Matthew Mercer is the voice actor who plays Jesse McCree… er… Cassidy in Blizzard’s Overwatch series. While Mercer sometimes makes political and cultural statements, we’ve never noticed him make a statement in regards to the alleged terrible behavior of the company he works for: Blizzard. According to the Wall Street Journal, the CEO of Activision Blizzard has made death threats, harassed others, and hidden major unethical incidents from the company’s board of directors. Again, we’ve never seen Matthew Mercer make any commentary on the situation with Blizzard, a company that pays him a not-insignificant amount of money.
But today, Mercer has made a statement on Twitter that we’re curious about:
https://twitter.com/matthewmercer/status/1461762633271427072
Now Matt has made it so that we can’t directly reply to him, nor can anyone else, for this tweet… but we’re just wondering if this is his official position in regards to Activision Blizzard. We’re so curious that we have reached out directly to Matt to ask. If we get a response, we’ll be sure to let you know.
And if you’re wondering why we might cover a simple tweet on a day like today, here’s the reason why: people often like to give their strong and righteous opinion when there’s no consequence to their bottom line. We hope Mr. Mercer is not like that and he’s happy to proclaim right and wrong when it comes to a company that has provided him with significant wealth.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told an employee he would have her killed. He kept an exec from being fired after a sexual harassment claim. He didn't tell his board of alleged rapes and other misconduct. Our @WSJ investigation @benfritz @saraheneedleman : https://t.co/Q4t24qWxxC
— Kirsten Grind (@KirstenGrind) November 16, 2021
Let us know what you think in the comments below, and remember…
That Park Place isn’t a political website and doesn’t take political positions. But where there is celebrity and entertainment industry hypocrisy at massive levels, we do tend to bring that to attention. A wise life lesson to everyone is that it might be a good idea to be just as strongly in support of doing what’s right when there’s a cost to you, as it is when there’s not cost — or even gain — to you. in fact, it might be a great idea.
