Not yet because the Dragon saga the core game introduced is still going on. But once that’s finished, they’ll need to question where to go from there. And I think that’s the time for GW3 instead of another expansion or another chapter for their Games as service model.

I think it still has major engine issues. Tried to log in for shits-and-gigs a few months ago and it was still choppy even though PC hardware eclipses whatever was top of the line at it’s release.

Everything you said could be reverse and applied to Price, arguably more so. She didn’t need to reply and she could have had thicker skin herself and not got into a back and forth with someone who had a different opinion.

Do not talk about company or job topics on a PUBLIC forum, if you dont want the consequences to affect your company or your job, its pretty simple. She insulted a client, and then started saying Public Service Announcement, so she was insulting everyone.

If you’re representing a company even on a personal account, then you should expect to be fired if you can’t maintain professional decorum in a public setting. If she can’t handle reasonable discussion about her article, then she shouldn’t have posted it on Twitter, the very act of which invites discussion. And if she…

I think the big thing to establish is that she’s not obligated to reply, which I think we both probably agree on.

The important part is that social media provides an easy way to never engage with people you don’t want to engage with: just hit “mute” or “block.”

There’s some confusion, I think, among some people I’ve seen talk about who want to suggest that a developer needs to always be accessible and willing to endure anything because the “work for gamers” or whatever. That’s certainly not true and I don’t begrudge any developer or worker who pushes back against that.

Except this wasn’t “the slightest breach of etiquette.” She went in *hard* on a member of the community who was in no way shape or form attempting to tell her how to do her job nor talking down to her.

Firstly I want to say that i apprecciate the fact that we all can discuss this matter pretty peacefully mostly. Players, staff members and also people that are just interested in that topic.

Heather, how is this reconciled with some of Kotaku’s previous posts celebrating developers and community managers fired for twitter posts that were completely separate from their work life. From the article, I first thought that she was in the right but after going back and seeing her full comments it is a bit harder…

think the big thing to establish is that she’s not obligated to reply, which I think we both probably agree on.

I think the big thing to establish is that she’s not obligated to reply, which I think we both probably agree on.

Does anybody think she was obliged to reply?  If she simply ignored the tweet, would anyone have been up in arms?  I doubt it.  She was criticized for her reply, not her non-reply

I know we’re talking about ‘Video Games’ and the industry isn’t supposed to be quite as typically corporate in its daily operation. But in my decidedly corporate-ass-corporate tech industry, if I were to even have my account under my own name without identifying them, someone did the legwork to find my employer, and…

“There’s some confusion, I think, among some people I’ve seen talk about who want to suggest that a developer needs to always be accessible and willing to endure anything because the “work for gamers” or whatever. That’s certainly not true and I don’t begrudge any developer or worker who pushes back against that.”

Nuh-uh. A former coworker, whose Twitter never mentioned where he worked and didn’t even list his real name, tweeted that he was surprised that another co-worker has gotten fired. Again, no names were mentioned. And he was shortly fired for that tweet.

I disagree, Heather. She was speaking on her personal Twitter, yes, but she was speaking about the kind of work she did in relation to a recent AMA that ArenaNet did on Reddit. She was, in fact, representing ANet by opening up that line of discussion on her own Twitter feed. If I started speaking about my place of…

Read the original messages and judge for yourself. Were these appropriate responses to customers? Or was she an innocent victim?