Bashiok Moves On
by Its_Immanis - 9 years ago show comments
On a sad note, Bashiok from the World of Warcraft Community Team has announced that today (Friday, July 31st) will be his last day working at Blizzard.
I could pretty easily write a few thousand words right now, but I did my best to keep this brief.
I began working at Blizzard way back in October of 2003, and every day of my experience here has been shared with you, the players, and content creators, artists, bloggers, AddOn authors, podcasters, streamers, forum trolls, and— man, anyone remember the old Off-Topic forum back in the day? That place was just absolutely cuckoo bananas.
Anyway, Blizzard—and the community that surrounds it—has defined almost my entire adult life, and I am just so absolutely grateful to all of my friends here for having such an incredible and positive impact on who I am, and who I am yet to become. I don’t think I’ve had to make any decisions as difficult as the one to leave Blizzard, but a new opportunity has come my way, and I’ve decided to take it.
While I think it’s all still sinking in, the other day I realized I actually get to be surprised by Blizzard announcements and releases again. Which, as a lifelong fan and rabid gamer it makes me giddy thinking about being able to sit in the audience at BlizzCon, watching a stream, or reading the newest blog posts, and seeing whatever’s in store next—for the first time.
I’m looking forward to what’s next, and wishing you a life of joy, insatiable curiosity, and happy gaming.
Definitely thankful,
Bashiok
Bashiok started at Blizzard in October of 2003 as a member of the World of Warcraft Community Team, posting under the name Drysc with a Fel-Tree avatar. He later transitioned to the Diablo III community team and changed his posting name to Bashiok, with his avatar being a fallen demon. After the launch of Diablo III he returned to the WoW team and his former Fel-Tree avatar, but retained the name Bashiok. During his time on the WoW Community Team, they were awarded the “Best Community Management Team” at DragonCon 2012.
One of the community’s most memorable moments with Drysc was during the PTR testing phase for patch 2.1.0 (The Burning Crusade), he summoned several 40-man raid bosses to Shattrath City.
Bashiok definitely brought an interesting angle to how Blizzard communicated with the players.
He will certainly be missed by all of the BlizzPro staff and we wish him the best in wherever his future may take him.
