This is getting really discouraging. Iâm afraid the future of Classic doesnât look too bright. If I were to create a list of pros and cons to playing this game, the list of cons keeps growing. 
Good news! Thereâs tons of great games out there that have already been made.
Bad news; Blizzard is nowhere near alone in the gaming industry for having just some of the absolute worst employees and management possible.
I better get some free sh*t outta this
Itâs like a never-ending Christmas Pantomime.
âHERE WE ARE AGAIN!â
LF a good PvE Mivate Merver for Vanilla and BC ClassicâŚ
There are other games out there, you know. You donât need to play WoW for the rest of your life.
Well Iâve been enjoying Star Trek Online all over again. Beautia remainsâŚon STO.
Wait, she approached them wearing a T-Shirt that said âPenetration Expertâ on the front and âWhen was the last time you were PENETRATEDâŚâ on the back.
In what world does her company think those T-Shirts are in any way appropriate for a professional workplace?
She wore that shirt in front of them and then got angry about them making jokes about it?
The article also says that she ââŚwas furious and felt humiliated so [she] took the free swag and left.â Like, thatâs what you do to the company that humiliated you? You just take some of the free stuff theyâre offering to spite them? 
Oh and get this, she didnât say anything at the time because, she âdidnât feel comfortable saying anything to anyone at the time because [she] was a single mom who needed a job, and [she] didnât want to do anything that may have jeopardized my chances of landing a new job.â
Oh, my bleeding heart! 
That is the go-to story, isnât it? This whole thing is by-the-book.
And then they go on to talk about Blizzardâs reaching out to Sagitta HPC to hire for security work. The CEO is told about this whole story and the fool believes it and then says this to Blizzard:
âNow, rather than dismiss you and tell you that we will not do business with you, weâd like to give Blizzard the opportunity to redeem themselves. We are committed to combating inequality, and I am calling on Blizzard to do the same. As you may or may not know, today is International Womenâs Day. And in honor of this day, we are attaching a few conditions if Blizzard wishes to do business with us:
Condition #1: Blizzard will be charged a 50% âmisogyny taxâ, the proceeds of which will be donated to Women in Technology International, Girls in Tech, and Girls Who Code.
Condition #2: Blizzard will become a Gold Sponsor of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2017 conference.
Condition #3: A formal letter of apology from the Blizzard C-suite addressed to my COO, along with verification that all employees have undergone equal opportunity and sexual harassment training in 2017 Q1.â
The funniest part about all of this is that Blizzard said theyâd be happy to let this guy talk to their lawyers and he immediately backs out.
What else did he expect would happen?
Also note that this supposedly all happened in 2015 and thereâs not a single video, photo, or recording to corroborate any of this. And this also happened the year after the whole #GamerGate fiasco of 2014.
Apparently if you want to be a member of the community and get feedback from blizzard, you need to be a female about to have her dreams broken
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This is scraping the bottom of the barrel and reminds me of the whole âdongleâ incident.
This. Sorry, but if you wear a joke t-shirt that is clearly pushing for the double entendre, you donât get to swing right back around and cry foul when someone responds in kind.
You might as well argue a girl wolf-whistling at a hot guy is just fine, but if he clicks back with a âHeeeeey sweetcheeksâ then heâs clearly in the wrong⌠SOMEHOW
People are stupid. This is stupid. Pile-ons are inane and stupid.
wolf-whistling?
please for the love of god you just accidently created that cringe baby.
plz tell me its not a thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf-whistling
A wolf whistle is a distinctive two-note glissando whistled sound made to show high interest in or approval of something or someone, especially a woman viewed as physically or sexually attractive. Today, a wolf whistle directed at a woman is sometimes considered a precursor to sexual harassment, or a form of sexual harassment in itself.
It is a rather old thing.
If you wear a shirt that literally says âWHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE PENETRATEDâŚâ in big, bold capital letters, then you should be okay with people commenting about that and assuming youâre okay with that kind of innuendo, because you are loudly advertising that you are.
Given that some of the accused have quite literally demonstrated themselves to be quite âgrabbeyâ, Iâm pretty willing to believe that Slizzard still crossed the line on this one.
They are industry defining leaders, the expectations are a bit higher for them.
Can they really not resist low hanging fruit?
I found the story pretty suspicious and it looks like it all began on Twitter.
I expect people will be crawling out of the woodwork to get on this train though. I think there will be a lot more to come.
Blood in the water and all that.
I read that the shirt said penetration expert because it was a term for cyber security. I didnât read that it said âwhen was the last time you were penetratedâ on the back. Did I miss this? Was this part in another article?
Iâm pretty willing to believe that thereâs another side to this story that would show this woman to be almost if not entirely dishonest.
Maybe youâve never had a public facing sector job, I unfortunately have.
When either men or women hit on me, and I was either interested or disgusted, I had to act professionally. That was me when I was 17 years old at a moving companyâŚ
Somehow grown men representing a juggernaut in the videogame industry get a free pass âbecause the shirt had a joke on itâ
Give me a break, go touch grass.
And in regards to the woman, maybe she is some clout chasing rat, could care less, I havenât made a consumer relationship with her. All she needed to do was demonstrate the complete lack of tact and common sense of the employees entrusted to represent blizzard.
well good job slizzard, they represented ya pretty accurately apparently, lmao
Vice has a link to the shirt by SecureState:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1764135556933084&id=162797820400207&__cft__[0]=AZX5cQ0zItnnYCjxyQy49Z3dMpBEmqc0uz5AscW0ov-VlGJ82oLTPjwGa0YQQkYTg0ctvRrX6yraOMb_WTqzIPY66UR6tgXsJZsTlWAujR5pCSAFGnGZ-Jnlr_qE8SHwZmpTZzkBPQFHGJRrWIfxaSgR&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
Meh. She wore an inappropriate shirt, got comments in-kind, and now sheâs playing the victim. Based on the facts of her own story, assuming everything stated is true, she comes out looking like someone begging for attention so they can call it out as negative.
Men and women alike who do these sorts of things are just insecure little people.
Theyâre video game devs and employees, an industry that is exceptionally young and caters to the young, juvenile, bored, and otherwise those with more time on their hands than most. âLow hanging fruitâ jokes and behavior are placed into video games ON PURPOSE, including WoW, why would the makers be any different?
Weâll see nebulous claims relating back between 2010 and 2015 to all kinds of unverifiable, dude-trust-me, stories of people getting handsy, saying inappropriate things, or people just getting bad vibes from some people, and theyâll all get celebrated as brave and true accounts of the Real Blizzardâ˘. Any that get outed as outright liars will just get memory-holed or treated as irrelevant because so many OTHERS (who are equally sketchy but havenât been outright proven yet) exist.
They ignore the back of the t-shirt because it undercuts the story, but they link to the shirt itself here:
https://www.facebook.com/162797820400207/photos/pcb.1764135556933084/1764130603600246/?type=3&theater