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Spider-Man’s stunt double.

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@Buck_Thunder @Qwik @valvesoftware They must have meant multiple Switch 2's, lol

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@valvesoftware The AUD price...

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@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXOn

[korimae @Korimae_]

1 2.0.5 launched April 21st and I have a Thunder-Ridged Elekk to giveaway to celebrate :)

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[WeakAuras @WeakAuras]

Pringles are not the only ones giving out Thunder-Ridged Elekk!

12.0.5 is here on April 22nd, and we're giving away fancy elephants to the community.

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🏅 Winner will be chosen April 27th #WoW_Partner

[PandaTV 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🪓🐼 @PandaTVoce]

I AM GIVING OUT SOME Thunder-Ridged Elekks!
12.0.5 is here on April 22nd, and I'm giving away elephants to y'all!.
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@oelma__

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@davidscottjaffe @CrimsonDesert_ What a white knight you are

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@Archemeus @Preheatwow This happens to me everytime I try to transmog on my laptop which is running a 3060. Never happens on my PC which is running a 9070 XT.

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@BTMaverick707 @JezCorden @WinC_Gaming @BlessingJr Alot of the recent @KindaFunnyVids has been negative and toxic lately which is funny when they continually say to be kind to one another.

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@PandaTVoce @Blizzard_ANZ Demon hunterrrrrr

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@asha_shar Mass Effect for its world building and story telling.

Super Mario 64 for just FUN gameplay.

World of Warcraft for the people I've met and many fun memories.

[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.

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@RinoTheBouncer

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@cheersitskatie I have adhd

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@gervaisclips The man in the golden shower

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@RinoTheBouncer When you match with a streamer who won't shut the fuck up

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@RinoTheBouncer WWE 2K series

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@DMC_Ryan DOOM Dark Ages was the most fun I had in a game this year by far! I could not put it down and eagerly awaiting DLC!

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@ATRightMovies Batman forever