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Forums - Gaming - [Update: Jennifer Hepler left BioWare this week to begin work on a book about narrative design and do some freelance work (with a Polygon link)] BioWare writer quits after death threats to family

The digital age brings out the worst in people. Most of these screw ups wouldn't say anything near as bad to your face.



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JayWood2010 said:
As Ive been saying. The gaming community is one of, if not the most immature communities right now.


This isn't immaturity (like fanboyism), the ones giving death threats and abortion comments need psychiatric therapy or better parenting.



Like any of these losers would ever say anything like that to anyone's face or do anything to anyone. Ridiculous.  Their parents might pay for their basement bedroom, but hopefully won't bail them out of County.



Firstly , I think she is better off writing novels than video games, especially for EA, they just take a crap on their writers on a daily basis, and their fanbase is even worse.

"Add more gay characters!" " Add more Busty looking moms!" "Add more slutty sex scenes!" "Add more action!" "Fuck magic , realistic gritty fantasy!" "more disgusting scenarios hopefully we'll be as popular as Game Of Thrones!"

If she would write she should join Eidos for example, they give their writers better freedom.



yeah, just read the whole article about her and other developers on polygon. really bad...

http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4622252/plague-of-game-dev-harassment-erodes-industry-spurs-support-groups



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That's terrible but these are just internet threats. Quitting your job over a bunch of trolls is pretty dumb in my mind.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

Her leaving makes things worse, it shows that the retarded 10 year olds on the internet are influencing the game industry. Only mentally ill people, or idiotic kids who just talk are able to say such cruel things. If it is kids then nothing will happen and you shouldn't feel threatened, and if that person is mentally ill then you quitting your job won't make a difference. Grow some balls and stand up for yourself and what you love to do.



her loss for quitting.
The pathetic people who wrote that death thread probably never leave home. Let alone kill her kids.



Fusioncode said:
That's terrible but these are just internet threats. Quitting your job over a bunch of trolls is pretty dumb in my mind.


But it's pretty powerful when those trolls actually knows where you do live. Even if they don't leave your house, you shouldn't be under that abuse just because your vision is unfitting to the "fans".



I used to be a QA tester/ Game Master. Fans are...ininteresting

Has anything good everyone from a games forum section?  Companies should ditch them. The bad far outweighs the good



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