Riot Games, known to everyone with its Valorant and League of Legends games, has thousands of employees. The company, which came to the fore with gender discrimination in a way that it never wanted, was in court in 2018. Following the 2018 lawsuit, Riot agreed to pay a total of $100 million in fines, saying it should take responsibility for the past.
Riot Games plead guilty in gender discrimination lawsuit
Riot, in a statement today, agreed to pay compensation in the lawsuit that previously addressed 1065 female employees and 1300 female contract workers. It was emphasized that the responsibility of neglected employees will be taken and compensation will be paid against the allegations of gender discrimination and harassment spread about the company. Although the compensation amount Riot Games will pay is $ 80 million, this lawsuit costs $ 100 million when the court costs of about $ 20 million are taken into account.
In the crisis that broke out in 2018, an e-mail chain emerged where the beauties of female employees were rated. After the outbreak of this incident, which turned female employees into sexual objects, photos of genitals were sent to some employees. After three years of crisis, Riot finally takes responsibility and admits to the blame.
Increasing cases of harassment in the gaming industry
Before Riot Games, we witnessed that harassment incidents in the game industry came to the fore quite often. Of course, the first thing that comes to mind from these cases is Activision Blizzard. In the past weeks, Activision Blizzard employees protested the company’s founder and CEO, Bobby Kotick. Despite the protest attended by even executives at the company, Kotick does not seem inclined to give up his seat at the moment.
We have seen that harassment cases have come to the fore in another giant game studio, Ubisoft. We are deeply saddened by the recent emergence of such nauseating events in the gaming industry. We will see together what will happen to the companies and names that come to the agenda in an undesirable way in the coming weeks.
Returning to Riot Games, we can consider it as an improvement that the company accepted these claims and paid compensation. However, it should not be forgotten what kind of damage this process, which has been going on for 3 years, has done to the employees. Do you think Riot’s compensation payment is enough to close the page?
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