[bananaboy]

Morhaime and the leadership definitely had autonomy. Blizzard was the goose that laid the gold egg. Also multiple former employees have stated that there's no way Morhaime didn't know what was going on. So I think you've got it backwards.

[john567]

Both Mike and Metzen state in the own response that they didn't realize how bad it was and they only respond this way because this lawsuit got huge press.

Why is it so hard to believe that when you're running a company from above you have virtually zero knowledge of what's going on in the trenches.

And the people around you act as layers to insulate you to some extent. The only way you change that is by building trust between your peers and even if you go out to dinner together the topic of discrimination and harassment probably won't come up. Most people won't just say out loud what they think needs improvement unless you ask them.

You can fault them for not being more proactive but they most probably believed that the people they did trust to be on top of these things actually did what they said they would do.

It's the hardest thing to build and maintain a delicate culture. It takes just a few rotten eggs to ruin everything.

[bananaboy]

I guess we agree on one thing then - that's the exact reason that I don't believe all the press about Kotick fostering a culture of harrassment. He can't possibly be across everything that's happening at a dozen or more studios with over 9,000 employees.