There literally wasn’t enough time to initiate a proper investigation or talk to the two employees.

Kotaku isn’t misrepresenting anything in that story. They’re posting the story and pointing out how strange it all looks as usually, in a case like this, a company would stand by their developer.

And it wasn’t, at least according to the CEO. See polygon’s article about it. He was quoted saying that the decision was made on the same day she made the comments. So it’s incredibly unlikely that the huge blowup that happened directly related to the decision. Notice how Kotaku left that out of their first article…

Fair point lack of repercussions is likely the biggest issue.

It also doesn’t help that when someone does face repercussions for it, look at the situation with Price, media outlets like Kotaku misrepresent what occurred and act like the repercussions should not have happened.

It’s less the online portion and more the anonymity that comes with it. There being no practical way to correlate a IGN to a real person means that people will literally not give a fuck what they say since there won’t be any repercussions that could affect them IRL.

Literally no one forced her nor told her to respond to him and if she had chosen not to respond this would not have happened. She chose to respond and the manner that she chose was the epitome of what not do to. Especially since she was speaking as an Employee of the company.

She identified herself as an employee at ArenaNet and was referring to an official video  in which she participated in that discussed what she did in the company.

If they are acting in their capacity as an Amazon employee yes. That’s kinda how that works.

Politely told to GTFO.* Fixed that for you. If a professor did something similar to what Price did I’d expect some form of punishment up to being fired. In Price’s case the correct course of action was to not engage.

Lol, the NFL players who knelt would disagree.

When it’s the hill that people are apparently willing to die on. It’s entirely relevant.

Check the time I posted versus the time that the article got updated to reflect the CEO’s statement.

The CEO of Arenanet said that they made the decision to do something the same day of her tweets. Which was before the movement to get her fired really got traction as far as I’m aware.

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. 

Um have you ever worked in a work environment that requires customer interaction? What she did is easily a just cause for being fired.

Cool. Now we just have to convince the people benefiting from the activity to make the activity illegal. That should be easy right?

Bye!. Enjoy your plate of shit.

Eh I was willing to purchase the game(after it came out of course) but then that entire loot crate debacle happened and EA defended the shit out of it. Then only changed it because of the extreme backlash from pretty much everyone. Meant that I was never going to purchase the game because EA has no intention on…

Goal? There is no goal....why do you think there is a goal?