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This post on the SWTOR forums talks about recent harassment of SWTOR developers:
Hey folks,
I feel the need to make this post after some things say might not be what players wanted to hear, but the Combat team felt it was very important that you understood how we view things from our side. We may disagree on some things, but if all opinions are on the table we can have a better and more informed dialog about it.
However, following the posts John made yesterday, a few players formed a witch-hunt against John. These players tracked him down on some of his personal s and in some extreme cases, even those of his family with the sole purpose of harassing, insulting, and threatening him based on those Development side. But taking that conversation off of official channels to make personal attacks against Developers is completely unacceptable.
Please understand John didn’t need to communicate his perspective about the class. John and the Community team, ask the Combat team to put their opinions out here if some of you are going to react this way?
We know there is unhappiness in the Sent/Mara community and we genuinely want to continue having an open discussion with all of you. But, it’ll require regular dialog, respecting each other’s opinions, and very importantly, not harassing anyone who is participating in the conversation. That means, we all need to hold ourselves to a higher standard and be able for our actions.
Thank you.
-eric
The fact that Eric had to make this post in the first video game community, we owe it to ourselves to be better than this.
Sure, it’s easy to point the finger and say, “That was some crazy fan, not ME!” This may be true but at the end of the “fans” when they cross that line from disgruntled to dangerous?
While the Don’t take the game too seriously, take breaks if needed, learn to de-stress. Be responsible for your own mental gaming health.
How do you feel about this whole thing? What do you think makes some gamers do this?
To John on behalf of SWTOR community.
