When his retinue of underlings fell out of his favor, Russian communist dictator Joseph Stalin would have them erased from photographs like they never existed. During the EEOC lawsuit and “Cosby Suite” scandal, the same thing happened as Blizzard removed all traces of former developer Alex Afrasiabi from World of Warcraft. After the George Floyd BLM riots, the moral panic of cancel culture had taken over social media and the shrieking social justice warriors wanted his scalp.
The woke cowards at Activision-Blizzard did this to appease the coalition of feminists, journalists, LGBTQ types, and DEI fanatics. But as time progressed, they didn’t stop there, they also removed two WoW Classic promotional videos from their official YouTube channel. There was nothing sexually offensive that was related to the lawsuit in any of the videos but that didn’t matter to the Blizzard executives because they eliminated all traces of the former developer anyway.
The first video they removed was WoW Classic with Creators Episode 1. Afrasiabi is featured along with 4 other veteran WoW devs. The second video they deleted was WoW Classic with Creators Episode 5: Alex Afrasiabi.
There’s a good chance that all of these videos may be deleted in the future as the Borg Collective at Microsoft continues to absorb the rotting corpse of Activision-Blizzard. For posterity, I have uploaded the two deleted videos and the other videos to my Rumble channel. Here are all the videos in order:
On a side note, I find it regrettable that Rob Pardo and Chris Metzen were not invited back for this occasion. I think both of them were indisputably key to the success of WoW.
Conclusion
Alex Afrasiabi and his fellow developers made significant contributions to Blizzard Entertainment, World of Warcraft, the MMORPG genre, and video game history. The content they created brought joy to millions of dedicated fans. They don’t deserve to be memory holed, instead they should be celebrated. These videos are a part of video game history and they should not be censored, altered, or deleted.
–Wolfshead
They are denouncing their own origins. This won’t end well. It is also a shame that they focus so much on punishing the guys that made millions of money and millions happy for sexism/Cosby Suite accusations that were never brought before court. Damnatio Memoriae, incredible and shameful. If we are going to erase every wrongdoing of everyone and what is not woke, we might have to erase thousands of years of history. Sigh… even if they might be guilty of this or that, I don’t believe these slanderous accusations, this doesn’t erase their world design feats.
No matter how woke they get, they will never produce games as good as the ones between 1996 and 2004. Woke doesn’t sell games and wokesters are a small, but very vocal minority that for some reason has a lot of fingers in lots of pies and they can make it look like they are the majority by silencing everyone that says something anti-woke.
What I find amazing is that the western part of the world, which for a long time has been touted as the birthplace of democracy is now displaying despotic behavior worse places which have been mocked by the west for a long time for being communist, national socialistic and whatnot.
I don’t know where this is going and how far is it going to get.
Agreed. This is the modus operandi of the left. They can’t handle the truth, so they try to erase it. Thanks to bad management who listen to their woke wives more than they did their loyal players, Blizzard is a hollowed-out, shell of a studio.