Activision Blizzard Fires World of Warcraft Game Designer for Making Fun of Corporate Greed
, former Activision Blizzard game designer and nine-year company veteran Eric Covington said that he was fired in MarchVenture Co. loot goblin.
Only after the lines were approved and put into the game did the company terminate him, but not before promoting the Covington’s character in several tweets on the officialThe tweets promoting Covington’s dialogue in March have since been removed, but the screenshots shared by Covington show the character saying lines like “Let’s call this a cost of living adjustment.
“Why fire someone on one hand for a line of ‘inappropriate’ dialogue, but on the other hand use it as promotional material?” Covington asked.Gizmodo, the company’s human resources director told Covington on March 30 he was being terminated “as a result of your misconduct and harm to the Company by inserting inappropriate non-game related content into a game, which is also a violation of the Company’s Code of Conduct.”Covington said that higher ups only learned of the lines after “string lock,” which in developer parlance means the stage in development when they can no longer change.
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