Adam W

Adam W

@barolas.bsky.social

Well well well, look who finally found the spell slots. @Glaxigrav from twitter. Sr. Producer on WoW, thoughts & opinions my own.

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Please vote. I’m not so foolish as to think they’ll gently give up their power. I do think that a massive number against them will make that case more daunting of an endeavor for them to argue though. We need these numbers to be indisputable.

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I wrote this when processing the Monolith closure to help me grieve the collective loss of culture/craft knowledge we were going through. Maybe it can be there for someone today who's in the thick of it right now. A studio without people is just a building. What made it special lives in *you.*

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In 2016, we published potentially the largest single feature to ever appear in Game Informer magazine with a full oral history of the legendary studio, BioWare. We've made that feature available online following reports of the studio's impending closure. gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

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I genuinely don't think that human civilization is compatible with "100 dudes should own everything, make nothing, but get infinitely increasing money forever"

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Incredibly mad. It is SO hard to get AAA games made with any queer rep at all, and BioWare was bold in their storytelling in this lane. I don’t know where I’ll find my next Fantasy Adventure game that lets me play and drive a narrative *like me.* Thank you BioWare devs for seeing us (and being us)

mads 🐼@smadseli.northsky.social

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

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EA's closure of BioWare is transparently a vile move to shutter the studio that made by far their queerest titles. In the wake of this, I implore you: MAKE MORE QUEER ART. Make it trans. Make it horny. Make it scary. Make it loving. Make it with every inch of yourself. Flood the world with it!

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God I am so fucking angry Queer folks, tell your stories. Mainstream, independent, comics, zines, games, shorts, novels, film, whatever your medium whatever your genre There are increasingly fewer platforms for them, so it is more important than ever to make sure they get out into the world

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There is something so soul crushing about creating art that pushes the needle in the games industry, only to be thanked by using the capital gained from said art to push the ones who created it out of a job.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Electronic Arts closing BioWare, laying off hundreds: aftermath.site/electronic-art...

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Baldur's Gate 3 and many other RPGs wouldn't exist or would have been SO different if not for BioWare. Gaming continues to look more and more... interesting for the next decade or so.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Bloomberg: Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Incredibly mad. It is SO hard to get AAA games made with any queer rep at all, and BioWare was bold in their storytelling in this lane. I don’t know where I’ll find my next Fantasy Adventure game that lets me play and drive a narrative *like me.* Thank you BioWare devs for seeing us (and being us)

mads 🐼@smadseli.northsky.social

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Liara is the first “big” moment I can remember with her and FemShep. Dorien was the first video game character I ever was able to romance as a gay man in a fantasy game. I could FINALLY be a spellcaster, a hero, *and* be loved for who I am instead of forced into a het romance.

Taash probably taught more people about being nonbinary than any TV show so far. Even if their writing wasn’t every ENBY’s personal experience, it put a lot of people into a place where you experience that dynamic and those questions for the first time. I am gutted by the loss for queer games.

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BREAKING: Activision QA workers have voted to authorise a strike with contract negotiations stalling after two years "After nearly two years of bargaining, repeated delays, and a refusal to meaningfully address key issues, we believe collective action is necessary."

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after two years of bargaining thanks to activision's stall tactics, unionized workers have authorized a strike. I spoke to them, as well as an ex-employee with disability issues who was basically forced out of the company due to the return-to-office policies the union has been trying to fight

Aftermath@aftermath.site

With Call of Duty release near and no union contract in sight, Activision workers authorize strike aftermath.site/activision-qa-...

If I had a nickel for every studio that unionized after John Hight ran and left a studio I’d have two nickels. Good luck D&D and Studio X, your CWA siblings stand with you! When the party is attacked we all roll for initiative.

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA@uwotc-official.bsky.social

Yesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election.

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"Heart of Mine" The world may take much from a man, yet sometimes grace remains in the small arms around his neck, and in the son who still calls him home. ☀️ #warcraft #bloodelf #sindorei #art

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SAG-AFTRA Announces Support for Rockstar Game Workers Union Voluntary Recognition

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I know it's a little thing, but walking through the city at 2am (as champions do), and seeing the Patroller's lantern illuminating his armour ever so slightly makes such a difference to the game. #WoW #Wowforever