![]() As a random example, there were a number of jokes and references made a dozen years ago about how feminine male blood elves were, mistaking male blood elves for women, just poking fun at that in a not necessarily good-spirited way. What we did was we just set up a process internally for folks across the team, as well as sourcing some feedback from the community as a whole, to flag pieces of the game for review, whether it’s old quests or specific lines. These are many things that people, over the years, have pointed out in the community, but we didn’t necessarily listen in the way we should have at the time. There are things that people on our team were not proud to have in our game. One thing that came up is that there are pieces of our game that, over the course of 17-plus years now, that were not necessarily the products of a diverse or inclusive range of voices, that did not necessarily reflect the perspective of the current team and of many of our players. ![]() In the discussions we began internally in the aftermath of the lawsuit and everything surrounding that, on many levels, trying to understand how we as the current leadership of the team could do better - better for our team, better for our community. These are changes that are coming from the team as a whole. ![]() ![]() Ion Hazzikostas: As we said in, I think, a brief blog, a forum post, this has been a process that has been ongoing as a result of an internal period of self-reflection over the last few months. Join gaming leaders live this October 25-26 in San Francisco to examine the next big opportunities within the gaming industry. ![]()
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