Ayanodead

🇻🇦(Autism 🌈) Updating Bio after all of these years, My chinchilla had 3 baboos! (1 ♀,2 ♂ ) We have 5 chinchillas now! 💕: @chad_emblem

[Ayanodead @Ayanodeded]

I meant to post this last year when the quiz was going around on their official twitter! I believe it was around in December. Im putting it on my twitter to remember this lil boy :) Rare sanrio character moment

[☀️ceanus 👑🔱 | Atlantean VTuber 🔜 TennoCon @PrinceOceanusVT]

Reminder that Ciri was raped by a female bandit in the books (after being saved by that same female bandit from being raped by a male bandit), then got Stockholm syndrome about her own near-rape and actual rape.

That doesn’t make her bi. She’s a victim of rape.

[Dank Starkiller @Dank_Starkiller]

"There is nothing wrong with my sight, if that is what you are asking."

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Btw i secretly became a star wars fan in my middle of no posting. I love old republic lmao

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We need more togruta and miraluka representation in the lore

[Wesley ✨ @wesleytypes]

Knights of the Old Republic II introduced us to one of the most compelling Star Wars antagonists ever written, and this is the scene that first convinced me of that.

Kreia is such a great character.

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@buddyisabill

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@tugberk @6pekreal Holy grift

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@nnnstrs Grey Talon mace windu maxxing

[KING OF THE JUNJLE @tentakvlt]

I WILL AVENGE YOU TYRANDE
I WILL SAVE YO ELUNE
I WILL KILL YOU STEVE DANUSER

[Ayanodead @Ayanodeded]

@Sheep_Esports Another riot employee seething over being spammed pinged

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior vice president at a $68.7 billion gaming company.

Activision-Blizzard.

We have a 30-year-old franchise.

Warcraft.

Millions of players. A subscription model that prints $15 a month per user. A cash shop on top of the subscription. Paid expansions on top of the cash shop.

Our former creative director just told the press he wishes we hadn't called it "Warcraft."

He said the name sounds intimidating.

He helped create the name.

We ran focus groups. The focus groups said the brand needed to be "more approachable." We asked the focus groups if they played the game. They did not. We took their advice anyway.

Our VP told an interviewer we want players to experience "weddings, raids, and new adventures." She listed weddings first. Before raids. In a game called Warcraft. Nobody in the room flinched.

She also said "No one thinks the same about Warhammer."

She compared our franchise unfavorably to a competitor. On the record. As a defense of the franchise.

The forums are on fire. Twenty-year veterans are writing goodbye posts. One thread is titled "Think I'm done with WoW." Another calls our pre-patch a "player purge."

We called our GDKP raiders "delusional."

We timed a cash shop bundle to launch during the Trading Post anniversary -- the one event where players earn free cosmetics. We offered 200 discounted items but kept the monthly currency cap at 1,000. The math doesn't work unless you open your wallet.

The community noticed. We described their concerns as "feedback we're monitoring."

We are always monitoring. We have never once changed course because of monitoring.

The players say we're "Disneyfying" the game. Turning gritty into cute. War into weddings. Orcs into mascots.

They're not wrong.

The data says approachable properties have wider TAM. Total addressable market. That's the metric now. Not "subscribers who love the game." Not "community that built this franchise." TAM.

TAM doesn't post on forums. TAM doesn't write goodbye letters. TAM doesn't have 20 years of muscle memory and lore knowledge and raid nights that turned into real friendships.

TAM is a number in a slide deck that makes a board feel comfortable.

We added player housing. Players have asked for it since 2004. We launched it in 2026. Twenty-two years. We described this as "listening to our community."

We are very good at listening. Eventually. When the feature aligns with a monetization roadmap.

Here is what I know and cannot say in a meeting:

The name was never the problem. The name built this. The name survived server crashes and subscription drops and an activision merger and a harassment scandal and a $68.7 billion acquisition.

The name is "Warcraft" and for 30 years nobody was confused about what it meant.

The problem is not that new players find the name intimidating.

The problem is that old players are starting to find us unrecognizable.

And we don't have a focus group for that.

[Ayanodead @Ayanodeded]

@Professor__Bone Oh shit word

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I was playing Kotor2 and i took a picture cause I thought the pick option was hilarious. Atton is actually just staring at your characters’s boobs LMAO

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@Professor__Bone What about gnomes or dwarves :3c

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@_syntia @Professor__Bone

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@Professor__Bone Murloc themed jar mixers with an additional mysterious substance teehee

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@Professor__Bone My ahh hasnt even touched it yet lmao so i went to level up a new alt. New year new me 😌

[Mr.YJZY @ghl_badass]

The Haranir should have their own unique history, culture, model skeletons, and animations. As it stands, it feels like they are just usurping everything that rightfully belongs to the Night Elves.

[Ayanodead @Ayanodeded]

@PeralexIRL Good riddance lol

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@Professor__Bone @ShitpostRock Real shit LOL