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General Manager John Hight announced Chris Metzen has rejoined the Warcraft Leadership Team as a Creative Advisor!

Initially, Chris Metzen will focus on the world he helped create. His work will then expand to other titles. Attached is the original tweet by Hight.

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That's unexpected as most of the cool guys are gone from Blizz. Would be nostalgic and cool to hear him at Blizzcon. Good old days. He was always the face of devs.

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This is amazing! Chris was easily my favorite WoW-enthusiast and creator. He always brought that true WoW-energy to events and whatever he put his heart into.
I am so glad to hear he is back in!!
I so hope for a bright future for WoW and this combined with the amazing Muffinus desinging such a great expansion; I have hope again! 😽

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Is he back with company then or is it some external contract? Hopefully he will do better, but Danuser is still in charge so his involvement might be limited. I liked quite a lot of his work, but there were also some questionable decisions on his part. Like story line of Cataclysm for example. He will also do other projects, I guess this includes that upcoming mobile game. Not a fan of that, plus it barely has any story. And let's not forget that many of Metzen's ideas have been copied from D&D and Marvel (of which he is a huge fan, especially Thor, his online nickname used to be ThunderGod and he often depicted himself wearing Thor's helmet).

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Given he was mentioned in the special thanks credits both for BFA and Shadowlands and continously voiced Thrall since his retirement this seems pretty much just a formality. 

I mean if Jeff Kaplan would surface out of nowhere - that would be a big revelation, but Metzen was with the team all along, just didn't have a title to his name.

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42 minutes ago, Badadada said:

Given he was mentioned in the special thanks credits both for BFA and Shadowlands and continously voiced Thrall since his retirement this seems pretty much just a formality. 

I mean if Jeff Kaplan would surface out of nowhere - that would be a big revelation, but Metzen was with the team all along, just didn't have a title to his name.

He wasn't a writer or member of a team anymore, he only returned to voice Thrall while his other roles were given to some other actors (mostly Matthew Mercer), voice actors aren't part of the dev team. Story was mainly done by Danuser, Kosak and Afrasiabi (before the last two departed for well known reasons).

Kaplan is either not allowed to work for a competition or perhaps he simply retired.

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...I'm going to be the negative nancy and say this feels like a PR move.

"Creative Advisor" sounds like a position with a lot of money and few responsibilities beyond being there for the cameras..

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19 hours ago, Migol said:

...I'm going to be the negative nancy and say this feels like a PR move.

"Creative Advisor" sounds like a position with a lot of money and few responsibilities beyond being there for the cameras..

Pretty much this, advisory position typically means very limited involvement. Current writers are still there, he can give them some pointers, perhaps even write some short story, but I wouldn't expect too much (and as mentioned before, Metzen also made plenty of bad decisions regarding lore, let's not forget about Cataclysm and MoP, and even some lore before it, although he was just one of several writers).

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