вЂњI understand being afraid when you see the Reddit mob coming for you, but if people with less power can weather it - and we do, regularly - so can he.вЂќ вЂњHe fired me personally, and the meeting was mostly him venting his feelings at me,вЂќ she explains. Price also goes on to say she believes her firingВ was an emotional reaction on the part of ArenaNet co-founder Mike OвЂ™Brien. 'Since creatives are perceived as being responsible for the way the game is more than customer support, companies are basically tying up their employees and setting them on the railroad tracks for angry people to run over.' вЂњGame companies are generally unwilling to be honest with themselves about how theyвЂ™re complicit in creating and sustaining that environment,вЂќ she tells The Verge. Update:В Price is concerned about the precedent the terminations set, especially when it comes to the systematicВ online harassment faced by women in the industry.В Sometimes the relationshipВ between playersВ and developers can border on abusive, andВ more often than not, studios fail to addressВ that toxicity. As a company we always strive to have a collaborative relationship with the Guild Wars community. 'I want to be clear that the statements they made do not reflect the views of ArenaNet at all. As a result, theyвЂ™re no longer with the company,' he wrote on the Guild Wars 2 forum. Their attacks on the community were unacceptable.

'Recently two of our employees failed to uphold our standards of communicating with players. In most cases, that might've been the end of it, but ArenaNet president Mike O'Brien has now dismissed both Price and Fries after describing their tweets as an 'attack on the community.' Fellow scribe Fries defended her stance in a (now deleted) tweet, and claimed she never asked for feedback from DeroirВ or anyone else.ДЄfter seeing her reaction, Deroir apologized for offending Price, and insistedВ he was only trying to 'create dialogue and discussion.' Price then highlighted Deroir's response, and claimed his reply was both uninformed and condescending, especially considering her experience as a writer. Price used the thread to specifically shed light on why it's so difficult to make player character in MMOs compelling, especially compared to pre-designed characters in single-player games.Дeroir replied to argue that branching dialogue options might be one way of giving players more ways to imbue their character with personality, and suggested that the issue isn't unique to the MMO genre as Price had initially stated. As reported by PCGamer, Deroir is partnered with ArenaNet through its content creator program, but got on the wrong side of Price after replying to a Twitter thread she wrote explainingВ the drawbacks of writing player controlled characters in MMOs.

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