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Retired Blizzard veteran Chris Metzen is coming back to WarcraftSix years after he left the company
Six years after he left the company
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“Chris was one of the original team members working on the Warcraft universe back when it began in 1994,” Hight said, “and we are so happy to be reuniting him with the world he helped create.” As AliceOnotedwhen Metzen retired in 2016, a lot of different aspects of Warcraft had felt his influence during the nearly a quarter of a century of his career spent at Blizzard. Metzen even voiced orc shaman Thrall. He’d also acted as creative director ofOverwatch, Warcraft 3, and for World Of Warcraft and its early expansions. Blizzard’s president Mike YbarrasharedHight’s message and welcomed Metzen’s return.
Metzen wasn’t at Blizzard when the State of Californiasuedthe company in 2021 after a two-year investigation into its workplace culture, having moved intotabletop gamingwith his company Warchief after his retirement. Despite that, Metzen put out astatementto say that he felt that Blizzard’s culture had “failed”, and there was “no excuse”. “We failed too many people when they needed us because we had the privilege of not noticing, not engaging, not creating necessary space for the colleagues who needed us as leaders,” Metzen said. “I wish my apology could make any kind of difference. It can’t.”
World Of Warcraft is downloadable fromBattle.net, but does charge a monthly subscription. The game’s latest expansion, Dragonflight, launched in November and costs £40/$50/€50.
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