Did she overreact to this one instance? Should she have just ignored the critique? Maybe, but that’s what microaggressions do to people. You go for years trying to let them roll off your back, and then in a moment when your guard is down you find that years of frustration are suddenly vented at some inopportune moment.

Ayup.  This.

In that, we can agree; it’s entirely possible (and even likely) that some developers, writers, sound designers, etc. simply are not all that well-geared for consistent, constant public engagement.

In which case, they should abstain--but the fans should get the hint and sod off, too (I’m aware the author began the…

One thing this article leaves out is that she used to work at Paizo before having to leave due to all the harassment she got for being a woman in nerdbro space. She’s been steeped in hostile nerd/gamer culture for a long time, having to prove herself and deal with people telling her she knows nothing with a smile,…

Who.

You guys should note that the comment “if Reddit wants you fired, we’ll fire you,” was made by a person on reddit who was downvoted into oblivion and absolutely does not coincide with the reddit hivemind, but whatever fits your narrative I guess

Price’s comment is bizarre. That wasn’t a man pretending they know better than a woman; it was a gamer pretending to know better than a developer. Not every exchange between a man and woman has sexual motivation. Her femininity didn’t have any place in the conversation until she gave it one. Hammers and nails, I guess…

I feel like a couple things are overlooked when this is talked about.

I really think this was a “straw that broke the camel’s back” situation, as the article makes clear.

It wasn’t that this guy was a major offender, or that his tweet was all that bad (and I didn’t read it as such). It might’ve just been the last in a long line of shitty, “See, this is how I would do it,” communiques…

I read through the tweets and yeah, she was way out of line with her response. Maybe she was having a bad day, or misunderstood the critique. Whatever the reason, she went way overboard.

It’s so easy for people who enjoy the hard work of hundreds of hard-working individuals to forget that it’s actual flesh and blood people who make the things they consume.

Some fans also encouraged people to give positive feedback to ArenaNet and hoped that developers won’t be afraid of interacting with the community in the future.

I’m just gonna put this out there:

Price may have “gone overboard” in a single comment, but we are not privy to the amount of shit she’s had to field from entitled fans who assume they know better than she how to write the material she is paid to create.

I generally enjoy getting feedback on my work from my friends—but…

Honestly it just sounds like Price has a major chip on her shoulder. Just looking for an excuse to fight. Saying something like “I’m loud about these issues” sounds as if she’s always looking for an excuse to bring up her politics even in times where it wouldn’t really make sense to observers. You can say it’s a…

Yup, players toxicity kills so many things, this is very bad for the industry in an already extremely toxic environment. Vocal minorities always win somehow, and have ruined so many good things. It sucks.

Hells bells. Noone comes out of this looking good, but ArenaNet royally fucked up here.

I too, also, as well, am guilty of the noble behavior of my fellow Guild Wars fans. You see, it is our job, as the role of the Consumer, to tell people with careers how and why the way they do their job is bad. Yesterday I took the jacket from my Rick and Morty costume (I see a lot of myself in Rick, in case you…

Yeah, I thought her reaction to the original tweet seems unwarranted given what we have to go on, but it’s got nothing on the angry mob afterwards. It’s like if you were to call me a jerk and I responded by burning your house down and murdering your family and everybody were to tell you “Well, why’d you call him a…

Backseat drivers are fustrating as hell in -any- job, be they customers or coworkers. Still, I think all this is going to do is convince devs that they should -only- address gamers in a tightly controlled, PR approved manner where they make no real connection with the fans, something that more and more gamers want…

It fucks me up how many people are going all “well actually she shouldn’t have” about the woman who lost her job because of a mob of angry gamers. This rundown is good.