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@YammusHammus @N_Tys26 @Stiven_SRB Nobody is stealing your tag. Stop paying for verification

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@ShaunDucky Don't tell them you can kill Whisper. They will start thinking this is the sole reason she is in the game.

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@Rozemmo https://t.co/Bnm8LSocdI

[Tyria's Red Carpet @TyriasRC]

I skip this for some reason but... (I think it's because we already knew this.)

TL;DR

· No subscriptions or battle passes: Buy-to-play model. No hidden microtransactions or monthly fees. You only pay for expansions.

· Zero Pay-to-Win: Real money will only buy cosmetics or convenience. It will never grant competitive advantages over players who invest time.

· Respect for your time: Goodbye to MMOs that feel like a second job. Plus, a new Hall of Monuments will connect to Guild Wars 2, rewarding your past achievements.

· A brand-new style: It won't replicate GW2's massive open world. Instead, it will sit in a middle ground to focus heavily on an evolved combat and movement system, allowing GW1, GW2, and GW3 to coexist.

https://t.co/l2CQuBGJER

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@Rozemmo I would probably say just like GW2. A lot of cosmetics, extra bag, bank, and character slots, and convenience items, like tp to a friend.

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@AwesomeAriya @SynthPotato

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@Tyr808 @kabrutusdeid Woke slop? Mf, fable 1-3 was the gayest shit you could play. You could crossdress, gay marry. Just stfu and stop complaining about games you have no interest in, and never had any.

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@RealestMemes_ Sonic R

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@mightyteapot @anniefuchsia @ArenaNet They do not care about MMOs. They only care about WoW specifically.

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@nostalgiaa Tried to sneak in limewire like we wouldn't notice.

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@KingCondor69 KingCondom. Why are you not participating?

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@PurppRS

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@c_4_g What is a Jank? And does he know what number" a billion " is?

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@DonnyVerstappen You can't compare the old generation with the new one. Different car design, different car technology, even different training. It's like comparing apples to oranges just because they are both fruits.

[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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@draconimanaveri @XVilja That's One-Eyed John.

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@kilotonics You are right. He should have stomped her to the ground until she loses everything. Giving her an escape route was wrong.

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@Dragontwists @SavixIrL bbyes$

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@s8n Laprussy goes hard tho ngl.

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@ProjektDyad Here's 2g and a laurel. Enjoy :)

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