A story like this doesn’t have a clear hero or villain—much like real life. I see a number of sides here.

Seems like a valuable lesson for both the parents and the kid:

Nope. If I was dumb enough to try this shit when I was a kid, my mom would have beat my ass. The kid’s not gonna feel any shame from this, but the parents should and will.

Heather stop. You still don’t get it do you? Price deserved to be fired. It wasn’t a small mistake. Please use your professional journalistic lens and not your personal beliefs. You’re losing credibility to some degree on this. The toxic online community and the Price firing are two separate things. Should the gaming…

Trying to get a Twitter mob after a polite customer because they dared to make a suggestion at you by crying "sexism!!" isn't a small mistake. The woman was a moron and deserved to be fired.

They threw themselves under the bus when they decided to attack people who had opinions on their work (or maybe in their own eyes, their ‘art’). 

ANet fired Price because she was representing the company as a terrible person. Tons of people liked her work, even Deroir has stated multiple times he liked her work and is big in the GW2 community so her blowing up on one of the largest influencers who has supported her is a huge factor.

Hi, liberal here!

This is why Jessica and Peter were fired. Essentially because instead of taking criticism Peter becomes a catalyst for making it about sexism and Jessica runs with it and tells someone to get the fuck out of her twitter after she opened up about being a narrative writer for Anet. Her second to last post is just…

This whole ArenaNet/Jessica Price fiasco is getting quite skewed. To clarify my position before we get into the weeds, I find it appalling that internet mobs are using this as precedence and justification for their anti-female dev crusade. With that out of that way...

In my years in the game industry, I have on occasion been tagged to be one of the designers that actually represents the game on the official forums.

There is a large chunk on the other side which has been conveniently omitted, some other publications are running it. If your interested just google it you’ll find some decent rundowns.

Also, worth mentioning: Arena Net is one of the most progressive dev teams in the medium, they not only have people of different genders in their team, they actually profess their stance inside their game, something that I respect. They have story events openly discussing the gay relationship of several characters,…

Im sorry, toxic employee harasses well meaning fan on her company affiliated Twitter, gets fired as a response and this is the narrative you choose to spin? It sucks the internet hate mob is harassing other female devs, but she 100% deserved to get fired for her behavior.

“Today in being a female game dev: ‘Allow me—a person who does not work with you—explain to you how you do your job,’”

ArenaNet caved to community pressure ...

You’re missing a key point to the incident because of lack of context:

It's okay to laud the death of a man, but as soon as she gets fired for being toxic every liberal games journalism site starts screaming sexism. Have you ever heard the story of the boy who cried wolf? Making every woman who deserves to get fired a victim is going to suffocate those who actually ARE victims of sexism.…

Did you miss when the CEO said that they had made the decision to do something the same day that she tweeted? Sure seems like it; unless you’re trying to say that the CEO’s word shouldn’t be trusted. 

Wait a minute. Wasn’t she rude to a fan and streaming partner for no reason, which led to her getting fired? Is there any more to the story than this?