Episode 443 - Abuse at Activision-Blizzard
Waypoint Radio
VICE
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🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Rob, Patrick, and Cado gather today to talk about the allegations of abuse at Activision-Blizzard. They discuss the ways corporate structures aid abusers, the possibility of ousting Bobby Kotick, and what levers of power workers have to enact lasting change. Then we go stream spoiler mode for Inscryption, the digital card game that ends up being more than meets the eye. After the break, Patrick checks in with Halo Infinite, the latest Halo game from 343 Industries, which takes the Halo franchise open world for the first time. Then Cado and Patrick have a quick check in with Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, a game that is harder than Cado remembers, and uglier than Patrick would like.
Discussed: Abuse at Activision-Blizzard 1:08, Inscryption 33:47, Inscryption Stream Spoilers 35:17, Xbox Response to Activision 56:06, Halo Infinite 1:05:18, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl 1:33:02
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| 0:00.0 | What's good internet? It's November 18th and you're listening to Waypoint Radio episode |
| 0:21.7 | 443. I'm your host Rob Zachney and today I'm joined by Patrick Lappich. Hello? |
| 0:27.6 | Producer Ricardo Contreras. What would be the 19th for you listener? |
| 0:33.3 | That's true. I thought I'd covered that as well. I'm keenly aware because there's a very |
| 0:38.0 | important thing happening on the 19th in Pokemon Unite. There's a new character coming out |
| 0:43.8 | that I'm very excited about. So I know the 19th is tomorrow and not today. |
| 0:47.6 | Okay. |
| 0:49.5 | All right. Well, keep an eye out for that new character. |
| 0:54.9 | So the change gears real quickly here. In terms of things not being good, I think we just have |
| 1:02.2 | to get into all the news that came out this week about Activision and the subsequent fallout |
| 1:08.4 | from that. Patrick, you want to talk us through some of the news that broke this week and some |
| 1:12.9 | of the responses that have been allocided since then. Yeah. I mean, like the high level |
| 1:18.0 | was started, like what has been a kind of a slow boil with Activision over the last, I don't know, |
| 1:24.2 | was it been since that original California, like sort of Labor Division, |
| 1:30.9 | pursuing the company. That's probably a couple of months back at this point. And we've had a |
| 1:35.2 | lot of instances since then that report accused the company of having sort of like a |
| 1:41.2 | breeding ground for harassment, I believe. And a lot of the spotlight there was on Blizzard, |
| 1:44.8 | specifically, and we saw a number of resignations following that. Since then, there has been |
| 1:54.0 | like a real bleeding of talent that seems to be a mixture of a result of investigations that |
| 2:00.1 | have happened since and also people not wanting to work at this company anymore. |
| 2:06.8 | And obviously it's Activision Blizzard. Like a lot of this investigation was focused on the |
| 2:10.8 | Blizzard angle, but you know, Activision is a really, really company and the active inside is |
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