A Message From Warcraft

[Pafierra-malygos]

I know who you are

[Gallows-korialstrasz]

The true warchief has returned!!

Lok'tar Chris!

[Innã-malfurion]

Shame. None of them should be allowed back.

[Arkanoz-thrall]

And why is that? Do explain with good reasoning why they shouldn’t be welcomed back. I think what you need to realize is that people who are upset about this, such as you seem to be, are the same kinds of people who are hypocritical in all of their judgements on others. Tell me, are you without sin? And that being said if you were caught in your mistakes would you own up to it and take full responsibility for it OR would you sweep it under the rug quietly as to avoid punishment. I think it’d be the later.

[Innã-malfurion]

Lol. I don’t owe you anything, troll. Gone to the ignore list you go.

[Nycetyz-sulfuras]

nobody cares

[Arkanoz-thrall]

If you can’t take the truth, ignore ignore ignore. That fixes everything rather than taking on the questions and answering them. But you did a wonderful job of proving my point so I thank you for that.

[Aladracarys-zuljin]

Welcome back Chris! Cheers!

[Arkanoz-thrall]

It’s almost as if you don’t realize that he didn’t have the power you think he did.

[Krulgrin-hakkar]

How did you drag him back into the office? blizz in dire need of help it looks.

[Shantarin-kelthuzad]

@Kiwì-dentarg

As a leader within that company I would have expected him to deal with the people who were abusing their power and their staff. As a leader it was his responsibility to know what was going on within that company and if you actually believe that he was not aware, I have a bridge to sell you.

As of 2020 Blizzard had over 9000 employees. Chris Metzen was a creative director. Investigating employees was not his responsibility, and investigating employees outside his department could have easily gotten him fired. If you know anything about hard corporate environments the answer to these kinds of situations is always, “Report it to HR, it’s their job, not yours.”

He could quite easily have had no idea what was going on considering communication difficulties happen all the time in massive multi-national companies.

Of course the real question in all this is who was responsible for staffing and managing HR. Because it’s not at all unusual for that kind of service to be managed and micromanaged by a parent company. And I would not at all be shocked to discover that the HR department managed by the parent company Bobby Kotick is in charge of behaves like Bobby Kotick.

[Lucael-durotan]

Dragonflight really is a homecoming, the heart and soul of the game has been renewed.

Welcome Back Warchief!

[Dimachqt-faerlina]

hmmmmmmmmmm

[Xiriel-grizzly-hills]

Another good omen!

[Elyssaria-kargath]

Definitely ready for some OG Chris Metzen warcrafting!

[Gilius-wyrmrest-accord (Gilius)]

@Blastkrizzle-moon-guard

CC-posting about this. It’s somewhat true but at the same time we need also acknowledge the mistakes Metzen did with the game, which he owned:

• Making Thrall too important
• Giving Alexzstrasa/Sylvanas a bikini suit, which was in hindsight just a dumb idea of a man thinking with his sex.

I see where your coming from but I have to push back. It wasn’t a mistake. It was a common fantasy trope going back 70+ years in Dungeons and Dragons and Flash Gordon before it. Look up Red Sonia’s attire for battle.

People really need to stop judging the past with today’s ‘values’. They aren’t any better, tend to be equally dubious and control oriented at best, and are most of the time intellectually dishonest statements.

I say that only because “today’s people” typically can’t admit when their wrong, and use unhinged emotion and histrionic displays to argue instead of logic and rationale. Oh and there’s also the fact that they almost always have to have the final word (along with some ridiculous underpinned threat or insult if they don’t get their way afterwards).

People should address their own problems instead of passing judgment on others.

[Nasgrim-emerald-dream]

Wut!!! This makes me happy!

This is great news.

[Zaridorisa-dalaran]

Welcome Back my dude!!

[Nasgrim-emerald-dream]

@Galabris-alexstrasza

Sounds like a fluff title with no actual leadership or decision making potential. Just hiring him back on for the PR/name with fluff “responsibilities”. I guess it’ll remain to be seen if his past experience/influence can actually make any difference in any facet of the game at this point or, if like I said, this is basically just a big PR move to have one of the most famous names/faces back on the payroll.

Well, hopefully he isn’t treated like George Lucas. Disney messed up Star Wars by leaving out his ideas for a Ruin Johnson and Darthleen Kennedy reshape which was dumb.

I felt sorry for JJ Abrams. He gave a good building plot in the 1st movie and had to try and clean their messes up in the third movie, smh.

[Galabris-alexstrasza (Galabris)]

I’m still sold on my world that this is just a massive PR stunt. His name still carries weight/clout and now Blizzard can slap him in front of cameras, have him do interviews, put his name on stuff, and just generally hype up his image while paying lip service to his “ideas”. Like I would LOVE to know what the actual job descriptions/duties of a “Creative Advisor”. Like walk me through the day to day, 1st month, 1st quarter, and 1st year tasks/milestones/goals.