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The filing names former senior creative director of World of Warcraft Alex Afrasiabi, saying that, "Afrasiabi was so known to engage in harassment of females that his suite was nicknamed the 'Crosby [sic] Suite' after alleged rapist Bill Crosby [sic]."

Afrasiabi quietly left Blizzard in mid-2020, but his work remains visible in World of Warcraft where multiple characters and items are named after him and characters he played in EverQuest. Most prominently, there's a questgiver in Stormwind City named Field Marshal Afrasiabi, and a quest called The Great Fras Siabi involving an NPC of the same name in Stratholme. There are also references to his characters Kariel and Foror spread over various items and lore entries.

 

[clintar]

Is Crosby some inside joke?

 

[roosnam1980]

he was compared to bill cosby?

 

[Lupingosei]

And of course, in the next few months they will totally overcompensate and start to change character models like for example the one of Valeera Sanguinar to lead the efforts on an "inclusive" player experience.

The vultures are already circling around Blizzard to swoop in, to change even more and they will change things, a lot of things.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

there's a Crosby, Stills and Nash. So Charlie from Street fighter will get cancelled as well, probably

 

[Coolwhhip]

My virtue signal meter is off the charts with this whole Blizzard thing.

If someone is convicted of rape or whatever, just change the name. But of course some blue haired chick that works for Blizzard has to make a big statement before doing it.

I mean, I saw a post from some Blizzard dude, forgot what it was about but it was extremely whiny. So I clicked on his tweeter profile, of course he looked like a pussy and he had his gender in his bio. It explains a lot why Blizzard games to shit these last years, they have people employed with completely the wrong priorities.

 

[Kenpachii]

Can they also remove the entire game, because blizzard worked on it.

To real?

 

[sunnysideup]

Wow killed blizzard. They where one of the greatest pc studios in the 90s.

lost vikings, blackthorne, warcraft 1-2, star craft. So good.

But now. Fucking all of their games are ugly as sin. Ugly cartoony trash.

 

[Coolwhhip]

Just shut down Blizzard, it's completely fucked. They hired too many unstable people and this is what happens.

 

[Lanrutcon]

We're going to take immediate action.

...by removing NPCs in our game, we mean. What did you think?

 

[Skifi28]

Whatever he did, going as far as to change names of characters he played in a different game is a witch hunt.

 

[Garibaldi]

Sorry, our culture is shit. So we'll change some text/assets in one of our now floundering games? How very considerate of them. All these carefully curated apologies and low effort 'fixes' corporations are doing these days is so tiresome.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

Just wait till the Diablo 2 team gets the memo. Andariel's tits are going bye bye!

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Is this what happens to a multi billion dollar corporation when you hire people who don't know what pussy smells like yet?

What utter tatters they have left put themselves in and pretty much embarrassing the whole industry.

 

[Coolwhhip]

Is this what happens to a multi billion dollar corporation when you hire people who don't know what pussy smells like yet?

What utter tatters they have left put themselves in and pretty much embarrassing the whole industry.

It's probably industry wide. Gaming attracts extra pathetic and deranged people in general.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

It's probably industry wide. Gaming attracts extra pathetic and deranged people in general.

I guess but it take another level of retard to go round the workplace saying stuff like 'Nice Tits' or 'I would rape XYZ (who works in the office with them)'

I mean for FUCKS SAKES

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

We're going to take immediate action.

...by removing NPCs in our game, we mean. What did you think?

blizzard need to remove their real life npcs

 

[SJRB]

Blizzard management in their next meeting:

 

[Oddvintagechap]

My virtue signal meter is off the charts with this whole Blizzard thing.

If someone is convicted of rape or whatever, just change the name. But of course some blue haired chick that works for Blizzard has to make a big statement before doing it.

I mean, I saw a post from some Blizzard dude, forgot what it was about but it was extremely whiny. So I clicked on his tweeter profile, of course he looked like a pussy and he had his gender in his bio. It explains a lot why Blizzard games to shit these last years, they have people employed with completely the wrong priorities.

So thats what you gathered from current events. Youre blaming the game quality on "blue haired" people, not the huge accusation of having the worst working conditions.

 

[jonnyp]

We're going to take immediate action.

...by removing NPCs in our game, we mean. What did you think?

Blizzard devs:

 

[Coolwhhip]

So thats what you gathered from current events. Youre blaming the game quality on "blue haired" people, not the huge accusation of having the worst working conditions.

The lawsuit isn't even done yet, so 'worst working conditions' is jumping to conclusions. I do see insane amounts of virtue signalling, diversity talk and twitter profiles of Blizzard employees with genders in them. So I'm leaning to that yes.

 

[SoggyBiscuit]

I'm really failing to see how this makes up for years of supposed harrassment and abuse. What a pathetic way to virtue signal.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Holy shit, Blizzard. They've shit the bed and lit the mattress on fire the past couple of years.

 

[Javthusiast]

This is like putting a tiny band-aid on a severed arm.

 

[nkarafo]

The problem with this kind of shit is the virtue signalling.

Changing a couple of NPC names that aren't even among the important ones, is such a minor thing that normally would never need to be announced. But because they have to virtue signal, they do announce it as if it's some kind of big event that everyone should know.

They don't care about the guy who gets accused or the women. They only care about making sure everyone knows they care.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

lol Furor got shown the door

 

[Kiya's Guard]

Isn't it Bill Cosby?

 

[CAB_Life]

The game and company are completely sunk. Doesn't matter what they do at this point. In this climate, after all their virtue-signalling and pompousness, they've made themselves completely radioactive.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Should of put all these NPC's in the Stockades so we can beat them up instead.

 

[Holammer]

Let's see if they go so far as to remove or rename this one. I mean, Mark is a bit of a glorious shitlord nowadays.

 

[jaysius]

Good! This was deeply upsetting to me on a personal level. Some of the other names remind me of people who have mistreated me or looked at me funny in the past, they should remove all names from the game and replace them with numbers.

 

[Holammer]

Good! This was deeply upsetting to me on a personal level. Some of the other names remind me of people who have mistreated me or looked at me funny in the past, they should remove all names from the game and replace them with numbers.

You'd think that's a good idea, but then you come across 117013.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

Is Crosby some inside joke?

Yes, as this guy is known for his behaviour with the female employees... I can guess what behaviour this is by the reference to Cosby.

 

[Shmunter]

His grandfathers grandfather was probably a slave owner

 

[Starfield]

generation degeneration

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

haven't touched their games in a while so fuck it they are all uninstalled and battle.net is gone. wish i could say i am excited for Overwatch 2 + Diablo 4 but i don't even care anymore.

 

[clintar]

Yes, as this guy is known for his behaviour with the female employees... I can guess what behaviour this is by the reference to Cosby.

So it's just a play words for on Cosby? Why not name it the Bill Cosby suite? I figured there must be something to using Crosby instead that I wasn't getting.

 

[TwistedSyn]

Oh fuck off Blizzard! A women died because of your company! This fixes nothing!
So glad I stopped supporting you after Diablo 3 released. You are a shell of your former self.

 

[LazyParrot]

So it's just a play words for on Cosby? Why not name it the Bill Cosby suite? I figured there must be something to using Crosby instead that I wasn't getting.

It was called the Cosby suite, they just got the name wrong in the legal document, for whatever reason. They literally had a portrait of him in the room.

 

[Hari Seldon]

It was called the Cosby suite, they just got the name wrong in the legal document, for whatever reason. They literally had a portrait of him in the room.

Are those blizzard people? Holy fuck how fucking completely god damn retarded do you have to be to take a picture like that?

 

[spookyfish]

he was compared to bill cosby?

No, he was compared to Bill Crosby.

 

[reinking]

Good! This was deeply upsetting to me on a personal level. Some of the other names remind me of people who have mistreated me or looked at me funny in the past, they should remove all names from the game and replace them with numbers.

I will protest. I do not like math and numbers give me anxiety.

 

[Fbh]

Seems like the kind of thing that would have been ok if they just did it.
But making a big announcement out of it seems silly

 

[LazyParrot]

Are those blizzard people? Holy fuck how fucking completely god damn retarded do you have to be to take a picture like that?

Yup, that's Afrasiabi right there in the middle. Most of the other people are current or former WoW lead devs and designers, including the game's current lead designer Cory Stockton and Jesse McCree, namesake of the Overwatch hero and currently in charge of Diablo 4.

It would be hilarious if they ended up renaming the Overwatch character because of this.

 

[ManaByte]

WoW is dead. Play FFXIV.

 

[Braag]

It was called the Cosby suite, they just got the name wrong in the legal document, for whatever reason. They literally had a portrait of him in the room.

I'm sure not all of them are pieces of shit like Afrasiabi, but that pic looks bad.

 

[Tg89]

It was called the Cosby suite, they just got the name wrong in the legal document, for whatever reason. They literally had a portrait of him in the room.

Wow.

So these are the idiots that have been in charge of making decisions on WoW's direction?

No wonder it ended up in the state it is.

 

[strange headache]

It was called the Cosby suite, they just got the name wrong in the legal document, for whatever reason. They literally had a portrait of him in the room.

Wow, holy crap that's really really frikkin' dumb.
These are the people wanting to educate their customers and telling their most loyal fans like Asmongold to be less toxic?

 

[ManaByte]

It was called the Cosby suite, they just got the name wrong in the legal document, for whatever reason. They literally had a portrait of him in the room.

 

[worldwithpyramids]

I'm confused. That post is from November 2013 but the Cosby allegations didn't happen until late 2014 after the Hannibal Buress bit from October 2014. I know there were rumblings before that but Cosby was still very much a respected public figure at that point.