Nintendo Issues Internal Response to Activision-Blizzard Reports
Nintendo of America sent an email last Friday describing the Activision-Blizzard harassment reports as "disturbing."
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[Fanbyte] Nintendo Issues Internal Response to Activision-Blizzard Reports
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Imran Khan said:
Good to see all 3 console makers keeping up the pressure on Activision Blizzard.Imran Khan said:
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Good for Nintendo. When Nintendo does this, it's time to do something. That something is for Kotick to go now
Awesome! :D And isn't Doug the only one of the three to be doing something tangible with him working with the ESA?
Some choice quotes from the article (written by Imran).
At least with Nintendo, their words don't ring as hollow in contrast with internal issues of their own compared to the likes of Sony & Microsoft. To be clear, I'm not saying that Sony & Microsoft shouldn't also put forth the pressure. But rather that they should lead by example and clean up shop in-house.
Imran Khan said:
Imran Khan said:
At least with Nintendo, their words don't ring as hollow in contrast with internal issues of their own compared to the likes of Sony & Microsoft. To be clear, I'm not saying that Sony & Microsoft shouldn't also put forth the pressure. But rather that they should lead by example and clean up shop in-house.
Just curious because I do not known about. What Microsoft studios has had problems?
I would consider this thread to be the first one to post this topic.
And this thread here is the duplicate:
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And this thread here is the duplicate:
[Fanbyte] Nintendo Issues Internal Response to Activision-Blizzard Reports News - Nintendo - Activision/Blizzard
https://www.fanbyte.com/news/nintendo-issues-internal-response-to-activision-blizzard-reports/
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This most likely:
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Demeaning comments and requests for sexual favors
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I think him mentioning something and the others not mentioning anything specific is a bit too little to infer that only Doug is doing anything tangible. We just don't know.
good work environment is one of Nintendo's strongest characteristics. So I can see they addressing this issue and taking it very seriously.
True, I'm just going by what all three have said in these reports.
This statement wasn't even meant for the public. It was an internal statement.
Nintendo rarely puts out statements like this, so credit where it's due.
Oh, I believe that Nintendo does things internally all the time. It's just so incredibly rare for anything internal to leak to the public.
Honestly, all these leaks are probably on purpose. They're internal so they don't have to commit to anything and can wait to see how things develop, but they're still public enough so pressure is getting applied regardless.
companies can take action and put pressure on activision without doing it all in the public eye
i swear people act like social media statements are the only things that actually count????
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I still think this story is big enough where Era should be taking a stand as a community and banning all Activision OTs and hype threads until at least Bobby is gone, in solidarity with the employees who have walked out and who are trying to make things better.
Well it says in the memo that they're talking with the ESA, wanting to hold its members to a higher standard. Just because it's not public doesn't mean that's not applying pressure on Activision behind the scenes.
Oh, I thought it was an internal memo also meant as a press release or something lol. Well then, how about a public statement Nintendo? It's probably coming.
Indeed, social media status's are for PR.
In actual business terms you don't do dirty laundry publicly generally, you discuss it directly with your stakeholders/business partners. It's good for pressure but they are business partners and seem to be acting as such with pressure behind the scenes.
I vaguely remember a Wii U era scandal with one of the female employees that presented at E3 getting fired in a sketchy way?
Doesn't Nintendo usually handle things from behind the scenes?
Nobody has made a public statement yet, it's all been leaked internal memos.
Sure, but the other person saying "credit where credit is due" had me scratching my head as well. Not knocking them, but if this is going to be a good job Nintendo thread, the bar is pretty low.
I think I'm remembering the same thing. It was more of a Gamergate-related issue, like a knee-jerk response to that pressure.
Still a bad call on their part, but thanks for the explanation.
Probably referencing Allison Rapp from NoA who got fired for moonlighting as a nude model (you can see why Nintendo isn't into that), but folks mistook that as her being fired due to being a GamerGate target.
I'm quite sure that, sadly, Nintendo will have some issues, too. It's unavoidable at such a Company size. Not as dramatically bad as Activision Blizzard, of course.
Internet jumped on a female employee in a very horrendous way around gamegate era, doxxing included. Nintendo fired her for an actual policy she had broken. It was a shitshow.
Don't want to keep continuing on this tangent further, but it might be better for us to dig out an actual article instead of half-remembered details.
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Great that Nintendo is actively talking with the ESA to share their concerns and distance themselves from such toxic work cultures.
At a certain point cases of misconduct is sadly hard to eliminate when companies reach a certain size and employ a lot of people, but when such issues occur they must be met with swift resolution and not hidden away.
I hope we begin to see a more aggressive response against companies that abuses the very workforce responsible for it's success, it's long overdue in entertainment at this point.
At a certain point cases of misconduct is sadly hard to eliminate when companies reach a certain size and employ a lot of people, but when such issues occur they must be met with swift resolution and not hidden away.
I hope we begin to see a more aggressive response against companies that abuses the very workforce responsible for it's success, it's long overdue in entertainment at this point.