I don't really think riot is trash. But I don't follow the media around gaming that much. Their layoff plan seems extremely generous and caring considering other bullshit I've seen. It sounds like they care about people - so it's good pr at least .

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://kotaku.com/inside-the-culture-of-sexism-at-riot-games-1828165483

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/12/27/riot-discrimination-100-million-settlement/

When your culture of sexism results in a class action lawsuit from former and current employees, and you pay out to the tune of 100 million and keep all the same executives who were accused of harassment and discrimination, and you have to have a third party watch over your company for years to make sure you're not still doing this stuff: you're a trash company.

so it’s good pr at least .

I couldn't roll my eyes any harder. That's literally all it is.

[–] citrusface 19 points 11 months ago

Then I'll amend and say yeah that's trash - but trash or not, I'll still say it's a very decent severance package... But still trash company, agree.

[–] Weslee 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Literally the very first thing Riot did was steal and intentionally attempt to sabotage a beloved free game cause they were greedy and wanted all the money.

It's just a shame it worked.

[–] citrusface 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, seems fucky, like I said - having read the articles the other poster provided - I agree they are shit.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I never heard about that

[–] Weslee 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Pendragon used to maintain Dota, when he passed it over to IceFrog he (for some reason) kept control over the Dota website (you used to have to go to the website and download the Dota map everytime it updated), so it was pretty important, as well as the forum community.

When Pendragon decided to start Riot and LoL, instead of just giving the website to IceFrog he took the site offline and replaced it with a redirect advert for LoL.

The forums were also taken offline where he went into the data and stole a whole bunch of hero designs that were suggested and under discussion.

Overall a dick move, and what a way to introduce your new company and game to millions of people.

Even though I don't play Dota anymore, I'm very pleased that both Riot and Blizzard failed to seize the copyrights to Dota from Valve.

[–] Maggoty 5 points 11 months ago

Damn. That's fucked up. Thanks for the rundown.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's pretty generous, but maybe the CEO could just take a pay cut