Ever since June, Activision Blizzard has been mired in a neverending torrent of workplace controversies, lawsuits, and sexual harrassment accusations. Its upcoming major releases, such as Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2, have been indefinitely delayed, and Blizzard's capstone online gaming convention annually held in February, BlizzCon, has been cancelled as stocks continue to plummet. Though the video game publisher now looks inward to fix its issues, another senior member of its team has decided to part ways with the company.

Jessica Gonzales, Senior Test Analyst at Blizzard Entertainment, resigned from Activision Blizzard today, citing a hostile work environment as her primary reason for leaving, as well as decrying the lack of effort and purposeful inaction taken towards fixing the company's toxic culture.

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Gonzales addressed the CEO of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, who himself has been the subject of sexual harrassment allegations, in her resignation post, candidly expressing that his refusal to take accountability for the state of the company was one of the primary reasons why Activision Blizzard has been going through a severe brain drain of talented people, and that until he is removed from his position, the products of Activision Blizzard will suffer in the long term.

The former Senior Test Analyst went on to say that she was leaving the company and Game Development entirely, moving into a senior quality engineering role at a financial tech company, in the pursuit of an opportunity that was better for her wellbeing and mental health. She praised the hard-working developers and the good people still working at Activision Blizzard, and expressed hope that they would play a role in enacting meaningful change in bettering the company's still-volatile workplace.

In her resignation note, Gonzales encouraged her former colleagues to continue the fight for better equity, inclusion, and workers' rights. Long before the decision to part ways with the company, she was always vocal about state of the company and hopes that her former colleagues will find their own voice and use it.

Jessica Gonzales joins a long list of people who have left Activision Blizzard in the past couple of years, and as that list keeps growing, and the goodwill of the company dwindles in the eyes of its fanbase, one does wonder when the company's hand will be forced to address these developments, and hopefully steer the course towards a healthier inclusive future, or cynically put, at the very least a more profitable one.

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