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Riot Games Issues New Company Values In Wake of 'Bro' Culture Accusations (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the no-comment dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Riot Games, the maker of the enormously popular League of Legends multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) PC game, has issued a new set of company values on its web site. They're the result of some soul searching after the company was accused by many of its own employees last year of having a sexist "bro" culture. The company said that these new values replace the company's Manifesto from 2012 and reflects conversations with more than 1,700 Rioters about "what we want our company to be."

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  1. Wokness signaling by sinij · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wokeness signaling is not a no-loss proposition. Any gaming company has to realize that it also brings about:
    a. Content censorship. Be prepared to run all your content decisions by an unaccountable "committee" that will issue arbitrary decisions. Unlike law and religion, these people are not sufficiently organized or organizationally mature to have a set of rules or standards to follow.
    b. Departure from meritocracy in employment standards. One of the common demands is hiring higher number of minorities and women, while great as a principle without available qualified candidates the only way to meet targets is to hire unqualified candidates.
    c. Gamers generally don't appreciate political messaging in games, as these groups repeatedly attacked and abused gamers in the past (i.e. gamergate)

    1. Re:Wokness signaling by RedK · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually, there's a lot to be said for gaming companies to hire both women and minorities; these are both groups that it would be valuable to have as customers, but which aren't very well served.

      How sexist do you have to be to believe women and minorities need "special" games and can't just play what everyone else plays.

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      "Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
      Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
    2. Re:Wokness signaling by RedK · · Score: 5, Insightful

      How clueless do you have to be to believe games targeted at young white men may contain things that turn off other groups?

      Can you explain to me what the difference is between a "young white men" game vs a say "young black men" game ?

      Or how the presence of a "Young men" game makes it so "Young female" games can't exist ?

      Clueless is the proper word, you just aimed it at the wrong target.

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      "Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
      Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM