This is the world we live in. Literally everyone knows this. Shit, people like Price have ASKED for this knee-jerk public shaming and subsequent corporate punishment to be a thing. When it happens to people they don't like and their defenders say it's bullshit, what do we hear? "Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom…

Her identity wasn’t outed. Her name and her employer are listed on a public forum. A public Twitter with your name and employer on it isn’t your “private space” though she has every opportunity to make it her private space.

This comes down to a mix of things, one being that - as far as I know - she never openly shat down the throat of someone with a history of being a good guy (who had praised her work repeatedly in the past, no less) who is also a streamer and partner with her employer, who is a steward to the community, who also is so…

So then don't let the mob have control. Jessica Price was wrong. ArenaNet was in their right to dismiss her. It's not on ArenaNet to think of what's best for the rest of the industry in dealing with this - their job is to protect their product and community. It's up to the rest of the industry to have balls and stand…

So if they framed it properly in other articles, as you claim, why not frame it properly here, instead of the obvious slant meant to defend Jessica? 

I didn't know crediting the person you're talking to as being awesome and saying "you do great work!" before offering a perspective of your own constitutes "mansplaining". If it's all up to experts, why do we have focus groups of random gamers who aren't developers testing games before they're released and offering…

And any developer worth their shit knows what’s going on, and will likely not attempt to cave to the mob knowing they’re just trying to capitalize on this. It’s obvious undeserved blowback in response to a situation that was absolutely justified in going down. The consequences of this don't change the fact that Price…

For everyone saying this guy is "whining" about people reporting his shitty behavior, does anyone have any actual proof that he's been whining about it? I mean, being asked about it by Kotaku and giving his position on it is different than going on Twitter or forums and bitching to the world at large that this is…

Right, so because an exploit is being used, it’s not part of the game, even though it’s in the game and hasn’t been patched out? Sounds like it’s in the game to me.

This is the dumbest take. So you can't call out whiners for ruining shit because you yourself are whining? I guess Jezebel better never write another article about straight white men being outraged about stuff on Reddit, because then aren't they just whining about stuff on the internet, too? They're no better? 

~“The writing was bad!”

Gotta love the mental gymnastics it takes to have an attitude of “oh well deal with it” when Fortnite takes their shitty floundering building horde game and copies the biggest game on the planet, and to then treat Bluehole like they’re pathetically chasing Fortnite by making their maps smaller. So one game is allowed…

People like you bitching about optimization, while using a 750m from years ago, are really fucking dumb. 

Ive been saying this for the better part of 5 years now. Games have skirted traditional narratives that are engaging, short, and focused, in favor of open worlds that are full of disjointed chores. Though, when I said it back then, everyone told me I was full of it. Now that “Serious Kotaku Journalist Nathan Grayson”…

Having both of Nintendo’big exclusives on Switch and a PS4 as well, I gotta say, my Switch has been collecting dust for quite a while. Mario Odyssey was damn good but it was no 10. Gameplay was great but the game is short once you take out the fact that most of the game is easy AF, and the length is padded out with…

Oh, subjectivity

I don’t so much have a problem with objectification, as long as it’s owned up to. Wanna make a game with scantily clad men/women to appeal specifically to a female/male audience? Go for it. Sex sells. But please don’t pretend like it’s for any purpose other than that, like you were unaware of what you’re doing.

Nice thing is that modern games tend to have the option to turn that stuff off. Maybe you’ll have that with the new one. Guess we gotta wait and see

Ok then. What would be the characters way of interacting with the world, such as TLOU, without shooting? You’ve got zombies and murderous cultists in a post-outbreak world. How would you make this interesting? I only ask because people always say “take shooting out of the game” and I always have to ask “and replace it…

Good, survival modes are my least favorite thing to come out of gaming in some time. Constantly having to do tedious tasks that aren’t fun (eating, drinking, keeping warm, etc) repeatedly because the game decided they wanted to throw some arbitrary handicap on you on top of fighting things that are actually fun to add…