I have played on AOA for a while and it doesn’t bring me happiness to say this, but it needs to be said.

Hadrix on Age of Alliances (he was Strozza on Arx as well) is a sex pest/bully and head staff Cujo is doing nothing to stop it. In fact it’s the opposite, as he recently promoted Hadrix to a staff bit called Reverberate.

Recently a friend of mine (will call her Player 1) who no longer plays on AOA revealed that Hadrix had harassed her in RP, posing unwelcome “sexy” content toward her character and making unwanted OOC remarks. This player did everything she could:

1. She told him ooc to stop it. He said that he was “joking” and the behavior continued.
2. She reported the harassment to headwiz Cujo. He said “Just don’t rp with him then.” The behavior continued.
3. She reported the harassment to Cujo a second time. This time he only said “Noted.” The behavior continued.

There were several reasons why she stopped playing the game but zero response to the harassment complaints was one of the reasons. I know of many similar experiences from others who do not know her:

• Player 2 was harassed by Hadrix OOC about her body and about being unwelcome in scenes. Again he said he was “joking” and when she reported it, Cujo said she was over-reacting/being emotional.

• Player 3 also reported Hadrix for making unwelcome OOC sexual comments. Hadrix said he was “joking.” Cujo again did nothing and advised “Just don’t talk to him.”

• Player 4, unrelated to any of the above, quit the game because Hadrix and another player were “too mean.”

• Several players have disengaged from/left Hadrix’s IC group after describing his interactions as toxic.

• Several players were upset about Hadrix’s use of his ‘Reverberate’ admin bit to ban an entire IC group from the game’s main RP hub.

There is a continuing theme here:

1. Hadrix harasses or bullies people and if called out on it, says he’s joking.

Then one of two things happens:

1. They quit the game or group rather than put up with it.
2. They report it to Cujo, who tells them to ignore it, says they’re overreacting, says it’s their own fault, or says nothing at all.

Cujo’s position is that Hadrix is “popular,” and that he wouldn’t be popular if he was doing something wrong. The guy does run PRPs and can be very charismatic if you’re on his good side, but “creating activity” is not an excuse to harass and abuse other players to the point of distress and quitting. It is especially not the type of player to promote to a staff position.

Consider the warning issued: If you play this game and you have a problem with this guy, headwiz will not have your back, will not do anything to help you, and will tell you it’s your fault you don’t get along with him.

If the parties named read this: You need to do better. People have tried to tell you there is a problem. Do better.

It’s a place with a lot of potential, but if leadership is in hands of known bullies, it’s unfortunately going nowhere good.

The thread here did make it to AOA of course.

(:Public:) Hadrix Kora (Had) sayz, “I apparently roll around, hasslin’ ladies sexually and Cujo lets me get away with it.”

Yes, that is exactly what a large number of people in the community are saying.

(:Public:) Hadrix Kora (Had) says, “I do know on a couple of occasions, when I worded something wrongly and was told I was toeing a line I made sure to apologize, explain it wasn’t the intention and actively took steps to correct for future interactions. Because if I ever go over the line I’d prefer to be told I did, so I can examine what I did, correct it and try to make amends.”

First: Why are you toeing a line about sexual content to begin with? That is already wrong.

Second: I ran that statement by Player 1 in the original post. She said:

It’s an absolute and blatant lie, and he’s trying to play this fucking victim card.
NEVER did he apologize to me. In fact, he told me to ‘lighten up’ at one point.
And I -did- directly tell him he crossed a fucking line.
More than once -before- I started reporting him.

The general mood on AOA about this is that we (me, forum commenters, harassment reporters) are all lying. Everyone associated to Hadrix is on narcissist prayer mode:
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

I guess it’s hard to believe it can happen, if it didn’t happen to you.

This post here will be my last because I think the two points I wanted to make are clear now:

1. There is a problem on this game around sex pressure and bullying
2. Staff and bad actors are unwilling or unable to make meaningful change to address it. They’ve seen the first post and response, and they are not making any changes.

I would like to thank the Brand Mu Day community for overwhelmingly being supportive and believing victims without making them rehash their unpleasant experiences.

For Hadrix and Cujo, since I know you guys are reading this now, I’ll say it again: Do better. You are in positions of accountability. Do fucking better.

Cujo’s post…

@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Two of them wanted someone banned from the game who they believed was a sexual harasser.

This is simply not true. No one ever requested to ban him. The two (now former) staff wanted Hadrix removed from staff, not banned.

@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

The situations that were used as evidence happened over a year ago. It was two claims of evidence. One was from 2018, the other from last year.

This is also not true. Several people who are not related to these two “situations” have said they reported sexual harassment by Hadrix (or other players) to Cujo and that Cujo did nothing. Other victims didn’t report because, clearly, reporting does nothing. Cujo’s insistence that it was ‘just two times from some malcontents’ is disingenuous.

@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Being on Staff is not a promotion, if anything it’s additional workload x10 what you might expect.

Being on staff also allows you to see hidden locations, IP addresses, purchases, travel, +sheets, gear, backgrounds, alts, suspect pages, and all manner of other things that a questionable player should not have access to. That is the entire point of this thread. Questionable players, cheats, harassers, should not be staff.

@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

All sexual harassment claims are taken seriously though, and if deemed valid, and actively a serious burden, then expect that player to get banned.

This line is exactly why I made the first post of this thread. This line is why I caused trouble. When it comes from a ‘popular’ player, there are no levels of harassment that Cujo will agree are an active burden. Especially considering he is pretending that much of the harassment I originally referenced, and which other people have added since, does not exist.

Silencing a number of accounts (nuking alts and @newpassing main characters) just before he made his explanation post is telling. All the silenced players have some flimsy explanation for being nuked/newpassed, but it’s not the same explanation across the board, and for some people, there is no explanation at all. Some attempt has been made to call this type of character removal ‘standard,’ but it is unprecedented, especially on this scale, and for this suspiciously select group of players.

At no point have Hadrix or Cujo issued an apology to the community for any hurt caused, accepted responsibility, communicated an intention toward meaningful change, or expressed remorse for even unintentional harm.

I stand by the first post that I made. I said what I said.

@eddie, you have provided enough specific information about specific experiences that at this point people who know you, know who you are. I’m not going to name you because you’re exhausting to argue with, your points never make any sense, and perhaps on some level, as a kindness to you.

If nothing else, the way you came in here swinging like a condescending lunatic and backed it off to “I’m an innocent bystander, I’m also a victim, don’t blame the game, I just haven’t seen the behavior that’s all <3” when the community wasn’t having it… identifies you as you.

I considered naming you in the original whistle-blow because you have bullied people and there have been complaints about you, because you exploit Cujo’s desire to avoid conflict to get away with that bullying, and because you are inextricably linked to Hadrix. He would never call out your misdeeds nor you his.

I didn’t name you because you’re a jerk player, and the scope of the post was limited to jerk admin.

Since you’re here, though: Do better.

If you tell Merek to stop being a tool he usually goes “ok sry.” If you tell Cujo to stop being a tool he bans everyone who ever disagreed with him. Merek actually looks better here.

840+ comments around this game being a dumpster fire in various ways. Good job AOA. lol.

@Das-Auto said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Update.

Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.

It looks like two other promoted-RPAs have also been canned, reasons unknown.

This is true.

@CuriousGamer said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@Das-Auto Did this staff leaving just happen? I hopped on in curiosity to look at the bboards and didn’t see anything in the last few days worth.

You didn’t see a bbpost about it because Cujo did not make a post about it. There is no notification to the game overall. Perhaps one will follow.

The main staff member “Z” who was removed (and who was outspoken about all this behavior being inappropriate) was staff for 5 RL years at least, maybe more.

It is not clear why the other two (people promoted to staff at the same time as Hadrix) were removed, the ‘official’ explanation is probably that they did not contribute enough and the ‘real’ explanation is probably that they are friends with Z.

It’s a bad look, for sure.

(edited to fix formatting and phrasing)

@Warlander Long term admin removed: Zephyr

“Role play admin” that were made staff at the same time as RPA Hadrix, but now removed: Trashcan and Entropy

lol.

lol.

If you tell Merek to stop being a tool he usually goes “ok sry.” If you tell Cujo to stop being a tool he bans everyone who ever disagreed with him. Merek actually looks better here.

840+ comments around this game being a dumpster fire in various ways. Good job AOA. lol.

Cujo’s post…

@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Two of them wanted someone banned from the game who they believed was a sexual harasser.

This is simply not true. No one ever requested to ban him. The two (now former) staff wanted Hadrix removed from staff, not banned.

@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

The situations that were used as evidence happened over a year ago. It was two claims of evidence. One was from 2018, the other from last year.

This is also not true. Several people who are not related to these two “situations” have said they reported sexual harassment by Hadrix (or other players) to Cujo and that Cujo did nothing. Other victims didn’t report because, clearly, reporting does nothing. Cujo’s insistence that it was ‘just two times from some malcontents’ is disingenuous.

@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Being on Staff is not a promotion, if anything it’s additional workload x10 what you might expect.

Being on staff also allows you to see hidden locations, IP addresses, purchases, travel, +sheets, gear, backgrounds, alts, suspect pages, and all manner of other things that a questionable player should not have access to. That is the entire point of this thread. Questionable players, cheats, harassers, should not be staff.

@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

All sexual harassment claims are taken seriously though, and if deemed valid, and actively a serious burden, then expect that player to get banned.

This line is exactly why I made the first post of this thread. This line is why I caused trouble. When it comes from a ‘popular’ player, there are no levels of harassment that Cujo will agree are an active burden. Especially considering he is pretending that much of the harassment I originally referenced, and which other people have added since, does not exist.

Silencing a number of accounts (nuking alts and @newpassing main characters) just before he made his explanation post is telling. All the silenced players have some flimsy explanation for being nuked/newpassed, but it’s not the same explanation across the board, and for some people, there is no explanation at all. Some attempt has been made to call this type of character removal ‘standard,’ but it is unprecedented, especially on this scale, and for this suspiciously select group of players.

At no point have Hadrix or Cujo issued an apology to the community for any hurt caused, accepted responsibility, communicated an intention toward meaningful change, or expressed remorse for even unintentional harm.

I stand by the first post that I made. I said what I said.

@Warlander Long term admin removed: Zephyr

“Role play admin” that were made staff at the same time as RPA Hadrix, but now removed: Trashcan and Entropy

@Das-Auto said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Update.

Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.

It looks like two other promoted-RPAs have also been canned, reasons unknown.

This is true.

@CuriousGamer said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@Das-Auto Did this staff leaving just happen? I hopped on in curiosity to look at the bboards and didn’t see anything in the last few days worth.

You didn’t see a bbpost about it because Cujo did not make a post about it. There is no notification to the game overall. Perhaps one will follow.

The main staff member “Z” who was removed (and who was outspoken about all this behavior being inappropriate) was staff for 5 RL years at least, maybe more.

It is not clear why the other two (people promoted to staff at the same time as Hadrix) were removed, the ‘official’ explanation is probably that they did not contribute enough and the ‘real’ explanation is probably that they are friends with Z.

It’s a bad look, for sure.

(edited to fix formatting and phrasing)

@eddie, you have provided enough specific information about specific experiences that at this point people who know you, know who you are. I’m not going to name you because you’re exhausting to argue with, your points never make any sense, and perhaps on some level, as a kindness to you.

If nothing else, the way you came in here swinging like a condescending lunatic and backed it off to “I’m an innocent bystander, I’m also a victim, don’t blame the game, I just haven’t seen the behavior that’s all <3” when the community wasn’t having it… identifies you as you.

I considered naming you in the original whistle-blow because you have bullied people and there have been complaints about you, because you exploit Cujo’s desire to avoid conflict to get away with that bullying, and because you are inextricably linked to Hadrix. He would never call out your misdeeds nor you his.

I didn’t name you because you’re a jerk player, and the scope of the post was limited to jerk admin.

Since you’re here, though: Do better.

The thread here did make it to AOA of course.

(:Public:) Hadrix Kora (Had) sayz, “I apparently roll around, hasslin’ ladies sexually and Cujo lets me get away with it.”

Yes, that is exactly what a large number of people in the community are saying.

(:Public:) Hadrix Kora (Had) says, “I do know on a couple of occasions, when I worded something wrongly and was told I was toeing a line I made sure to apologize, explain it wasn’t the intention and actively took steps to correct for future interactions. Because if I ever go over the line I’d prefer to be told I did, so I can examine what I did, correct it and try to make amends.”

First: Why are you toeing a line about sexual content to begin with? That is already wrong.

Second: I ran that statement by Player 1 in the original post. She said:

It’s an absolute and blatant lie, and he’s trying to play this fucking victim card.
NEVER did he apologize to me. In fact, he told me to ‘lighten up’ at one point.
And I -did- directly tell him he crossed a fucking line.
More than once -before- I started reporting him.

The general mood on AOA about this is that we (me, forum commenters, harassment reporters) are all lying. Everyone associated to Hadrix is on narcissist prayer mode:
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

I guess it’s hard to believe it can happen, if it didn’t happen to you.

This post here will be my last because I think the two points I wanted to make are clear now:

1. There is a problem on this game around sex pressure and bullying
2. Staff and bad actors are unwilling or unable to make meaningful change to address it. They’ve seen the first post and response, and they are not making any changes.

I would like to thank the Brand Mu Day community for overwhelmingly being supportive and believing victims without making them rehash their unpleasant experiences.

For Hadrix and Cujo, since I know you guys are reading this now, I’ll say it again: Do better. You are in positions of accountability. Do fucking better.

I have played on AOA for a while and it doesn’t bring me happiness to say this, but it needs to be said.

Hadrix on Age of Alliances (he was Strozza on Arx as well) is a sex pest/bully and head staff Cujo is doing nothing to stop it. In fact it’s the opposite, as he recently promoted Hadrix to a staff bit called Reverberate.

Recently a friend of mine (will call her Player 1) who no longer plays on AOA revealed that Hadrix had harassed her in RP, posing unwelcome “sexy” content toward her character and making unwanted OOC remarks. This player did everything she could:

1. She told him ooc to stop it. He said that he was “joking” and the behavior continued.
2. She reported the harassment to headwiz Cujo. He said “Just don’t rp with him then.” The behavior continued.
3. She reported the harassment to Cujo a second time. This time he only said “Noted.” The behavior continued.

There were several reasons why she stopped playing the game but zero response to the harassment complaints was one of the reasons. I know of many similar experiences from others who do not know her:

• Player 2 was harassed by Hadrix OOC about her body and about being unwelcome in scenes. Again he said he was “joking” and when she reported it, Cujo said she was over-reacting/being emotional.

• Player 3 also reported Hadrix for making unwelcome OOC sexual comments. Hadrix said he was “joking.” Cujo again did nothing and advised “Just don’t talk to him.”

• Player 4, unrelated to any of the above, quit the game because Hadrix and another player were “too mean.”

• Several players have disengaged from/left Hadrix’s IC group after describing his interactions as toxic.

• Several players were upset about Hadrix’s use of his ‘Reverberate’ admin bit to ban an entire IC group from the game’s main RP hub.

There is a continuing theme here:

1. Hadrix harasses or bullies people and if called out on it, says he’s joking.

Then one of two things happens:

1. They quit the game or group rather than put up with it.
2. They report it to Cujo, who tells them to ignore it, says they’re overreacting, says it’s their own fault, or says nothing at all.

Cujo’s position is that Hadrix is “popular,” and that he wouldn’t be popular if he was doing something wrong. The guy does run PRPs and can be very charismatic if you’re on his good side, but “creating activity” is not an excuse to harass and abuse other players to the point of distress and quitting. It is especially not the type of player to promote to a staff position.

Consider the warning issued: If you play this game and you have a problem with this guy, headwiz will not have your back, will not do anything to help you, and will tell you it’s your fault you don’t get along with him.

If the parties named read this: You need to do better. People have tried to tell you there is a problem. Do better.

It’s a place with a lot of potential, but if leadership is in hands of known bullies, it’s unfortunately going nowhere good.