WoW Players Call For Removal Of NPCs Named After Ex-Director Identified In New Lawsuit

World of Warcraft players are calling for two NPCs named after former WoW creative director Alex Afrasiabi to be removed from the game, following explicit mention of Afrasiabi’s alleged pattern of harassment against female employees in a recent lawsuit filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing against Activision Blizzard.

Afrasiabi, who unceremoniously left Blizzard in the summer of 2020, is the only person named directly in the State of California’s lawsuit in reference to sexual harassment allegations. The lawsuit claims he would frequently hit on female employees by attempting to kiss them and put his arms around them. One portion of the lawsuit that is particularly telling is the claim that Afrasiabi’s suite was nicknamed the “Crosby Suite,” an apparent mispelled reference to alleged rapist Bill Cosby, who in 2018 was sentenced to 10 years in jail for sexual assault charges, charges which were recently overturned by the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court.

The lawsuit states Afrasiabi’s alleged pattern of harassment was known to Blizzard executives, but that no corrective measures were taken due to his seniority, with Blizzard president J. Allen Brack allegedly only giving Afrasiabi a metaphorical slap on the wrist in response to his behavior. Afrasiabi joined Blizzard in 2004 as a quest designer on vanilla WoW. He would go on to serve as creative director for the game’s Warlords of Draenor and Legion expansions.

He keeps phasing in and out, but I managed to /spit on him before they remove his npc. from wow

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