WoW Producer’s Old Offensive Posts Resurface After Telling Players to “Be Better Humans”
World of Warcraft senior game producer Tom Ellis has deleted his Twitter account after old offensive posts attributed to him resurfaced online, just days after he told players punished for inappropriate character names to “be a better human next time.”
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