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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8870631" data-attributes="member: 11760">It sounds like the toxic culture was a subset of powerful managers, most or all of whom were pushed out. The majority of the staff were victims, not perpetrators of the culture.We don't know how Metzen figures into this. He left well before the revelations came out, <a href="https://massivelyop.com/2021/07/25/chris-metzen-apology-blizzard/" target="_blank">made an apology</a>, and to my knowledge, no one has ever pointed a finger at him. On the other hand, he was a big wheel there for a long time and said he &quot;failed too many people when they needed us because we have the privilege of not noticing, not engaging, not creating necessary space for the colleagues who needed us as leaders.&quot;So it sounds like word of what was going on him reached him at some point and he didn't take it seriously.And the company has just brought him back, after ousting, to my knowledge, all the problematic people. (Other than Bobby Kotick, who will be there, running the last videogame company after the human race is extinguished and he's hooking cockroaches on microtransactions.) So, either he's been cleared and is someone who's safe to come back, or the apparent progress they've made over the past two years has been skin-deep.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8870631, member: 11760"] It sounds like the toxic culture was a subset of powerful managers, most or all of whom were pushed out. The majority of the staff were victims, not perpetrators of the culture. We don't know how Metzen figures into this. He left well before the revelations came out, [URL='https://massivelyop.com/2021/07/25/chris-metzen-apology-blizzard/']made an apology[/URL], and to my knowledge, no one has ever pointed a finger at him. On the other hand, he was a big wheel there for a long time and said he "failed too many people when they needed us because we have the privilege of not noticing, not engaging, not creating necessary space for the colleagues who needed us as leaders." So it sounds like word of what was going on him reached him at some point and he didn't take it seriously. And the company has just brought him back, after ousting, to my knowledge, all the problematic people. (Other than Bobby Kotick, who will be there, running the last videogame company after the human race is extinguished and he's hooking cockroaches on microtransactions.) So, either he's been cleared and is someone who's safe to come back, or the apparent progress they've made over the past two years has been skin-deep. [/QUOTE]

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