A reminder to all of us about game developers.

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Please don't be a richard if you don't like something. It takes a toll on their well-being.

Seriously. Game devs are people, too. They deserve to be treated like one, not like a piece of trash that is meant to cater to your whim. They're just doing their job.

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but game developing is THEIR LIFE and they made something i ENJOY and THAT'S ALL THEY NEED TO BE DOING EVER

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Fisk said he and his colleagues were just discussing recent issues within the gaming community, including those surrounding Fez 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Late last month, Treyarch studio design director David Vonderhaar took to Twitter to announce a patch to popular first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. The seemingly innocuous changes included reducing the damage of one weapon and rate of fire on two others. The changes, which were fractions of a second, spurred threats of violence online and an editorial by Activision social media manager Dan Amrich.

"I have approximately 70 messages on Xbox Live right now and half of them are, 'I'm going to kill you' and 'I'm going to find you and destroy you'

In other words, this article is mostly grasping at threads here. It's good content, but the reference points it uses are laughable.

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In other words, this article is mostly grasping at threads here. It's good content, but the reference points it uses are laughable.

I'm not understanding. The article is grasping at threads because several of these incidents happened to be involving Call of Duty and Xbox Live? Toxic individuals are going to use any medium and any excuse they can to harass someone; they're not going to stick to conventional methods.

The point is that people are harassing game devs over the most innocuous stuff, which is exactly why Black Ops 2 was highlighted in the article.

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philfish is the ideal dev

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philfish is the ideal dev

He had a huge ego, but he got a lot of stuff that was undeserved.