By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Mummelmann said:
Aura7541 said:

What's also interesting is the timing of this. Jessica Price did not wait for the flames to die down and went straight to shitting on ArenaNet. After she got fired from Paizo, she waited for about 4 months to shit on the company. I'm not sure what she's thinking, burning bridges with ArenaNet like that when the fiasco is still fresh in most people's minds. I guess she expected that getting (undeserved) support from the gaming media would be good enough and net her sympathy points, but then you see YongYea, who has a pretty big fanbase, calling out Polygon and other sites for their blatant bias.

In cases like this, it's interesting to see the vast chasm splitting reports, some sites are presenting only half the story and appear to actually be siding with her. In an incident where it's so easy to dig up the full story and chain of tweets, and in a case where a person has been behaving poorly against others on twitter for some time, this isn't exactly a clever strategy. Individuals on youtube and blogs have such influence over public opinion today, these sites backing this woman could pay dearly for it. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of any site that has a clear and obvious bias, regardless of the topic, I've already stopped reading quite a few a while back due to this.

Let's hope some developers voice their open support for ArenaNet as well, people like her need to put in their place and having journalists and "journalists" running her errands and spreading nonsense is damaging for everyone in the long run. I'm quite simply astonished that she doesn't have the decency to even apologize after all this. Wow.

I agree with you. It's why I avoid Kotaku and Polygon as much as possible. Rock Paper Shotgun is now on my list too.