How did he not take them to court then and there for unfair dismissal? Wow, that seems awful if that's true.
Because taking a multi-billion company like SIE/Naughty Dog to court for unfair dismissal and having any remote chance of actually winning isn't something any developer can just afford.
Especially when, as Chronospherics puts it well:
Contrary to seemingly popular belief, sexual harassment doesn't always take place in a public office, and it can also occur in relatively isolated incidents. If it did happen, there simply may not be anyone else to corroborate the story.
The situation in regards to evidence might just be that. The victim might have experienced it but there's no evidence they can provide beyond their own testimony and there is no one to corroborate that could support their claim of unfair dismissal, let alone sexual harassment.
Realistically they'd have no chances winning this, but
in my opinion this is something Dave Ballard knew from the start.
@thread: If you ask me, it seems just like something they wanted to get off their chest, even in the face of jeopardizing their chances with future employers by raising these allegations against a huge company like that, even in the face of an emotional fanbase where you just know all them bad apples are busy writing him insults and death threats on twitter, even in the face of knowing nothing will probably come out of it, they just said the stuff.
Now I am not saying you should believe what they are saying because you are entitled to your interpretation as everyone else is entitled to theirs, it's just why I think they made these tweets in the first place because otherwise I'd have a hard time figuring out an incentive to raise such serious allegations that are going to be investigated by journos with a 100% certainty if it wasn't just for the fact that they wanted to have these things said rather than remaining silent.
If they are true or not however is something we might not find out for a while, if at all. I know I sound like I believe in what Dave Ballard is saying, and yeah, I won't decline my subjectivity so you got me there, but I am aware that this is just my interpretation from an outside view based on a barebones amount of information, just like everyone else's, and proving who is right with their interpretation and who isn't is a matter that can only be resolved once we learn more about the situation at hand.
All we're literally doing at this point is personally weighing equal statements against eachother, and until more information appears it will be difficult to draw any definite conclusions from this situation beyond that it
might've happened. We simply don't know enough.