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Some important details many posters here might miss: 1. Jessica Price was seemly fired before for having conflicts with her costumers, in another company. 2.
by speeder 8y ago
Some important details many posters here might miss:
1. Jessica Price was seemly fired before for having conflicts with her costumers, in another company.
2. Jessica Price did some other stuff on twitter that were ticking fans off, for example she wrote a tweet commemorating TotalBiscuit death (instead of offering condolences)
3. The person she called a "rando asshat" that shouldn't give his opinion about game writing to her, is a official partner of ArenaNET, is wildly popular, has an NPC named after him, and he is famous because he analyzes the game lore. He probably knows more about GuildWars lore than she did.
4. She also attacked another official ArenaNET partner that tried to explain to her why she was overreacting.
5. She, and Peter Fries, made clear that when off the clock they don't have to pretend to be nice and that fan feedback is not welcome, thing is, Jessica Price had ArenaNET name in her twitter account, and the conversation started when she was on the clock, the initial conversation was on July 3th.
6. The person she called sexist and whatnot, was replying to her AMA, and he was very polite, also he was a super fan of hers, there is videos of him praising her, this is why he wrote he was "dishearted" with her reaction.
7. And for wider context, community got angry so fast because several other incidents like this been overlooked, for example Rami Ismail wrote a bunch of openly racist stuff on twitter and got no punishment over it, when the pair were fired, people were genuinely surprised, and now the subreddit and forum is littered with people praising the devs instead, or telling what their favourite part of the game is, and so on.
And disclosing: I never played Guild Wars 2, neither interacted with any of hte persons involved, neither used or bought any other products any of the persons involved worked on, I am just a bystander that was fascinated by what was going on.
- aeleos 8y agoI don't think commemorating is the right word, more like celebrating his death. Here is what she said: > The kindest thing I can say is "I'm glad he's no longer around to keep doing harm." Here is the tweet: https://twitter.com/delafina777/status/1000045432007938048?lang=en https://twitter.com/delafina777/status/1000045432007938048?l... Really really disgusting and distasteful thing to say.
- jedimastert 8y agoHoly hell that is a messed up thing to say. Like "could and maybe should be fired for that alone" kinda messed up.
- swsieber 8y agoThank you for the context
- chc 8y agoIt sounds like the ArenaNet community is happy that talking about one's experience as a female developer is punished more harshly than being openly racist. That seems … un-good. I wouldn't be patting them on the back for that.
- mrguyorama 8y agoShe didn't "talk about one's experience as a female developer", she implied a semi-important figure in the community was interacting in bad faith, when such a conclusion is non-obvious. She colored her view of the interaction with her own prejudices, and responded disrespectfully because of that. That's unprofessional to do
- chc 8y agoNo, she didn't. She said that a semi-important member of the community was not an experienced video game writer, which is accurate as far as I can tell. She also said that this was an example of the trend of people who aren't experts in a field trying to correct women who are experts. Assuming he is in fact not a video game writer, this is also factually true. She didn't suggest bad faith, just that the behavior is irritating.
- mrguyorama 8y ago>She also said that this was an example of the trend of people who aren't experts in a field trying to correct women who are experts. That is also factually true This is true of non-women, in any field
- chc 8y agoSure, it happens to men as well, albeit less often. That doesn't make it any less irritating for women. And remember, the other person who got fired was a male colleague who simply pointed out that he didn't have to deal with that much nonsense and he didn't think she should either.
- lainga 8y ago
- cleanyourroom 8y agoTFW the first comment is more substantive than the article it's about.