It’s one thing to leverage a whole mountain of in-game gold into being able to play World of Warcraft for free, but it’s another thing altogether to cash in a decade’s worth of playtime for the game as part of employee compensation. Adam Holisky, whose name may be familiar to readers from his days on the Blizzard fansite Blizzard Watch, was one of the people affected by the studio’s most recent round of layoffs. But he also had a whole lot of employee codes to redeem for free game time, so before the layoffs hit, he cleverly cashed out.
According to Holisky’s Twitter account, of course, none this was in any way against the rules or shady; it was just something he hadn’t done and was inspired to do when it was clear there would be no second chance to do it. It’s an interesting human interest story, although we’re sure he’d agree that a decade’s worth of free game time is not precisely suitable compensation for a lost livelihood. Still, may as well get what you can.
Once I realized what was happening and that I was gonna be laid off, I made sure to jump into keyring and use all the 1-year subscription codes I have left.
😂 pic.twitter.com/HfS5M4Fb8T
— adamholisky.bsky.social (@AdamHolisky) January 26, 2024
