The absurd lengths you have to reach to actually make that portrayal racial limits this to a handful of people being legitimately “hurt,” at absolute worst.

Don’t be naive; do you really think the publisher cares about your feelings? Offense could be construed at LITERALLY anything, depending on an individuals sensibilities. No company would ever release anything if “someone’s feelings might get hurt” was a legitimate concern.

Fair point

I guess it’s more wording at this point. Many times, ESRB submission is a collaborative process, they know what kind of ratings developers hope for when they submit their games, so if they see that some content will bump a game to a higher rating, they will definitely tell them to remove that content if they want to…

Not arguing with what you say, but ESRB doesn’t censor games. They issue ratings adapted to the game content. For customers, they’re just indications. Developers are free to adapt their game to get a lower rating (which can impact retail and marketing) or to go with what they have.

First off, and this is genuine, thank you for coming around for an actual discussion. So many people are content to sit in their camps and dig in their heels.

She was rude to him, and numerous others, during this mess. Now, of course, between her and the crap going on from the usual suspects online yeah obviously she’s a going to come out on top.

The kindest thing I can say is “I’m glad he’s no longer around to keep doing harm

My weird position is that she doesn’t seem to be a good person.

Bingo.  Of all the articles written, this isn’t the most slanted and partial of them but it’s pretty goddamn close.  It ignores 90% of the toxic shit she said in favor of letting her rewrite history with her own quotes and cherrypicking narrow examples of a few people in a several-thousands player community acting…

“I am glad this person is gone” re: a dead person LITERALLY MEANS “I am glad this person is dead.  Attempting to couch it with delicate words doesn’t change the meaning.  It just fools the most credulous among us.

He’s not. Pretty much the entire body of her twitter is toxic as fuck.

You mean exactly like this article is doing? Nathan purposely left out the tweet where she called a very respected member of the community (and an official partner of the company she works for) a “rando asshat,” as well as where she was grossly disrespectful to several other prominent creators, and is intentionally…

yeah I’m totally mental and the tweet just doesn’t exist at all.

Don’t listen to everyone else in this thread. You’re right, going on the particular tweets she sent out, and the person who talked to her directly afterwards, she was in the wrong. The guy discussing it with her was respectful, genuine, and actually apologized immediately when she came across harsh on him afterwards.…

Am I? I certainly exaggerated the actual tweet but she said she was glad he was gone. Being happy (glad) that someone is dead isn’t particularly uncommon but announcing such a thing publicly  comes across as very very cold and certainly unprofessional.

Please, by all means find the offending tweet from the twitter spat written by the person she was insulting that adds the context that I apparently missed...

Good thing he’s not doing that, then.

This. Fries comment was also idiotic. The moment Price posted ANYTHING to social media she most certainly DID ask for feedback.

Taking the original twitter spat alone, her behavior was ridiculous. She posted a multi-tweet essay, essentially, to a public space. Someone respectfully commented on that essay and she began passively insulting him.