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@Swagger.1459 said:I’m on team Jessica.

That “rando” person is trying to assume the limitations with personalized story telling through the mmo format, is not about the limited mmo format, but the problem lies with how Anet approaches personalized story telling through the “constraints of the Living Story’s narrative design”

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Are you criticizing the argument of the "rando" person because he is male or female, and are thus just doing a thin wailed sexist comment? Can you prove it?

That is what this discussing is about. Not the pro and con of the different forms of personalized story telling, but rather if the comment itself was sexist. If the rando were employed by Anet and just now accused you of being sexist on social media and you may end up receiving death threats, would you think thats acceptable behavior?

The artistic merits of using different techniques for personalized story telling is relevant for a discussion about personalized story telling. I wish that was what we were discussing, but its rather irrelevant for the person being accused on social media for sexism.

I don’t care about any PC mumbo jumbo here, or anywhere else... I commented on the catalyst of the argument, so stick to that and don’t assume anything else.

So, you basically chose to overlook the actual topic of the thread in order to weigh in your opinion on a different matter.

In other words, you're off topic.

This thread is “let’s attack a dev”, so sorry if I’m not joining in on the bashing... I can post what I want, and it’s all related. This topic is getting closed anyway, off topic or not, and to assume otherwise is silly.

And I don’t care about any PC police here, but if you want I can start pulling up player twitter comments and reposts so we can play the morality judge game? Everyone on social media is fair game now right?

We are not attacking her, we are merely discussing what happened. And hoping that maybe something good comes from this.Acting this antagonistic and belligerent towards other members of the community over mere constructive criticism is unacceptable behavior, and if any of us did this, we most definitely would be infracted or banned.

No, people are attacking her here and reddit for comments made on her personal Twitter. Nothing good will come of it. Ppl need to take their pc antics and self righteousness somewhere else, or we should start to scrutinize all their public social media accounts and attack with mob mentality justice. Equal justice right?

She is the only one showing "pc antics", she is the one who made the entire issue about gender, we are merely responding to it.Just as she is allowed to rant and make baseless accusations on the internet, we are free to give our opinion on it.

Ya ppl post it here I’m going to comment.

That is your right.

Did Jessica break any twitter rules? Nope, but the morality police needs to act off some moral high ground and attack her on the official forums and reddit because they don’t agree with her.

If anybody has an issue with what happened then keep it on Twitter where it belongs.

This logic.. impossible to argue against. You're the master of discourse.

Honestly astounded that you could turn the entire topic on its head and accuse the community pointing out misbehaviour as misbehaving the same way.

Closing your eyes and ignoring it is your right as much as any other, but "keep it where it belongs"? Are you the sole arbiter of what goes where? And it's obviously related to GW2 & story, so talking about the people behind it makes logical sense too.

Keep this crap on Twitter where it belongs... Unless, of course, we should post all of our social media accounts so the community can talk morality on the official gw2 forums...

Had this crap been started here we can handle it here, but it didn’t. Get it?

It was a discussion about Guild Wars 2, made by an employee working on Guild Wars 2 responding to a content creator for Guild Wars 2.

Yea, I can see how that has no place here on the Guild Wars 2 forum. Absolutely agree it's totally off topic for here!

Personally attacking a dev on the official forums is a no no. Or do you not understand that?

Take your hypocritical arguments and morality meters to Twitter.

Healthy discussions on the official forums are also a no no. Or do you not understand that?

If you want player feedback, better ask for it elsewhere. Most WvW servers have a forum more active than the official forums, and that's a dead gamemode. :trollface:

Heavy moderation does not promote healthy discussion. I agree this might not be the place for it; but putting your fingers in your ears and yelling lalalala doesn't make genuine concerns magically disappear. Not even if you believe hard enough. Not even if you ban everyone who disagrees. I'm suprised these threads haven't been purged already.

On topic : What anet devs do in their spare time is their business; not ours. But what anet devs say publically and related to the game on PUBLIC social media will obviously draw responses from the players. And if discussions ensue, both sides should remain civil or plain not respond.

If any anet rep really needs some toxicity towards the players, feel free to whisper me. I'll happily apply my elitist expertise and bash players left right and center. Any medium works and special requests can be taken into account; as long as it's not roleplay.

None of this is a healthy discussion... It’s called mob justice and an attack on an arenanet employee on the official forums.

You call for sides to be “civil”, but that went out the door upon thread creation.

Fair, but I call for ability to discuss. We've censored so much that healthy discussions will never really take place here; most players shun the place as they rightfully should. So what I'm stating is both sides SHOULD be respectful of eachothers opinions and NOT censor / moderate the hell out of it because one side was "not sensitive enough for my liking".

Which applies to BOTH ends. At the end of the day, obviously anet decides what to do. But many players are not lynching, merely stating that they do in fact not agree with what was said on twitter. And frankly I can't hold that against them.

The forum rules were created for a reason, and attacking a dev on the official forums is not something Anet allows, regardless of who is right or wrong.

Agreed, and since most of the users here are not attacking her, we can continue to allow the moderators to do the great work they have been by deleting the attacks that do pop up, while we continue to have a calm and rational conversation about the results of two Anet employees negative and toxic actions towards well known Guild Wars 2 content creators.

Glad we're on the same page!

I don't think it even matters if he was a well known Guild Wars 2 content creator. It doesn't matter if he is male, female or an Transgender Octopus with Downsyndrome and only one tentacle. So long as he was polite in what he said, and he was, there was no reason to react the way she did.The thing with opinions is, you can agree or disagree, and you can use literally any reason to agree or disagree with any non-factual opinion. She could have said she thinks he's wrong and that's it, but she had to react the way she did.Very disheartening indeed.

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@"Windu The Forbidden One.6045" said:

@"Windu The Forbidden One.6045" said:

@"Windu The Forbidden One.6045" said:

@Swagger.1459 said:I’m on team Jessica.

That “rando” person is trying to assume the limitations with personalized story telling through the mmo format, is not about the limited mmo format, but the problem lies with how Anet approaches personalized story telling through the “constraints of the Living Story’s narrative design”

...

Are you criticizing the argument of the "rando" person because he is male or female, and are thus just doing a thin wailed sexist comment? Can you prove it?

That is what this discussing is about. Not the pro and con of the different forms of personalized story telling, but rather if the comment itself was sexist. If the rando were employed by Anet and just now accused you of being sexist on social media and you may end up receiving death threats, would you think thats acceptable behavior?

The artistic merits of using different techniques for personalized story telling is relevant for a discussion about personalized story telling. I wish that was what we were discussing, but its rather irrelevant for the person being accused on social media for sexism.

I don’t care about any PC mumbo jumbo here, or anywhere else... I commented on the catalyst of the argument, so stick to that and don’t assume anything else.

So, you basically chose to overlook the actual topic of the thread in order to weigh in your opinion on a different matter.

In other words, you're off topic.

This thread is “let’s attack a dev”, so sorry if I’m not joining in on the bashing... I can post what I want, and it’s all related. This topic is getting closed anyway, off topic or not, and to assume otherwise is silly.

And I don’t care about any PC police here, but if you want I can start pulling up player twitter comments and reposts so we can play the morality judge game? Everyone on social media is fair game now right?

We are not attacking her, we are merely discussing what happened. And hoping that maybe something good comes from this.Acting this antagonistic and belligerent towards other members of the community over mere constructive criticism is unacceptable behavior, and if any of us did this, we most definitely would be infracted or banned.

No, people are attacking her here and reddit for comments made on her personal Twitter. Nothing good will come of it. Ppl need to take their pc antics and self righteousness somewhere else, or we should start to scrutinize all their public social media accounts and attack with mob mentality justice. Equal justice right?

She is the only one showing "pc antics", she is the one who made the entire issue about gender, we are merely responding to it.Just as she is allowed to rant and make baseless accusations on the internet, we are free to give our opinion on it.

Ya ppl post it here I’m going to comment.

That is your right.

Did Jessica break any twitter rules? Nope, but the morality police needs to act off some moral high ground and attack her on the official forums and reddit because they don’t agree with her.

If anybody has an issue with what happened then keep it on Twitter where it belongs.

This logic.. impossible to argue against. You're the master of discourse.

Honestly astounded that you could turn the entire topic on its head and accuse the community pointing out misbehaviour as misbehaving the same way.

Closing your eyes and ignoring it is your right as much as any other, but "keep it where it belongs"? Are you the sole arbiter of what goes where? And it's obviously related to GW2 & story, so talking about the people behind it makes logical sense too.

Keep this crap on Twitter where it belongs... Unless, of course, we should post all of our social media accounts so the community can talk morality on the official gw2 forums...

Had this crap been started here we can handle it here, but it didn’t. Get it?

It was a discussion about Guild Wars 2, made by an employee working on Guild Wars 2 responding to a content creator for Guild Wars 2.

Yea, I can see how that has no place here on the Guild Wars 2 forum. Absolutely agree it's totally off topic for here!

Personally attacking a dev on the official forums is a no no. Or do you not understand that?

Take your hypocritical arguments and morality meters to Twitter.

Healthy discussions on the official forums are also a no no. Or do you not understand that?

If you want player feedback, better ask for it elsewhere. Most WvW servers have a forum more active than the official forums, and that's a dead gamemode. :trollface:

Heavy moderation does not promote healthy discussion. I agree this might not be the place for it; but putting your fingers in your ears and yelling lalalala doesn't make genuine concerns magically disappear. Not even if you believe hard enough. Not even if you ban everyone who disagrees. I'm suprised these threads haven't been purged already.

On topic : What anet devs do in their spare time is their business; not ours. But what anet devs say publically and related to the game on PUBLIC social media will obviously draw responses from the players. And if discussions ensue, both sides should remain civil or plain not respond.

If any anet rep really needs some toxicity towards the players, feel free to whisper me. I'll happily apply my elitist expertise and bash players left right and center. Any medium works and special requests can be taken into account; as long as it's not roleplay.

None of this is a healthy discussion... It’s called mob justice and an attack on an arenanet employee on the official forums.

You call for sides to be “civil”, but that went out the door upon thread creation.

I really don't want to respond anymore to your obvious attempts to derail the thread, but my intention while creating this thread was to create a place where a civil discussion between players, and if the devs want to speak out about this, devs as well, can express how they feel about this PR issue for ANET. Offering criticism about something that happened on a public forum is not a personal attack.

I am merely requesting that ANET staff abide by the same rules of conduct we players have to. From the official Guild Ward 2 Rules of Conduct: You may not select an Account ID, Account Display Name, ArenaNet Message Board ID, Character ID and/or Team designation, or provide any communication or information on any Message Board, that ArenaNet, in its reasonable discretion, deems to be vulgar, threatening, racist, sexist or otherwise offensive, including but not limited to references related to any religion or deity;

No, you intentionally create a thread that was designed to attack an arenanet employee... Don’t play games, it’s obviously transparent what your intentions were and are...

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/the-forums-code-of-conduct/

“Personal Attacks / Harassment / Naming and Shaming

-insults, verbal attacks, or ridicule directed towards ArenaNet, ArenaNet employees, or ArenaNet teams”

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No, sorry, we are not “on the same page”. This thread is getting trashed for obvious reasons. It is neither civil nor constructive, and definitely not the way to address the issue.

Yeah, but your "hey this discussion is awful haha :)" is neither civil nor constructive either. Oozes the passive aggression while you offer no solution.

You're just saying "ignore it" or "keep it on twitter" but that is more easily said than done. Twitter isn't the platform for discussion. Especially not when a certain person blocks everybody on sight if you even slightly disagree. If this was all on reddit I would agree with you.

So please stop repeating yourself, you got no point to make anymore.

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@Gorden.5483 said:Transgender Octopus with Downsyndrome and only one tentacle

lol I agree with everything that you said, but that's very oddly specific =D

Yeah, very funny to picture in your head and gets the message across. It also happens to incorporate all sorts of things you can be intolerant towards (transgender or any gender for that matter, being of another species or race, having a disability that entails mental incapabilities and a physical disability). Ofc you can always incorporate more, but I just chose this one, it seemed fitting :smiley:

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@Alga.6498 said:Jessica literally playing the feninism card and its disgusting as hell. What a kitten idiot!I am getting so upset with her response and behaviour!She even twits and says "
Dude, we've STILL got people outraged that I'm not interested in talking to them on my personal twitter on a federal holiday? Go to a BBQ or something
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Its like she's taking this like a joke!! kitten!?If other employees of ANet as Peter Fries does about "
we dont want your feedback
", then I am done playing this game, if all of the devs are shitheads like Jessica and Peter are! :rage:I really hope ANet reviews her, if they dont; they just grave themselves a grave if the whole Company supports Jessica Price.

And here you are, calling her names. The moral high road isn't very high for you.

So she's allowed to call anyone else names but not me? What a genius you are, my friend.You go join the down road, that will suit you.

To be fair, you really shouldn't, no. She, being a professional for a company making personal attacks against the users of the company, should deal with consequences for those actions. But that does not mean that the appropriate reaction is to make personal attacks against her. This thread is for a discussion about her actions as well as the results of those actions and their effect on the views of the game's players.

Fair ?? She deserves being called-out, if you two are okay for what's she's doing, then its up to you. I personally do not support that kind of behaviour and it's disgusting the way she handles it.So dont tell me what to and not to do. If you support her, then be "fair". I wont.

Calling somebody out doesn't require you to lose all politeness. You can call somebody out without resorting to insults and keep being polite.Insults just show you have nothing else to say, so if you have nothing else to say, then say nothing else.

Here’s a bit of insight that I legitimately hope you reflects on: I never asked for your feedback

Alga, while many of us here including myself are definitely outraged by the dev's behavior, we should not criticize HER but rather her actions. Thank you for understanding :).

EDIT: I do find the reference amusing though ;)

Fixed :)

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@"Zalavaaris.5329" said:Honestly even if the criticism was sexist... you never... let me repeat that... NEVER treat any customer like that. Even when rude... you just cant do that

Maybe, but I'm not sure I agree. The real crux of the issue is that an Anet employee started an interesting and sensible discussion, received an equally interesting and sensible response from a well known content creator/customer, and called that customer names/publicly shamed them for "sexism" for daring to make a reply. And then was supported by a second Anet employee.

Someone actually being attacked and responding in kind is likely to garner support and a lot of "justice served" type posts supporting her, even if it is technically not the right reaction. This isn't the case here, though, and that multiple employees were involved is what's so disturbing.

Yes I 100% agree. That fact makes this scenario even worse. I was saying that even if ANY customer is rude you dont even stop to that level if it seems justified. It wasn't rude and was very very unjustified. The point is you cannot under any circumstances treat customers like that.

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@Gorden.5483 said:Transgender Octopus with Downsyndrome and only one tentacle

lol I agree with everything that you said, but that's very oddly specific =D

Yeah, very funny to picture in your head and gets the message across. It also happens to incorporate all sorts of things you can be intolerant towards (transgender or any gender for that matter, being of another species or race, having a disability that entails mental incapabilities and a physical disability). Ofc you can always incorporate more, but I just chose this one, it seemed fitting :smiley:

That definitely makes sense to me!

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@Zalavaaris.5329 said:Honestly even if the criticism was sexist... you never... let me repeat that... NEVER treat any customer like that. Even when rude... you just cant do that

Maybe, but I'm not sure I agree. The real crux of the issue is that an Anet employee started an interesting and sensible discussion, received an equally interesting and sensible response from a well known content creator/customer, and called that customer names/publicly shamed them for "sexism" for daring to make a reply. And then was supported by a second Anet employee.

Someone actually being attacked and responding in kind is likely to garner support and a lot of "justice served" type posts supporting her, even if it is technically not the right reaction. This isn't the case here, though, and that multiple employees were involved is what's so disturbing.

Yes I 100% agree. That fact makes this scenario even worse. I was saying that even if ANY customer is rude you dont even stop to that level if it seems justified. It wasn't rude and was very very unjustified. The point is you cannot under any circumstances treat customers like that.

That's a good point, especially if its on a public feed where you regularly identify as an employee of a company, start a conversation about that company's products and then react to feedback to that conversation. Saying "This is my private feed!" in that case is the corporate version of "I'm not touching you!"

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@"Windu The Forbidden One.6045" said:

@Swagger.1459 said:I’m on team Jessica.

That “rando” person is trying to assume the limitations with personalized story telling through the mmo format, is not about the limited mmo format, but the problem lies with how Anet approaches personalized story telling through the “constraints of the Living Story’s narrative design”

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Are you criticizing the argument of the "rando" person because he is male or female, and are thus just doing a thin wailed sexist comment? Can you prove it?

That is what this discussing is about. Not the pro and con of the different forms of personalized story telling, but rather if the comment itself was sexist. If the rando were employed by Anet and just now accused you of being sexist on social media and you may end up receiving death threats, would you think thats acceptable behavior?

The artistic merits of using different techniques for personalized story telling is relevant for a discussion about personalized story telling. I wish that was what we were discussing, but its rather irrelevant for the person being accused on social media for sexism.

I don’t care about any PC mumbo jumbo here, or anywhere else... I commented on the catalyst of the argument, so stick to that and don’t assume anything else.

So, you basically chose to overlook the actual topic of the thread in order to weigh in your opinion on a different matter.

In other words, you're off topic.

This thread is “let’s attack a dev”, so sorry if I’m not joining in on the bashing... I can post what I want, and it’s all related. This topic is getting closed anyway, off topic or not, and to assume otherwise is silly.

And I don’t care about any PC police here, but if you want I can start pulling up player twitter comments and reposts so we can play the morality judge game? Everyone on social media is fair game now right?

We are not attacking her, we are merely discussing what happened. And hoping that maybe something good comes from this.Acting this antagonistic and belligerent towards other members of the community over mere constructive criticism is unacceptable behavior, and if any of us did this, we most definitely would be infracted or banned.

No, people are attacking her here and reddit for comments made on her personal Twitter. Nothing good will come of it. Ppl need to take their pc antics and self righteousness somewhere else, or we should start to scrutinize all their public social media accounts and attack with mob mentality justice. Equal justice right?

She is the only one showing "pc antics", she is the one who made the entire issue about gender, we are merely responding to it.Just as she is allowed to rant and make baseless accusations on the internet, we are free to give our opinion on it.

Ya ppl post it here I’m going to comment.

That is your right.

Did Jessica break any twitter rules? Nope, but the morality police needs to act off some moral high ground and attack her on the official forums and reddit because they don’t agree with her.

If anybody has an issue with what happened then keep it on Twitter where it belongs.

This logic.. impossible to argue against. You're the master of discourse.

Honestly astounded that you could turn the entire topic on its head and accuse the community pointing out misbehaviour as misbehaving the same way.

Closing your eyes and ignoring it is your right as much as any other, but "keep it where it belongs"? Are you the sole arbiter of what goes where? And it's obviously related to GW2 & story, so talking about the people behind it makes logical sense too.

Keep this crap on Twitter where it belongs... Unless, of course, we should post all of our social media accounts so the community can talk morality on the official gw2 forums...

Had this crap been started here we can handle it here, but it didn’t. Get it?

It was a discussion about Guild Wars 2, made by an employee working on Guild Wars 2 responding to a content creator for Guild Wars 2.

Yea, I can see how that has no place here on the Guild Wars 2 forum. Absolutely agree it's totally off topic for here!

Personally attacking a dev on the official forums is a no no. Or do you not understand that?

Take your hypocritical arguments and morality meters to Twitter.

Healthy discussions on the official forums are also a no no. Or do you not understand that?

If you want player feedback, better ask for it elsewhere. Most WvW servers have a forum more active than the official forums, and that's a dead gamemode. :trollface:

Heavy moderation does not promote healthy discussion. I agree this might not be the place for it; but putting your fingers in your ears and yelling lalalala doesn't make genuine concerns magically disappear. Not even if you believe hard enough. Not even if you ban everyone who disagrees. I'm suprised these threads haven't been purged already.

On topic : What anet devs do in their spare time is their business; not ours. But what anet devs say publically and related to the game on PUBLIC social media will obviously draw responses from the players. And if discussions ensue, both sides should remain civil or plain not respond.

If any anet rep really needs some toxicity towards the players, feel free to whisper me. I'll happily apply my elitist expertise and bash players left right and center. Any medium works and special requests can be taken into account; as long as it's not roleplay.

None of this is a healthy discussion... It’s called mob justice and an attack on an arenanet employee on the official forums.

You call for sides to be “civil”, but that went out the door upon thread creation.

I really don't want to respond anymore to your obvious attempts to derail the thread, but my intention while creating this thread was to create a place where a civil discussion between players, and if the devs want to speak out about this, devs as well, can express how they feel about this PR issue for ANET. Offering criticism about something that happened on a public forum is not a personal attack.

I am merely requesting that ANET staff abide by the same rules of conduct we players have to. From the official Guild Ward 2 Rules of Conduct: You may not select an Account ID, Account Display Name, ArenaNet Message Board ID, Character ID and/or Team designation, or provide any communication or information on any Message Board, that ArenaNet, in its reasonable discretion, deems to be vulgar, threatening, racist, sexist or otherwise offensive, including but not limited to references related to any religion or deity;

No, you intentionally create a thread that was designed to attack an arenanet employee... Don’t play games, it’s obviously transparent what your intentions were and are...

“Personal Attacks / Harassment / Naming and Shaming

-insults, verbal attacks, or ridicule directed towards ArenaNet, ArenaNet employees, or ArenaNet teams”

If how you are interpreting that was the case, any criticism about the game or any comment that may be critical of ANET or a dev would automatically be forbidden. Criticism of public actions is not the same as a personal attack. Note that I haven't even named the dev by name here, but was focusing on the fact that these actions were taken by a dev - which is crucial to why this is such a big deal. Now please stop derailing the thread, thanks!

You are publicly calling out, attempting to shame and further harass an arenanet employee on their official forums. That is against the clearly stated rules. You can try to spin your way out of it, but your intentions are clear...

I find it silly you keep taking about “staying on topic” in an attempt to salvage this thread, but it’s not going to happen.

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I just feel the need to weigh in my own 2 cents.

  1. Female game devs get a lot more hate than male devs. That's just a fact of life
  2. Her discussion on the narrative path taken for gw2 is extremely insightful and has made me respect the gw2 dev team even more. They've done a very good job of it in my opinion
  3. A dude comes on and remarks that the narrative path taken only makes sense in the context of living world and that it's a failing of the living world format itself and not on the MMO genre as a whole. I think this remark can be taken in a number of ways and the creator could have formed the argument with more nuance but didn't.
  4. The dev's ultimate response is one of immediate defense, as is probably natural of anyone in her position. I don't know how it is for female game devs on a personal note, but like I mentioned in point 1, it's just a fact that they get a lot of hate and respond appropriately when they find hate on their doorstep. I think this is the point where JP had over reacted, but I can see how the remark could have been seen as disingenuous and why she would have taken that approach. I've personally seen people pose 'genuine' questions and when answered with civility and understanding, become condescending, angry, and hateful at any responses made, and if JP had perceived the remark as such, it would go a long way to explaining the jump in attitude.
  5. It IS her personal twitter, her personal account, that she tagged as being part of the narrative team at ArenaNet. Arguments have gone either way of whether she has the right to respond that way on her personal twitter, or not because she has directly tagged herself as representing the company. I don't know where I fall on this spectrum but it is a point that needs consideration.
  6. For the record, I feel the response is unjustified, even if there are reasons that can easily explain the reaction. I may not be a female game dev, but I've been on the receiving end of online hatred for just being who I am, and there does come a point where enough is enough and you develop a 'take no prisoners' attitude, so I sympathise with her probable reasoning for the response. But again, it doesn't justify it and I don't condone it.
  7. There has been another case of a similar reactive response. The previously linked twitter discussion with Inks. I've read through the whole thing multiple times to try and understand where the discussion may have taken a turn, and I do believe that JP had misinterpreted Inks response. I had too, initially, when I first read it, and she responded to the misinterpretation of Inks response to the guy claiming it was sexism. She may have already been offset by Inks first response that questioned the intent of the criticism, which Inks seemingly didn't have the context of (since it was on the forums but she brought her frustration to twitter), which led to her misinterpreting Inks response. That, or her seeming unwillingness to continually have to justify her actions and attitude when she's bombarded by hate on all sides as a female game dev. Either way, there's only so much brain power that can be spared to read a comment thoroughly when you're on the receiving end of so much hatred so things can be misunderstood. Again, I sympathise and would have reacted similarly in her shoes, because I've certainly been there, but it doesn't justify her response and wouldn't justify my response had I been in her shoes.
  8. Inevitably, there's only so much insight we can gain from just reading the twitter feeds. Without direct word from JP, we won't be able to fully understand the scenario. I've done my best with the information that's available to see what's going on, but only JP can speak about her intentions. I do believe Inks at least pointed out where he was coming from, I don't know if the other creator from the main discussion of this thread has explained his attitude.

There's a lot that happens behind closed doors that we're not privy to. While I do believe bringing a measure of understanding to the discussion can remove a lot of the toxicity surrounding this, we also can't mince words and have to point out that the response was unjustified for it's severity.

TL;DR: She reacted as any human being would to a response that was interpreted as the hatred she probably gets on a daily basis (as female game devs get far more online hatred than male game devs). However, I do believe her interpretations were off the mark. While I sympathise with her response, I won't justify it and don't condone it. But we do have to bring a measure of understanding and compassion to the table, especially in cases where it's known for a fact that someone can get a disproportionate amount of online hate.

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TL;DR: She reacted as any human being would to a response that was interpreted as the hatred she probably gets on a daily basis (as female game devs get far more online hatred than male game devs).

I have to disagree here. If the poster she responded to had made any sort of negative remark towards her, in any way, shape or form, it would certainly have been an understandable reaction. But they literally just said "I slightly disagree", followed by an explanation of what points they contend in her discussion and what their feelings on those points were. Her reaction was to immediately imply the user was sexist, to a ton of followers, and then follow up that post with further accusations of hurt man-feelings, etc etc.

I mean, I can't think of many human beings that would react that way in the same situation.

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@Swagger.1459 said:I’m on team Jessica.

That “rando” person is trying to assume the limitations with personalized story telling through the mmo format, is not about the limited mmo format, but the problem lies with how Anet approaches personalized story telling through the “constraints of the Living Story’s narrative design”

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Are you criticizing the argument of the "rando" person because he is male or female, and are thus just doing a thin wailed sexist comment? Can you prove it?

That is what this discussing is about. Not the pro and con of the different forms of personalized story telling, but rather if the comment itself was sexist. If the rando were employed by Anet and just now accused you of being sexist on social media and you may end up receiving death threats, would you think thats acceptable behavior?

The artistic merits of using different techniques for personalized story telling is relevant for a discussion about personalized story telling. I wish that was what we were discussing, but its rather irrelevant for the person being accused on social media for sexism.

I don’t care about any PC mumbo jumbo here, or anywhere else... I commented on the catalyst of the argument, so stick to that and don’t assume anything else.

So, you basically chose to overlook the actual topic of the thread in order to weigh in your opinion on a different matter.

In other words, you're off topic.

This thread is “let’s attack a dev”, so sorry if I’m not joining in on the bashing... I can post what I want, and it’s all related. This topic is getting closed anyway, off topic or not, and to assume otherwise is silly.

And I don’t care about any PC police here, but if you want I can start pulling up player twitter comments and reposts so we can play the morality judge game? Everyone on social media is fair game now right?

We are not attacking her, we are merely discussing what happened. And hoping that maybe something good comes from this.Acting this antagonistic and belligerent towards other members of the community over mere constructive criticism is unacceptable behavior, and if any of us did this, we most definitely would be infracted or banned.

No, people are attacking her here and reddit for comments made on her personal Twitter. Nothing good will come of it. Ppl need to take their pc antics and self righteousness somewhere else, or we should start to scrutinize all their public social media accounts and attack with mob mentality justice. Equal justice right?

She is the only one showing "pc antics", she is the one who made the entire issue about gender, we are merely responding to it.Just as she is allowed to rant and make baseless accusations on the internet, we are free to give our opinion on it.

Ya ppl post it here I’m going to comment.

That is your right.

Did Jessica break any twitter rules? Nope, but the morality police needs to act off some moral high ground and attack her on the official forums and reddit because they don’t agree with her.

If anybody has an issue with what happened then keep it on Twitter where it belongs.

This logic.. impossible to argue against. You're the master of discourse.

Honestly astounded that you could turn the entire topic on its head and accuse the community pointing out misbehaviour as misbehaving the same way.

Closing your eyes and ignoring it is your right as much as any other, but "keep it where it belongs"? Are you the sole arbiter of what goes where? And it's obviously related to GW2 & story, so talking about the people behind it makes logical sense too.

Keep this crap on Twitter where it belongs... Unless, of course, we should post all of our social media accounts so the community can talk morality on the official gw2 forums...

Had this crap been started here we can handle it here, but it didn’t. Get it?

It was a discussion about Guild Wars 2, made by an employee working on Guild Wars 2 responding to a content creator for Guild Wars 2.

Yea, I can see how that has no place here on the Guild Wars 2 forum. Absolutely agree it's totally off topic for here!

Personally attacking a dev on the official forums is a no no. Or do you not understand that?

Take your hypocritical arguments and morality meters to Twitter.

Healthy discussions on the official forums are also a no no. Or do you not understand that?

If you want player feedback, better ask for it elsewhere. Most WvW servers have a forum more active than the official forums, and that's a dead gamemode. :trollface:

Heavy moderation does not promote healthy discussion. I agree this might not be the place for it; but putting your fingers in your ears and yelling lalalala doesn't make genuine concerns magically disappear. Not even if you believe hard enough. Not even if you ban everyone who disagrees. I'm suprised these threads haven't been purged already.

On topic : What anet devs do in their spare time is their business; not ours. But what anet devs say publically and related to the game on PUBLIC social media will obviously draw responses from the players. And if discussions ensue, both sides should remain civil or plain not respond.

If any anet rep really needs some toxicity towards the players, feel free to whisper me. I'll happily apply my elitist expertise and bash players left right and center. Any medium works and special requests can be taken into account; as long as it's not roleplay.

None of this is a healthy discussion... It’s called mob justice and an attack on an arenanet employee on the official forums.

You call for sides to be “civil”, but that went out the door upon thread creation.

I really don't want to respond anymore to your obvious attempts to derail the thread, but my intention while creating this thread was to create a place where a civil discussion between players, and if the devs want to speak out about this, devs as well, can express how they feel about this PR issue for ANET. Offering criticism about something that happened on a public forum is not a personal attack.

I am merely requesting that ANET staff abide by the same rules of conduct we players have to. From the official Guild Ward 2 Rules of Conduct: You may not select an Account ID, Account Display Name, ArenaNet Message Board ID, Character ID and/or Team designation, or provide any communication or information on any Message Board, that ArenaNet, in its reasonable discretion, deems to be vulgar, threatening, racist, sexist or otherwise offensive, including but not limited to references related to any religion or deity;

No, you intentionally create a thread that was designed to attack an arenanet employee... Don’t play games, it’s obviously transparent what your intentions were and are...

“Personal Attacks / Harassment / Naming and Shaming

-insults, verbal attacks, or ridicule directed towards ArenaNet, ArenaNet employees, or ArenaNet teams”

If how you are interpreting that was the case, any criticism about the game or any comment that may be critical of ANET or a dev would automatically be forbidden. Criticism of public actions is not the same as a personal attack. Note that I haven't even named the dev by name here, but was focusing on the fact that these actions were taken by a dev - which is crucial to why this is such a big deal. Now please stop derailing the thread, thanks!

To be honest, major criticism - no matter how friendly and well-founded expressed - does get deleted. Happened to me and several other users multiple times by now. There's a reason why this forum - considering the size of the community - is basically dead and people rather use stuff like reddit to express their opinions (even forums of some third-class f2p-mmorpgs are more lively than this forum).

In that regard, the behaviour of Mrs. JP reflects especially bad on ANet since people already have the impression that their - well-founded - criticism doesn't matter at all. After all, the game is lacking in quality lately (Kourna was horrible gameplay-wise and ending the story abruptly by abusing a deus ex machina isn't all that great either) and ANet doesn't produce the impression that they actually care (not a single question of importance was answered in the latest AMA).

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To me it sounds like a boundaries issue. Its ok to be a jerk on social media, as long as you keep it private and not bring in a 3rd party, your employer. Then you just put yourself in a bad position.But ultimately in the end you have remember, her job puts food on the table, and is we all make mistakes at times.

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@"Tolmos.8395" said:I have to disagree here. If the poster she responded to had made any sort of negative remark towards her, in any way, shape or form, it would certainly have been an understandable reaction. But they literally just said "I slightly disagree", followed by an explanation of what points they contend in her discussion and what their feelings on those points were. Her reaction was to immediately imply the user was sexist, to a ton of followers, and then follow up that post with further accusations of hurt man-feelings, etc etc.

I mean, I can't think of many human beings that would react that way in the same situation.

Like I said in the rest of the TL:DR that you didn't quote, I do believe her interpretation was off. I also go on to explain it more in the points dedicated to that part as well:

@"castlemanic.3198" said:

  1. A dude comes on and remarks that the narrative path taken only makes sense in the context of living world and that it's a failing of the living world format itself and not on the MMO genre as a whole. I think this remark can be taken in a number of ways and the creator could have formed the argument with more nuance but didn't.
  2. The dev's ultimate response is one of immediate defense, as is probably natural of anyone in her position. I don't know how it is for female game devs on a personal note, but like I mentioned in point 1, it's just a fact that they get a lot of hate and respond appropriately when they find hate on their doorstep. I think this is the point where JP had over reacted, but I can see how the remark could have been seen as disingenuous and why she would have taken that approach. I've personally seen people pose 'genuine' questions and when answered with civility and understanding, become condescending, angry, and hateful at any responses made, and if JP had perceived the remark as such, it would go a long way to explaining the jump in attitude.

Again, I don't justify her response. I don't condone her response. But I do understand where she made the error.

EDIT (this is copied from my edit to the response to this post below, just to make the point clearer for anyone reading this): I want to further clarify, just to make my point clear.

The error that I mean is entirely about her interpretations of the response. She made an error when she believed that the two disagreements were filled with hostile intent.

Her response to that error is unjustified. I do not condone it and would not reduce such a harsh and unjustified reaction as simply an 'error'. The only 'error' is her interpretations. Her response cannot be justified by any means, nor reduced to simply an 'error'.

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@"Windu The Forbidden One.6045" said:

@Swagger.1459 said:I’m on team Jessica.

That “rando” person is trying to assume the limitations with personalized story telling through the mmo format, is not about the limited mmo format, but the problem lies with how Anet approaches personalized story telling through the “constraints of the Living Story’s narrative design”

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Are you criticizing the argument of the "rando" person because he is male or female, and are thus just doing a thin wailed sexist comment? Can you prove it?

That is what this discussing is about. Not the pro and con of the different forms of personalized story telling, but rather if the comment itself was sexist. If the rando were employed by Anet and just now accused you of being sexist on social media and you may end up receiving death threats, would you think thats acceptable behavior?

The artistic merits of using different techniques for personalized story telling is relevant for a discussion about personalized story telling. I wish that was what we were discussing, but its rather irrelevant for the person being accused on social media for sexism.

I don’t care about any PC mumbo jumbo here, or anywhere else... I commented on the catalyst of the argument, so stick to that and don’t assume anything else.

So, you basically chose to overlook the actual topic of the thread in order to weigh in your opinion on a different matter.

In other words, you're off topic.

This thread is “let’s attack a dev”, so sorry if I’m not joining in on the bashing... I can post what I want, and it’s all related. This topic is getting closed anyway, off topic or not, and to assume otherwise is silly.

And I don’t care about any PC police here, but if you want I can start pulling up player twitter comments and reposts so we can play the morality judge game? Everyone on social media is fair game now right?

We are not attacking her, we are merely discussing what happened. And hoping that maybe something good comes from this.Acting this antagonistic and belligerent towards other members of the community over mere constructive criticism is unacceptable behavior, and if any of us did this, we most definitely would be infracted or banned.

No, people are attacking her here and reddit for comments made on her personal Twitter. Nothing good will come of it. Ppl need to take their pc antics and self righteousness somewhere else, or we should start to scrutinize all their public social media accounts and attack with mob mentality justice. Equal justice right?

She is the only one showing "pc antics", she is the one who made the entire issue about gender, we are merely responding to it.Just as she is allowed to rant and make baseless accusations on the internet, we are free to give our opinion on it.

Ya ppl post it here I’m going to comment.

That is your right.

Did Jessica break any twitter rules? Nope, but the morality police needs to act off some moral high ground and attack her on the official forums and reddit because they don’t agree with her.

If anybody has an issue with what happened then keep it on Twitter where it belongs.

This logic.. impossible to argue against. You're the master of discourse.

Honestly astounded that you could turn the entire topic on its head and accuse the community pointing out misbehaviour as misbehaving the same way.

Closing your eyes and ignoring it is your right as much as any other, but "keep it where it belongs"? Are you the sole arbiter of what goes where? And it's obviously related to GW2 & story, so talking about the people behind it makes logical sense too.

Keep this crap on Twitter where it belongs... Unless, of course, we should post all of our social media accounts so the community can talk morality on the official gw2 forums...

Had this crap been started here we can handle it here, but it didn’t. Get it?

It was a discussion about Guild Wars 2, made by an employee working on Guild Wars 2 responding to a content creator for Guild Wars 2.

Yea, I can see how that has no place here on the Guild Wars 2 forum. Absolutely agree it's totally off topic for here!

Personally attacking a dev on the official forums is a no no. Or do you not understand that?

Take your hypocritical arguments and morality meters to Twitter.

Healthy discussions on the official forums are also a no no. Or do you not understand that?

If you want player feedback, better ask for it elsewhere. Most WvW servers have a forum more active than the official forums, and that's a dead gamemode. :trollface:

Heavy moderation does not promote healthy discussion. I agree this might not be the place for it; but putting your fingers in your ears and yelling lalalala doesn't make genuine concerns magically disappear. Not even if you believe hard enough. Not even if you ban everyone who disagrees. I'm suprised these threads haven't been purged already.

On topic : What anet devs do in their spare time is their business; not ours. But what anet devs say publically and related to the game on PUBLIC social media will obviously draw responses from the players. And if discussions ensue, both sides should remain civil or plain not respond.

If any anet rep really needs some toxicity towards the players, feel free to whisper me. I'll happily apply my elitist expertise and bash players left right and center. Any medium works and special requests can be taken into account; as long as it's not roleplay.

None of this is a healthy discussion... It’s called mob justice and an attack on an arenanet employee on the official forums.

You call for sides to be “civil”, but that went out the door upon thread creation.

Fair, but I call for ability to discuss. We've censored so much that healthy discussions will never really take place here; most players shun the place as they rightfully should. So what I'm stating is both sides SHOULD be respectful of eachothers opinions and NOT censor / moderate the hell out of it because one side was "not sensitive enough for my liking".

Which applies to BOTH ends. At the end of the day, obviously anet decides what to do. But many players are not lynching, merely stating that they do in fact not agree with what was said on twitter. And frankly I can't hold that against them.

Nothing good will come out of this thread. It will only bring out a whole lot of unnecessary arguments that don’t belong here. The forum rules were created for a reason, and attacking a dev on the official forums is not something Anet allows, regardless of who is right or wrong.

Nothing good will come from your endless carebeary whining about the rules. You state it cannot be here as clearly by rules yada yada; yet you do not want healthy discussion. You want no discussion. You just want the thread removed. That is what you promote again and again. And what comes of this censorship? Nothing positive; just players not even using the forums as a medium. Because of oversensitive soft skinned people like you; who instantly yell WE CANNOT HAVE THIS DISCUSSION CAUSE THIS ONE PERSON WENT OUT OF LINE. Well yeah, you can't have discussions at all.

Where is the place for this? It will be discussed regardless of you liking it or not. And if it cannot be discussed here at all; players will simply discuss it elsewhere. I wonder what LA mapchat thinks... I guess i'll find out.

Calling out a player on attacking a dev is fair and one thing. Instead you're spamming this thread begging for mods to close it and for no discussion, healthy or otherwise, to take place because you cannot handle the arguments you disagree with.

This is detrimental to discussions and healthy feedback and the ONLY effect this whining has is players NOT using the fora as a medium. Healthy discussion requires respecting; even when disagreeing, eachothers opinions. As I stated before, pretending issues do not exist won't make them go away. You can keep trying tho!

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@castlemanic.3198I think that is quite insightful. I think too many are quick to jump the gun and demonize one party or the other. There likely is a reason why she responded the way she did, and one none of us may never know or experience. As you said though her actions and response to her perceived attack is reprehensible and has no place here. She shouldn't be attack any members of the community or staff on any of the platforms she uses and the same applies to any of us as well.

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@castlemanic.3198 said:

@"Tolmos.8395" said:I have to disagree here. If the poster she responded to had made any sort of negative remark towards her, in any way, shape or form, it would certainly have been an understandable reaction. But they literally just said "I slightly disagree", followed by an explanation of what points they contend in her discussion and what their feelings on those points were. Her reaction was to immediately imply the user was sexist, to a ton of followers, and then follow up that post with further accusations of hurt man-feelings, etc etc.

I mean, I can't think of many human beings that would react that way in the same situation.

Like I said in the rest of the TL:DR that you didn't quote, I do believe her interpretation was off. I also go on to explain it more in the points dedicated to that part as well:

  1. A dude comes on and remarks that the narrative path taken only makes sense in the context of living world and that it's a failing of the living world format itself and not on the MMO genre as a whole. I think this remark can be taken in a number of ways and the creator could have formed the argument with more nuance but didn't.
  2. The dev's ultimate response is one of immediate defense, as is probably natural of anyone in her position. I don't know how it is for female game devs on a personal note, but like I mentioned in point 1, it's just a fact that they get a lot of hate and respond appropriately when they find hate on their doorstep. I think this is the point where JP had over reacted, but I can see how the remark could have been seen as disingenuous and why she would have taken that approach. I've personally seen people pose 'genuine' questions and when answered with civility and understanding, become condescending, angry, and hateful at any responses made, and if JP had perceived the remark as such, it would go a long way to explaining the jump in attitude.

Again, I don't justify her response. I don't condone her response. But I do understand where she made the error.

I still don't agree. An error would be her saying "No, you're wrong. Sit there in your wrongness and be wrong", not "Hey everyone, look at the sexist man-pig that dared to speak to me! Get 'em!"

@rrusse.7058 said:@castlemanic.3198I think that is quite insightful. I think too many are quick to jump the gun and demonize one party or the other. There likely is a reason why she responded the way she did, and one none of us may never know or experience. As you said though her actions and response to her perceived attack is reprehensible and has no place here. She shouldn't be attack any members of the community or staff on any of the platforms she uses and the same applies to any of us as well.

I can definitely agree with that. While I can't imagine a scenario where her reaction was equivalent to the response she reacted to, the overall point makes sense.

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@"Tolmos.8395" said:I still don't agree. An error would be her saying "No, you're wrong. Sit there in your wrongness and be wrong", not "Hey everyone, look at the sexist man-pig that dared to speak to me! Get 'em!"

By error, I meant her interpretation of the remarks. I do not mean the response she made.

EDIT: I want to further clarify, just to make my point clear.

The error that I mean is entirely about her interpretations of the response. She made an error when she believed that the two disagreements were filled with hostile intent.

Her response to that error is unjustified. I do not condone it and would not reduce such a harsh and unjustified reaction as simply an 'error'. The only 'error' is her interpretations. Her response cannot be justified by any means, nor reduced to simply an 'error'.

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Expert gives super interesting exposition with insightful content. -> GreatSomeone from the public adds a perfectly valid counterpoint. -> GoodExpert react as if being attacked, adding an unrelated factor through just one word. -> WhateverCommunity explodes into screams, slaps and rage wedgies. -> What the kitten is wrong with you people?

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I don't know how other people deal with it, or if these kinds of things are handled differently in the US compared to Europe (or if that's even a factor). But personally, when I meet someone in real life, whether they be a neighbor, a co-worker, a random person on the street, etc. who appears to be triggered by questions that aren't even dealing with the subject that gets the person triggered, I'll keep that in the back of my mind as valuable information regarding said person. If it happens more than once, in real life those people generally tend to be shunned. They don't get asked questions anymore because of the way they tend to respond. People will start to take things they say with a grain of salt, or not take anything seriously anymore. They'll start to tell other people to not take any accusations or assumptions seriously, that said person has some issues they are clearly still dealing with, and get directed to other people who will take their questions/feedback seriously. It's just a matter of time before such a person does not have an audience anymore.

Fact is, this behavior we are discussing now is a point also because we make it a point. Every single day I am working on my personal filter to cancel these people out, people who get triggered way too easily or are dealing with issues they can't keep out of conversations, even conversations that have nothing to do with the topic. I don't try to make a point with those people, I simply ignore them after a while. People have been fired for less, and also fired for making statements on personal social media that has nothing to do with their employers. If Jessica has some issues I feel for her. We all have issues. I do too. But you either talk to someone about it, deal with them on your own, or go to a professional to help you deal with it. You don't throw it in the face of anyone who tries to start a conversation, has a question or a suggestion. That's when your issues are starting to become not just your own problem, but everyone else's. And the people who are enabling and endorsing such behavior aren't helping either. As a gay person I've encountered discrimination. I've dealth with depression. But the moment I make that someone else's problem, I lose all moral high ground and empathy will become scarcer. That's not their fault, it's mine.

I'll just choose to ignore her. I've checked her Twitter feed to see if this is a recurring problem and it seems it is. Rest assured I would never ask her any question, even if I don't agree with her answer or know outright she's wrong. There's no point to be made to such a person anyway, or at least a small chance she would pick it up. And I'm a man, so my starting position in this particular topic isn't advantageous to begin with (wrongfully so, but that's another discussion). I would do that to anyone else who exhibits similar behavior. It's simply not worth my time and energy. And even though I find it dubious that a company would hire someone with such a social media history, I'm sure there are more people working at ArenaNet whom I do not agree with. I'm sure that there are people I do not agree with working at the supermarket I buy my groceries, but I don't keep away from the supermarket because of that. I'd maybe file a complaint with management, but that would be it. Anything more is a waste of my time. I'm not devaluing the issues she brings up, but those issues are not hidden under every single rock, in every single question or all of the feedback she's getting. And while I sympathize with the way women have often been treated in the game industry (and are sometimes still treated), this kind of behavior does their cause more harm than good. And at some point in the future, someone or something will point it out to her in ways she can no longer ignore or disclaim. I agree that sometimes a point needs to be made, an example needs to be set, but do it too often and you devalue your position to the point of dismissal.

Life will become easier if you stop needlessly antagonizing strangers, let alone official partners of your employer. All in all, I hope she can find some equilibrium within herself when it comes to these things. And I hope she can keep her job and learn something from it. There's a time and place for everything. This Twitter discussion wasn't the time or the place. I'm all for informality, but there still needs to be some form of professionalism, whether you're working from the position of employee through an official channel or just as your own person on your own accounts.

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@Raizel.8175 said:

After all, the game is lacking in quality lately (Kourna was horrible gameplay-wise and ending the story abruptly by abusing a deus ex machina isn't all that great either) and ANet doesn't produce the impression that they actually care (not a single question of importance was answered in the latest AMA).

I dunno, previous episodes in Season 3 were not amazing either. I know I enjoyed 'A Crack in the Ice' even though so many in the community and on reddit say they felt that was the weakest of all episodes. We don't even know the total head count of devs that specifically worked on this last episode do we? If not then I don't know if it's that fair to say the quality and effort is bad. I don't know how many people they had at their disposal, how much time they had, how much money and so on.

Does the game need improvement? Sure, you're never at your best so you might as well try to improve. Has the quality dipped so low that its with dinosaur bones? I don't think we've hit that point and hope we never do.

The most important thing is that we let Arenanet know that we just don't appreciate this sort of behavior. Regardless of stress and whether or not you are on holiday, treating anyone like this is not acceptable.

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@Ardid.7203 said:Someone from the public adds a perfectly valid counterpoint. -> GoodExpert react as if being attacked, adding an unrelated factor through just one word. -> Whatever

The below poster did a great job of expressing why this is such a problem

@Belorn.2659 said:

@"Zalavaaris.5329" said:Honestly even if the criticism was sexist... you never... let me repeat that... NEVER treat any customer like that. Even when rude... you just cant do that

Maybe, but I'm not sure I agree. The real crux of the issue is that an Anet employee started an interesting and sensible discussion, received an equally interesting and sensible response from a well known content creator/customer, and called that customer names/publicly shamed them for "sexism" for daring to make a reply. And then was supported by a second Anet employee.

Someone actually being attacked and responding in kind is likely to garner support and a lot of "justice served" type posts supporting her, even if it is technically not the right reaction. This isn't the case here, though, and that multiple employees were involved is what's so disturbing.

I would add that when someone is being publicly shamed for "sexism" on twitter to ten of thousands of followers, the risk for death threats and physical injury is high and very real. Its a major risk to the health of the gw2 community if this became accepted behavior for developers.
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