It is certainly not something that should be taken lightly... However it is also a natural process and a part of life.

Everyone has different degrees of tolerances... And you don't actually know what your tolerance is until you actually see and experience it in person.

Some people can handle it, some cannot... And it is perfectly okay either way, you aren't any less of a person.
Sometimes people get exposed to this stuff and seem okay, only for issues to crop up at a later date, sometimes years later.

I have seen and dealt with allot as a first responder, so I am desensitized to it after all these years... But one thing you never do is downplay anything and try to be mindful that everyone has different limitations.

Hopefully they provide this individual with all the services and help he needs to deal with what he has witnessed and move past it.
It will take time... And hopefully they offer similar support to all their other employees as well... Because if it has happened once, it can potentially happen again.

Very true, but for me this surpasses something natural and is more of an ethics issue personally. I understand that we learn how to live by studying death and the process of death, but using it for entertainment I dunno, it just doesn't sit well with me. But yeah like I said, just me. 

Ive watched lots of videos of too, WW2 german officers being hung, Col gadaffi executed, mexican drug cartel killings etc, i would hate to watch that stuff regularly. It always makes me feel very cold. Especially how all the nazi top brass just embrace death with no struggle.

I said absolutely nothing about them being less of a person.

What I am saying is that I do not hold the company to blame if the person in question started feeling negative effects within a month and kept working on it anyway.    

I never did state that you said they were less of a person.

The company is very much to blame if it lacks the appropriate support for it's employees either in the short or long term.

moar o dem tiddies, and less of this obscene violence in games in my opinion.

Tiddies never hurt no one :P

Ka-pi96 said: Well as long as they're not researching sex to put in the game it's all good

more realistic scenes in games.... how many games even have scenes like that?
Still I approve of it,..... research.... yes :p

I don't believe that people have zero responsibility for themselves.

To me this just seems like drama for the sake of drama. People on the Internet seem to enjoy shitting on others. If you think about it realistically, it becomes clear that the information is coming from a biased source and is therefore exaggerating.

MK11 has a lot of violence, but the development process is massive, and there's more to making a videogame than researching the methods for the fatalities.

I am also wondering if it's company policy for the person to view such material or did the person do that on their own so that they can think up fatalities and brutalities.  When you think about it, if such material gross you out or causing you issue, it probably would be best not to do it.  If the person continue to do it they have to take responsibility for their decisions.  If you have watched any of the mortal kombat games, the fatalities and brutalities are pretty graphic.  A lot of people are not cut out for that kind of graphic work.  That's like someone trying to be a war reporter but get PSTD from filming such scenes.

Video games have used death as entertainment for a very long time.  Just because you do not consider shooting a digital pixel as death doesn't mean the concept is removed.  From killing monsters to other digital characters, however you do it, death is played out as entertainment in just about every aspect of the medium.  How many gamers turn off the blood in their first person shooter or RPG etc.  Is this any different from your gore fest movie, Anime or comic book.  Not sure why people are acting like this is unnatural, different or new in video games.  Creative artist do this kind of stuff all the time in different media and its not uncommon, strange, different or new. If a person has an issue with this type of stuff, they have to make decisions as one poster already stated and do something else.  If it becomes a problem, then the developer should inform their boss to be moved to something else.  Sometimes they may not be able to be moved to something else and have to consider moving to a different job.