Keep reaching, I'm sure you'll get to your 'point' eventually.

Keyboard warriors. Dangerous.

Yes, because an entirely flood of 100% anonymous threats is the same thing as one person issuing a threat under their own name -__-

After a threatening tweet sent about Sony Online's male president (and bombz) they REROUTED the plane he was on. That's pretty hardcore taking-it-seriously.

The death threats you're trying to make this a parallel to originated from a large number of anonymous sources. This idiot making the death threat has all of his necessary information on display, and Valve has all of his contact and business information. There doesn't need to be any investigation, because it's…

They evacuated Gearbox recently thanks to death threats made against its male president.

There are better ways of venting frustrations than going into a public forum (in the non bbs sense) and threatening to kill someone by name. Made out of frustration or not, it absolutely is a threat.

Considering how unhinged he was leading up to that tweet, it's anyone's guess if he flipped his shit and tried to kill someone. Good riddance.

I dunno terminating business relationships doesn't seem on the same level as the childish hyperbole you're regurgitating, so I figured I'd put as much effort into my response as you.

Empty or not, it's also not something that should be tolerated.

Again, it only takes one lunatic, and people have been killed in pettier disputes before. Even if it was an extremely hollow threat, there's still the matter of professionalism and his clear lack of it. Acting like a petulant child over a labeling dispute isn't a good way of securing a bright and prosperous future in…

It's quite frightening when someone you don't even know, who has mounds of hatred for you, says they are going to kill you; whether or not it's 'empty'. I would have pulled his game, no question.

How about instead of "better safe than sorry" we put it into the context of "you are a working adult in a professional environment, act like one or face the price of no longer being a working adult"

It doesn't even matter. He's the CEO he gets to decide who he wants on his store. If I was the CEO of a company and somebody threatened me or anyone of my employees I would cease doing business with them as well. Hell, when I was a lowly manager at a retail store and someone threatened one of my employees I told them…

no, its a threat, its a part of growing up that you realize your words really do have meaning and can carry repercussions. pity he hadn't grown up enough to know that, but threatening people's safety is illegal, simple as that.

It doesn't matter if it was serious or not, you SHOULD NOT BE MAKING THREATS. PERIOD!

You treat all threats, especially ones that claim that they want to murder somebody, as serious. If you don't then it not only becomes acceptable to do so more people would but it could also get somebody killed who didn't take a threat as seriously as they should have.

Those are harder to ignore when personal information such as home addresses are revealed. At that point, the separation between the internet and the real world begins to crumble.

He's such a child.. but to be honest, who would take that to be a "threat". To me, that isn't a threat. It's an empty threat.

it's a lesson most learn when they are young. You need to have responsibility for what you say. He's learned his lesson by being a child and he's given up on his work. So I guess he didn't really learn his lesson.