We've got some great news for the Hearthstone community today, the team has added a new community manager to their roster - Alkali Layke! With the new though comes the leaving of one of the members of the community management team, Chris Sierra.
Alkali Layke Joins the Hearthstone Team
Alkali Layke has been a long-time cosplayer and streamer, being present during the 2019 TwitchCon Cosplay contest in her wild Dr. Boom setup. Other notable characters from the Hearthstone universe she has cosplayed include Elise and Valeera, the latter we most recently saw in that Mercenaries commercial. Prior to joining blizzard, she was a Social Media Manager over at Fade2Karma.
We're looking forward to seeing what kind of community communications upgrade this means for the Hearthstone team with the new addition and we're glad to hear there is no end in sight for the legendary cosplay creations.
Quote From Alkali Layke It's our first day on the job with @PlayHearthstone! New Community Manager here! I'm self-appointing Porter as "Big Drooly Dog Ambassador"– he takes his job very seriously. Um… @Blizzard_Ent we were told the Orc statue was larger? Did we show up to the wrong location?
Chris Sierra Leaves the Hearthstone Team
As an Associate Community Manager, Relationships, Chris was a part of the community team that worked with content creators, including us. He updated his Twitter bio last week to state that he was "Previously @PlayHearthstone" and as of today, we now see where he moved to, a part of the Gaming Creators team over at YouTube.
You may remember Chris as a frequent host on the various Hearthstone live streams we'd see for card reveals, driving the conversation with a member of the community such as RegisKillbin or Kripparrian, and a member of the Hearthstone development team.
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i hope she communicate better
she is cute)
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Chris Sierra the alleged toxic community manager? Not really sure if it is him but I remember Zeddy mentioning a name of a community manager that he had problems with. It was also suggested that to be the same person who treated Toast horribly, which made him jaded about HS and eventually led to his decision to leave.
If it is him and the allegations are true then good riddance. I guess.
I trust we'll be seeing an improvement in relations between Blizzard and Hearthstone content creators. Perhaps Savj will finally get invited to a Battlegrounds event.
Oh nice, another Streamer in the Hearthstone Team...
Where are all the trained Game developer and others? All gone? Just Streamers? Okay...
She is a community manager, not a developer.
I should have thought a number of people will have found this recent departure to be, err, noteworthy news.
departure? you mean because this guy was the one responsible for blacklisting Zeddy?
and a number of other non positive actions.
Really? I must now go to the Google to see what this is all about
EDIT: After watching Zeddy's video on the blacklisting BS... WOW!!! Really?!?!