https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqQq0roi71o

IIRC David Jaffe Co Creator of Twisted metal did a video on this too

i heard WoW development is halted cause of this right now. I used to be such a blizzard "fan", every game they would pupblish was a winner in my book but that stopped years ago and people still would hype the trash they put out. Its similar with nintendo but they atleast deliver good games still.
This might be the nail in the coffin blizz needs to throw past projects into the bucket, re-hire the higher ups and get their shit together.

From what I understand, it seems that the old higher-ups were aware of this too and did nothing so re hiring them wouldn't solve anything

just seems like a pissing contest between satan and lucifer.

Honestly doubt they'll change at this point, they might fire arafrasrabi but thats likely the only named person they'll fire for this if they lose the case (which they most likely will). I completely doubt they'll change the structure of the higher ups as well unless they lose a boatload of money as ol kotick dont give a shit long as he makes his 200m+ a year bonus. WoW's also such a pisstake these days, no innovation, same old stale mechanics. Honestly we had to wait like almost a whole year for 9.1 and what did they do? Revert alot of our progress, made previously made legendaries worthless. At that point I was like "nah, im out, i dont pay to waste my time".