Blizzard employee snags a decade of WoW game time just before being laid off, will not have to pay a cent until 2033
Blizzard employee snags a decade of WoW game time just before being laid off, will not have to pay a cent until 2033
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>Holisky saved around $1,754 over the course of 10 years.
Gottem
Jokes on him when Microsoft puts WoW on PC Game Pass
That’s funny because there is a system in place that detects who is on a 10+ year friends and family plan. I had a family member who worked for blizzard back in the day gift me a 30-year membership. Shortly after they departed from blizzard, I got an automated email that my 30-year membership would expire the following month (it had not been 30 years yet)
I feel like if you worked on WoW you should get a free lifetime sub.
This game still exists 😳 🤯🤯
my brother worked customer service for blizzard in paris in the 00s. I never paid to play
I wouldn’t even play this Garbage if it was free.
Neat.
Weird humble brag, game monthly fee is moot considering console games are okay paying monthly just to play games online. Better just to quit WoW anyway it hasn’t been good since 2004-2010 era and LFR ruined everything.
Whole thing is absolute garbage. Friends brother has worked in support for 13 years making it up to management and predating even the Activision merger. Literally walked in to being told him and his team would no longer be needed even after he hired 5 new people. They are outsourcing everything to fucking India.
There are people in LinkedIn who literally started the same week they were terminated. Very obvious that Microsoft just fired people arbitrarily and told absolutely no one at Activision or Blizzard that they would be doing this, to the point they let they still put out job offers.
Including future expansions?
I would imagine the game goes free to play or bundled with the pass… They already have a pretty lucrative store marketplace. If people could log in for free – the interaction time with customers would go up and they’d probably make more money by people buying mounts or something.
They will need to pay the taxes on it since Blizzard doesn’t cover that part since it’s considered a “employee gift”
Or you could just not play WOW atall and not pay a cent ever
This is normal. They either give it away or use it themselves. I haven’t paid for a year of WoW time for the last 11 years or so.
I guess that’s cool? Though I imagine if I were in that position it’s not something I’d be concerning myself with.
that is like a grand of cash. In other countries you can sue for unlawful termination and get 5k severance packet
I had a friend who had a friend in EA finance. The day of release of bf2042 or something (the latest release) he snagged some keys and shared with his friends before he jumped ship before EA sacked like half of the bf team for failure.
Played 2 hours and uninstalled.
lol nice, that’s awesome.
I picked up wow again just for one month because I was feeling the urge. I don’t think I could play it for ten years free. Not because retail sucks (I’ve tried classic too, it reminded me why I loved cataclysm’s changes) but because outside of leveling I never had that much fun. The end game grind bores me and quest leveling can get super tedious even when I’m enjoying it.
I was in the layoffs. The free WoW time we earned is something we are all going to get (I’ve got 20 years worth of codes in the system), but it will take them time to process it and for them to send us our codes. I was trying to grab mine right after the meeting, but got kicked out of the system before I could send them to my personal email.
Blizz employees have that. A friend of mine that works for blizz (still does) had I think 10 years or so on his wow account. Gave me a few years worth of subscription too.
It’s … not really news, it’s normal to get that kind of subscription time at blizz.
Why would you play games from a company that laid you off ?!
Would you really wanna still play/support the company that just shitrolled you? I’d just pay for FFXIV at this point.
I used to do Tech Support for an on-demand pr0n provider (AEBN) back in 08/09, and created a dummy account for myself before I left. They charge by the minute, and at the time 1000 minutes was $90. When any change was made to the account, a detailed comment was required. I found that if you used <> in the system, it would leave the comment section blank. So I had 9999 minutes to watch anything on the site I wanted, and not all on-demand minutes were equal. Some stuff was considered “premium” and would charge 1.5x – 2x per minute. I forgot about it for a couple years, and they ended up wiping it out due to inactivity. no regrets.
I played so much wow back in the day that the idea of doing it now just kind of gives me a headache. My friends are into it and keep trying to reel me back in but I just don’t think I could do it again.
I hate to say it, I think I finally grew out of it.