Given that she is a woman who worked at areanet, and how much Arenanet _enjoyed_ gamergate, I’d be very surprised if she saw _any_ punitive action for that.

I disagree. And I certainly don’t think the general public is going to wade into months  of “so on and so forth”, which is a big part of why I’m comfortable calling this a mistake.

I don’t know what happened behind clsoed doors, so I won’t guess. But I don’t think for a minute that what happened behind closed doors in fact is going to be taken into long-term recollections.

And I think that’s good advice for developers to follow... But I also don’t think game fans want them to follow it. Game fans are trying at the best of times, and the best way to avoid popping off at the wrong time is to not have a social media presence to interact with the community. But if a dev does that, they get…

I am, and that’s part of why I’m like “I feel you, but” on pretty much everything Price said, for her part.

Truthfully, not in my experience. I wasn’t kidding when I said

They’ve set an impossible (and, in my opinion, cruel) standard now that will end up coming back to bite them and other developers the next time something like this happens.

You do know that Sony also sell PC’s and has a very large market for it,right?

given all the negativity surrounding him

Ugh...

in some way

... Women are not Gundams, homie.

This is easily the most exciting thing I’ve seen out of E3.

If this was being presented as work or a path to future work, you’d have a point. But it’s not. This seems like a fan contest, with the unusual twist of actually providing a payout if your admission wins.

Maybe it’ll be the handicap everyone else needs after that 2017.

Well sure, but they weren’t rapper-thugs two minutes away from shrieking obscenities.

... Because they finished that story and they wanted to make a new IP?

Why are you against this? Why do you like censorship so much?

Today I learned that masturbating over your comatose co-star is “subtlety”.

Yep. That’s an “anime, you haven’t seen my final form” kinda statement.