Activision Blizzard: After complaint and allegations: Blizzard President J. Allen Brack leaves the company

Blizzard President J. Allen Brack has announced his resignation: as Gamespot.com reports, he leaves the company as a result of the action against Activision Blizzard due to sexual harassment as well as discrimination against women (more here). The step was announced on the website of the Group.

His position takes over the double team Jen Oale and Mike Ybarra, which will lead Blizzard together in the future. ONEAL previously worked at the top of Activisions Studio Vicarious Visions, recently incorporated into Blizzard. Since January, she already had the position as "Vice President of Development" at Blizzard. Ybara came to Blizzard until 2019 - after a long career at Xbox. Before the current change, he clizzed the post of "General Manager of Platform and Technology" at Blizzard.

Brack started his career in the big names of the industry in 1994 - first as Associate Producer at Electronic Arts, later at Sony Online and from 2006 at Blizzard (u.a. Production Director at World of Warcraft). He comments in the official statement as follows:

_ "I am convinced that Jen Oeal and Mike Ybarra will provide the leadership that Blizzard needs to realize its full potential and speed up the speed of change. I expect you to do this with passion and enthusiasm, and that you can entrust you to the management with the highest possible integrity and highest possible commitment to Blizzard's culture, because it makes Blizzard so special. "_

Both ONEAL and YBARRA have been prescribed to the goal of making Blizzard for the safest, inviting workplace for women - and for people of any sex identities, ethnicities, sexual orientations or backgrounds. With their commitment to integrity and inclusion, they would ensure that the values ​​of the company were held up and reaffirmed to regain the confidence of the employees - so the message.

An occasion for the displeasure over Bracken should have been a video of the BlizzCon 2010, in which a trade fair attendant asked a question about the "over-experimental representation of women" in World of Warcraft and the developers only entered flaps - and rather funny about it. At that time, at the time, U.. J. All Brack (Current President of Blizzard), Alex Afrasiabi (then Senior Creative Director of WOW) and Greg Street (Lead Systems Designer). Looking back, e.g. Greg Street (Ghostcrawler) was worded and wrote that the statements were "embarrassing" and "shameful".