this is why you don't cross the streams

Sure let him enjoy it ON HIS PERSONAL TWITTER THAT HE DOESN'T USE FOR MEA TWEETS.

Yeah, he is just asking for whatever "mean tweets" he gets.

The greatest achievement I did this month was finishing MEA SP including all side quests.
Now I never have to bother with this shite and move onto another game.

I will still play MP casually though.


Anyway who the heck is Michael Gamble? :dumb:

Mike Gamble is two people.

1 is the person you describe above.
2 is the Producer of Mass Effect as stated in his Twitter description.

Crossing the streams from 1 to 2 like in this case opens him up to ridicule.

I am interested in what 2 has to say, I have no interest in 1.

I love how folks have seem to have lost sight of the topic title. OP isn't raging about Mike enjoying %game%. He's saying that it doesn't reflect well at all on his corporate image that he's doing it from the same account he uses professionally, considering how much work MEA still needs.

That's just one reason why blurring the line between professional and personal social media accounts is a terrible idea. Another is that finding something related to his professional activity requires digging through irrelevant hockey/Mario Kart/personal stuff.

Just why?

Ye, I wouldn't open up for attack like that. Then again, some enjoy a bit of "celebrity" status.

It looks pretty impressive.  I'm enjoying the story thus far as well.  I would recommend it.

Seriously? Complaining about a dev's personal tweets? Don't you have anything better to do with your life?

Unfortunately, in today's social media climate the line between the individual "himself/herself" and the individual as a part of an entity or corporation are so blurred. That's why you see so many news about someone being fired over a stupid or insensitive tweet.

For example, we all hate and rave on EA/Bioware from time to time here on the forums/twitter/etc. But I personally, wouldn't hate on them from a personal account where it says that I work at "Corporation X". Because then, even though I am not the CEO/executive of this corporation, and it is my *personal* opinion, people would implicitly make the connection that I represent the company in some way and potentially (if I had a large enough platform) cause harm to the relationship between the company that I work for and EA. Also, some companies do screen their employee's social media accounts, etc. which could cause the individual additional problems.

Applying it to this case, of course Mike has the right to enjoy other games freely. He also has the right to praise them/tweet about them. But implicitly in your mind, you are making the connection between him as a representative for Bioware tweeting about another game and their less than stellar recent performance. Which does come out as a bit tone deaf.

It's unavoidable, sadly. Maybe it shouldn't be like this but that's just how things are. Still, I wouldn't make a big deal out of this - let a man enjoy his game.

That is the very nature of social media, Twitter in particular.  If you can't accept that, I suggest you stay off the platform or just ignore tweets not relevant to you, not make the whiniest, entitled post imaginable.  Pretty simple, really.

Relax. He is a human. He plays video games. Big deal.