Think we are about to see another wave.

[Hausti]

Sad to hear that blizzard is done for since i was still hoping for cross platform playing for wow (there were some rumors).
As a console player i never got the chance to give it a try.

[SwordswornFox]

After reading Act/Bliz's statement and some of the complaint...DFEH has the goods and since the investigation showed a pattern and practice of ignoring the matters in question decided to go full lawsuit.

Maybe Activision will part with some servers to SE to help get the liquidity to cover this mess.

[Wavaryen]

After reading what Blizzard stated. My wife has forbid me to going back to WOW. And as much as I love wow. I love my wife more. I'm so pissed right now. Like, i'm addicted to MMORPGS. and wow was part of my rotation. Now if I log into the game, I will always think about the victims and the woman who took her life because stupid men can't handle being around women. I'm really pissed about it. I did not need playing a mmorpg on my conscious.


Whats worse, I alpha tested wow, and my team help tested the very first dungeons with some developers. I was one of the voices that was irked that stormwind took months to make while orgrimmar was out in two weeks. So I took some pride into being part of the history of that game, and help it grow to be the hit that it was. For these morons to ruin it.

[TeraRamis]

After reading what Blizzard stated. My wife has forbid me to going back to WOW. And as much as I love wow. I love my wife more. I'm so pissed right now. Like, i'm addicted to MMORPGS. and wow was part of my rotation. Now if I log into the game, I will always think about the victims and the woman who took her life because stupid men can't handle being around women. I'm really pissed about it. I did not need playing a mmorpg on my conscious.

There will be other games. WoW was on a downward trend before any of this happened.

It's possible your wife will turn around if they terminate a large portion of the staff. Either way, I would not expect quality content in WoW for a solid 2 years moving forward. This kind of public disruption can only mean complete chaos behind the scenes. Once heads start rolling, it will get even worse.

[SniperCT]

After reading what Blizzard stated. My wife has forbid me to going back to WOW. And as much as I love wow. I love my wife more. I'm so pissed right now. Like, i'm addicted to MMORPGS. and wow was part of my rotation. Now if I log into the game, I will always think about the victims and the woman who took her life because stupid men can't handle being around women. I'm really pissed about it. I did not need playing a mmorpg on my conscious.

Wow already lost me for other reasons, but... I met my wife in that game. It was a huge part of my young adulthood. Overwatch was super important to me in helping me figure out my identity and in general loving the hopefulness of that world. I cut my teeth on Starcraft and Warcraft II in middle and high school.

I know people who've gotten tattoos, people who came out because of these games, whole communities and long time friendships that were built. I've written over 200,000 words of fanfic for some of these games. Just look at any blizzcon and how excited people are just being there. Again, I MET MY WIFE IN WOW. These games aren't just games, they were worlds that we grew up on and with.

It's devastating and I don't blame anyone for feeling conflicted. Wasn't as personal with HP but felt the same way for those who were when Rowling turned out to be a horrendous person.

[Wavaryen]

Wow already lost me for other reasons, but... I met my wife in that game. It was a huge part of my young adulthood. Overwatch was super important to me in helping me figure out my identity and in general loving the hopefulness of that world. I cut my teeth on Starcraft and Warcraft II in middle and high school.

I know people who've gotten tattoos, people who came out because of these games, whole communities and long time friendships that were built. I've written over 200,000 words of fanfic for some of these games. Just look at any blizzcon and how excited people are just being there. Again, I MET MY WIFE IN WOW. These games aren't just games, they were worlds that we grew up on and with.

It's devastating and I don't blame anyone for feeling conflicted. Wasn't as personal with HP but felt the same way for those who were when Rowling turned out to be a horrendous person.

Ya I think it bothers me even more because I was part of the friends and family program, so watching something I invested and helped test turn out like this. This is hitting me hard.

There will be other games. WoW was on a downward trend before any of this happened.

It's possible your wife will turn around if they terminate a large portion of the staff. Either way, I would not expect quality content in WoW for a solid 2 years moving forward. This kind of public disruption can only mean complete chaos behind the scenes. Once heads start rolling, it will get even worse.

Ya, but it always had a place in my heart no matter how bad it was. I invested so much time and passion. So no matter how bad it was. I still enjoyed a month or two once and awhile. and with that public statement they just gave. I can't defend them even if they do what is right now. I mean doing it after they get caught? And that statement they made irked me.

Like using the victims family in your statement?

[Thaciscokidd]

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Haha. You sound like my wife. WoW is where we met and how we stay connected when I am stationed overseas. When we talked about this and our joint gaming going forward, I tried to convince her to come back here. I honestly thought she would act similar to Wavaryen's post but i was surprised it was the exact opposite. While she is disgusted with the top and how a certain well referenced character seem to get off scott free and left quietly she was more worried about the innocent people who are about to be out of a job over this than anything.

Blizz on your resume is about to close a lot of doors for a lot of people.

[Wavaryen]

Haha. You sound like my wife. WoW is where we met and how we stay connected when I am stationed overseas. When we talked about this and our joint gaming going forward, I tried to convince her to come back here. I honestly thought she would act similar to Wavaryen's post but i was surprised it was the exact opposite. While she is disgusted with the top and how a certain well referenced character seem to get off scott free and left quietly she was more worried about the innocent people who are about to be out of a job over this than anything.

Blizz on your resume is about to close a lot of doors for a lot of people.

Ya I think I will start feeling like that soon. Right now I'm going through the first stage. Rage.

[TeraRamis]

Actiblizzion isn't going anywhere. If you guys are truly infuriated, I applaud you for standing by your morals and quitting. But there will be a lot of people who don't do that... and the company will definitely recoup some of their losses this fall when the Diablo 2 remake launches (folks have a way of compartmentalizing outrage; there will be people who stone-cold quit WoW and then casually buy D2 like nothing happened). I think the best we can hope for is that a) the individual who is named in California's suit is eventually criminally prosecuted. There's a good chance he is in pretty dire legal jeopardy, especially if he was the direct supervisor of the woman who took her own life. Also, b) there will be a lot of turnover. I'm personally praying that one of the heads that rolls is Ion's, but I wouldn't be chuffed if they totally cleaned house. Either way, it's going to take a rather long while for all this to play out... and, in the meantime, you have Endwalker. So... it's not too bleak.

For myself, I'm done. While I'm appalled at what happened, I had already unsubbed 2 months ago. It was very clear to me that Shadowlands was never going to pull out of its nosedive, and, frankly, I was just no longer having fun with Blizzard's formula of endless grinding. That's just not what I'm looking for in entertainment anymore.

[Floortank]

Blizzard has lost record numbers of players but WOW is more profitable than ever due to microtransactions.