Amid fresh Activision-Blizzard scandal, WoW Classic launches its Season of Mastery

    
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Are you ready to ding like you’ve never dinged before?

WoW Classic hopes so, as the legacy version of the MMO took a temporary break with pressing forward in Burning Crusade to offer limited-run Season of Mastery servers. With Season of Mastery, players who missed out (or just missed) the first run of WoW Classic can start over with a crowd and level to 60 together. When the server runs its course, Blizzard assured players that they’d be able to transfer to other Classic servers, though European Burning Crusade players will get their chance today.

“As with the first release of WoW Classic, we’re planning six content release phases,” Blizzard’s devs said. “In WoW Classic Season of Mastery, however, phase unlocks will happen faster. We’re planning for a 12-month cadence, with phases unlocking roughly every couple months.”

Season of Mastery’s launch late yesterday afternoon was overshadowed as shocking new developments concerning Activision Blizzard’s sexual harassment scandal implicated CEO Bobby Kotick in the dreadful harassment he claims to be holding others accountable for. Company workers staged a walkout of their offices yesterday, demanding his removal.

Activision-Blizzard is considered a controversial company in the MMO and gaming space owing to a long string of scandals over the last few years, including the Blitzchung boycott, mass layoffs, labor disputes, and executive pay fiasco. In the summer of 2021, the company was sued by the state of California for fostering a work environment riddled with sexual harassment and discrimination, the disastrous corporate response to which has further compounded Blizzard’s ongoing pipeline issues and the widespread perception that its online games are in decline. As of fall 2021, multiple state and federal agencies are currently investigating the company.
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