anyway if this website does finally implode and you want to find me I'm devolore pretty much everywhere else:
✅Discord
✅Instagram
✅TikTok
✅Twitch
✅YouTube
✅Hive
✅Bluesky
✅Mastodon
I don't keep up with some of those currently, but wherever people end up is where I'll be
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end"
After nearly 9 years on the WoW Community team, I've made the unbelievably difficult decision to leave Blizzard for a new opportunity. Thursday is my last day.
Important note: this is *not* the entirety of the crowd, only those who consented to being in the picture at the time it was taken. There were many more in total.
#ActiBlizzWalkout
Tomorrow I will be standing with my friends and colleagues in order to make our voices heard and demand real change. Together we are far stronger than alone.
#ActiBlizzWalkout
If I hear "harassment and discrimination *obviously* have no place at Activision Blizzard" one more time I'm going to vomit
If it was obvious, there wouldn't be a fucking lawsuit and employee walkouts over it
Okay, I'll stop being coy about it.
Super stoked to announce that I've joined
@tiktok_us
LIVE, where I'll be heading up the Gaming Creator and Influencer Management team!
hi, i manage content creator/streamer relationships globally for world of warcraft
please, if you've had a bad experience with anyone in our community, i want to know about it so we can stop working with them
my DMs are open and i won't share anything you don't want me to
I've refrained from giving my own comments on the situation at Actiblizz because frankly, there are more important people you should be listening to right now.
But that statement from a certain former leader was 100% bullshit and I'm furious about it. He knew. He did nothing.
I love WoW. I love my coworkers. I love the work that we do and I'm proud to be part of making this game and supporting its community.
I am so FUCKING tired of shitty corporate leaders dragging their and our good work through the mud and then acting like nothing's wrong.
Don't get me wrong, current leadership is fucking up hard right now too.
But please don't believe for a second that the culture that allowed all of this to happen for the last couple decades was somehow built by the guy who's been in charge for 3 years.
Okay I love this. This site finds a random stream with 0 viewers, so you can give them what might possibly be their first ever chat interaction or just keep a lonely streamer company.
reminder: sharing hotline numbers can help many who suffer from suicidal thoughts, but for some it feels like confirmation that they don't have anyone close to them who cares
if someone you love is struggling, don't just give them a number - ask them if they want to talk to YOU
"now your friends don't have to remember a 4-digit number"
yeah because "it's miscreant but with a 4 instead of an A and a K instead of a C and there's an underscore on the end" is so much better
My cat, Tycoon, passed away suddenly this morning. From what we can tell, it was quick - she didn't suffer.
She was my partner, companion, and best friend through so much. No matter how bad things got, she kept me going.
Rest in peace, you furry asshole. I love you. I miss you.
Yo real talk for a sec
I have loved WoW since 2004, with it through the ups and downs
Feels so good seeing people so excited for Shadowlands, especially since I'm so excited too
Find it pretty gross that so many streamers are doing the react meta thing with the Depp v Heard case right now.
Other peoples' trauma is not your content.
Hey hi hello Burning Crusade beta has NOT begun and no one outside of Blizzard has been flagged for access yet.
There's a bug causing something to show up on the launcher for some people - this has nothing to do with whether or not you'll have access when it goes live.
ok xoxo
🎵IIIIT'S BEEENNNN...🎵
3 months since over 2600 current and former Activision Blizzard employees signed a letter including 4 specific demands for better working conditions, none of which have been implemented or even acknowledged by ABK leadership.
dear everyone complaining about quarantine and staying stupid shit like "we didn't have to do this for SARS"
SARS killed 774 people worldwide in 19 months.
COVID killed 798 people JUST IN ITALY, JUST ON MONDAY.
stay the fuck home and wash your goddamn hands
This. Fran deleting her Twitter over the ActiBlizz situation but not the literal war crimes she previously defended is maybe the biggest indicator yet of just how strong this movement is.
We are loud, we are angry, and we are just getting started.
#ABetterABK
Lots of talk from Kotick about holding leadership accountable and firing people who don't uphold a safe work environment in this investor call.
So... how's Fran "whistleblowers are bad" Townsend still here?
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that boycotting a video game from a megacorporation run by a shitbag has no effect whatsoever on the shitbag
because they've built things in a way that they can't fail, and it's only the employees who suffer
because they're a shitbag
FYI: Yes, you're allowed to co-stream BlizzConline!
Note that there will be a few segments with copyrighted, licensed music, which you'll want to avoid. These segments will be marked during the show.
Can't wait for y'all to hear all the exciting news for the first time ever
It's been a really hard several days but seeing so many people turning up in support of their fellow employees today has been a desperately needed glimmer of optimism.
#ActiBlizzWalkout
yo
diablo 4 is actually so good
are there criticisms? absolutely, but the overall experience is awesome
really wish bobby kotick would just fuck the hell off already
Related: please remember that the players aren't "customers" to C-suite executives, at least not in the same way they are to the teams working on the games. The shareholders are.
Bobby Kotick doesn't sell video games to gamers, he sells Activision Blizzard to investors.
It's curious to me that some people keep trying to push a Acti/Blizz game blackout when the actual devs aren't asking you to stop liking or playing their games. They're asking for better conditions to continue doing what they love.
Now that TBC's official I can finally say this:
Content creators! If a project hasn't been announced, I can't talk about it. Full stop. Even if "everyone knows."
So when you're blowing up my DM's about stuff that ain't real yet, I'm not ghosting you, I just got NDA's and shit.
hello! quick PSA:
There is no such thing as a "key" for the Shadowlands alpha.
Anyone telling you they can give you one is full of more trash than Black Temple.
saurfang: "the undercity is no longer safe for civilians"
bro this place has been full of toxic sludge and actual literal zombies for like 15 years
gonna need you to up them standards
Side note, first one of these I've done the VO for entirely using my home setup (before passing it over to the sound team to add music/balance levels). Not bad imo!
I'll be sharing more about my new gig once I've actually started (taking a much-needed post-RWF break first) but I'm super excited to experience WoW solely as a player again, and can't wait to see everyone's reactions to the news on April 19!
Lots of people hitting up my DMs right now so lemme drop a quick PSA:
"These people got in and I have better numbers than them so clearly you made a mistake" is not the play you think it is.
If you can't express your value without dumping on other creators, I ain't interested.
hi
i haven't been tweeting the last couple of days because i've been spending that effort reaching out to my affected friends and colleagues personally, and generally just staying away from social media besides
i'll probably continue to be kinda quiet here for a bit. sorry.
funny how many streamers will drop 47 f-bombs per hour, make "jokes" about sexual assault or racism or worse, then suddenly have very strong opinions about decency on twitch as soon as they can see part of someone's boob
a random musing, take it how you will:
it really sucks seeing outrage about layoffs at game studios coming from the same people who say things like "everyone who worked on this game should be fired."
if you want to support game devs, do it BEFORE they lose their jobs too.
Man I love video games, let's list a few of our favorites. I'll start:
World of Warcraft (obv)
The entire Metroid series
Mass Effect 1&2
Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor
The Fallout series
In significantly more positive news, here's an interview I found with Jennifer Oneal - new co-leader of Blizzard - from a year ago that makes me really optimistic for the future:
I'd like to think that the people following me on here don't need to hear this so I'm not really sure who I'm saying this for, but:
No amount of "passion" - especially for something like a video game - justifies threatening someone's life or livelihood.
I am so
unbelievably
tired
of seeing companies with record profits and huge bonuses for executives also performing mass layoffs
this should be a felony on the same level as embezzlement or tax fraud
seeing a lot of straight white dudes super upset about the new twitch tags
heads up, the reason you don't get why they're important is that you've never had trouble finding a streamer like you
Got Ty's ashes today, along with her paw print. Put them with her favorite toy which is this hideous duck.
I'm just gonna go ahead and be an absolute wreck again for a while.
Does it solve harassment and discrimination issues? Obviously not.
Does it resolve any of the employee demands? Also no.
Does it mean I can play Overwatch without feeling a little sick to my stomach when I see that character? Yes. Yes it does.
That's definitely not "nothing."
People saying that renaming McCree in Overwatch doesn't achieve anything. It means you don't have a character named after Jesse McCree in your game. That is good. It doesn't solve Blizzard's problem but it is a net good.
dear people giving presentations:
i can see your slides
i can also read
in fact, i can read your slides
if your only contribution to your presentation is to read your slides to me, just email it plz thx
This place has felt like home to me even since before I became a Blizzard employee. The people who create and support WoW are some of the most talented, dedicated, and passionate people in the industry, and it's been a privilege and an honor working alongside them.
Hello everyone!
I cannot give you WoW Alpha access. Please don't ask. I always end up getting spammed with a bunch of requests and it makes Twitter unusable unless I start mass muting people, which I don't want to do.
Thanks!
i always love the "THIS WAS PRE-RECORDED!!!!" conspiracy theories after these dev streams
like if it was pre-recorded, we'd have used the take where speakers tripped over words etc
"love how he said 'four color' instead of 'full color' in this take, lets use that one"
Just FYI since I've been having to do it a lot lately: yes, I am very quick to mute or block people on Twitter. It's, in my experience, the only way to make using Twitter not be a constant slog through garbage spewed by anonymous dickbags. My mental health > your idiotic ranting.
Side note I hope all y'all raid leaders out there are listening to how calm and positive
@maximum
keeps things
Turns out shouting and complaining doesn't actually improve raid performance, it just burns people out faster
(Trust me on this one, I've done extensive testing)
I always feel bad calling out the
@Twitch
moderation team, because I have some good friends on that team who I know are smart and sensible people. But it also needs to be made clear that
@Ziqoftw
's situation is NOT OK, and he's definitely not the only one who's experienced it.
can't wait to hear how all these profits translate into raises and bonuses for the workers actually creating and delivering the products that drove them
Activision Blizzard has released first quarter financial results for the year of 2023, announcing strong earnings and double-digit growth in total mobile revenue led by Candy Crush, CoD: Mobile, and Diablo Immortal.
𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘
A new way to play Classic WoW has arrived with Season of Discovery.
Mage healers, Warlock tanks in a progressive server is how they're portraying some of the changes and will be launching on November 30.
Is this the Classic+ you wanted?
when i was a kid a pastor told me that 3d video games opened a portal to hell that would turn me into the devil
now im a community manager so jokes on hi-WAIT SHIT
One silver lining of the Twitch leak: maybe now people will see how absurd it is when a streamer making millions yet relying on volunteer mods complains that chat is "too hard to moderate."
(and maybe some of those mods will realize how much they're being taken advantage of)