Meanwhile, teams across Activision Blizzard are dealing with the impact from last week's bombshell lawsuit, and the World of Warcraft development team has issued a statement on Twitter saying that it will remove incorrect references from both World of Warcraft and World of Warcraft Classic.
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what is the WoW Classic TBC and how does it workThe tweet is particularly notable for being the first one sent from the account since the lawsuit was announced.
While the World of Warcraft Team is moving forward with goals to improve its working environment, they declared in a public statement that there is immediate action that the team can take right away.
As a result, the developers are hard at work to "Remove any allusions that aren't appropriate for our time and place. This work has already begun, and you can expect to see a number of similar adjustments to both Shadowlands and World of Warcraft Classic in the coming days."
In addition to making no particular modifications to the game, the World of Warcraft team has made multiple allusions to developers and team members, some of whom were mentioned in the lawsuit filed against Blizzard Entertainment by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
As an illustration, the complaint makes explicit mention of Alex Afrasiabi, a creative director of the World of Warcraft video game who was implicated in the lawsuit. According to the records, his behavior toward female coworkers was so disrespectful that his office was dubbed the "Crosby Suite," a misspelling reference to alleged rapist Bill Cosby, according to the docs.
Afrasiabi appears as a non-player character in World of Warcraft with the moniker "Field Marshal Afrasiabi."
The CDFHE filed a case against Activision Blizzard last week, accusing the company of creating a work environment in which women and other marginalized groups were systematically disadvantaged and left subject to sexual harassment and assault. A number of statements were released by Activision Blizzard, with some claiming that the case had been "distorted."
In response, nearly 2,000 current and former employees signed an open letter calling the sentiments "abhorrent and offensive," and today Blizzard employees revealed plans to hold a walkout on July 28 to express their displeasure with the company's leadership.
Former Blizzard leaders such as Mike Morhaime and Chris Metzen have also offered public apologies for failing the company's employees during their time on the company's payroll.
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