Oh well, i saw the Chinese-made ripoff game trailer on Twitter last week, such impeccable timing! Right before WoW is getting shut down, that trailer cropped up, a more cynical man than me would wonder if there's possibly a connection...
Oh well, i saw the Chinese-made ripoff game trailer on Twitter last week, such impeccable timing! Right before WoW is getting shut down, that trailer cropped up, a more cynical man than me would wonder if there's possibly a connection...
No! I, too, have proved my worth, Odyn. I am God-King Skovald! These mortals dare not challenge my claim to the aegis!
If these false champions will not yield the aegis by choice... then they will surrender it in death!
Give up the aegis or die!
Don't you dare nerf Skovald's intro!
Actually he is not banned in China. Winnie the Pooh is still a thing there and you can also find pictures of him on the internet there, even on their own search engines. The only things very likely banned, are pictures of him being directly compared to their totally not dictator (or rather the other way around)
Speaking of which, was surprised the other day that Pooh apparently has overtaken Pokemon as the highest grossing franchise
That art looks better than many if not outright most of the official stuff, exceptionally well done.
Let's hope they find their own way back to nice fantasy stories and games somehow.
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Biggest nerf ever.
Honestly though? I hope this is limited only for m+, perhaps optionally limited for repeated solo farming old content.
Far too much content us neutered and maulef just because it's old and "people have heard ut SOOO many times".
Not saying convenience has no place, but stories and dialogues with missing pieces that cannot be restored are just the worst.
This is a signature of an ailing giant, boundless in pride, wit and strength.
Yet also as humble as health and humor permit.
Furthermore, I consider that Carthage Slam must be destroyed.
As I understand it the Chinese have plenty of games to choose from. And as someone else mentioned in another thread, "Wayfinder," and "Soulforge" are being released this year as well.
He was not fired, he quit...
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????? This zone is the biggest zones since vanilla. and do you forget classic also had TONS of these dungeons that were just "outdoors" zulgurub, zulfurrak, scholomance, diremaul, shadowfang keep, AQ 20/40
"more bugs then every prior expansion combined" yeah no that is just made up.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ranking-system
Birmingham wrote that he refused to work at Blizzard until the company removed this stack ranking policy. “If this policy can be reversed, perhaps my Blizzard can still be saved, and if so I would love to continue working there,” Birmingham wrote. “If this policy cannot be reversed, then the Blizzard Entertainment I want to work for doesn’t exist anymore, and I’ll have to find somewhere else to work.”
Before he sent the email, Birmingham told a large group of colleagues he was resigning. He said he was then called by an HR representative to confirm his resignation and he told them that he was still considering it but that he would not work until the policy was retracted. He was then terminated, according to the email. Birmingham didn’t respond to a request for comment.
He said he was quitting
he said he would not work until things would change
they cut the tie early
yeah so technically they fired him, but he literally told them he was going to quit
and in the work enviroment, he got the better deal, if he had quit he would get no reverence, getting fired? well guess what, you getting some money.
but dude literally said he was quitting and refused to work. he wasnt just "fired randomly" or had the rug pulled out from under his feet.
Go to literally ANY company, tell everyone you are quitting, tell your boss you are not going to work. and see what happens. you get fired. that is not them firing you, that is you quitting, it is just who presses the trigger.
imagine you joined a raid group, but told them you were going to leave, and refuse to fight the bosses, but you sit afk in the raid. if they then kick you you can't claim "THEY KICKED ME FOR NO REASON!" no, you quit, but refused to leave.
Dudes great, I agree with him, and i hope they change the policy.
but he quit, end of story. he told his colleagues he was going to quit, he told his bosses he was going to quit, but he refused to leave, he said it himself "i will stay but I will not work" he quit. they just made it official.
Blizzard's 'Workplace Ranking' For Employees Sounds Like Hell [Update]
A manager has reportedly been fired for speaking up against it
Birmingham goes on to say he can’t work under a system like this, which he and other managers (who were asked to keep it a secret!) had managed to “circumvent or skip” for the last few years but which had recently begun to be enforced. He reportedly told staff he would be leaving the company if the policy was not reversed, but shortly after the email was sent he was called into HR and “terminated”.
https://kotaku.com/blizzard-manager-...ted-1850021036
How does that stack ranking measure up with the insurgence of activists at Blizzard who's no doubt mostly looking for things to be outraged about?
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Yeah that is a heavily summerized version of what happened, again.
"Birmingham wrote that he refused to work at Blizzard until the company removed this stack ranking policy."
“If this policy cannot be reversed, then the Blizzard Entertainment I want to work for doesn’t exist anymore, and I’ll have to find somewhere else to work.”
"Birmingham told a large group of colleagues he was resigning. He said he was then called by an HR representative to confirm his resignation and he told them that he was still considering it but that he would not work until the policy was retracted. He was then terminated"
Dude told all his colleagues he was quitting
he told his boss he was quitting
he told his boss he refused to work till it was changed
he was then terminated.
He quit, but he made his bosses pull the trigger, so that he would get firing benefits, he quit, entirely, but he didnt make it official, that way blizzard would have to, and that way he gets benefits, its a super common and smart tactic.
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Nope, they were actually local files, because its china blizzard is not allowed to touch them really, so they are actually enctryped files backed up on the PC of the chinese players.
He told all his colleagues he was quitting, and literally said to his bosses he refused to work, and was going to quit.
there is a difference, and I already said it.
saying he is going to quit, and then refusing to work till they fire him gets him benefits.
just quitting gets him nothing.