vivster on 18 August 2014
https://www.change.org/petitions/activision-blizzard-create-an-npc-within-world-of-warcraft-to-memorialize-the-late-robin-williams-an-avid-world-of-warcraft-player-and-one-of-the-funniest-men-alive
That's the petition. It was signed over 10k times until it was closed. It was directed at Activision Blizzard and they responded.
Robin Williams was very outspoken about his time playing WoW. It's a nice fit and an easy task to honor a great man. To assume that it's just a cashgrab is too cynical even for me.
If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.
