No, they didn’t. The game cannot be played on GM accounts, and never has been able to. If the support staff do play the game, they do so on their personal accounts outside of working hours.
This never happened except sometimes on PTR/beta. There were times where the developers would do stuff like that on test servers. What you’re describing has never happened on the live servers. While the GM’s did have to have in-game avatars at some point before the tools evolved, things like that never happened.
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Nope. You’re either mistaken and misremembering something that happened on a PTR or beta server, or just outright making stuff up. That did not ever happen on the live servers. Youtube videos mean nothing because they can be recorded on private servers.
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I’ve also been playing for 20 years, and you’re incorrect. Such things never happened on live servers. Only on PTR or beta servers occasionally. GM’s have never had the ability to do the things you’re thinking of.
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Um yeah noone is going to believe you because none of that ever happened on live servers. Everything the GM’s do is monitored, and has always been monitored. The GM tools can only be accessed from the Blizzard offices, and can’t be used to “play the game”. You’re thinking of the rare event the developers ran on PTR or beta servers, or you played on private servers and don’t want to admit it.
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The never did that, if they wanted to keep their jobs…
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