Getting PTSD from war... Or getting PTSD from seeing someone being beheaded... Or getting PTSD from any number of reasons is no less or worse than each other, it's still PTSD... And it's still something that can have far reaching effects for an individual and those around them.

The "snowflake" mentality that you are adhering to isn't really helpful for those in need or those affected and is part of the problem of why so many people don't seek help when they actually should regardless of field they are in.

I have more sympathy from someone getting it from real life event than someone watching or looking at something disturbing.

Had a friend for almost 19 years and finally had to ditch him.  He started getting panic attack three years ago supposedly because he would look at disturbing cases while working at the DA office.  He eventually had to quit his job and move back with his parents.  He is going on year 3 just drinking everyday and hasn't worked at all the entire time.  I tried to hang out with him (usually just drinking) and cheer him up to get motivated to being a normal adult again.  Now when he is approaching pretty much 3 years and will prob go on 4 I had to just ditch him.  He wasn't getting better and at end started talking shit to me because I was calling out his shit situation.  You can only give a person so much time before you deem them worthless.  He has 5 self help books though which he is supposedly reading!  He really just needs to go to rehab.  Those self help books obviously don't help shit.

Hopefully you never get PTSD and require help only to have no help available.
No one "wants" to get PTSD.

Everyone has a different level of tolerance to horrific images.

Are you serious? Drinking is a depressant, that ultimately solves nothing. YOU did the wrong thing.

What you should have done... And anyone who has had to deal with individuals suffering from PTSD is not get to involved on a personal level, ask them if they are okay, refer them to professional services... Many services will also contact the sufferer so you don't need to worry if said individual is going to make a move.

I highly suggest you take a course in Mental Health First Aid, it's extremely valuable... You would certainly learn allot if your current (And poor!) outlook is anything to go by. - Everyone should have that training... In conjunction with Apply First Aid and Provide Basic Emergency Life Support.

The work environment is making games that show death in a bunch of different ways.  There is no 2 ways about it.  It's not a job cut out for everyone and so everyone should not sign up for it.  You are basically trying to define what a game studio should be just because they create entertainment forgetting that the creation of that content doesn't always align with standard principals.  The nature of the job put people in a position where its not going to be advantageous for everyone and morality doesn't play a role because morality is defined differently for each individual.

Choices are made by any individual and if a job sucks for them then they need to quit and move on.  You say that Police, healthcare etc have traumatic experiences inherent to their field and I see no reason why a company that produces death sequences within their product not being right there with those companies.  You are basically saying just because it's a game company, there isn't traumatic experience you would encounter and I am saying you are wrong when the company deals with death on the nature of their product.  That would be like saying an Anime studio would not have traumatic experiences if the movies they make deal in gruesome deaths.  People consider Anime as cartoons and think of it as a kids medium but anyone who watches Anime knows that isn't the case.  I am saying game studios just like any job should not be thought of any different as any job where you deal in content on the level as NR.

At best the employee could have made a statement about seeing such content walking by and NR could ask those employees to move their desk so that the content could not be viewed by others walking by but that's pretty much it.  If this was a problem and brought up to management then sometimes it does involve employees bringing such issues up to HR and management. 

As to whether people should be watching such content, I leave that up to the person doing so and do not judge how they get inspiration for creating their work.  I have no clue what it takes for people to create the type of content like MK, gruesome Anime movies, or horror movies books you name it.  Even trying to just make your standard shooter, I have heard some questionable things people do to make that content.  Who am I or you to judge them just because we may not be entertained but such stuff.

thats exactly what i thought they do

PTSD can affect everyone, doesn't matter how mucho you think you are... It's only a matter of time. - Thus it is not a case of "If you can't handle it, don't apply for the job".

But right on. Support needs to be there whenever the risk is present.

Really, what do you know what it takes for anyone to create the content of such violence as NR does or any violent content.  Do you work in this field, do you have experience because I certainly do not.  I have no clue and I am making no judgement because I do not do this work and never will.  You are stating no one should have to watch this content and I ask the question, if a journalist watched violent content for their article, someone writing a book concerning certain violent content, a person making a documentary for a movie or show, you name it  do you hold them also to the same moral standard.  There are plenty of instances where people watch this crap for research into a number of various different medias why is your moral standard fixated on just NR as if there is some type of difference.

Only thing I know is that I have played the recent MK and those Brutalities and Fatalities are pretty graphic.  I have watched some pretty violent Anime and I wonder how some of those people even come up with that stuff including all the gore. I have read books, viewed documentaries, watched horror movies you name it and from all of those medias people have watched the stuff expressed at NR for research.  So no, I do not believe this is some moral issue different than any of those other fields.

What I do agree with is after doing more research on the situation is that NR would need to probably bring in someone to help with diagnoses of PTSD since its a condition that is harder to see and thus they would need to monitor employees who work more directly with the violent content to make sure they mental health is not being effected.

When I was in high school, I watched one of those beheading videos. My naive dumb ass didn't think much of it and casually searched and watched the first one I came across. Almost 18 years later I can still hear the person gargling, I can still see the victim's decapitated head being tossed in the sand. I couldn't sleep for 3 days. It really messed my teenage brain up. Til this day I can't watch videos of people getting hurt. You know how some videos on the news say "be warned, these videos are graphic" ... well I'm the person who switches the channel when that's said.

Anywho, all this to say I can relate.

Lack of sleep, anger bursts, headaches, depression... Those are all perfectly normal reactions to seeing horrific images.

At this point I am a desensitized to it due to repeated exposure, so it doesn't phase me. - Just this morning at 4am I attended a road crash fatality, you forget that other people are sensitive to these scenes until you hear some of their hysteria or see them go into shock... So it's always valuable to remember to be mindful of others.

There is absolutely no shame in admitting that you don't want to witness such scenes and walk away either.

I believe we are at a good point.  No need to continue to drag on this discussion as we definitely do not see the situation the same.  I am neither emotionally involved or really care that much just giving my opinion.