Activision Blizzard Is a Hilariously Bad Company
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Activision Blizzard is a Hilariously Bad Company for so many reasons! I'm finally back to posting videos on the main channel and I just had to talk about this, Diablo Immortal, the Diversity Tool and all the latest scandals involving AB. Hopefully something is done about all this.
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The Immoral Design of Diablo Immortal ► • The Immoral Design of ...
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Introduction - 0:00
WarThunder! - 1:13
Activision-Blizzard Clears Itself of Wrongdoing - 2:53
Mystery of the Stolen Breast Milk - 6:04
The Infamous ‘Diversity Tool’ - 8:55
Overwatch 2 = meh - 14:39
Diablo Immortal - 16:44
Conclusion - 21:24
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Welcome back I've missed ya
Bruh
The king is back! Let's go!
Welcome back.
our saviour returns
Activision aged like breast milk.
lmao hey manley
You also watch Act man poggers.
wow manley watch actman too
Curdled. Ech...
Lmao
When the world needed him the most, he came back
He will save UA-cam... *Dramatic music plays*
AAAAUUUUUGGHHHHHHHH
@@FireFox2590 “Save”???? That’s a funny way to spell ‘destroy’.
@@TheUberMarshalYT well considering destroying the corruption is one form of saving, it’s a mercy. Especially for that poor excuse of a human Susan.
Good one bot
The moment when everyone hopes that Microsoft purchasing a company could improve it-- is really saying something horrific about the company they purchased...
yeah they need microsoft leaders to go in and clean house and restablish sense.
#FireBobbyKotick
No way Microsoft is even that better
@@squaeman_2644 yes they are. Mircrosoft its a dream of a software developer, good pay, good conditions, they pay you for learning more, etc
@@NA-uz7co regardless they suffer from the same jock like mentality in the higher ups.
I am actually impressed how openly evil they can be and still succeed .
I feel like they aren't succeeding, tho. Like...at *all*.
@@Mandy138Cool Blizz stocks are up. They made big money off Diablo immortal despite the bad publicity. The ceo made recorded death threats and still isn't in any risk of losing his position. One of the richest companies in the world just acquired them. Etc etc....
@@Frenchtoastedfruitloops TO BE FAIR, stocks are 100% manipulation and meant to mislead.
Nintendo is much the same way, but not *nearly* as bad.
@@TheRealNTM Nintendo isn't evil tho
Do not give up, seeing you come back with sponsorships gives me hope that you will still be able to live off this passion of yours. You deserve it Actman, good job!
I feel he'll need to get a job. Full time UA-cam ended in 2018 and it was only a matter of time before it kills everyone. You have to appeal to children to full time UA-cam.
@@dontreadmyprofilepicture6945 Okay.
@@dontreadmyprofilepicture6945 how hard were you dropped on your head as a baby?
@@MrREAPERsz or sell your soul for sponserships or shift to streaming
@@MrREAPERsz "dud _full time UA-cam ended in 2018_ l"
Tell that to mr Beast , Pewdiepie , Markiplier and Game theory...
OOOHHHH you were talking about small channels ? they were never full time , you can't survive off UA-cam if you have less than 1mill subs
"We have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong."
Blizzard taking a leaf out of the government's favorite book, I see.
🤣
youtubes book at this point.
page*
@@HunterM381 Hello there
Who said every time their behavior was fine but still got kicked out of 109?
I never thought that a game company would surpass EA in being greedy
I actually got to be interviewed by Activison Blizzard as a QA Tester. I did pretty bad on the interview cause it was like my second time ever doing an interview so I was still new but they handled it terribly when the interviewer said to the other interviewer to "get 'em out of here." which is referring to me. I didn't say anything, kept my formalities and just left after shaking hands but man, looking back it makes me want to throw up. :/
Aw yeah. The bad guys are actually the victims. It's a bold strategy Cotton, Let's see if it pays off for them
Hello CAMELOT, nice to see you here. I hope things are getting better.
Done ball
youtube?
Camelot was flexing as he typed this
The bad guys playing victims? Have you not seen Social Media?
The Act man calling out big corporation BS again...hopefully it won't piss off UA-cam again XD
🖕em
dont mention yt dude. they are already doxed him personaly
Fuck em
When will someone start doxxing them back?
@@DONT-READ_MY-PROFILE_-PICTURE way ahead of you
it's extremely funny when the diversity tool created the most stereotypical, boring, forced inclusion characters for cod vanguard
Kings Diversity Tool makes their games feel racist. It makes me uncomfortable just watching the gameplay.
Now we hear activision telling we are the problem because we dont like the system
@@aeonstar293
“Hey [group of people], look-we’re monetizing you!”
Regarding the "lactating" facility. At my company we have a "mother's room" where women who've just had a baby can go down and pump their breast milk while they are at work. This is needed because they develop the milk throughout the day and can become very uncomfortable and often times painful. For those women at work, there is no baby to feed, therefore no relief. Providing the mother's room gives them the opportunity to step away and pump and store the milk to take home after work. It's a nice accomodation that not all companies have. It's almost a must if you're a breast feeding mother and are also a full-time worker.
As a woman I think I can bring insight on the breast milk situation, for one if a baby is only fed breast milk giving them a formula because their breast milk was stolen can easily make them sick, and two if you don’t understand why someone stealing breast milk is creepy and disgusting already just imagine a lady at a sperm bank taking your sample home for “personal” use it’s definitely more extreme but it’s the only analogy I could come up with for guys “bodily fluids”.
but instead its just a punchline i guess :/
I hadn't thought of that making the baby sick. It's creepy and weird af but also potentially dangerous to the child. Goddamn that dude just had to have his breast milk, so creepy
@@TheActMan Goes good with coffee. I guess
@@myboysd5772 How would you know?
@@AWACS_Snowblind A friend at activision told me
They say say no good deed goes unpunished, I feel like that’s literally what happened to you, keep your head up!! I’ll always support you man!
For years i honestly still don't get that meaning, but in this instance yeah it's pretty much what happened. It actually makes my stomach turn just thinking about how everything played out.
#TheActAttorneyNeverFails
@@LeonShuriken well i think it s pretty much if you do no good deeds it will not go unpunished hence i don t understand what the main commenter tried to say .
@@LeonShuriken Basically, someone does a good deed and it backfires on them in some way. As an extreme example: Someone helps a man out of a burning building, only to get shot dead by the very person they saved and have their car stolen.
In Act's case, he tried to expose a homophobic, egotistical psycho who listens only to his like-minded fanbase. The backfiring? UA-cam screwing him over.
Hope I make sense.
thank you, kind sir
“Exaggerated stereotypes, when applied equally, allow us to all laugh at ourselves.” What a fantastic way of putting it!
Bobby Kotick is the real-life equivalent of Councilman Dexhart from Parks and Rec. He keeps getting caught in these disgusting scandals, but refuses to resign and fights dirty to keep his job, and because of that, no one can touch him.
"Lactation facilities" is definitely a creepy Activision-Blizzard thing to say. All other companies just call them maternity rooms. A lot of companies are required by law to have them.
@@thesand8580 imagine letting people have maternity leave that sounds like communism to me KKonaW
@@NOBODY-oq1xr Plebbitor
@@thesand8580 you are right, how we dare to do the moraly right, and not the shit one, like removing the right of abortion
@@NOBODY-oq1xr bruh
I don't think you understand what communism actually is?
So in case people don't get why lactation rooms are such a big deal: Women who are breastfeeding need to use breast pumps while they're working. If they don't for an extended period of time, they will stop producing milk.
So you have a company that demands its employees work like 12 hour days, but can't afford to put a lock on their lactation room. According the lawsuit, dudes would just walk in on women while they were pumping and just gawk at them. On top of all that, you had some psychopath who would raid the fridge for breastmilk, literally stealing food from a baby.
thanks for the explanation.... I was wondering what the hell is going on there ??
@@edgardonavedo8861
*Hell. Of course.*
@@SCP--fj2jr indeed bro indeed👀
Damn i didn't know that Homelander worked at blizzard at some point.
@@bepinkfloyd814 Hell naw lmaoooo 😂
"I'm sure blizzard can handle it"
That aged like milk
you know....being hit like this by youtube and still finding the drive to create for your audience is a strong reflection of your character and nothing short of admirable.
You rock Act Man!!
Judge: "did you commit murder Activision?"
Activision: "I didn't find any evidence to suggest we did"
Judge: "Welp that's good enough for me, Case closed"
*As Activision sits on a pile of corpses holding a bloody axe*
@@SuddenCruelty01 Judge: What about those people underneath you?
Activision: I'm just keeping them warm while they sleep
Judge: What a selfless act of kindness! Here's a 100 million grant to fund more games!
Murder is a crime. None of the things Activision Blizzard is accused of is illegal. Your comparison doesn’t make any sense.
Legit strat we should all start doing this
@@lilithdvs13 You're saying sexual harrasment isn't illegal?
"You can't apply a diversity number to a person"
Every large company: "Hold my beer."
Yeah that's the whole philosophy of intersectionality but Act Man is right though, it's distasteful and dystopian.
Corporatized private worlds.
or "hold my stolen breast milk" in ab's case
@niduoe stre Characters are better when they, surprisingly, have actual character development. Big business thinks characters based on pandering makes more money, unfortunately.
The only thing more dehumanizing than being sidelined because of your identity is to be monetized for it
Here after the PVE mode for OW2 got cancelled.
We didn't deserve Red Shirt Guy. He was too wholesome for us.
Holy shit, that Diversity Chart. We had a Blizzard rep come to our college to give us a workshop on the Diversity Chart and made us apply it to our personal projects. Nobody was particularly happy about it because we'd already spent months working on those projects only to have everything boiled down to a set of numbers.
If I were there, I would throw moltav to them.
Man I’d personally make my project less diverse just to mess With the stupid employee.
What would happen if you flat out said no?
the Age stat on that chart is what really threw me. it implied there's a "normal" age just like it implied there's a normal setting on all those other qualities. it was so freaking bizarre -- how often do you play a character and think "ehhh on second thought, I can't play Torbjorn.. he's too old." like WHO CAME UP WITH THIS STUPID CHART
What college do you go to that would consider Blizzard a company that they would ever even consider bringing in to give a workshop? They're the current laughing stock of the gaming industry in everything but weaseling their way out of lawsuits.
You’re going down as a UA-camr Legend for having balls as massive as you do to stand for yourself in todays society my man. Love to see you back and with the same passion.
what?
@@keegobricks9734 he was demonetized and faced a lot of bullshit from UA-cam due to a deranged UA-camr called Quantum TV who called act man’s mom and implied threats to his family. Lots of drama and videos covering the subject.
@@mentalwarriorshow1458 Okay that sounds awful I agree, but what does that have to do with this video?
It sucks because there are a lot of good devs under companies like this. Devs that have the potential to make amazing games but are severely limited by Activision.
I sympathize, but gotta point out that they are choosing to work with/for activision. They may be talented, but they are knowingly choosing this. Could they have made better games with more autonomy? Maybe. Am I surprised at the result of the partnership? No. Should they be? No.
As someone who studied writing and film in college, i was taught that "stereotypes" are used to subvert expectations and create unigue characters, for instance "he's a panda, but not just any panda, a kung fu panda" thats using the stereotype of "pandas are usually lazy and dont do kung fu" and making it into a subconscious recognition by the audience. Now apply that to humans: "a young black teen living in a rough Detroit with his in-and-out of jail father and ill mother, learns that he loves classical music and wants to study musical arts. He gets accepted into an art college but when his father reads his acceptance letter he disowns his son. the teen, now depressed, falls in with a bad crowd. One night they pressure him into vandalizing a school, he gets in trouble with the law which could jeopardise his college career. He is given one last chance by being scentanced to public service where he is now a janitor at a rec center. Thats when he meets an old Chinese man who teaches jazz to teens. The teen falls out of his depression slowly as the old man becomes his mentor. The teen goes to college, performs in a big band. he invites his father to a performance, the father doesnt show up, the teen gets sad, then the mentor shares a tale of his own come up, the father hears his kid play on the news, decides to show up to another show, gets impressed with his kid's skill and is moved by the music so much that he vows to change his ways, the mothers condition gets better, the end"
I just wrote an entire treatment to prove that Activision/Blizard has either talentless or cusked writers
“The term “Live Service” has soured over the years.”
Crazy considering it was kinda something plenty of us hated from day 1.
Because no matter how many protest against that and microtransactions, there will always be just enough people to keep is going and don't care.
Golden age of gaming is over. Sad.
i constantly bitched about live service in battlefield on reddit only to have a few agree but most claim to love it, in 2010 15 bucks got you a dlc with 4-6 maps, 8 new guns or battlefield vietnam for bfbc2, now 20 bucks gets you a skin which you will never see and good luck getting the slow drip of content to speed up, what a joke
At this point, cocaine would easier to get rid of (and it has a much lower profit margin), than digital gambling
Like NFTs, microtransactions, loot boxes, and predictions that "physical discs and consoles are dying," we know BS when we hear it.
@@12ealDealOfficial please don't mix addiction feeders, and pyramid scams, it may give one of them a sense of grandiose
"Activision-Blizzard clears itself of any wrongdoing."
That's a nice argument, Activision-Blizzard, why don't you back it up with a source?
Activision-Blizzard: My source is I made it the fuck up!
The irony of that headline being on KOTAKU is delicious. It's word-for-word for when their writer Nathan Grayson was busted sleeping with the subject of an article hyping her game. 😅
I understood that reference
@@charlescabbage2933 nice
Source: Dude trust me.
Who said every time their behavior was fine but still got kicked out of 109?
Great video! One small nitpick, though. There's no "Blizzard half" to ActiBlizz. It is a single entity. "Blizzard" devs are put there and given orders by the same people as "Activision", and none of the old blood has any power anymore (either because they left or they didn't have much power in the first place). It's not useful to think of it as a separate thing. Blizzard died a long time ago, time to move on.
As a new parent. I can say for a fact, stolen breast milk is not funny. Its a lot of work to pump every 2 hours. Its painful. And its very stressful for the parents that arnt producing enough milk. Ad a formula shortage on top of that. Thats enough to warrant a serious beating.
"We weren't aware it was so bad!"
It's literally their job to be aware. It's why management gets paid more than non management. Pretty funny lol.
"We weren't aware!"
So you're telling me you're incompetent, then? That you should've never been hired?
@@thetheory6159 that's what diversity hiring gets you.
@@GeraltofRivia22 I mean yeah, but in this case it’s literally nothing to do with diversity hires, and everything to do with corporate corruption
@@stoneraptor6219 HR is by far the worst affected when it comes to diversity hiring.
one out of ten managers i meet is probably deserving of their salary and competent at their job.
Blizzard went from one of the most respected gaming companies to being looked at like EA gets looked at.
Honestly that happened the minute they merged with Activision. Don't get me wrong, it took some time for them to go completely off a cliff but that was the beginning of the end.
Blizzard makes EA look like an honest, ethical, and respectable company.
I mean back when they merged it was a “Oh hell yeah the CoD dudes are joining the Warcraft dudes” but now it’s just “Dear Jesus who ever let these STD’s disguised as companies ever combine?”
@@somehistorynerd I don't think I've ever met anyone who was excited when Activision bought Blizzard. I can't see how a company responsible for producing excellent RTS games, as well as arguably the best MMORPG of all time and one of the best hack and slash game series of all time was going to benefit from being bought by a company who's only claim to fame was putting a new shade of lipstick on the same FPS pig every year and pretending it was some kind of new game.
I always had a fear that Blizzard set the bar so high that they, themselves, wouldn't be able to keep it propped up. It's still crazy to think that the merger back in 2008 was the beginning of the end.
I am glad to see you back on YT after a long break. I just want to let you know that you are one of my favorites YT creators. I watch you since 2017 and I has been glued to your video contents. It sucks how UA-cam and Quantum TV did you dirty. It is indeed a dark age but sometimes it takes to lit a candle to shine brighter. They might think they won but what they won is a mere battle, but never the war. I hope you keep going and good luck!
Hey Act Man, just realized that the song playing through the 5-star odds/cost simulator was Dance of Illusions, the boss theme of dracula in Castlevania Dracula X Rondo of Blood. Great game and good choice sir.
Honestly, they're so bad, it's not even funny to me anymore
For some reason i really dislike your profile picture despite joyfully watching a few of your videos
@@secretname2670 it’s a goat on a stick
ikr? i mean, if anything i feel like the only activism they actually do is just performative activism. it's borderline stupid
ua-cam.com/video/pm2Nm_mOqqg/v-deo.html
It’s finally here
@@secretname2670
Is it the horns?
As I'm looking at them I'm getting a Mandela effect on whether or not a side profile of a goat would have both horns visible.
I remember thinking that the "ability" section of blizzard's diversity tool meant "cognitive ability" and that made me really confused since torbjorn had a high score. I was thinking maybe they made torbjorn autistic like symmetra (because being obsessive over geometric shapes apparently makes you autistic) simply because torbjorn was too focused on his engineering. It took me a while to figure out, no he only has a high ability score because he has a mechanical arm... I would have never thought that torbjorn was disabled if it wasn't for blizzard pointing it out to me. The mechanical arm is just part of torbjorn's design, he's not disabled, if anything his mechanical arm enhances his abilities.
Friendly reminder the Overwatch team has never and will never used that diversity chart, whoever made it used those characters as an example
I mean, it wasn't used for development but it's actually a decent example of how approaching a character like that COULD be useful. It characterises Torbjorn, and while I'm sure it's a boon for the game itself I can't imagine he has a good time using that set of pliers he has for a hand for cleaning the dishes. It's a bad system for a few reasons but the aim of diversifying characters in that way where they have unique traits, whether they be disabilities, injuries, backgrounds or ethnicities is a good one where so much focus can be lost on the other side of that coin, on their presence and special powers, which is also something you shouldn't ignore.
As an autistic person,if a company wants to represent us,why don't they just get autistic people on the team?
(and yes I know someone being in the group doesn't mean they represent all the group but it's better then none)
Edit: It's cause its corporate bs
@@humandisaster3902 If the focus of the tool was just to find some unique combinations and stumble into some cool gameplay, that would be awesome. The trouble is that this tool was made just to appease the extremely left leaning liberal media, and their desire to see straight white people removed from the world. And then, hilariously, it's the extreme left leaning liberal media that says this tool is a bad thing. Never try to appease crybabies, because they'll always find something to complain about. Imagine your chief complaint being that there are too many white people in a game... when it was created in a country that is 60% white. Always crying for "proper representation" and then pretending that "proper representation" means pretending 60% of your country doesn't exist, and really focusing in on the less than 1% that cut their own genitals off.
@@kenfresno2125 no... you don't have to do all that working out there, you can approach the system on a character basis and see why it's not entirely good or helpful. It doesn't plot out the character and it doesn't actually address unique traits of the character to assist someone in creating something new.
There's no attempt to remove "straight white men" from anything and this tool doesn't appeal to creators, or the people it has attempted to represent. It's a good idea, it was just done poorly.
Nice transphobia at the end there btw dude.
Forced Diversity does not work. You end up with all the focus on casting and nothing for acting or good writing.
Why the hell does it even matter? it's a damn game u play it for fun not to see a women in ww2 storming Normandy or some other shit
It never did
@@Localpcshitter "Why the hell does it even matter?"
Because, positions are filled with people that tick diversity quotas instead of you know, having the skill, experience and talent to get the work done?
@@grimmover exactly. Normal civilian jobs are all diversity hires now. It’s probably going to get worse.
@@LocalpcshitterNot enough people get fired for doing their job horribly.
Great video as always Act Man. Even faced with adversity, you're not backing down. Keep up the amazing work!
You know there's something fishy going on at Activision when Activision does an investigation on themselves and claims there's nothing wrong going on. How stupid do they think people are?
Tell that to Pfizer
well, considering how people still buy their products..
well they made 25mil in diablo immortal ... so yeah people are stupid
Based on how people do absolutely nothing when the government does the same thing? I say they're betting people are the drooling simps a lot of them appear to be.
They think us quite dull indeed
There was genuinely a hole in youtube without you Act Man. It’s so good to have you back.
This platform doesn’t deserve his content but he loves what he does so he do it for the fans
@@Bittamin UA-cam probably dont want to ban quantum TV because he is Black.
@@Bittamin But it make no sense as he done alot of harrasment here.
Im glad act man is doing well!
Keep doing what you love!
Just one quick note Act Man: Companies will frequently settle lawsuits rather than battle them out in court because the settlement is less expensive than paying for the *years* of lawyers' fees it would require to exonerate said company. While a settlement may *look* like an admission of guilt, in actuality it is far more likely to be a purely economic decision rather than legal comeuppance. If there was, indeed, sexual harassment on the scale that was alleged and if it was possible to prove it in court, A.B. could've very easily been on the hook for 10s, if not 100s of millions of dollars. The settlement makes the problem go away.
Honestly, with everything that happened with the company, I can only blame the idiots who continue giving Blizzard money for what they do.
Every preorder WoW mount, every whale in Immortal, every diversity-bait in Overwatch, every sexual harassment lawsuit, is just another example of a company that can apparently get away with anything.
Stop. Giving. Them. Money.
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Just watch all those morons pre-order Diablo 4 and making videos about it when it comes out. People have been raised as brainless consumers with FOMO, they can't keep their money in their pockets. And the future generations will be even worse.
We're slowly drifting towards a cyberpunk world were mega corporations have all the power.
Consumer side activism has only worked in very close communities like the bus boycotts in alabama. It would almost be impossible to organize a boycott to get them to change. The only way these companies will change is if devs unionize and these publishers are regulated to shit so they cant use these abusive buisness practices anymore.
I don't know...
Seriously, I haven't given money to Zombliezzard for over 4 years.
@@yutro213 you cant view the mass public like you view your self you have to think of groups of people as morons that dont know whats good for them. If that werent the case the republicans would never win a election
Thank God you haven’t given up. Your content is a diamond in the rough on UA-cam. When I see one of your videos I watch it in its entirety, and it’s always well written and produced. Do not quit on us, we love you brother.
seriously, the way he combs through his own commentary for moments to add a funny audio bit or flash a poignant image/clip on the screen shows how dedicated he is to his videos. i can’t listen to his videos like podcasts the way i can with other creators- i feel like i have to sit down and enjoy them in their entirety.
I know this isn't something you see much, but I wanted to share a few experiences I've had this year in the hopes that it helps someone in need. Love you all.
Huh channel 5 is way batter content, alsp if he just let clowntuam keep his shitty opinion he would still be getting money's
Man did this age well. Let's be honest they hate every gamer
You're awesome, Act Man. Keep up the amazing content!!
Hey Act Man, glad you're back. Regarding lactation rooms. Basically, if a woman is breastfeeding, she keeps producing milk, regardless of whether or not it is eaten. So, if she's working, she needs to pump milk for 2 reasons. 1/ so the baby can be fed wherever it is and 2/ to prevent milk building up which can be very uncomfortable and lead to serious infections like mastitis. So having access to those facilities allows these women to continue breastfeeding (which is the best thing for babies) while working.
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Thank you that makes sense. I found it weird when I first heard it, but I knew it wasn't something to far off like this. Alright now the real issue WHO IS TAKING THESE WOMANS MILK LEAVE IT ALONE CREEP.
Its actually baffling how almost every game developer that I can remember being hailed as titans of the industry decades ago are now laughing stocks or complete shells of their former selves.
Also glad to see you're still soldiering on Act Man.
Yeah, I guess the liberal media killing off a bunch of companies that made great games (because they weren't diverse enough) is... actually... a great... thing... somehow. I remember how much I hated Diablo because I couldn't make my character a transgender Muslim in a wheelchair. Just took me completely out of the game. So happy I won't ever have to slog through crap like that again! I'm ready to spend my free time playing seriously fantastic liberal products like Depression Quest!
@@kenfresno2125 we are now referring to "people who do not support sexual harrassment or general tomfuckery" as the "liberal media"
@TheSovietOnion Please show me any metric that suggests diversity=profits. I think it has been proven time, and time and time and time again that woke=broke. It makes quite literally no sense for a business to go more woke for money. It's like jumping in a pool to stay dry.
@@speeklymaeve yes, because someone in the company was a horrible person that obviously means the company must create diversity generators to make sure there aren't too many straight white people in their games. The logic is staggering.
@@kenfresno2125 actively opposed to appealing to the masses. diversity generators are just... i have no words. nobody asked for or wanted them. not a single sensible person. AB is just so stupid of a company that they just assumed it would fix their issues. also they monetized one of the most horrifically depressing and vile events in the history of our species for gits and shiggles
Glad to know you wished to come back to UA-cam! Your videos are very deep in their analysis of topics in the gaming industry!
Thanks for covering this. It's shocking how these big companies continue to get away with their BS. I think the problem is that there is not enough coverage and so most players just don't know or they might hear about it, but not enough to put them off. As long as people keep supporting their BS, these companies will continue to do terrible crap and continue to get away with it.
Microsoft/Mojang is forcing a player reporter "tool" on everyone, including private servers, because they care about the community. Well... if they cared so much, why are they buying Blizzard? It's really simple... this "tool" exists only as something they can't point to in court when someone tries to sue them. It's there to cover their own butts... that's it. They don't care about you or the kids... they care about the money.
Blizzard, or the higher up executives at Blizzard, is a great example of just how little they care... they don't even care about the people who work there.
The most hilarious part about that whole sexual harassment and discrimination scandal is that blizzard started to push a very... harmfisted "women of blizzard" panel at blizzcon (yaknow, the convention about blizzard GAMES) around the time they announced Diablo Immortal ...
It's funny how the ones that virtue signale the most are always the slimiest.
It was amazing hearing some seriously talented ladies talk about their careers, but it should've been an obvious red flag. Even more so that the voice actor for Murlocs wasn't on the panel smh
The council of Activision finds Blizzard not guilty of crimes against Activision
...........
Signed Activision Blizzard
Kind of like how male feminists turn out to be the ones doing the worst sh*t
Or perhaps all the allegations were fake from the start! You see they took they settlement awfully fast, bunch of cows cashing cash.
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It’s finally here
Glad to see you not shaken up by everything that's happened lately. Also damn good to see independent sponsors not being scared away by UA-cam's bullshit and still willing to back your channel.
something tells me they dont know
@@lalatendupdeo4398 Keep it that way.
@@lalatendupdeo4398 something tells me they do know but they don't give a shit about what UA-cam thinks lol. Why would they? It's not like he did anything to get canceled or anything bad.
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It’s finally here
overwatch OG... i never even thought of buying loot boxes because i earned enough i felt through my regular gameplay experience. knowing that all that is just buyable now.... takes a lot of that magic out of it.
that BGM gave me feels. i haven't heard Warcraft 2 main menu song in over 20 years or more.
Nice to see you back. Let’s hope everything goes well after the shitstorm that has happened. You did what you could and people are still here for you.
#TheActAttorneyNeverFails
@@DONT-READ_MY-PROFILE_-PICTURE Ok, thanks for telling me not to read your name mystery person.
@@DONT-READ_MY-PROFILE_-PICTURE it says to report you for racism
Welcome back Act Man... thank goodness for sponsorship. The gaming world needs this man's honesty. 🙌🏻
#TheActAttorneyNeverFails
Taking sponsorships is the number one way to stop being honest. He also doesn't need them, look at his patreon. Please stop sucking off everyone who figured out how to turn on a camera, they're not entitled to money for their content.
Welcome back, The Act Man! Good to see you still kicking it with good reviews that deserve it (Half Life, Fallout New Vegas, etc) and bad reviews that also deserve it (Activision, Call of Duty Vanguard, Blizzard)
Keep up the good work, Soldier! And we'll be here supporting you along the way!
So, good. 🤣 Glad to see ya back, sir.
To answer one question: offices tend to have lactation rooms for mothers who are still breast feeding since they have 2 options: collect the breast milk in bottles for their baby later or leak all over their shirt and possibly be super uncomfortable.
I am fully in favor of protecting this sort of thing. Stealing breast milk is fucking weird bro.
Still that caption of the old dial up soind while trying to fathom it was brilliant! I laughed so damn hard!
Why are lactating mothers working and not on maternity leave like in normal countries?
@@decem_sagittae they could be on maternity leave for a time but I don’t believe that maternity leave covers that long here in the U.S.
@@relishcakes4525 where I live it's two yeas of paid maternity leave
@@decem_sagittae that’s nice. I told my wife when she got pregnant that I would bring in enough money so she didn’t need to work anymore if she didn’t want.
The diversity tool reminds me of an incentive my company had a few years ago where we would get a bonus if we recommend a person who is hired and that bonus doubles If that person has a debilitating disability
What the actual hell!!!
Someone I know got a prestigious government job this way. He is a great kid, but I refuse to believe his lack of experience, references, or ability to demonstrate basic people skills in public pushed him over other candidates. He has some form of autism and a strange speech impediment.
DONT READ MY USERNAME!!
That's funny.
The UK show Brasseye was saying stuff like this in parody 20 years ago and now it's happening
I mean hiring disabled people isn't a problem as long as they can work (which many can),the thing is the workplace need to be disabled friendly. Which a lot of work places aren't.
Glad to see you remonetized, I love the videos!
I believe the graph that blizzard was showing was not necessarily a “ranking system” of things like race and disabilities. I think the choice of graph was very poor, because at first glance that is definitely what it looks like - a ranking system.
The numbers made more sense to me, when ive made things somewhat similar to the numbers of 0-4 just applies to the variables for the methods they used in their data. 0 for example would equal white or another races (white=0 or black=2, but this does NOT mean black>white or the other way around). This could help them track that they are being as diverse as they can and try to appeal to all audiences. It’s still fuck blizzard, but hopefully this is an explanation to their numbers/graph because it does TRY to serve a good and useful purpose. However, this is blizzard and they only try and keep fucking up.
I think we all understand that. The problem is that's not really a good purpose, to have another black character because you just want more black characters. "Oi, Joe, make the new character black. And gay. The algorithm says we only have one other black, gay character, and corporate wants 2, so get to it!" Like, it's fine to just randomize traits, and I don't mind if a producer looks at a cast and says "Why is the entire cast white as snow but the world of this game has plenty of non-white people?" Sure, fix that. But to sit there and create your characters based solely, or dominantly, on their demographics, instead of on being cool, interesting, and relatable, is shitty creation.
@@BWMagus that’s fair, thanks for the response. Diversity is certainly an interesting tight rope nowadays for companies to walk.
Thank god your back, I found your reviews recently w/ Elden ring then watched you other videos and they have been by far my favorite, and actually very informative.
Us in the Overwatch community laughed so hard at the creepy tool. The Overwatch Developers were so mad at it. The Overwatch creator's love and care so much about their diverse heroes. They did not use that tool it's from King the mobile game part of ABK
Mindsets like Blizzard's is a strong reason as to why I always roll my eyes at attempts at inclusion in pop culture. Noone seems to be doing it just because or for a good reason, but to attempt to draw on a crowd that was never interested for percieved greater profits.
Are you suggesting... that the artist should actually have creative control over their story/world instead of a board of execs looking for social clout?
Madness, I say!
Dune 2021 is the only recent example of diversity done for the right reasons, that i can think of.
_literaly the only one!_
Exactly, on top of that, most of the people who cry about these issues aren't even watching/spending money on the products they insist upon being made. If so many people Truly wanted and supported these things as much as they say then the numbers would reflect that. But forced diversity products are almost always commercial flops. Not because the vast majority has any problem with diversity itself, but because it's a massive set of handcuffs on writers/creators to navigate the minefield of PC culture bullshit and still make a product that is actually good.
The point that The Act Man made about Overwatch is a good example of non forced diversity, it makes perfect sense within the narrative to have all different characters from all different walks of life in that setting, so great, thumbs up. It is a little more jarring-however, when you're watching a movie set in a RL city that has an overwhelming majority population of a certain skin colour and every person you see is a different skin colour to the next. It's immersion breaking, reeks of corporate pandering for profit and a lot of people can smell the bullshit. By all means represent as many different types of people as you want, but if you can't maintain relevant consistency with the world in which your story happens then you fucked up.
@@NineBreakerUIXB My theory is that either the people who support this dont actually care about the franchisees they plow over, or alternatively, the people this does effect ARE supporting this now, but because it's such a small portion of the population, that it doesnt show in a gross increase in profits. As it is, we only hear the loud minority, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
@@Cosmic_K13 They certainly don't seem to care about the franchises, or creative endeavours in general, quite a lot of them I very much doubt even care about the causes they're shouting about. Usually it just seems to be a case of trying to look good to their friends and neighbours so no one will notice what an uninteresting and/or terrible human being they actually are
I love it when you put Castlevania music in your videos.
Glad to see you creating and releasing again!
and it keeps making billions of dollars because people say this but dont prove it by not buying their stuff.
I'm so happy that your still making content even though your channel being demonetized,your a true inspiration to everyone. #JusticeforActman
#TheActAttorneyNeverFails
Inspiration? Why is that? With 4957 dollars on just patreon each month, it's more steady and more income than what he made with ad revenue.
Regardless, I'm also glad he's making videos again.
@@Just_Call_Me_Frosty because little kids drool over UA-camrs and internet figures
@@alexk1682 That sounds reasonable. Parasocial relationships are really getting out of hand.
Glad to see you back in action, Act Man.
About the breastfeeding thing, it's actually common for breastfeeding mothers to need to pump during the workday and their employer is required by law to give them a space to do it in privately. When you're breastfeeding you need to pump during the day, so it makes sense that mothers returning to work would need a safe space to pump in.
Thanks for mentioning this! Didn’t nessecarily know if it was something exclusive to blizzard but this clarification really helps! Still entirely fucked that grown men are drinking it 🤢
@@LowKeyBrit36 mfw mommy milk shaming
@@LowKeyBrit36 it is okay when those men who do it are very "diverse" in any shape or form of themselves.
@@michaelsabirlar5955 can't tell if you're making a joke about blizzards diversity tool but it's disgusting no matter what lol
@@LowKeyBrit36 it is a blow below the belt. I do not respect that blizzard community that stands united despite it all. To make it clear they drove a woman to commit suicide, routinely harassed employees, crawling trough women's cubicles, making childish jokes at women et cetera.
I will never let this go. I detest the current state of the videogame industry. The abhorrent and abuse of videogame developers. The fanboys who shriek with delight over 800% value because they have phones need to get caught and face even jailtime...
Watching all your videos again since you’re remonitized now! Love ya Act Man
I don’t usually comment on vids but man, I come back to this video at least once a week. Your editing style and commentary is so funny bro. Top 5 UA-camrs for me hands down. Thanks for these videos man!
The problem with games like Diablo Immortal isn't the games themselves. It's the brainlet users with unreasonable amounts of disposable income who spend tens of thousands of dollars and more on in-game purchases. This is why these games exist. No matter what the game is, there will be people who will spend an absurd amount for in-game purchases and games like this will continue to be made for that reason.
Ah Yes Blame the Gambler Not the Casino. Honestly though I don't think they actually are in a finacially stable situation to waste money.
@@mo.trademarked Well without the gamblers, the casino doesn't exist. The Casino just exists to take advantage of their tendencies and lack of self control.
@@mo.trademarked What, so we should not allow people to gamble because of a small subset of people who never learned self-control?
If loot boxes are seen as gambling, then they should be restricted to adults. If that happens, the company will lose half its player base and will not resort to using this type of monetisation, and yes, games like this will continue to be made, but their profitability will be noticeably reduced.
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Act Man glad to see you back, easily my favorite UA-cam channel
Hey Act Man! There's a game that I've always thought of you possibly making a video about. A literal master piece of its time. Could you make a video about why "The Saboteur" was so awesome? Either way, glad you're back and standing tall. Best wishes! 🙏🏻
"Who brings breast milk to work?"
Well, to feed the baby, if they have no choice but to bring the child to work. Also, breasts can produce milk fairly quickly, so there may not be time to wait to go home before a mother may have to use a pump. You can then refrigerate it for the baby later and not waste it.
Paid maternity leave should be the solution, not lactation rooms.
@@SarkkiKarkki so go advocate for that then. Until then, this is it chief.
@@SarkkiKarkki paid maternity leave for how long? Three months? Six months? A year? I think those are reasonable time frames, however A) some breastfeeding moms want to go back to work because they like their jobs and don’t want to stay at home; and B) the WHO recommends breast feeding for up to two years. That would be more parental leave than is offered in the countries with the most generous social safety nets.
@@aexanderospino1590 Sadly if they had to give paid maternity leave for up to a year women would be less likely to get jobs, and they would get paid less then they already are as they would ‘be risky’ and ‘do less work’. Plus, lactation rooms aren’t bad when people aren’t *stealing breast milk.*
@@aexanderospino1590 In our country , if a woman chooses so , the company is obligated to give 2y of maternity leave , and give her the same job when she is back. On the downsides, much less 'lactation rooms' provided. ...
If there is one UA-camr that deserves us clicking on their sponsored links, it's The Act Man. Thankful for your return, and hope you can support your channel in this new direction. Good luck and godspeed!
#TheActAttorneyNeverFails
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That tune is familiar, where's it from?
We love you Act Man. Never stop being you
You’re a legend for not letting the UA-cam B.S. stopping you from making content. The whole community is right behind you - hope everything gets resolved soon 🙏🏽
@@dontreadmyprofilepicture6945 he got me again HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS.
@@senatorarmstrong4662 standing here i realise that you were just like me.....
@@qui-gonjinn8350 trying to make history. But who’s to judge…….
@@senatorarmstrong4662 JESSIE, GUS IS TRYING TO KILL ME AND MY FAMILY, STOP LOOKING AT UA-cam VIDEOS, WE. NEED. TO. COOK….
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I mean we all knew he wasn't going to abandon the channel, come now hahahaha
It would take more than that m8
The diversity tool honestly feels really gross and offensive to me, like... I'm Southeast Asian, I love my culture, and I value what my people are like, but this tool just makes including an Asian character feel less special and feel more like they got included just because their race and ethnicity. It devalues the culture and race as a whole if it's being added simply to cross off a checklist.
As a black man, I think diversity is a good thing. However, it has to have some common sense applied. If the game is set in modern day New York, I expect to see more than white faces. If the game is set in a small fishing village in Iceland back in 1477, then a black person being there wouldn't make sense. That said, when it comes to completely fantasy settings, some diversity doesn't take anything away from the setting.
@@seanwilliams7655 exactly because for some reason people hated that their was no black characters in the witcher even though the poland
@@A3N.A2B pretty sure the Witcher is set in a fantasy world. The company that makes the games is in Poland.
@@seanwilliams7655 yeah seriously, indian guy here and diversity is awesome when it isn't soulless like blizzard's been doing. Overwatch was really cool because it was the first time i saw indian characters in a huge game, but reading that tool took away all value from that character. They didn't want to put in a brown character because they thought it'd be cool, they did it to mathematically ensure people will buy their game
they were doing that before the diversity tool
Thank you for using Warcraft II music. That got an instant sub. Keep on trucking; I hope demonetisation can get removed.
Randomly stumbled over this video, hearing Donkey Kong 64 Music in it. Have my sub good sir
Activision/Blizzard is the perfect representation of the phrase "How could things possibly get any worse?"
Even EA wasn't terrible like both of them.
"Yes"
they could cancel the PVE in overwatch 2 and re-package pieces of it into small events to sell overpriced skins to whales
It's almost the left has gone soooo far left their now racist.
If it's abbreviated AB it's toxic
Great to see you back man! Hope everything turns out great for you.
Edit holy crap thanks for the likes. Also how do I get rid of bots replying.
Him coming out with an banger of an update on Activision Blizzard just shows his decisiveness! If he goes down he’s burning everything and saying anything while sticking it to YT. A true legend!
Edit: Was just wondering about this too so that’s a plus!
@@D44RK_Iced_Yogs coming back bullying Activision blizzard for being a bad company is just the way I expected from the legendary acting male
@@Destroyer42005 Yeah at this point they are worse than EA.
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@@dontreadmyprofilepicture6945 ok I won't, because frankly idrc
Having a diverse cast in a completely fantasy setting can work so long as each have unique and fun personalities and abilities that actually feel different. It can't really work in a historic or already established setting. If you make a game based on a book which describes the main character as "a tall, slender but muscular male with shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes" but do none of that, you're not doinf diversity; you're just changing something cause you think more people will enjoy it. It works even less if the race, sex or other physical factors are the basis of discrimination of the character and you decide its not important. Now you didn't just change up 1 character, you changed up the entire plot.
Man, that warcraft 2 BGM just never gets old..
Can’t express my joy to have the Act Man back and better than ever. We all appreciate that even while being demonetized, you are still putting all your effort into these videos.
Its good that he gets money from sponsors, but UA-cam just got a free 1k from this video of Act Man
I want to give him as much encouragement as possible
It's good to see you back Act Man.
It's shitty that you can't get paid for all the work that you do.
But keep making the great video's buddy and people will keep watching them. And with any luck you will get the option back to get paid for the things that you do
that warthunder sponsor pays more than 3 videos together
And you can sub to his patreon and actually pay him.
@@andrewpeters93 Based
@@andrewpeters93 gigachad move
Act Man, you monetized again?! Getting some ads on this video, and for once it's a good thing - congrats man.
i forgot about the "do you not have phones" thing HAHAHAHA
I'm happy your back Act Man. It's absolute bullshit that you've been demonetized, I hope you can come back stronger than ever. We have your back.
Why was his channel demonetized? Did UA-cam realize his show has jumped the shark or something?
@@ericwaln2056 the whole quantum tv drama
@@ericwaln2056 His channel was demonetized because of a satire tweet he made about doxxing UA-cam employees and their families. He made it in response to his family being doxxed. Phillip Defranco gave him an interview which explains the situation better.
@@ericwaln2056 what I could tell it was actman tweeting mentioning UA-cam employers (doxing them) which they really didn't want. So they just picked some clip of where act showed quantum tv guy with a cucumber in his mouth (super imposed) and called it cyber bullying.
Really it comes down to youtube having to take something serious when it clearly wasnt. It doesnt matter if the content creator is a comedian, there is no black and white there unfortunately. This is a learning lesson on if youtube wants to let you go they will. Im really hoping act man makes more via patreon anyways and streaming is where the money is at anyways, stuff youtube they are a bunch of mugs.
@@ericwaln2056 Nice gaslighting you have there.
*Patrolling the Mojave is almost as good as the Act Man being back to UA-cam*
there he is
You know the topics getting juicy when the Snide theme kicks in🎶
Welcome back 🙏 stay strong!!
I'm so glad to see you making content again
Dibs to first
Stupid chatbot
Oh wait it wasn’t a chatbot?
Edit: Well dibs to second and third spot
That's what I was about to say. Mad respect to Mr. Man.
@@Sir_Kophagus haha yeah it wasn't dibs to infinity spot. :3
I'm glad to see that the weird situation before has turned into 'something' positive at least. A steady patreon + sponsors is more profitable than just ad revenue. Well played and good to see you back.
There should be rules preventing "Tickled people" from being on the platform.
If youtube acts as if you're wrong, you're actually in the right. So I finally subscribed.
Activision Blizzard is literally the real life version of Vought Industries from The Boys.