I work in the emergency services. - PTSD is not something an individual can take "responsibility for". - You don't know if you will get PTSD until you actually have it... And by the time you have it, you cannot take responsibility for anything as you are NOT in the right frame of mind.

If a company/business/organization is exposing individuals to content which may have the potential negative effects either in the short or long term, then they should have the support in place to assist said exposed individuals when the time comes, it's as simple as that... And that should remain true regardless of the field you work in... PTSD is not something you should eve take lightly.

In saying that... You join the Military knowing/hoping that the support exists in the event you may get PTSD.

Video games is a relatively new field though, so the support for workers being exposed to questionable content simply doesn't exist yet... Where-as the Military has had centuries to build the appropriate frameworks to support it's workers, same with other fields.

Violence and gore put MK on the map. If you get a job doing working on the series you gotta know that. If you think you're okay with it, or you didn't know what MK was like, then find out you're not able to handle it, the onus is on you to find another job. If you choose to stay, I have little sympathy for you.

You could argue he couldn't find work that pays as well, but I'm sure he could find work.

But seriously, are we gonna hear people have PTSD from working on WWII games? God damn pussies. This truly is the worst generation.

Edit: On a site note, CoD and BF games has left me with PTSD. Please pity me and hopefully I can get some munnies from Activision and EA. Because I'm sure that's what this is about.

What would this support be for exactly? Help people who've seen violent media?

I mean graphic violent entertainment or media in general has existed for a fairly long time. If you're the type of person that's really affected by these types of images, the solution is simply don't expose yourself to it.

I mean I really hate looking at shit and vomit. So I just avoided being a janitor. But I could do that job and accuse my employer of doing horrible things, like cleaning up shit and vomit.

Depends on the severity. But counseling is a good place to start.

The issue is... And this is something I have witnessed in person being in the emergency services... You don't know if someone will be affected by something like this until.. Well. They are affected by it. - People can go decades seeing horrible stuff and eventually just break almost at random, you cannot predict it. Seriously.

We aren't just talking about computer generated images here either you know, these people are seeing some horrific stuff in the name of "research" for our entertainment.
Give them some support... It doesn't have to be expensive, time consuming or whatever... Just someone they can talk to and refer them to other support services.

Unrealistic in a way that can't be easily imitated, is what he meant.  Like Geras' fatalities, or D'Vorah's.

Though, I wonder why they need such accuracy in the violence.  If the ones working on the game have to go through this for this accuracy, then what is the game doing to the players that play the thing.  Some of the fatalities in the game are disturbing.

That's strange to say: "at random",maybe for the people around them but they themselves must have had a lot of stress to eventually break from it and sometimes people also force themselves into those bad situations because they feel trapped.

When I say at "random" I mean there is no predictable time frame when someone will get PTSD.

There may not be a lot of video game studios hiring, but there are tons and tons of coding/developer/programmer jobs for businesses out there, front or back end. As long as these people aren't dead set on developing video games specifically, they should have no problem finding work.

Ah yes true.