this awful happens nobody wants to stick around for the fallout obviously these aren't the first to leave there's been a string of others including blizzard president j allen brack who was pushed out and several developers so fallout from the scandal continues it has gotten to the point where activision apparently removed its own name from the marketing materials in the upcoming call of duty vanguard that's how toxic the company's name is right now and even worse news for the company the us government is getting involved uh oh the wall street journal reported that the u.s securities and exchange commission has started a wide-reaching investigation into how activision blizzard handled all the allegations of abuse and harassment and toxic behavior they have subpoenaed lots of people including ceo bobby kotick something tells me bobby's gonna be wanting to take some time off soon or spend some more time with his family or whatever rich people say when they want to get out and not get in trouble they've also subpoenaed a bunch of other executives too oh and they're asking activision blizzard to hand over documents like the personnel files of six previous employees and records of cotix communications with executives relating to the numerous complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination an activision blizzard spokeswoman confirmed that the sec was investigating saying that their focus on the quote companies disclosures regarding employment matters and related issues they added that they are cooperating with the sec kotek responded saying that leadership is quote deeply committed to making activision blizzard one of the best most inclusive places to work anywhere now before you start thinking oh this is cool the government is going to like make things right they're going to get justice for all these people who are harassed it's actually just about protecting investors the wall street journal said that the sec is trying to determine whether activision executives adequately disclosed all these allegations of harassment to investors and other individuals and if these disclosures happened quickly enough basically did investors know about these allegations so they could keep their precious money safe this is basically like rich people did something bad so we need to make sure that other rich people are okay because that is how this country works oh and meanwhile blizzard has a new game out well kind of diablo NUMBER_TOKEN remastered released recently and  some people have wondered if they should really be supporting blizzard right now when it's under such a bad spotlight to put it mildly well the game's design director rob galarani seemed to leave that decision up to players kind of an interesting quote in an interview with axios gaming earlier this month he said that folks trying to decide if they should buy the game should quote do what they feel is right he added that it was definitely troubling to hear these types of things referring to the misconduct allegations so it seems like even current employees at blizzard are very conflicted about the state of the company right now as in do i really want to be working here that explains why people are headed to the exits and this probably won't be the end of it meanwhile as of wednesday the company's stock has plunged nearly NUMBER_TOKEN over the last six months that is nuts  all right we'll get to the rest of stories in just a second but first guys let's talk about purple sometimes it can feel like the
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