Riot Games apologise for workplace culture they let fester, vow to ‘become a leader on diversity, inclusion, and culture’

Following numerous reports claiming that Riot Games have long suffered an inappropriate and sexist workplace culture and resisted many attempts to even critique it, let alone change it, the League Of Legends studio have vowed to “rebuild” their culture and “leave no room for sexism or misogyny”.

A Kotaku report earlier in August drew from 28 current and former Riot employees, painting a picture of a workplace where men have sent unsolicited photos of their dicks to coworkers, women have found out their colleagues and seniors sent e-mails discussing their fuckability, one senior male dev would fart in other men’s faces, women were taken less seriously than men, and women felt pressure and rejection for not fitting in with this fine culture. But don’t worry, they’ll fix all this. “… we’ve never backed down from a challenge before and we don’t plan to start now,” say the studio who seem to have spent years pretending the challenge was anathema to their existence.

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