Riot Games Issues New Company Values In Wake of 'Bro' Culture Accusations (venturebeat.com) 344
An anonymous reader writes: Riot Games, the maker of the enormously popular League of Legends multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) PC game, has issued a new set of company values on its web site. They're the result of some soul searching after the company was accused by many of its own employees last year of having a sexist "bro" culture. The company said that these new values replace the company's Manifesto from 2012 and reflects conversations with more than 1,700 Rioters about "what we want our company to be."
SJW time (Score:3, Insightful)
Anything the SJW's touch turns to poison.
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Get woke, go broke.
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Please.
Show us on the doll where the evil culture touched you...
Sorry, notice the term "accusation".
An accusation is not evidence of wrongdoing.
So you're flipping a proverbial nut over something that has a good possibility of not even being true.
But hey, outrage culture! Right?
Re:SJW time (Score:5, Informative)
Actually they are being sued over it: https://kotaku.com/current-and... [kotaku.com]
And suspended an exec for "repeatedly touching subordinates balls or butt or farted in their faces." https://kotaku.com/top-riot-ex... [kotaku.com]
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Those who can, do.
Those who can't, sue.
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That's not bro culture. That's a sociopath /sexual predator.
THIS.
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Pretty sure that if the story said several women had their breasts groped we'd also be saying sexual predator. Telling a sexist joke isn't being a sexual predator.
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Perhaps it doesn't, as outside observers.
But insiders may well be accurately gauging whether this is the tip of the iceberg and acting accordingly.
How would you or I know? The answer to a toxic culture is to raise the bar and make changes happen, not wallow in the details of how bad things are to entertain the masses and violate your employees' privacy.
Re:Like Weinstein? (Score:4, Insightful)
Think of sensitive SJWs as the canary in the coal mine. Even if their tolerance for BS is lower than yours, chances are that things are not too awesome if they're complaining about their job (it's easy as can be to find another job in the software industry).
That would be a fine way to look at it if the average person labeled "SJW" were just (perhaps overly-)sensitive folks. But that's not the case. The people bearing this label actively seek out what they perceive as social injustice, and where necessary cause that injustice, purportedly to bring light where they see it as needed. These are people who go into a situation, often in droves, with the intent to be offended by something.
That's the bit people don't get. An average worker filing a complaint might get called "SJW" by the company bigot, but most of the rest of the world recognizes that's not who they are or what they're doing. The SJW actively seeks out and destroys cultures they find offensive, and they deserve all the hate they get.
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The people bearing this label actively seek out what they perceive as social injustice, and where necessary cause that injustice, purportedly to bring light where they see it as needed. These are people who go into a situation, often in droves, with the intent to be offended by something.
Don't forget that they usually go into these situations with such an incredible arrogance that it would make Narcissus himself blush.
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I believe 90%+ of the accusers were just trading sex for a movie part.
Some of the accusations are explicitly that, but somehow 'I pretended to like it', makes him a rapist and her not a whore.
If she ran from the room, there is possibly a case. But if she gave the BJ and took the part, no foul or both guilty.
Re:Like Weinstein? (Score:5, Informative)
Have you listened to the tapes? The ones that the police made.
They do not sound like someone negotiating a business transaction. Weinstein badgers the victim, repeatedly and persistently demanding she go to his hotel room even though she keeps strongly refusing.
And even if it was a deal of some kind, the fact that he demonstrably ruined other careers when women refused him means that any future "negotiation" was done under coercion.
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Everybody knew, she knew before the meeting. If she gives the blowjob and takes the part, she's a whore and he's a john.
The only decent people involved are the ones that ran from the room. They have cases, most don't.
Persistence is not rape, not even creepy persistence involving promises of Oscars.
How do you interpret: 'I pretended to like it', that's whoring 101.
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The lawsuits are not over just what he did in the hotel room, they are over the fact that when women did run away he ruined their careers.
In the case of the tapes she wore a police wire and agreed to a meeting at the hotel to discuss her career and future opportunities. She wasn't willing to go to his room to see what would happen, because the police were not waiting to burst in on a naked Weinstein and she was worried she might not be safe.
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The women that refused likely have cases, against Weinstein AND the whores he did hire (his co conspirators).
The ones that took the role/sucked the cock, nope. Many of those were on the initial outrage list.
Re:Like Weinstein? (Score:5, Insightful)
Persistence is coercion, especially when the person being persistent holds your career in their hands. Coerced sex is rape.
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So Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos both repeatedly raped their wives, then? Because both men asked out women who worked for them, repeatedly, before they said yes. Gates I believe even looked up Melinda in the company's HR system.
The idea that persistently asking for sex = rape is idiotic and extremist, even by the standards of 30 years ago. No woman was forced to have sex with Weinstein. They made the hard-headed decision that their career as an actress would benefit from doing so and effectively slept with him
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I'd be pissed he was whoring around on my money too. But he did make money for most of his investors.
He wasn't the first hollywood producer to act like this, and he isn't the last either.
Most talented game devs are gamers, not SJWs. Making them happy isn't going to involve sexual harassment panda. Bosses that grab scrote are way over the line, assuming the accusation is true. Surprised he didn't simply get his arm broken. That's the 'Bro' solution.
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Past that. It's 'investigate the coverup' time.
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Unlike you, I'm one of those people who believes in the concept of "Presumption of Innocence".
I REALLY have a severe problem with destroying things (and people) based merely on accusation.
And "looking into accusations" is NOT the same thing as believing accusations and penalizing the company or the focus of such accusations until they're proven.
And people "didn't" generally make many accusations.
NOW, however, it's a proven path to victim privilege. Likely, 99% of women are NOT going to abuse such a thing.
B
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So if enough people chime in it gets true?
Didn't know reality now follows the rules of democracy. So if I find enough people to accuse you of something you're guilty?
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SJWs bitched a bunch about Laura's tities. But the world was saner and they were just ignored.
Wokness signaling (Score:5, Interesting)
a. Content censorship. Be prepared to run all your content decisions by an unaccountable "committee" that will issue arbitrary decisions. Unlike law and religion, these people are not sufficiently organized or organizationally mature to have a set of rules or standards to follow.
b. Departure from meritocracy in employment standards. One of the common demands is hiring higher number of minorities and women, while great as a principle without available qualified candidates the only way to meet targets is to hire unqualified candidates.
c. Gamers generally don't appreciate political messaging in games, as these groups repeatedly attacked and abused gamers in the past (i.e. gamergate)
Re:Wokness signaling (Score:4, Interesting)
... One of the common demands is hiring higher number of minorities and women, while great as a principle without available qualified candidates the only way to meet targets is to hire unqualified candidates.
Actually, there's a lot to be said for gaming companies to hire both women and minorities; these are both groups that it would be valuable to have as customers, but which aren't very well served.
Re:Wokness signaling (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, there's a lot to be said for gaming companies to hire both women and minorities; these are both groups that it would be valuable to have as customers, but which aren't very well served.
How sexist do you have to be to believe women and minorities need "special" games and can't just play what everyone else plays.
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How sexist do you have to be to believe women and minorities need "special" games and can't just play what everyone else plays.
How clueless do you have to be to believe games targeted at young white men may contain things that turn off other groups?
Re:Wokness signaling (Score:5, Insightful)
How clueless do you have to be to believe games targeted at young white men may contain things that turn off other groups?
Can you explain to me what the difference is between a "young white men" game vs a say "young black men" game ?
Or how the presence of a "Young men" game makes it so "Young female" games can't exist ?
Clueless is the proper word, you just aimed it at the wrong target.
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Or how the presence of a "Young men" game makes it so "Young female" games can't exist ?
The fact that you think a game can not be made that appeals to both genders is an indication of where the cluelessness resides.
"Our story says that _____ are all dumb and useless. How odd that _____ doesn't like our game".
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The fact that you think a game can not be made that appeals to both genders is an indication of where the cluelessness resides.
The fact a "Young male targetted" exists, a "Young female targetted" game also exists, doesn't preclude a 3rd game, "Young people, both genders" from also existing.
Again, I don't get what "special games" you need to exist that don't currently exist. You seem under the impression that 1 of thousands of games targetting a particular demographic means that people of all races, genders, sexualities can enjoy the same crop of games we currently have.
What is so gender specific about Civilization VI ? The Sims 3
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he fact a "Young male targetted" exists, a "Young female targetted" game also exists, doesn't preclude a 3rd game, "Young people, both genders" from also existing.
And that fact is what some people are trying to change. There's no particular reason to actively work at driving away one gender from your game.
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And that fact is what some people are trying to change. There's no particular reason to actively work at driving away one gender from your game.
Sounds sexist, but that's all in your head.
What if, get this, no one is actively working to drive away any gender from particular games.
What if what is actually happening is that people make games, and based on certain characteristics of gender, some people of a given gender prefer one type of game, and people of another gender prefer different games ?
Like you can try to make Need for Speed appealing to women all you want (I wouldn't even know where to begin and what to change), but what you're most likely
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And that fact is what some people are trying to change. There's no particular reason to actively work at driving away one gender from your game.
Sounds sexist, but that's all in your head.
What if, get this, no one is actively working to drive away any gender from particular games.
OK, so what you're saying is that you didn't read the article, which gave many examples of women being harassed.
Got it.
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OK, so what you're saying is that you didn't read the article, which gave many examples of women being harassed.
Got it.
Riot Games is a general cesspool. That Male Ally Feminists are actually rapist creeps in backrooms is not surprising to me or anyone paying attention. Trying to depict it as "Bro culture" is daft. Trying to generalize them to the whole of gaming culture is dishonest.
Those allegations also have nothing to do with making games that women and minorities enjoy. There's plenty of those on about every gaming platform out there.
No amount of women hires is going to make DOOM Eternal palatable to a majority of w
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And you certainly have some kind of example of such a game, right?
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So, are you that clueless, or have you not played that many video games?
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The fact that you think a game can not be made that appeals to both genders ...
Sure, it probably could be made, but must every game be made so it appeals to both genders? Why is it not OK to make products that just appeal to one gender?
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but must every game be made so it appeals to both genders?
You'd have to demonstrate there is a benefit to actively trying to exclude one first.
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but must every game be made so it appeals to both genders?
You'd have to demonstrate there is a benefit to actively trying to exclude one first.
Are makers of makeup actively trying to exclude male audience? Maybe if they made all makeup in pale gray or dark blue colors they would stop actively alienating men and would have more inclusive makeup scene?
Obviously, the above argument is absurd. Knowing and targeting your audience and trying to exclude other audiences is no the same thing.
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Makeup targeted at young women may contain things that turn off other groups. They should sell makeup targeted at normal men...and go _broke_.
WTF is wrong with making games enjoyed by gamers? It's called knowing your market. 'Derpression Quest' is a terrible game that nobody plays non-ironically.
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'Derpression Quest' is a terrible game that nobody plays non-ironically.
I much prefer the reboot, Doki Doki Literature Club.
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Makeup targeted at young women may contain things that turn off other groups. They should sell makeup targeted at normal men...and go _broke_.
There are an enormous number of skincare and beauty products marketed to both genders.
It's not like the "for men" products from Proctor and Gamble are actually different than their "for women" products.....sorry to shock you.
WTF is wrong with making games enjoyed by gamers?
What indeed? Why exclude a large number of gamers so that you can feel like you're sticking it to the fembots?
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Both genders? You heteronormative CIS pig! You'll pay for that with your career. (Post where you work.)
'Candy Crush' exists. Nobody complains, they just don't play that game. It has its niche.
The large majority of game dollars is spent by young males. The market reflects this.
The large majority of beauty product dollars are spent by other than straight males. The market reflects this.
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IIRC 'Custer's Last Stand', on the Atari 2600 involved a rapey lowres 'cutscene' between levels.
That was more a troll than a game.
'Duke Nukem' required a sense of humor, hence it was clearly a 'no feminists' game.
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You lost the thread a 'perfume'.
Axe is a thing, as are 'arab showers' in general.
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Nice unspoken assumption there that young white males are the norm that others must conform to, and anything that caters to other audiences is special consideration.
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Nice unspoken assumption that games actually target certain demographics instead of, ya know, ALL people.
And yes, such games actually exist. But they are a tiny minority because, guess what, game makers want to appeal to as many potential customers as possible. Why do you intrinsically assume they want to cater only to one particular target group?
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Re:Wokness signaling (Score:5, Insightful)
If you ignore the evidence and use the fantasy that the two are equal as your guiding principle, you end up with employment environments which are inferior for producing both types of games (those preferred by men, and those preferred by women). Because you've stripped away part of the development culture which makes the games "click" with their audiences. You gotta be careful to limit your remedies to target actual problems - harassment, demands for sex, withholding promotions based on gender (which to be fair seems to be most of the criticism leveled at Riot). When you start to targeting innocent "male" behaviors like nerf fights in the hall, or the gender ratio of your developers matching the pool of job applicants rather than being 50/50, you've gone too far.
Disclaimer: I have nothing against female gamers or female game developers. One of the most influential video game developers [wikipedia.org] in the genre I preferred when I was growing up (adventure games) was a woman. And I think she was instrumental in breaking home computer games away from the stereotypical shoot-em-up genre popular in arcades. But even she recognized that men and women have different interests [adventurec...gaming.com].
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People seem to think gaming is a dude's world. Roberta Williams was great but I personally preferred Quest for Glory, which was made by Lory Ann Cole and her husband (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coles#Lori_Ann_Cole)
It's funny to see the new generation of "We need women in gaming!" ignore all the great women made games we had growing up, where the gender of who made the game didn't matter so much as the fun we had playing it. No one cared that Roberta or Lory Ann were women, we cared that Sierra's ad
missing half the market [Re:Wokness signaling] (Score:2)
... One of the common demands is hiring higher number of minorities and women, while great as a principle without available qualified candidates the only way to meet targets is to hire unqualified candidates.
Actually, there's a lot to be said for gaming companies to hire both women and minorities; these are both groups that it would be valuable to have as customers, but which aren't very well served.
The problem is a mismatch between expectations and reality. SJWs believe without qualifications that men and women are equal. But it's been empirically proven that they're wrong - men and women prefer different types of games [quanticfoundry.com].
You just made my point.
If men and women prefer different kinds of games, a gaming company that hires almost entirely men is missing half the market
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Why should a game's content be censored for the sake of people that don't even want to play it? Why should a classic and well established story trope like a "damsel in distress" be off-limits because an unconnected group of moral busy-bodies has decided it is sacrilegious?
Should we be demanding Rom-Coms be completely changed because their tropes are unpleasant for African-American men (and men in general)?
Can we not just let people make the things they want and the things that people actually want? No one
Re:Wokness signaling (Score:5, Insightful)
damsel in distress
So you're saying Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros shouldn't ever be made ?
and a total lack of genderqueer characters
You know which game has a total lack of genderqueer characters ?
Pong. It has no Genderqueer characters. It has no gendered characters at all. In fact, it has no characters.
Because that's the kind of content that's largely being opposed;
No one is opposing you making a game about Genderqueer folks who don't save people in distress.
People are opposed to you trying to turn Mario into a Genderqueer drag queen that simply walks in a player picked direction (any direction, wouldn't want to offend lefties!) with no actual goal (no coins, that implies the evils of Capitalism. No mushrooms, as drugs and the war on drugs is a tool of oppression for minorities. No princesses, as that creates a negative gender stereotype. No Bowser or Koopas or Gumbas, as animal cruelty is vile).
Some of us just want to play Mario. You don't like it ? Feel free to pick another game in the vast catalog of thousands of other games that exist.
Is it that bad that they try to appeal to several audiences at the same time?
It's a good way to make a bad product yes. If you try to please everyone, you're most likely to simply end up pleasing no one.
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Wokeness signaling is not a no-loss proposition.
Tell that to DICE. According to the comments yesterday about Battlefield 5, the poor sales which are now causing major problems at EA are entirely down to them pandering to SJWs. Surely after seeing such a disastrous outcome to being woke other corporations will not follow in their missteps.
Or maybe they had a genuine problem and either didn't want to get sued or, and I realize this is an outlandish theory, actually cared about fixing it.
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Tell that to DICE.
Pretty sure that's what he just did. He's not saying anything different than what was said yesterday : Get woke, go broke.
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a) All content is "censored" in some way, in the sense that you choose to include whatever fits your values, and reject the rest. Also they say creativity thrives with constraints.
b) That presupposes that there won't be enough qualified candidates coming from minorities and/or being women.
c) Speak for yourself. The origin of this trend was that there was a very real shortage of commercial video games with diverse characters in prominent roles, with the stereotypical character overwhelmingly being the strong
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b) Yes, it presupposes that. Care to show that this inaccurate in any way?
c) Shortage implies unmet demand, can you show that anyone outside of numerically insignificant activist gro
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You forgot to explain why religion is any more or less relevant than SJW "feelings". I mean, I can at least understand that hurting the feelings of someone who actually exists matters, but with gods it kinda eludes me.
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SJW have most elements of religion (dogma, zeal, attacks on heretics) but none of the consistency. One day it is X, other day it is Y that would get SJWs go after you.
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Sorry kiddies (Score:3)
Do they know what they make at Riot? (Score:3, Funny)
This company makes games featuring impossibly hot ladies in skintight yoga-pant jumpsuits and thongs swinging glowing swords among other weaponry.
And the bosses had to take a survey to detect scent of a bro?
Fire the management; they have no idea what games they sell, who their market is, or what kind of staff latitude it takes to crank out one more SI Swimsuit model with armored bra and a laser cannon. What do they think keeps the lights on over there?
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The survey was about measuring their legal liability. If enough people felt discriminated against, that's expensive.
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This only applies to their offices. They had multiple problems with sexual harassment (of both men and women) in the work environment, leading to lawsuits and suspending one of their execs.
One guy was apparently fond of touching his subordinate's balls. Honestly I think I'd make better games if the boss didn't try to touch by scrotum now and then.
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What? My boss won't fondle my balls anymore at lunch break?
There goes the last job perk.
Go Woke, Go Broke (Score:3, Insightful)
I buy a game to have to fun. I want to get away from my boring life and get some excitement. Being forced at gunpoint to agree to a hypocritical cancerous political agenda where people can be openly discriminated against, censored, attacked, fired or treated differently because a deranged political cult called SJW likes to ruin the lives or random people who didn't do anything is just EVIL. These people act just like Nazis and will always call their victims 'Nazis." These are professional victims who are in a state of unending outrage 24/7. They always attack relentlessly without empathy. They are sadistic and unforgiving. They are hateful and actively seek new victims to abuse. They ruin anything they take control of.
I'm a liberal and I'll never support this evil cancer. I won't vote the left until they are purged. Even Trump doesn't make me this upset or angry.
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Right now there are yellow vest/Leave Means Leave supporters outside Parliament in the UK. They switched from chanting "Soubry is a Nazi" to "There's only one James Goddard". Goddard has called for millions of people to be deported because of their religion.
As for outrage, I checked Twitter and there isn't any. No SJW mobs, no long threads about it, nowt. Hop over to YouTube though and there are already dozens of hastily slapped together videos outraged about the imagined outrage.
If you look at this very st
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I buy a game to have to fun. I want to get away from my boring life and get some excitement. Being forced at gunpoint to agree to a hypocritical cancerous political agenda where people can be openly discriminated against, censored, attacked, fired or treated differently because a deranged political cult called SJW likes to ruin the lives or random people who didn't do anything is just EVIL.
Pretty sure the manifesto is for the company's coders, not for the boys who play the game.
Re: Go Woke, Go Broke (Score:2)
The SJW crowd must be brought back to sanity -- we can't just make them go away by killing them. That's against the law.
Instead of forcing them to a corner, we have to think of strategies that will provide sufficient room to reflect upon their wrongdoings and start the healing. We also need to come up with alternative ego-boosting chores for them to channel their energy towards rather than their current divisive passtime.
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They are predictably eating their own. It will get worse before it gets better.
They will never be convinced, but are well on their way to being ignored.
The harsh truth is they are throwing a tantrum because the bitch lost. Like all toddlers, they will cry themselves to sleep eventually, likely shortly after the 2020 election.
Who cares? (Score:2)
I'm dead serious. Who gives a fuck?
What's wrong with bro culture? (Score:5, Funny)
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Well, maybe if they'd just leave people the fuck alone, and stop pressing their shitty politics into EVERY FUCKING FACET of human entertainment and interaction, there'd be nothing to complain about.
But no! THEY know BETTER!
THEY are going to save all us "peons" with their superior morality. Even if it kills us.
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Well, actually, even if it kills *you*. They'll be OK.
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You are saying that people should stop complaining about their boss touching their balls and farting in their faces?
I don't think many people would find that to be an unreasonable complaint.
Re:Cue... (Score:5, Informative)
You are saying that people should stop complaining about their boss touching their balls and farting in their faces?
No, we're saying that Excluding male players from a panel at a convention is wrong :
https://www.polygon.com/2018/9... [polygon.com]
It's not like Riot Games is just a bunch of "Dudebros", there's a bunch of SJW types that work there too, none of this is actually new. Riot Games is a mess. On both sides of the political spectrum. Their game community is cancerous, their internal politics are screwed.
If anything, that "Boss" that was "touching balls" wasn't even a "Bro" to begin with, just your typical Male Feminist Ally, which (made up stat) have higher per-capita rates of sexual assault than normal males.
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made up stat
I'm just going to leave that there.
Re:Cue... (Score:5, Insightful)
Wow. They had a bit of time set aside for women and non-binary people, and the snowflakes went ape-shit.
I think the snowflakes in this case would be the people too sensitive to take part in an inclusive event that includes everyone. Everyone being MEN and WOMEN.
The whole event was targetted to snowflakes who can't stand having to share their time with other people. It was actual sexism.
It's not surprising though that you're using snowflake wrong in this case. You'll never admit to being on the wrong side of the actual sexism happening. Let's be clear : Excluding MALES is never inclusive. Including males is never sexist.
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How would you react to an all normal male (by rule) panal?
There's your answer.
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I didn't say that.
I know there are cases of genuine abuse.
But I also know there are a lot of cases of *imposed* changes meant to fix problems that simply didn't exist in the first place.
All to display wokeness, or foster an ideology as a form of social control.
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Really? "So what you're saying is..." Did you really just do that?
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Oh fuck off!
My issue has nothing to do with "women" or any other social class.
Other than a bunch of social busybodies who want to have a modicum of control, however petty, among their fellow man.
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If I have to carry around dead weight in the form of a token $minority_du_jour, then yes, I do have a problem. If a woman can do her job, great. Hire her. If you just hire her for "diversity"'s sake, you're now one up on the dead weight list and one down on the worker list, because I go to a place where I don't have to pick up the slack of someone whose only qualification is a pair of tits.
Re:Get Woke Go Broke. (Score:5, Insightful)
So now we simply react to "accusations"...
How soon before Riot goes under because of this poisonous ideology.
Well, if they go under becaue they are a shitty business, internally, good riddance?
Success is not only about the physical material wealth a company can produce; especially at the cost of society mental health.
To believe otherwise, is to show how obtuse, or retarded, one is.
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The problem is, the impetus behind this stuff now competes with the profit motive for capitalism in general.
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So now we simply react to "accusations"
They haven't been proven in a court of law yet, so media coverage is going to use weasel terms like "accusations".
Waiting for them to be proven in a court of law is extremely expensive for Riot. So, better to fix the issue before it becomes that expensive.
As to whether or not the accusations are true, well that's up to Riot at this point. And they appear to believe that they are at least true enough to be an expensive liability.
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Better for them to fix the issue
That's the damn point.
It's an accusation. An issue is something that's actually been shown to exist.
It's like patching over a non-existent hole in a wall.
And once you let this poisonous little ideology in, all that's seen are holes in walls.
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It's an accusation. An issue is something that's actually been shown to exist.
And Riot investigated themselves, and apparently felt there was enough proof it existed to change their policy. Since it's an internal investigation, they are under no obligation to share the actual results with the public.
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So you adhere to "guilty until proven innocent" I see.
So you are completely illiterate, I see. After all, there was no guilt assigned in my post.
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Old Employees will leave for an other opportunity, retire, get ill... A host of issues which means just keeping the old guys in the company is a bad business decision. Now if your company is openly hostile to other groups, then you will have a general hiring problem over all.
Besides, how is treating women and minorities like a valued team member such a horrible thing? You say you want to focus on their skills but not their gender or race. However if someone from a different gender or race has to prove a h
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I kinda doubt that many people have a problem with seeing someone from a minority (in that particular field) as a problem. The problem arises when minority hires are hired for being from a minority and not for skill. That is something we do have a problem with.
The reason is that if you're in a team of 4 and you get a new hire, you're then a team of 3 because the work of one person vanishes into training the new hire and undoing the hire's blunders. That's true, independent of the new person's skills. This s
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There are a lot of women gamers out there, who are playing the same rough and tumble games the guys are, being that their gender can be remain anonymous, no one really knows who bested them or not.
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As an investor, my question is which one pays the best dividend.
That is, by the way, also what the market asks. And the company that does will stay in business because, guess what, diversity doesn't pay bills.
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Dividends are quaint. The term you are looking for is 'growth'.
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Whatever word you prefer for "what makes me more money" is fine by me, as long as there's more money for me.
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Bro culture is when guys share beers, meat on a BBQ and talk trucks and about how "hot" some of the ladies are.
It's the same thing as a bunch of women getting together for a latte at Starbucks to discuss the new nail salon down the street, how much of a whore Kimberly is for sleeping with that disgusting pig Steve and how "Hot" Chad's shirt made his chest look.
Except for the men it's toxic. For the women it's empowering.
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A manifesto is something that should be reserved for revolutionaries and bombers.
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A manifesto is something that should be reserved for conceptual artists, philosophers, and poets.
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You may be okay with being forced to be nice, but a lot of people have a problem with that. I also generally like "nice". But then it gets complex. Is censoring yourself to be "nice" okay? Who gets to decide what "nice" exactly entails? Treating everyone with respect? But isn't it disrepectful and not "nice" to call out things about cultures or whatever that don't fit into "nice"? While I expect everyone to respect the things you mentioned (personal space, private belongings), I don't expect them to have to