It turned out that Blizzard’s employees were not the only ones who expressed frustration with their company and CEO Bobby Kick after Wall Street Journi published an explosive report on the ongoing sexual abuse scandal in the publisher. In the email obtained Bloomberg, Sony Interactive CEO Jim Ryan criticized the Activision response to the article. Ryan connects Sony’s employees to the report, and said he was “discouraged and frankly stopped to read” Journal Findings.
“We reached for Activision as soon as the article was published to express our deep worries and to ask how they planned to overcome the claims carried out in the article,” Ryan said in a message. “We don’t believe their response statements correctly overcome the situation.”
As a company that makes Playstation 4 and PS5, Sony is one of the most important partners of Activision. Their close relations highlighted by the fact Sony has the first DIB on several duty content calls. The email facts of Ryan leaking should not come as a surprise considering that it is a message all hands.
Widely, Wall Street Journal Report claimed KoveCk not only aware of many accusations of sexual violations and harassment in the company, but he might also intervene to protect some of his worst violators, and that he persecuted his own women. In a statement to Engadget, spokesman for the publisher said this article presents “a misleading view of Activision Blizzard and our CEO.” Shortly after it began to circulate widely on social media, Blizzard employees announced they would hold a road. A few hours later, the Activision Blizzard’s Director issued a statement that expressed its sustainable support from Koick’s leadership.
According to a report published by game developers, Activision Blizzard also defended Kotick during the meeting of all the hands of the company hosted after Wall Street Journed published his report. When asked whether the new zero tolerance policy would apply to executives, the company told the employee did not “have evidence” of the claim against KOICK due to the fact that they were associated with an incident that occurred a decade ago.
