head and that serious action and change would take place within the studio, but that has not been the case. Activision Blizzard's board has instead rallied around its CEO which resulted in a mass walkout from the studio's employees. PlayStation and Xbox bosses Jim Ryan and Phil Spencer have 🔯also spoken out about the issue, and it appears the former has now gone a step fur𒀰ther.
Many have been calling for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation and Xbox to delist Activision Blizzard games if they really want to send a message, and it seems PlayStation has done the next best thing. Call of Duty: Vanguard, the latest installment in the long-running CoD series which launched two weeks ago, is no longer front and center on PlayStation's featured store. You can see what the PS Store looked like yesterday compared to how it looks today in the tweet below, and Vanguard is nowhere to be seen.
Vanguard has not been delisted completely, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the fate that befell Cyb𝓰erpunk 2077 last year following its launch issues. Removing the game from its featured page is a big deal though, and a big message from Ryan and PlayStation regarding how it feels about Activision Blizzard's defense of the alleged actions of some of its employees and, in particular, its CEO Kotick.
Considering what Spencer had to say about the situation, it seems incredibly likely that Xbox will follow PlayStation's lead on this one. There's also no telling how far this will go in terms of how far PlayStation is willing to take it. It may delist Vanguard entirely if removing it from its featured store doesn't get the desired results. What PlayStation has done will undoubtedly affect Vanguard's sales, something Activision Blizzard's higher-ups might actually take note of and react to.
