Former EU Community Manager Receives In-Game Tribute

Live Posted 2022/03/07 at 4:31 AM by Paryah

Twitterfarewell post

I’ve always vowed to give back to the community as much as I could. While as a Community Manager the fruits of that labour often could not be shared, I have always been there – reading your forum posts, tweets, and reddit banter. Lurking in your discords. Watching your video content and streams. Always forwarding on your thoughts and feedback. Your boundless energy, creativity, passion, hunger, (and sometimes scathing humour) has always inspired and humbled me every single day. I count it as a blessing that I was able to meet some of you in person at events, and geek out about the game we love.

@ashliiful

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Comment by RomanthonyI think its more they are stopping naming important npcs after employeers, like ones involed, in huge quests that have alot of interaction with, But out of the way tributes you have to go out your way to find (like the Robin williams one) will remainComment by PrideLoLBlizzard went back on their 'word'. At the same time, I'm not gonna uselessly cry over this. I remember Aerythlea and her work as a CM. "She's a good bean", as some would cringeworthily say. And she's no longer with the Company, it's just a tribute. There's not a whole lot of risk there, that this is gonna come back around and bite their arses.Comment by CarrionCarcassThat was the overwatch team who said that.Comment by EighjanWhen will players stop projecting their feelings of ownership of a game they play onto others...? It's BLIZZARDS' game, ladies; try remembering that.

They can do w/e the f*** they want to the game & we, the players, have to deal with it - improvise, overcome, adapt - or move the f*** on to something we like better.

END. OF.Comment by FelStormI thought they were moving away from naming characters after people.
They made such a fuss about removing all name references and sexual jokes just to... Start doing it again?Comment by DarkLordMagusWhy is there so much anger or just plain being upset over this. People get so emotional over this. In the end it doesn't matter who said what about what game about what they were doing. This is a nothing to get mad or upset about, affects you in zero ways and over a random NPC in some random part of the game world. It's just kind of ridiculous over getting mad over something like this.Comment by DhrallI thought I read Blizz say they'd no longer be naming characters after people associated with the company?Comment by ChanchiThat was the overwatch team who said that.Comment by EdlarelCongrats to her on the NPC :D too bad everybody can't just be happy for her. Oh well, hope their lives improve too so they don't have to be so sour.Comment by madmurdockImo such tributes are a good thing. If the recent events wouldnt exist, nobody would even talk about it, rather question it. They should keep implementing them, but they also should make a clear list, where each persons are referenced in case "something happens", so they easily can remove them. E.g. I still remember this quest though its more than 10 years old Alicia#comments .

There are many real life tributes too like giving a street name to a famous scientist or politician etc. These kind of people partly created either the game or the country and just because some dumb sh*ts mess up, you shouldnt remove such honorable mentions at all making everything anonymous and monotonous.Comment by DropbeatsI am still surprised they still use CM in the EU region after purging them all lmaoComment by ArakaraThat was the overwatch team who said that.Comment by KweeBetter yet it’s all Microsoft now. These actions definitely directly effect all the Halo, Forza, and Minecraft games. They’re obviously not considering their actions hereComment by EridianGood to her, I remember posts with her on it. She was really sweet, congrats to her. Now leave it be kids.Comment by rossyysBetter yet it’s all Microsoft now. These actions definitely directly effect all the Halo, Forza, and Minecraft games. They’re obviously not considering their actions hereComment by KyraellinaMaybe they should have done this prior to 2019, then maybe she wouldn't have left? Nothing like being a female and receiving recognition at a company you don't work for anymore.Comment by Leeroy1887its cool but sad the first change to silvermoon in nearly forever is a random elf being addedComment by awarewolfI thought I read Blizz say they'd no longer be naming characters after people associated with the company?Comment by WillowwhispAre these comments really just from a a bunch of ruleheads or is there some other agenda here with all this foolish pushback to a nice gesture?Comment by FelrynBtwthis is cool, but is there a Ythisen's tribute too? he was an incredible CM on the side of NA.

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