Developer abuse (BioWare and other studios)

Zuckerberg refused to moderate people denying Holocaust existed. If you want to expose yourself to such shit it's basically on yourself. You use social media at your own risk. You want a moderated environment, get a proper forum with mods.

No, apparently "gamers" are being paid to go out of their way to track down developers on social media and harass them, cause I can't think of any other reason why someone would bother.

And enough with this "we pay their salaries!" nonsense. You don't. You never have. That's never been true in any industry or context ever. Development studios don't even receive the full amount of money that gets spent on a game, the bulk of a game's profit goes to the publishers who funded the development and arranged the distribution of that game. Just like in the book and film industries, publishers are the ones who control what games do or do not get made, because they control the money, not the developers.

Developers have to do what publishers want, and publishers don't give a fuck about whiny twitter screeds, they only care about maximising profits.

If someone is disappointed by a game, the best thing they can do is simply resolve not to spend any money on microtransactions, DLC or sequels, and direct their energy into some sort of constructive hobby, since anyone who has time to waste on tracking down individuals for targeted abuse obviously needs one.

Out of curiosity as someone who doesn't have twitter, facebook etc etc but as someone who has read the twitter comments in the twitter threads, why do devs deliberately put "my views dont represent my employer" then go on to advertise for said employer, if said devs dont want there views to represent there company or game why post publicly at same time as promoting your work? if you dont want to represent your company or deal with the fanbase shouldn't you just make your account private an only add ppl you know?

If say Robert Downey Jr said some nasty shit on twitter im pretty sure Marvel/Disney would say bye, Developers are the face of there product much like RDJ is, to alot of ppl, the face of marvel, if developers dont want that sort of recognition then they should put there social media on private an direct fans to say EA or BioWare twitter feeds for answers, does it excuse some of the remarks by so called fans? hell no just like it doesn't excuse devs either

Gamers are the ones being disrespectful when they go to a developer's private social media. You haven't been invited, and more to the point, it's not a work space, it's their private space, and they don't have to let you in AT ALL, let alone engage with you in a manner you feel you deserve.

If you have complaints, seek out an official feedback channel. Development studios and publishers often have company twitter and facebook accounts you can go to. If you come to the store where I work with a complaint, I will deal with it there. If you come to my house, or track down my personal social media accounts, I am well within my rights to tell you to fuck off, and I will do so.

Unless you set your account to private, Twitter isn't.  Nor is most other social media.

And as noted, many other people have been harassed and persecuted for wrongthink on social media (Rosanne, anyone?)

So yeah, right or wrong the lesson is:  don't post anything on social media you wouldn't want making its way back to your friends, family, boss, or otherwise be known by the general population of Planet Earth.

Please tell me when I have permission to comment on said public account. Also, I'll send proof of my gender and skin color to clear up any manspainling/patriarchy confusion. I wouldn't want to be part of that. Oh, and I'm sorry if I'm mansplaining here? I should have asked permission to respond to this post, of course, lest I offend.  

Holy wow. Do you believe the crap you just posted?

A product is made. For it to be profitable, it must be sold. If it is not sold, no one makes any money. That is exactly how commerce works ffs.

We do not have a situation where no developer gets paid until the current game they've been working is completed, because the industry has matured and in many cases profits from the previous product's sales support the creation of the next product.

Do you think people buy games with money? Do you think developers get paid with money?

Pretty strong relation there.

I read your entire fluff-piece of a post, and chose the part I found most blatantly ignorant and dissected it.

You put forth zero facts, only a very poorly informed opinion.

Congratulations. You have defeated my argument by crushing my sources.

Oh wait.... You're the one making shit up.

As for your opinion on how commerce works - no, I don't have to prove that to you. That you even think that you have an argument is pretty sad.

Yeah...

Cost of Goods Sold, 101 shit.

You can try to deflect with corporate structure, shareholders, merchants... In the end, people buy stuff.

Of course. I for example never yell at my waiter/waitress for food not prepared to my liking. They had no part in it's preparation. I personally, never hurl personal attacks of a cruel and vindictive nature at people, regardless of the situation. However surely even you must realize, with a situation like the GW fiasco, what is being defined as "cruel vindictive abuse" is anything but, and when people wrongly proclaim such atrocities, it negatively impacts the perception such statements receive in the future, warranted or otherwise. The same phenomenon is happening with things like Social Justice as a very concept. Most problems of such a nature mentioned in western media these days, are frankly, the very definition of First World Problems. What pronoun to address someone by, trying to convince me there are more than two genders, what bathrooms someone with a sex change should be allowed to use, why female athletes make less money than male ones. These are issues, that some people seriously try to act like, are just as serious, and just as important, as poor women in the Middle East being stoned to death for being sexually violated against their will, for just one example. 

The concept of Social Justice of course has merit, but it has been so watered down, and reduced to what I can only describe as cartoonish levels of short sighted buffoonery over issues that are anything but serious, that now we have "that group of people". The group of the people that fly off into a frothing rage at the mere mentioning of Social Justice, because they've had ridiculous non issues shoved down their throats for so long, and been told so many times how dire and oppressing these issues are, than when actual examples of oppression and vileness are presented, it is met with the same veneer of disdain, so numb have many become to the concept, and it is unfair, for everyone involved. 

The same situation I feel, is now seeping into how fans and devs interact. This woman created a giant S@$% Storm over absolutely nothing, because someone, who was a huge fan of hers, decided to -slightly- disagree, on a public platform. I also have no doubt that if said fan was female, the dev in question would have taken no issue with the comment at all, such is a sad, toxic reality of western social discourse at this time. The lines in the concrete are drawn, you either agree with X, or you are wrong. There is no more debate, there is no more discussion. There is only absolutes, and after all... "Only a Sith deals in absolutes".