Blizzard launch 'global diversity and inclusion initiative'

... to boost women and minority group employment figures

>In a bid to better represent women and underrepresented minority groups under its employ, Blizzard plans to launch a so-called "global diversity and inclusion initiative" that will establish internal councils and help "enhance inclusiveness".

>That's according to an email received by Kotaku that also details just 21 percent of Blizzard's employees identify as women, and that only 14 percent are categorised as "under-represented minority groups". According to Kotaku, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime reckons these figures are consistent with the games industry as a whole, however it nevertheless wants to improve its own representation.

>The planned diversity drive will first focus on women in the workplace and thereafter cover minority groups—all the while eschewing "quotas" in favour of conferences and forging relationships with organisations such as Girls Who Code.

>"Our diversity initiative will require a commitment from every one of us, but especially from our leaders, managers, and hiring teams," says Morhaime. "We appreciate your dedication to help Blizzard achieve this goal."

>This news follows Morhaime's promise of "more diverse heroes and content" in Blizzard games earlier this year.

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Thoughts?

>let's hire people solely based on looks instead of skill
what could possibly go wrong?

But that's wrong, retard. They're hiring people from demographics they want to appeal to. It's like how ideally voting for a political representative to bring your ideas and views to the forefront.

You mean they're excluding more qualified people because they're racist. Get it right.

>They're hiring people from demographics they want to appeal to.
And the people they want to appeal to aren't fucking interested in the types of video games they're making. Diversity hiring won't appeal to new demographics, making games to appeal to casuals is a much better route.

No I don't you delusional dumbass who doesn't understand how to run a business nor how to appeal to literally any demographic besides your own

finally the death spiral of actiblizz

>only women developers can appeal to women
>only male developers can appeal to men

turns out its actually only GOOD developers that can appeal to either, hiring purely based on what drippy bits are between your legs is straight up discrimination.

>hiring people based on sex and race instead of qualifications
Wow, Blizzard... Just wow... I can't even...

The kind of people they are hiring make games so shitty not even casuals want to touch them. Andromeda is a good example.

>hiding racism behind "appealing to more demographics"
Nice try but it's nothing more than a bigoted program to ensure equal outcome for people less qualified. You can't even defend this garbage lmao

Every big company does this and not just in america
Time to wake up

Yeah, looks like that's working fucking fantastic for Bioware.

Sup Forums has talked about this more than fucking Blizzard has.

When will you fuckers stop tunnel visioning this shit.

>we tried equal opportunity, but the best hires for the job didnt look good so now we are rigging the system for good PR.

When cucks like OP stop making threads about it. I.E never seeing as he's paid to do it

This
I'm so sick of game companies making sociopolitical moves instead of focusing on just making good fucking games. They must realize that the majority of their customers don't give a shit if they're an "inclusive" company, right?

Do they want to end like Bioware Montreal?

actions speak louder than words, blizzard arent talking about it, they are doing it.

Seems like a good business idea, they can pay these people significantly less than skilled white men - and since modern video game consumers grow more lenient of poor quality by the day, they'll get away with it and they'll make record profits.

who do you imagine is paying to shitpost about blizzard?

It's the same shit as getting actors to act "more urban" which is simply stereotypical minority thug.
It's racist garbage.

>to appeal to more people/target demo
This is fine for a face role. I'm fine with a TV station to want a diversity hire for an anchor because it's someone people see, or a model or the like. Anything back end or none PR is completely and total racism and discrimination

Why would they want to appeal to 1% of their audience that have a lower income and a smaller purchase power than the 99% that have basically held the company on it's feet?

>It's not quotas!
>but it's quotas

Gettin real tired of this bullshit.

So basically they're going to hire a bunch of janitors and interns to do menial, harmless tasks and then keep cranking out the same retarded crap they have always been doing. Nothing will change, it just looks good to the politically correct crowd. Blizzard has always been pretty PC on the surface, so this doesn't surprise me, they just want to stay in peoples good side since they know their IPs are about ready to self destruct.

oh yeah i forgot you only have to pay women 78% of a mans wage, thats good economic sense.

Video games should only be made and played by 18-35 year old white males.

Do you guys unironically believe that a company is going to hire completely random unqualified people and not just put priority over minorities that meet or almost meet the qualifications?

This

Why is it that Sup Forums spends all day posting about this shit if they hate it so much.

Blizzard makes one announcement in one place.

Sup Forums makes hundreds of threads about it all day everyday for weeks.

Really makes you think.

>BLIZZTARDS WILL EAT THIS RIGHT UP
Truly the cancer killing the industry

>specifically hiring people based on their genitalia and skin color is now a "goal" that is acceptable


hmmmmmm, isn't this exactly what these supposed "liberals" and "progressives" are against?

This a response to what happened at google?

This is how it goes, they hire a couple of women and a few Africans to be copy boys and secretaries while the whites and Asians do all the real work and then they go and say that women and non-whites/Asians are just as good at everything and that proof is the fact that the quality of their product is the aame since hiring them
Bullshit as usual

They're too absorbed in their twisted, warped reality they don't notice how hypocritical they are.

I love how this triggers sexually frustrated virgins. Like, we're you even going to buy a Blizzard game to begin with?

No one said they're hiring random people, but priority should be on qualifications and not race or gender, unless its for something like modeling or PR.

Man, fuck women. They are whore-ish, disloyal, unfriendly, don't contribute anything to society, and are terrible for your morals and principles.

>Be in High School
>Be on Cross Country team
>Before every meet, our team is congregated under the team's tent waiting for the races to start
>Coach's wife and 1 year old daughter always show up about 30 minutes before the race
>1 year old daughter always recognizes out uniforms, and runs up to us to give each individual person on the team a hug
>We look absolutely ridiculous when she does this, and are laughed at by everyone
>One day I get absolutely annoyed when she does it
>She gets to me, and I push her off of me, propelling her about 4 feet in the air
>Coach is absolutely infuriated at me for refusing to babysit his child, and starts to yell at me
>Some other adults have to hold that faggot back from me
>I start to yell back and tell him how his daughter made our team look like an absolute joke before every race
>Kicks me off the team right then and there

I didn't give a fuck then, and still don't give a fuck now. I stood my ground and stayed by my principles. It's not my faults he's raising a whore for a daughter.

>we are you even going to
what did he mean by this

I love how superior white men being better at their job triggers snowflake virgins. Like were you even going to succeed in life to begin with?

Unlike you, I am not a racist so a person of any color can appeal to me if they are talented.

What Blizzard is doing is racist and sexist, which makes me not waste more of my money on their products.

This is bait right.

God damn I love being white

FUCK WHITE PEOPLE

why not just hire the best person for the job and stop forcing race and gender as an issue?

do you think blizzards hiring practice in the past has specifically excluded women and non whites?

do you think they were purposefully hiring the "best" white man they could find and turning down better qualified women and minorites?

or is it just the case that on average the best hire has been a man simply because numbers.

their policy now is literally "SEE THAT WHITE GUY THAT IS PERFECT FOR THIS JOB? DONT HIRE HIM"

its literally a policy of exclusion against white men because thats whats currently in vogue in social justice circles.

Cool. They'll still only hire them to unimportant feel good positions like PR. It's the same shit Google has done since they started their diversity push.

thank you blizzard, now i can finally buy your "X" game because now i will know that some woman was working on it, and it matters to me because im woman too


are they for real? i dont even

>it's okay to discriminate because its for a good cause!

hahahaha

imagine being so fucking stupid and brainwashed that you ACTUALLY have this opinion

stop copy pasting the same crap everywhere. saw this a week ago on different board mentioning women.

>this projection

maybe my life is good enough to where neither of those things trigger me ;^)

This picture is fucking retarded. All of those people have honest jobs aside from the blacks. Are you trying to tell me that it's bad for South Americans to be gainfully employed and selling coffee beans? or for a woman to be a tailor? Porn stars are always defended by leftists claiming prostitution and porn is a viable and respectable trade, so why does this far left artist portray them like they're slaves?

As for the niggers, lol, what did he do, dig the fucking iphone out of the ground in Africa? and why is he stealing from that bowl of shrimp? Can niggers ever NOT steal, even in retarded leftist """art"""?

In a civilized country, it should be illegal to count sex or skin color as a factor in hiring.

This company does it openly.

can't wait for the wreckage

I live in LA, it's a thing.

Have a few """gender non-conforming""" friends who live on their rich ass parents money, they buy shit based purely off shit like this.

Fuck man, they'll watch horrifying misogynistic trash anime if they know a woman worked on it.

It's weird.

How are women/ethnics not embarrassed at this point?
Everyone else looks at them with a 'c'mon now' face while they're being strung along. It's shameful.

completely. he's copy pasting this shit. saw it a week ago.

>It's the same shit Google has done
Except that google memo proves you wrong. They were specifically hiring women and minorities to positions which they weren't qualified for, and specifically tried to not hire people they thought might hold conservative beliefs.

was she a trap or not?

>shitposting and baiting on Sup Forums
>good life

Being a business owner or just a manager in charge of hiring is going to be hell these next 20 or so years.

Wouldn't you want more women at your workplace though

i think the point is those people are generally being exploited and the sjw hipsters consume their product with no qualms

You are really brain-dead holy-shit.
This picture is making fun of western women claiming they are suffering and opressed. kys

It's called "minority" for a reason.

And that's exactly what they're doing. Who do you think gives support to Overwatch? Certainly not hardcore gamers or reasonably test males.

>you can only appeal to demographics by hiring people within said demographics
>what are vast libraries of statistical and scientific research hurrdurr
>what are job qualifications

It's purely virtue-signaling and you know it, user. And unless everything becomes Nintendo/mobileshit-tier, it's been shown you're usually not pulling them in. Hell the comics industry is nearly dead sales-wise as a result of flipping off their actual buyers this much.

Noooooooooooo!!!! I have over 30,000 dollars invested in Activision Blizzard!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DELET THIS!!!

It -is- illegal in many countries to hire people (or in this case not hire them) based on their ethnicity or gender.

But because its socially acceptable to be racist towards anyone that isn't a minority and sexist towards men its okay to do it for brownie points.

As secretaries not as programmers, modelers, animators or creatives

Getting rid of our anti quota laws and creating new quota laws is an inevitability.

user, overwatch is big because its an accessible competetive shooter with a lot of polish.

It having diversity is more of a "fighting game roster" thing.

I don't know why I'm typing this,
I'm probably responding to some white genocide poltard.

You act like they're never going to hire any more white people.

>literal, actual systemic discrimination against me because of my gender and skin color

wew

Thank god I'm starting to make enough money on my own games to fund myself.

>CURRENT YEAR
>caring about Blizzard
Lel. You guys are like a decade late, here.

>Get a job working for Target
>Suffer through two weeks of this weird shit before I end up getting fired for lack of attendance.

I don't know of one black person I've met who would feel comfortable about this "all inclusive" horseshit.


It creeped me the fuck out.

>tried to not hire people they thought might hold conservative beliefs

How are conservative beliefs a bad thing?

>How are women/ethnics not embarrassed at this point?
Because they're playing victims. This is exactly what they want. Instead of adapting, they expect the mainstream to accommodate them.
The rhetoric they rely on is guilt.

no u faggot that's not a woman, look at the fucking man jaw. They want to make whites look like babyfaced bitches because muh oppression

Who is this?

>overwatch is big
no one wants to play a pricey, graphically intensive, SJW piece of shit, user.

>we need to hire more minorities and women to fill the diversity quota
>lets just make some bullshit comittee for who gives a fuck and staff it entirely with women/minorities
>mission accomplished.

The majority of programmers are still gonna be white men because it's a meritocracy and diversity hires always usually wash out.

Depends on what they're like. Some women are very conformist and will undermine anyone who does not conform, but I've also worked with chicks who were bro as fuck and didn't push any drama at all.

The argument being made by most people in this thread is that only white men can be 'skilled.'

Since human beings are *gasp* human, a woman or persons pertaining to minority groups are equally capable of performing the same tasks as white men.

The argument being made by many in this thread is that those that are most skilled should have the job, and those people are inherently white men. This is what this initiative is fighting against. White men do not have a monopoly on programming skill. Their genes do not make them better than anyone else.

If you guys love white men so much, why don't you just suck each others cocks and leave everyone else alone?

>graphically intensive
Are you sure you're talking about Overwatch right now?

What the fuck?

Didn't you literally say, in the post I was JUST responding to, that it was being supported by people?

You can't have it both ways user.

Because the left is trying to attribute conservative beliefs of all kinds with naziism.
Did you see the left's response to that memo? It was "the skakening" all over again because a guy who wasn't even that conservative felt like he believed conservatives were getting discriminated against in Google.

Let capitalism determine the success and failure of game studios. If a development team comprised entirely of transgendered bisexual atheist otherkin can create a game that I enjoy, then more power to them. If a company attempts nothing but social engineering through their marketing and products, then they've lost my business.

This is the best you could do? Come now.

Oh look, this thread again

>Thoughts?
i wish you'd stop making the same thread every 5 mn. blizzard is a shit company making shit games anyway why do you care so much?

Terrible timing.

>muh sexist racist homo/islamophobia!

but try not to go all out in these threads, Sup Forums. what you call "SJWs" are making these threads so they can record your unironic posts and pass them off as unironic in their internet articles. some will make it to academia. i've made these warnings in the past and at least three of the threads i were in were pruned

Why did individualism die?

>Blizzard launch 'global diversity and inclusion initiative'
>all the while eschewing "quotas"

>Muslims slaughter so many people so frequently that the mayor of London attempts to normalize it
>of course we include Muslims in our games :) were diverse :)
>Nazi fag kills a girl
>QUICKLY SCRAMBLE ALL DIVERSITY FIGHTERS THIS IS NOT A DRILL
I hope they understand the depth of their hypocrisy someday.

no -- it rose too much. SOME level of conformity can be a good thing

>traps
>voting republican

It's not dead but its being attacked which is why defending is important

All it means is that shitty Blzzard is getting shittier. Nothing to see here.

>We're going to be more diverse.

They're just going to hire white guys and Asians anyway with the occasional woman and black dude in between.
As much as the dev teams and other groups are wide eyed and annoying, in the end they still need to ship a product. You can't fuck around when you have deadlines.

It's not like blizzard has ever made a good game anyway, I just feel bad for the WHITE MALES who are going to lose their job for no reason.