As Blizzard is making leaps and bounds removing names and references to problematic developers in World of Warcraft, are they going to completely retcon Trade Prince Jesper Gallywix from World of Warcraft Canon, on account of him being a satire and a caricature of Activision-Blizzard-King CEO Bobby Kotick? It was hilarious at the time, but now Bobby’s only become greedier.
Is his in-game model going to be replaced with a rotten bowl of fruit?
They should go back to the goblin starting zone and have him die there as divine retribution for enslaving his own people and leaving them to die on a sinking ship.
‘History does not smile upon those who put men in cages.’
Starlord.
What? Since when?
Also: it’s Jastor, not Jesper.
Oh, right. Jesper wants his sweets. derp.
The worst part of that was probably Thrall making him their official leader at the end instead of the player who fought against his tyranny and worked with the other goblins
Where did you get that this was ever a satire of Kotick? He’s loosely based on Scarface characters. I have no idea where you’re getting this from.
They can’t just start replacing highly notable characters. That’s crazy talk. I never even considered any relation between Gallywix and Kotick or anyone else. And I still don’t. Gallywix is just meant to be the extreme side of a terrible greedy goblin, which is a fairly normal trait among their society.
If this is an issue then you might also ask them to delete all goblins from the game.
No one does. I can’t even find this supposed correlation anywhere. All I could find was some obnoxious video that likened them. That’s it. Nowhere has Blizz ever once given this correlation.
If there’s no crappy people in WoW then there’s no good in WoW.
…sorry, I’m not ignoring you, I just realized that my argument is as sound and as stable as a tower of wooden blocks.
…also, in searching for anything to validate my claims, I found a reddit article with a pic of Gallywix, but with Bobby’s Eyes and mouth (Joke being; it’s an unaltered pic.)
Most of it was pieced together playing through the campaign during BFA, and the Goblin Heritage armor quest. Specifically Gallywix’s Pleasure Palace possibly being a loose correlation to Jeffrey’s Pleasure Island, and a lot of the talk in the Goblin Racial Campaign where Gallywix is explaining Hobart’s Contract to him (“I own the sole rights to all of your inventions in perpetuity until the end of time!”) As a reference to the Updated terms of Service to the Warcraft 3: Reforged Map Editor’s Terms of Use.
Sadly, I’m sorry. If Blizz didn’t name the character themselves after an employee, then there’s no correlation, except people trying to find reasons. Not trying to bring you down, just saying there’s no precedent to rename anyone.
I don’t know who Jeffrey is, so I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean. If you meant Epstein’s island, that was named Little Saint James. But I still don’t know what that has to do with Kotick. And according to the notes under the lore, there’s nothing about that. 
WC3R came out way after campaign, though.
He isn’t that overweight and doesn’t wear a hat all the time.
It’s alright. While I lacked the horse sense to not post about it without solid evidence, I’m happy I could discuss this in a reasonable, cordial way.
As well as Lil’ Saint James, It was speculated, that Bobby was a regular guest there, and had his name in Jeffrey’s little black book; But even then it’s speculative, because in the picture taken, it was misspelled.
And in regards to WC3R; if it came out after the campaign, there’d be plenty of time for it to be referenced…
Hey… I’ve made a lot worse posts in my time around here. You’re all good! 
Absolutely Not. I want Gallywix to be the next major Villain in WoW. Leading an Army against the Alliance and Horde.
It isn’t a reference. They aren’t even correlated in the slightest. That provision is actually standard among a lot of businesses. There was a legal issue over the Oculus Rift when the guy who created the framework for it developed it then working at Zenimax, they had a provision in their employment that any inventions made by workers of Zenimax belonged to Zenimax. Yet it wasn’t even a reference to that either, just a play on standard contractual agreements companies make their workers agree to. My employer has a similar provision. If I were to create some technology even on my own free time at home that revolutionized the world or was insanely profitable, they would own it and I’d retain zero ownership over it. At best they’d give me some comfy position to oversee it being carried out with resources I wouldn’t have at my disposal but it would belong to them as far as everything important.
WC3R changed its terms with the Map Editor creations belonging to Blizzard because they refused to acknowledge how popular DOTA was among players (despite originally having BlizzCon tournaments for it in the early days of BlizzCon) and capitalize on it. So when Icefrog got approached to work with Valve for a standalone for it because MOBAs were the trend for a while after League of Legends dropped, Blizzard tried to sue over the rights to it and I believe settled out of court.
It was one of the earliest blunders the company began making that were disastrous for them, if Blizzard retained the rights to DOTA or did anything regarding DOTA acknowledging its popularity instead of making a cheap knockoff version they’d have had a goose that laid golden eggs. Instead they let it slip through their fingers.
Valve realizing Blizzard’s blunder with DOTA very quickly tried to work with the guy who made the Auto Chess custom mod for DOTA 2 because it took the custom games scene by storm but they ultimately had different visions for the game and settled it peacefully as in they’d help each other prosper but not try to screw each other over.
They call them yachts these days.
Yeah that was a weird moment but I think having the playable character be a rival potential leader was a mistake from the get go. It’s one thing to have us be considered generals or commanders, but outright leaders of a races is a step to far. I think it would have been better if the playable goblins were an assistance of Sassy Hardwrench, who would become the leader.
they can, if enough people kick and scream about it. i mean, why not? they’ve already proven that if you cry and scream loud and long enough, they’ll bend over for you. Blizzard’s first mistake, was catering to these people, because now they’ll demand more and more, then kick and scream about how the company is “holding out on them” by not listening to their demands complaints.