I wasn't intending to make this public, but apparently its in the news already, so I'd at least like to set the record straight. I am no longer an employee of Blizzard Entertainment, though I would return if allowed to, so that I could fight the stack-ranking policy from inside.
I'm told the forced stack-ranking policy is a directive that came from the ABK level, ABOVE Mike Ybarra. I don't know for sure, but I suspect it's true. Everybody at Blizzard I've spoken to about this, including my direct supervisors, expressed disappointment about this policy.
Jul 10, 2022 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
People often tweet a request at me assuming I make all the decisions on WoW Classic (I don't).
I saw somebody say I was "THE Lead of Classic" which is overstating it.
I thought it might help to describe my role, and why I can't just answer all your questions all the time.
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So first, I am one of TWO Lead Software Engineers on the Classic team.
When the team was smaller we only had one lead, and it was me, but now that we're bigger, there are two; we probably need a third...
But even when I was the only "lead," I had Omar "Ironman" Gonzalez
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