Allen Brack, President of Blizzard Entertainment, allegedly had multiple conversations with Afrasiabi about his drinking and that he had been вЂtoo friendlyвЂ™ towards female employees at company events but gave Afiasiabi a slap on the wrist (i.e. вЂњAfrasiabiвЂ™s conduct was known to Blizzard EntertainmentвЂ™s executives, who took no effective remedial measures. In particular, the DFEHвЂ™s filing calls out Alex Afrasiabi, a former creative director on World of WarcraftВ until mid-2020, whose alleged behaviour вЂ“ including putting his arm around female employees, saying he wanted to marry them, and attempting to kiss them вЂ“ was so egregious that his suite was known as the вЂњCrosby SuiteвЂќ (sic) after Bill Cosby. The lawsuit also makes mention of one female employee who committed suicide after a sexual relationship with a male supervisor at a company trip, the lawsuit alleges, nude photos of her were also вЂњpassed aroundвЂќ by male employees at a party.ДЇormal complaints were dismissed or ignored, the DFEH says, with the employees who made them instead themselves being punished вЂ“ being deprived of work, unwillingly transferred, or even laid off completely.

вЂњIn the office, women are subjected to вЂcube crawlsвЂ™, in which male employees drink copious amounts of alcohol as they вЂcrawlвЂ™ their way through various cubicles in the office and often engage in inappropriate behaviour toward female employees,вЂќ the filing reads. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) has slammed the company for enabling what it calls a вЂњfrat houseвЂќ culture, with female employees subject to constant harassment at the hands of male staff, which was subsequently ignored or covered up. Activision Blizzard, one of the worldвЂ™s largest gaming companies and the publisher behind titles such as World of WarcraftВ and Overwatch, is facing a massive lawsuit in California over an alleged endemic culture of sexual harassment.

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