https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...teady-accused-of-lack-of-action-on-harassment
Edit: And a video that has came out from Kim MacAskill, a former writer at the studio talking about the issues.
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Edit: And a video that has came out from Kim MacAskill, a former writer at the studio talking about the issues.
Damn. Rocksteady is pretty secretive in the industry (that is already really secretive), so I guess they thought they could just ignore that.
Hopefully something is done.
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Hopefully something is done.
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I believe it's a 200+ people studio.
239 according to their website.
All these companies "set out to be a place of respect and inclusion" and then do absolutely nothing besides cover their own ass. When you have so few female co-workers and STILL more than half of them experience some sort verbal or sexual harassment, then maybe no one actually gives a shit.
I would have never guessed only 7% of their staff was female based on how they portray female characters.
When they are about to release news for their new game.
Honestly, as a big Rocksteady fan, FUCK THEM. The only solution is firing people from the top that ignored them and holy shit hire more women, 16 in an universe of 239 people is a joke.
Also, THIS.
239 according to their website.
How fucking diverse. So its a boys club basically.
Exactly right? They're usually so respectful about it /s
Hope they respond and change actually happens. Doubtful though.
They're the sucessor to Argonaut Games . The Nintendo leaks showed they had some really offensive internal emails.
It was 25 years ago but looks like they haven't changed.
e.g.
Of course this was a long while ago.
But juniors back then are probably seniors now.
25 years ago, though looks like they didn't improve.
It was 25 years ago but looks like they haven't changed.
e.g.
Of course this was a long while ago.
But juniors back then are probably seniors now.
25 years ago, though looks like they didn't improve.
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*sigh* this says it all really. They didn't care until The Guardian picked it up and started making it public
Technically, if everybody just behaved themselves as per company policy at all times, the company wouldn't have to do anything. Proclaiming lofty ideals would cost them nothing and life would be grand!
Rocksteady HR must be so disappointed each time people break the rules. I feel really bad for them. Why can't all employees JUST.BE.NICE and not make more work for them? WHY???
(I assume this is how they think because nothing else makes sense)
Well, that reframes playing as Catwoman in Arkham City just a tad.
Goons would say some heinous shit.
Goons would say some heinous shit.
That's not terrible compared to most companies. I remember hearing that Google had two black female software engineers worldwide a few years ago. I think their workforce is still only 4% black overall.
It's kind of amazing when you realise that coding was pioneered by women. It was seen almost as secretarial work, with men working on making the machines.
A lot of the Ivy stuff in Arkham Knight too, it was always blatantly offensive but this definitely adds context. I was already planning on passing on Suicide Squad, I'm more interested in WB Montreal's project anyway.
The numbers are lower than they should be but even for game developement, 9% is shockingly low:
Not so white, male and straight: the video games industry is changing
BAME and LGBTQ+ representation is above the average for the UKās creative industries, while the number of women in the games industry is creeping upwards
www.theguardian.com
Disgraceful. It's always telling when companies and higher ups seemingly grow a conscience right when their mistreatment of workers goes public.
They could've saved themselves all the coming turmoil by showing a modicum of decency over time or actually confronting the problem early on. Too late now.
They could've saved themselves all the coming turmoil by showing a modicum of decency over time or actually confronting the problem early on. Too late now.
You do realise that companies majority of the time hire actors to do these videos right? I should know because I've been part of the process. They rarely if ever use their workers.
Sefton Hill, this is on you. Fuck this shit. WB Games needs to fire his ass and burn the whole top structure to the ground.
At this point, you wonder why even hire women if you're just going to mistreat them until you view the opposite sex as meat and suddenly you realize that boy clubs are really dens of (male) lions.
At least in the AAA space, every studio is crunching and will have people being harassed, it's beyond naive to think otherwise at this point.
Having few women working there is one thing, it's not their fault if women -- for some strange and inexplicable reason -- don't want to work there. But that even those handful of women who do work there get harassed is just a sign of how trash this industry is. But I gues it's just a reflection of a large part of the audience as well. All this GamerGate bullshit didn't start a few years ago, it has roots that go back many decades.
For a few, maybe they think meat won't bite back.
A lot of malice is due to a lack of empathy or respect towards those women. Why that is the case baffles me. How can you respect some women but not others? ("My mother and sister are saints, but the rest of them? bla bla bla"). I do not know...
I assume humans are not evolving to be smarter and haven't for some time. I think we've mainly evolved to be taller and fairer in the past couple thousand years.
Those are apparently our priorities as a species.
I wonder if this came to light because of companies looking into everything while they consider a bid for WB Games. It's a real shame that we aren't even close to having work place equality in the gaming industry. As an outsider it comes off as seedy 1990s Hollywood without the glamour or mirage of cool.
Sure, the industry is very much male, but there is also non-IT staff.
I always find it interesting when I watch the credits on games and how few woman there that actually work on the game. No offence to anyone in the roles but I feel like game companies put woman in HR and non technical roles to bolster the on paper number of woman who work for the companies.
Really? Every game dev company I have been at (5 so far) used actual employees for these image/ recruitment videos.
Why do companies refuse to take action over harassment? If not for the moral reasons, then you'd think they'd at least do something about it to avoid bad press with so many companies having been exposed already but I guess not.
because normally there are no consequences.
dont wanna "rock the boat"
Because they think nothing is wrong, it's just how things are for them.