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Kel @kelciums.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Too angry and embarrassed to fix their writing and sort this mess of a story out lmfao.

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He isn't coming back, Porter replied with this official timeline (???) thing to me on Twitter, they are really saying he is NOT coming back lmao

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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

my thoughtful and nuanced opinions re:cornell 7

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Did MoP actually do faction conflict well?" yes, because it had themes, next question

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serial orc enthusiast @eternalseething.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WoW writers be like "Mom? We don't, we're not currently talking about Mom at the moment. There's this pair of floating hands - we need to focus on that, we're not sure where Mom is at the moment. Mom isn't really relevant to the plot right now, we need to address the floating hands first."

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serial orc enthusiast @eternalseething.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The total lack of consequence or reaction was really what made me realize nothing was going to matter. Loss inspiring righteous vengeance is such a core tenet of Warcraft's fantasy for decades now, and the response to a beloved city getting wiped out is "uh, it was problematic? move on". Insanity.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So Asmongold is a coward who can dish it but can’t take it?

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Ellie - might post spoilers-ish 💙 @keyboardturner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

pretty sure this falls under abusing the economy which i think is also against the WoW rules, if you really need yet more reasons since him harassing your employees wasn't enough @support.blizzard.com @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com

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𓆗 SnekofVoldun (Sethrak Allied Race!) @snekofvoldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Are you going to ban Asmon and his group that have been harassing the playerbase? Seems like something that should be banned for.

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Khono Chronos @khonochronos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can't believe I still have to deal with "Orc Fatigue" claims in 2026... And in MIDNIGHT of all expansions???

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Riley🏳️‍⚧️ @ril3ysfw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Ride a forsaken charger in our bar that we allowed to get taken over by Fascist fucks cus we won’t enforce our own rules” is what this post should actually say @blizzard.com @support.blizzard.com @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com

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Stats 💙 @warcraftstats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ToS and EULA’s need to apply to ALL players regardless of whether they bring in a bunch of revenue or not. Ignoring the issue is not effective PR.

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𝕛𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕟 📖☕️✨ @auroragayming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

pretty crazy we have a version of WoW that caters to right wingers and another one that caters to weak centrist bitches

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GuardianPigeon @guardianpigeon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No one is going to be able to enjoy these while a known bigot is taking over Forever and breaking TOS constantly. It took a long time to build up good will again after the lawsuit. It's still not back to where it used to be. Don't let one jackass tear up all your efforts.

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Khono Chronos @khonochronos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a long time fan and creator. It's very important to me to make a very firm and important stand to a game that I love. It's time to ban Asmongold from WoW who's been a long issue within our community. Please remove him. And please do not ignore this issue until it's too late. Thank you.

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𓆗 SnekofVoldun (Sethrak Allied Race!) @snekofvoldun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blizzard needs to do the right thing to keep the community safe, which is banning the harassers who continue to spew vile comments, continuously harass players to no end. What's more important? Money, or upholding the TOS that you set in place to keep a community safe from such acts?

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Freysworn Tea @lftea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@support.blizzard.com @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com Fixed my meme :) Unlike how you're fixing the community by prioritizing the wrong things! Answer the hate speech echoing from Asmongold and his community.

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Vaknosh @vaknosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perhaps you should address the roach in the room.

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The Real N’zoth 🐙 Blizzcon @therealnzoth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I GUESS ITS CALLED WOW: FOREVER BECAUSE ITS TAKING FOREVER TO BAN THIS BIGOT *everyone laughs, a big strong man cries and thanks me*

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Send Us Thine Asteroid, O Lord @dragovian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At this point I'm of the opinion that when they say Forever is community-based they just mean "all those old-school gamer chuds nobody wants to play with anymore." I hope they enjoy reaping the community they keep sowing.

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Omedon @omedon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please address the community safety concerns people have with a far right grifter openly intending to exploit the community-centric nature of WoW forever to harass players with his multiple guilds’ worth of followers. Your post was likely scheduled beforehand, but this is THE discussion now.

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Meira @meiracraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I used to be very excited about Forever, but this excitement is all but gone thanks to the rampant toxicity. Right now WoW Forever doesn't seem like a safe environment for me or any other queer gamer for that matter. I play games to relax, not mass-report offensive shit with no end in sight...

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Halk 🐺🏳️‍🌈 @halkuonn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hiding the responses asking for transparency and action on something that is clearly hurting the community and painting a really bad impression of WoW Forever coming forward is NOT a good way to go about it. It's worse (and more telling) than the silence, even.

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🎃Tim O’Connor 🔜SW Celebration @hs199432.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cool, cool, when do you plan on addressing the rampant harassment and banning Asmon?

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nemof @nemof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hey it's not a great look hiding responses on this post from many concerned players asking a very legitimate question about how you intend to make this game a safe place to be. @support.blizzard.com @blizzard.com @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com

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Azmira @azmira.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Could we please ban Asmongold? It's getting obscene now.

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Cryptid @cryptidic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

difficult to look forward to this when you refuse to uphold your ToS and will not ban Asmongold and his guild, Olympus, from the game

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Freysworn Tea @lftea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let's make an adjustment to the standards of our community, because clearly you don't support the current ones which push back against rhetoric like this.

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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So if you hide replies for everyone on bsky they're filed away under "show more replies". All hidden replies under this post are asking if Asmongold is going to be banned. So we've found the unacceptable content Blizzard will moderate

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beek! 🕶️✨ @itsjustbeek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You guys made a huge fuss about stepping away from the toxic environment your company harbored for so long and rolled out changes and a Social Contract. Where is that now for Forever? Where is the transparency on Asmon and his followers for their widescale harassment? People have genuine concerns!

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Send Us Thine Asteroid, O Lord @dragovian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So basically the argument here is "you can't ban the Nazi's from the bar because 'Nazi bar' has been baked into the lore from the start."

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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some incredible logic going on over on the forums I can tell you

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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a post that's "explaining" why Asmongold's guild should be allowed to harass players and have hate speech usernames

Those…are… The long time supporting classic players. Those are actually the players a dev said in a blue post that they are specifically trying to bring back, not retail players, they’re allready paying a sub, they want to bring back those that haven’t paid a sub in years. He straight up said they weren’t re-learning how things were back there 20 years ago for Retail players. He specifically said that Forever was for those that have had their accounts basically gathering dust because they didn’t liked the direction the game as taken.
And that is how the supporting “classic” players are, you don’t tell 30-40 years old how they should or shouldn’t act, that’s the fastest way to keep them away like the current wave of refunds for the name issue has proven (not saying i support the slurs naming thing, just showing my point that grown ups do not take kindly to people with hair dye and half their age telling them to “be a better human being”). And blizz knows otherwise they would have baned Asmon allready in the very first ban wave.
Its not classic players that have to modernize themselves to modern times. Retail players are the ones that have to de-modernize themselves if they wanna play Forever. And considering the low patience the modern retail playerbase has, I seriously doubt most or even half of retail players will have enough patience to reach their first Forever player to 60

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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Holy fuck

Ok and because it was “pretty lame” for them to be edge lords and lean into the silly video game pretend racism that WAS BAKED INTO WARCRAFT FROM THE BEGINNING, you think the appropriate solution is to demand they all be banned, then condescend to someone challenging your poorly fleshed out claim as an “enlightened centrist”? I’m in the 97th percentile of IQ but yes tell me more about how I’m a mid-wit.

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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyway, maybe WoW Partners and Ambassadors who have Blizzard's ear can have a private word because I don't think they're necessarily getting the most hinged feedback in the world on the official forums, or on, lol, X, right now

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Juan Manuel CC (Baal) @andeanhermedic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Simultaneously, I do hope content creators grasp that you are responsible for the communities you create If you have a bunch of racists in your comments and chats and you continue to allow them access, that tells everyone you are okay with that. 👍

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Azmira @azmira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A bar that welcomes nazis in it is a nazi bar. Doesn't matter how much you say it's welcoming... So long as you let the nazis in, your bar will become their meeting ground Warcraft Forever is being turned into a nazi bar, and I'm 100% certain they won't just stay on one faction or region for long.

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Moris @morisdreadvale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Retweeted this and got 5 unfollows 3 minutes later Trash took itself out

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Moris @morisdreadvale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My hatered for the cockroach has officially reached satanyahu levels of hatred. Why isn’t there guillotine emoji yet.

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For transparency since I was following this situation, this is the tweet Tom Ellis made that aggravated the bigot community. As you can see the tweet is really not offensive and it is honest that they weren't banning Bigus Dickus names, they were forcing a name change. The bans were for the bigots.

Anyone saying they were removed from beta for naming their character "Billy Mcsuckmahballz" is telling little white lies. That character likely just received a forced name change.
Multiple unfortunate humans read through every name that was removed from beta today.
If you're genuinely confused, remember that it's our database, we can see every character you've-- (can't read)
I read the list. No sympathy. Be a better human next time.

Well honestly I should know better than to have waded into that swamp, that's on me. Since we're here now I'll give one more update on this topic before getting back to actually working on launch instead of reading everyone's hilarious variations of the N word.
A couple of us spent the evening reading through everything again and checked every Reddit post and twitter and so far every one of them who's posted their three cheeky or just inappropriate names has had a 4th character they have accidentally omitted. We've found exactly one person who we genuinely think was going for an RP sounding name and ran head first into the sad fact we have way too many derogatory terms for some people. I'm going to have yet another poor sod read through it again too so we have yet another perspective.

What else have I seen a lot, ok yep, Blizzard is going extra woke or other crap like that. Nope, any name we revoked beta for yesterday would have not been allowed in any variation of WoW at any time in its history and would have earned you a suspension. We just manually ran names through the same system they would have been normally and then out of an abundance of caution read through every one.
No new standards have been set or enforced for Forever's Beta.
Our naming filter wasn't ready to rock for dual names but we naively thought after twenty years folks knew what was and wasn't ok and we'd be fine for a few weeks of beta till it came online. Yeah.

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