If Bill Gates was a character in the game, what would he be?

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Microsoft was an infamously underhanded and ruthless company in the early days of their rise to power under his leadership.

Few tycoons build their empires early enough in their life to be able to have a whole second life building their own charitable legacy.

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He’d be a rogue cuz he is a Software thief and likes poisoning people.

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A gnome engineer.

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Thing is, Gallywix wouldn’t do the second part of that.

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A female draenei. Most old guys cant help themselves cause the waggle.

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“Hey guys I’m filthy rich ima tell everyone what to DO!”

That sounds like a goblin to me.

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That’s Bezos

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Are you referring to packaging Internet Explorer in windows? Or something else? Be specific.

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Mostly pre-Internet/web stuff about how they killed off rival OSes in the DOS days (and early Windows days) and other office software in the early Office days, locking businesses into their ecosystem and spreading rumours about rivals (“fear, uncertainty, doubt”).

Internet Explorer was sort of the ultimate annd most blatent expression of their “embrace, extend, exterminate” philosophy to leverage their monopoly to spread an inferior product. But it was also a turning point where they somewhat failed because had simply grown too large and innovation was coming from too many directions at once for them to eat it all.

(But I am not an expert in business history, so I fear attempting to flesh out specific examples on the forums would get muddled with inaccuracies, fixate on my own biases for software that ultimately died out, or turn into a manifesto I don’t want to write)

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The high mortality rate after he visits a country with his “philanthropy” interests, amoung other things.

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His “charitable legacy” includes his inability to return to India due to all the high child mortality rates.

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He would be an Undead, spreading plagues across the world.

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bill baits and his fishing enterprise specializing in guppies

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People felt bad about the Fate that befell Runas and he did somewhat redeem himself.

Gaters on the other hand has no redeemable qualities.

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Sorry that’s Bobby Kotick

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a greedy goblin.
he created nothing that made him rich, he took ideas from others, the schemed and manipulated to cut them out of the profit and gain the rights to THEIR work. He’s a goblin, a ferrengi, all the greedy manipulative money grubbing races = that’s him

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I did research. None of em mentioned that. What they did mention was laws were being passed where you couldn’t openly defecate anymore, agriculture was being privatized, healthcare was being introduced and working.

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Arthas

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