Two Guild Wars 2 writers got KTFO for being idiots.

Pretty much,if her running over to cry to Kotaku and similar cesspits is any indication.

Predictably,she's completely unapologetic,refuses to take responsibility for the situation that was all her doing,cries about how her public tweeter account/tweets were somehow "her space" and untounchable (basically parroting what Peter Fries said about "private accounts"),blames everything on "toxic fans",hides behind women as a meatshield by pulling the "This is a very clear message to the women in the company!",throwing Fries-a guy who literally (and stupidly) sacrificed his decade of service to ArenaNet for her,mind you-under the bus in the process.

Its ridiculous.

they create their own megazord. don't interfere and it's shoot beams!

Yeah he just lost a job of 13 years I think it was. She wouldn't care too much, she was only there for a year and she'll probably just play the victim card yet again. Good luck to her getting another job in the industry though with that publicly view-able attitude!

he got fired because of himself, any blame he tries to shift is completely unjustified - it was alllllllllll him.

And here comes the White Knight Defense Force...

So... what'd she do exactly?

Oh,you know...Proudly piss on a dead reviewer's grave?
Attack the community of the game/company she works on/for because politics-induced schizophrenia?
Probably violate a bunch of clauses concerning her conduct as a company representative for the exact same reason?

Just the usual stuff one should find scummy,provided you don't have your head far up your arse.

That includes you, OP

So I'm an "asshole" for providing cold,hard facts.
'kay.

The only bad rubbish here is your post.

Uhuh.The whole story is "rubbish",all the facts pertaining this mess are "rubbish",its all "assholes starting a shitstorm" and Price is just an "innocent victim" (even though its fairly obvious that she's the true asshole that started the shitstorm that cost her & her colleague her job in the first place).

And if you have a problem with me calling basically calling the sky blue,well...you'll just have to deal with it.

hopefully she'll soon find a job with a company that actually values its employees

She's free to join EA anytime.They love this sort of crowd.

ArenaNet has secured itself a drop in morale, productivity and loyalty

Pretty sure that standing for their community and kicking out toxic members of the crew that hurt the company's image will have the opposite effect.Then again,who am I to stand in the way of your delusions and fantasies?

the outrage culture mob

So consumers,enraged at one of the devs for attacking them for no reason=just an "outraged culture mob".
Way to make yourself look like a complete and utter scumbag,kiddo.

I would reserve judgement until aware of the context

Pretty sure that the tweet itself,right after TB's death and her specifically stating that she's talking about him are context enough.Then again,I'm sure we have already established that reality doesn't mean a damn thing to you,amiright?

Stay salty,my friend.

Here's her full thread about this.

It's not their opinion, it's their tone.
I can tell you that I'm not agreeding with you and you misinterpreted the topic.
Or I can say go back to the fucking school you degenerate and leave my post alone if you can't even understand it.

Message is same, presentation is not. Being a proper person outside of work environment really should be a bare minimum. Or just say personality =/= interaction, to be half rude and super short. Playing out the "I'm female" card is riridulous, not like other games don't get criticism... especially one that's constructive.

If someone from a dev team talks about their game for 20ish posts on their personal account, they can expect reactions to those 20+ posts. Separating the two accounts starts with the account holder, not with the commenters.

non-political opinions

So let me get this straight-her whole spiel about how "she's a woman female dev" thats "being oppressed" (pretty much) simply because some poor bastard wanted to have a chat with her and quite telling bull about "hurt manfeels" is somehow "non-political"?

they don't want to take shit during their free time

"How dare these plebs want to have a polite conversation with me about character writing?I don't have to take this shit!"

That is very, very harsh punishment that I just can't find just.

So giving psychopaths on your team that outright attack your consumer base,content creators and company partners the boot isn't "just"?

You do understand that your comment is nothing but disingenuous garbage that has nothing to do with what happened here,right?

I can badmouth my boss or dance naked in the street while screaming "hey everybody, i'm working for X" and i'll get fired because of it. I don't see why on the internet should be different.

That said, i don't despise her contents, but her tone, which is inappropriate and abrasive judging by her older posts. Her original response could've been worded a lot better, like a standard "thanks for the reply, but i'm not looking for suggestions right now". Besides, if she was "expressing her opinion" then also that guy was doing the same and censoring people because of it is a shitty thing to do, regardless if it's a user or a company doing it.

virtue signaling for how they bravely supported the asking for some people to be fired from their jobs

I did nothing of the sort,but go on with this sort of intellectual dishonesty.It doesn't make you look like a complete buffoon at all,I'm sure.

for something they said on twitter

Devs attacking content creators of their game & their company's partners is hardly just "something they said".

on their personal accounts

Peter Fries,is that you?

You guys make it too damn easy.

I asssume(!) that he got caught in the crossfire and was kicked too, so that she couldn't pull the gender card at court.

i really cannot understand why she was not sacked then...

🅱️retty much

The irony is that her post about TB now can be applied to her, at least for ArenaNet.

Indeed.

Why does everyone keep reposting this everywhere like it was originally their comment?

because your behavior in a public space outside your workplace is bad enough to still reflect poorly on your employer and their products ?

More specifically, your behavior in a public space on a topic that was directly related to the company [ie, writing an opinion piece about the game and its development] and was presented on a social medium that was laid out to directly reflect your role as an employee of the company. Moreover, it's an open account, which means there's nothing personal or private about it. There's nothing untoward about someone approaching you under those conditions. Which means there's no 'invasion of personal space' considerations that would excuse you from behaving professionally.

You are, most certainly, acting as a representative of your company under those conditions- so attacking one of your company's consumer base without any cause whatsoever [I mean, who the hell gets stupidly, bro-tastically upset over something that effectively breaks down to a very polite, distinctly constructive "Well, what about branching narratives? You didn't mention those, and I feel they adequately resolve the issues you were mentioning."] in full view of countless numbers of other consumers is going to have the same reaction that such behavior has when working non-online jobs.

If a buncha customers walk into the store and say "Hey, your employee is out there, wearing your uniform, telling people to fuck off for no reason whatsoever," then the company is, of course, gonna do something about it (or lose all credibility as a company being able to behave with professionalism). (All the moreso when there's digital evidence of the actions.)
The real issue, of course, is when she started baselessly attributing negative elements to the individual- thus engaging in unwarranted harassment of a customer- and creating new dialogues which had the sole purpose of attacking that individual all over again. By that point, she was engaging in mind-blowingly bad behavior- not just unprofessional, but outright problematic. The last thing a company wants is an employee that engages in targeted, repeated harassments.

While firing may seem extreme (though it's identical to what would happen in most on-site jobs if you behaved in the same manner), the narrative she created to avoid responsibility for her actions suggests that, even without any previous issues from her [of which apparently there were many], she likely clashed with the company when they brought the matter up with them. If you're trying to get your employee to do damage control on their own unprofessional behavior, and they're baselessly yelling at you about discrimination and personal rights and to lay off them, then that's just way too much for a company to be able to deal with.

Not that we know all sides of the matter- but what what we do know is, regardless of how much ArenaNet may or may not have overreacted, they nevertheless had valid cause for such a reaction; Likewise, we know the employee in question is abusive, unstable, and prone to misappropriating real, significant issues to justify her own completely unrelated misbehaviors.

"if you attack the person instead of the subject, you've lost the debate"

This is SG, though. That's the only way certain of our users know how to interact with others. See: This thread.

they were no better then she is

That element of blind hypocrisy seems to unfortunately be a rather notable part of this very thread.