Activision Blizzard
The official World of Warcraft Twitter account has announced that it will take immediate action to remove references that are not appropriate for [its] world. While it didn t elaborate on what those references are, they may pertain to in-game elements connected to its senior creative director Alex Afrasiabi, as
Kotaku has noted. Afrasiabi was singled out in the lawsuit filed by California authorities accusing Activision Blizzard of fostering a frat boy culture that s become a breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women.
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According to the lawsuit, Afrasiabi is known for hitting on and touching female employees inappropriately in plain view of other male employees who would try to intervene and stop him. He apparently has such a notorious reputation within the company that his suite was nicknamed the Crosby Suite after alleged rapist Bill Crosby. (The lawsuit has misspelled Bill Cosby s name.) In addition, executives allegedly knew a