Mitch Neal
408 posts


@DudespostingWs WTF!?!? I benched 225 when I was 16….as did MOST of the football 🏈 team
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@DudespostingWs Bruh half my high school basketball team could bench 225 lmfao wtf
You mean maybe305 is a landmark young males should strive for?
305 I’ve never hit even in my peak
225 is not that hard if you workout and aren’t handicapped by some injury or ailments
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If you feel stuck single, your hobbies may be the problem.
GOOD HOBBIES FOR SINGLE MEN
• Coed rec spots leagues
• Salsa, two-step, swing dancing
• Volunteering (e.g. with church group)
BAD HOBBIES FOR SINGLE MEN
• Fantasy sports leagues
• Video games, Netflix
• Golf (wait until you're married lol ⛳)
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I am a senior vice president at a $68.7 billion gaming company.
Activision-Blizzard.
We have a 30-year-old franchise.
Warcraft.
Millions of players. A subscription model that prints $15 a month per user. A cash shop on top of the subscription. Paid expansions on top of the cash shop.
Our former creative director just told the press he wishes we hadn't called it "Warcraft."
He said the name sounds intimidating.
He helped create the name.
We ran focus groups. The focus groups said the brand needed to be "more approachable." We asked the focus groups if they played the game. They did not. We took their advice anyway.
Our VP told an interviewer we want players to experience "weddings, raids, and new adventures." She listed weddings first. Before raids. In a game called Warcraft. Nobody in the room flinched.
She also said "No one thinks the same about Warhammer."
She compared our franchise unfavorably to a competitor. On the record. As a defense of the franchise.
The forums are on fire. Twenty-year veterans are writing goodbye posts. One thread is titled "Think I'm done with WoW." Another calls our pre-patch a "player purge."
We called our GDKP raiders "delusional."
We timed a cash shop bundle to launch during the Trading Post anniversary -- the one event where players earn free cosmetics. We offered 200 discounted items but kept the monthly currency cap at 1,000. The math doesn't work unless you open your wallet.
The community noticed. We described their concerns as "feedback we're monitoring."
We are always monitoring. We have never once changed course because of monitoring.
The players say we're "Disneyfying" the game. Turning gritty into cute. War into weddings. Orcs into mascots.
They're not wrong.
The data says approachable properties have wider TAM. Total addressable market. That's the metric now. Not "subscribers who love the game." Not "community that built this franchise." TAM.
TAM doesn't post on forums. TAM doesn't write goodbye letters. TAM doesn't have 20 years of muscle memory and lore knowledge and raid nights that turned into real friendships.
TAM is a number in a slide deck that makes a board feel comfortable.
We added player housing. Players have asked for it since 2004. We launched it in 2026. Twenty-two years. We described this as "listening to our community."
We are very good at listening. Eventually. When the feature aligns with a monetization roadmap.
Here is what I know and cannot say in a meeting:
The name was never the problem. The name built this. The name survived server crashes and subscription drops and an activision merger and a harassment scandal and a $68.7 billion acquisition.
The name is "Warcraft" and for 30 years nobody was confused about what it meant.
The problem is not that new players find the name intimidating.
The problem is that old players are starting to find us unrecognizable.
And we don't have a focus group for that.
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Purposely annoying people, in order to go viral, to in turn ultimately make money online, is no qualification for president. 🤦♂️
Plus, because she sounds like every annoying wife, irksome girlfriend, irritating ex, and pesky co-worker, most men won’t get behind her😭🤣😂 even if their politics match🤭😩😭
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