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The gaming community is toxic in general but frankly this is not the issue here. The employee simply overreacted, responded offensively and got fired.

• analognoise 8y ago
  Game developers get torrents of abuse - the comments on the Reddit thread, and the stuff that has been sent to them since, is appalling. Sure, the employee shouldn't have reacted that way, but I think I'd have snapped long before then. Besides that, it was their personal twitter feed. A quick "Hey, please don't feed these trolls, it makes us look bad" email to the employee probably would have sufficed, but firing them was terrible management - look how it has emboldened the strident, entitled little shits who don't realize there are actual human beings making the games. The best thing that will come of all this is that these two will find better jobs elsewhere, preferably somewhere the management has backbone.
  • 0xBA5ED 8y ago
    >Game developers get torrents of abuse I don't believe this is an excuse to treat things as abusive even when they aren't. The person was polite.
  • maccard 8y ago
    > A quick "Hey, please don't feed these trolls, it makes us look bad" email I work in games. We get these once a month or so. I don't know if Arenanet sends these kinds of emails regularly, but I suspect they do. Even if you do respond to people online, you always have to take the high road.
  • zeeZ 8y ago
    If your Twitter bio includes your affiliation with the company and you're talking about your job it's no longer purely personal IMHO. Of course opinions posted are your own and such, but you're still somewhat representing the company.