Dudes a legend haha
People in this day and age aren’t happy with the mistake being reversed and the streamers career being destroyed overnight. They want these people crucified and it still won’t be enough. People search for things to be outraged over. Especially with the toxic nature of this game and the people it attracts. This game is a success simulator, therefore people who can only succeed inside this game and have no real usefulness in broader society feel personally affected.
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Tseric was a totally different issue this was a guy that allowed a troll to get under his skin to the point of losing his professionalism
the GM on that video was caught abusing his power to willingly help a streamer based solely on the fact he was a streamer and banned another player because that guy asked him to do it he overstepped his authority
The fact that the streamer decided to report someone for dispelling buffs while playing on a PVP server is enough for me to think that a ban for abusing the reporting feature is warranted on the streamer and a loss of career. High profile bans for violating the TOS should have consequences.
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I have worked in customer experience. However, I wouldn’t claim that having experience in an entry level position gives particular insight into management.
But, for argument’s sake, I suppose the point that you are making is that I do not know what Blizzard’s CM/GM management priorities, policies, nor culture are like. And, that’s correct. I do not know.
If the intent is for the company to save face, then letting someone go without any press release doesn’t seem to make sense. This incident does not seem to be a PR nightmare.
If anything, it seems like Blizzard is doing a good job. Whether they fired the person or not, of course I do not know.
In this case, things ended well for Blizzard, but if someone screws up like this once, you don’t trust them in the position again. But, as I said up the thread, firing him isn’t about PR, it is about an internal message. Because the next ‘mistake’ might not go over so well.
That’s not clear. We don’t know what the training nor the protocols set for this sort of behavior are. So, your point may be correct, but it also may also be that the person just made an honest mistake.
But yeah, I think I’ve kind of lost sight of whatever point I was trying to make here. 
Your mistake is thinking that the difference between it being a screw-up or an ‘honest mistake’ (and I’m going to straight-up call bull on that) would make a difference. That is probably true in Europe, but in the US? You can be fired for breathing wrong, and it will be written up as being fired for cause.
Well, you may be right. I don’t know the situation or team culture for the Blizzard GM team.
And, it has been quite a while since I’ve held an entry-level type position, so I’m likely somewhat out of touch with the realities that exist while in one.
That’s cool because right now if you run your own business in the US now you can literally kick people out of your store for breathing without a mask.
Well, those people would have gotten kicked out before anyway for being the @55holes they are. The not wearing a mask bit is just a nice visual notification of their inner jerkishness.
/shrug
He probably figured since it’s anything goes in “classic” with cheating/exploiting etc. being the meta since the game launched, that it was really no big deal.
I guess since it was public though… yeah. I guess putting them in a position where they have to cover their own butts is the only way to get their attention. Contact game reviewers, writers, post on their social media, write your own reviews… shine a light under that rug they sweep stuff under. Show all the dirt.
Because it looks bad for blizz, and the playerbase let it die, why would blizz bring it up, when they want us to forget it?
The playerbase let it die because it was rapidly and correctly handled. There wasn’t anything else to talk about.
employees conduct like this reflects badly on the company so of course they want it to quietly go away but too many people saw it happen LIVE and as such it is and should be a shameful reminder of the incident
Blizzard prides itself on integrity and all well time to step up and accept the responsibility that one of your employees crossed a line that they shouldntve and its going to take more than just a simple well we gave the staff member a pink slip
this is another blemish on the already less than clean reputation of Blizzard and trying to simply make it go away quietly isnt going to make the matter be forgotten quite the opposite its only going to further damage the reputation of the company as a whole