World of Warcraft UI Senior Software Engineer at Blizzard, responded to the comments in a long thread.
Seeing people criticizing Blizzard for rainbow capitalism, and I can understand that reflex. I’m here to set the record queer on this. I’m a queer, trans person who works at Blizzard. These shirts were a labor of love by LGBT people at this company.
“I’m here to set the record queer on this. I’m a queer, trans person who works at Blizzard. These shirts were a labor of love by LGBT people at this company,” said Valentine.
“They were designed and created by LGBT people here for Pride, and a lot of us wanted them to be made publicly available. After a lot of hard work by some awesome people at this company, we made it happen.