ArenaNet CEO Responds to Fired Guild Wars 2 Dev's Ridiculous Claims

[@YongYea]

EDIT 2: A correction. For 18:58, turns out Peter did make it a gender issue and diss the Guild Wars 2 community (archive.is/CQ5BB). However, Jessica still overreached with her interpretation of his tweet. EDIT: Apologies that each video on the matter has only gotten longer, but Jessica Price's claims continue to get more ridiculous. Great response from Mike O Brien, and hopefully this will be the last video on this circus show Jessica's putting on. Show your support on Patreon.com/YongYea or PayPal.me/YongYea! It's completely optional, but even $1 a month contribution will go a long way. Also, follow me on Twitter.com/YongYea for the latest updates. TOP PATRONS [CIPHER] - Thelionsam - Shawn Duane Cottrell [BIG BOSS] - TheKingSolomon - Vin Giorgio [BOSS] - Zander Rose - Flying Seafox - Joel Wesley Salyer - John A Perez - James Holden - Alex Moretti - justconst - comfyHat - Jonathan Ball - Michael Redmond [LEGENDARY] - Michael P. Reid - Ahmed Al-Khayyat - oh2on2 - Mark Taylor - blake brown - TITOtheGamingGod - Christopher Davis Kildahl - D Kurtti - Jade Rose - Prismat Dragoon - Darien Cunningham - Teemu Hattukangas - Princess Stabbity - Jake Betts - Jonah Ferguson - Pawel Dziemian

[@grey6545]

YongYea amazing video as always 👌 Btw nice haircut 👍

[@Whitedudeabove]

I don't think you need to apologize. If new information keeps popping up, then I think it's good to have someone cover it (in this case you).

[@jondeiconic2552]

YongYea no need to apologise it is pointless

[@Dr.Friendly]

No need to apologize, keep us informed, you're doing great work.

[@daveshrum1749]

YongYea personally I despise right-wing trolls racist sexist and the like. Perhaps Jessica Price should look in the mirror because she just became the mirror image of a right-wing troll just left-wing. Instead of attacking women minorities and gay people like right wing trolls do, she just attacks straight white men especially if they have an opinion that differs from hers apparently. I read all the tweets the only one being an asshole and being sexist was Jessica Price.

[@theocan]

“He had the power to command a woman”.. This statement alone is completely ridiculous. He had the power to command an EMPLOYEE. Just because because you’re a woman, doesn’t mean you’re exempt from the the workplace hierarchy. Also, I enjoy how the main two sites she replied to was Polygon and Kotaku, two sites that will blindly follow these characters if it means standing up for “feminism”.

[@flofromprogressive9367]

She's only a woman when she can use it to paint herself as more of a victim. She doesn't strike me as very feminine as much as she repeatedly claims she is.

[@thecomfyknight5594]

That line tilted me immediately like, my boss is a woman younger than me and if i fuck up she can sit me right the fuck down and make me listen up. The only thing that matters is that she fucked up and she went off the rails, she needed to stay in her own lane.

[@BiosElement]

No no no, this is them arguing women shouldn't have to work. Which I mean, she got what she asked for...

[@bliczb8772]

There's also Rock, Paper, Shotgun that stands for her, don't forget about those dummies.

[@chrissikes7885]

UGGGH... ANOTHER SOCIAL HEIAR- I can't even feel comfortable doing this when I'm talking cheek. How do people do this?

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Jessica celebrated Total Biscuits death. Clearly this wasn't her first offense and I'm glad she got fired

[@Nelo_Wolf]

Geralt of Rivia I would say it's poetic karma

[@luxie8097]

I have a feeling they wanted to get rid of her for a while and jumped on this (rightlful) opportunity to do so. And can you imagine working with someone like her? i'm sure most people there are glad to be rid of her too.

[@markv6467]

Geralt of Rivia The worst thing about her statement concerning TB's death is that it sounds like TB did something morally wrong/notoriously evil when all he ever did was videos and articles on the internet..

[@luxie8097]

John Smith Yeah but he criticized people and some of those people were probably female so he was obviously a massive misogynist because of that! - Jessica's mind

[@Simon-vl7qo]

Like, who the fuck celebrates someone dying....... Unless they're Hitler or some HORRIBLE HORRIBLE human being

[@Rise7Fall9]

Jessica defending herself is doing what she does best, writing fiction.

[@jslaughter95]

RedBeard I um, I saw what you did there ^-^

[@nbkw48]

And both cases, written poorly as hell with a lack of coherent logic.

[@Thelionofcaliban]

Gottteeeemmmm

[@deanliu7125]

After all her expertise is in creating imaginary worlds with fairies and shit

[@TheRhysStreams]

Best? I've played gw2 the story ain't great.

[@Wertical21]

If Peter hadn't been fired, she would have thrown him under the bus as well and claim that the only reason he wasn't fired is because he's a male.

[@Horatio787]

You should write alternate history fiction, it'd be uncomfortably uncanny to read.

[@Zombieshark420x]

Thats probably why he was fired to be honest. The boss knew she would try it so he fired them both to take the ammo out of her gun. Teaches him to try and white knight.

[@HaloNeInTheDark27]

When you realize he was probably fired to try avoid it becaming a gender issue

[@miracvjetojevic9996]

I just want to ask him if he smashed. xD

[@fakjbf3129]

Jessica: The CEO is only firing me because he's bowing down to Reddit! *CEO personally explains to her that her actions were unacceptable regardless of Reddit's reaction* Jessica: He's just a sexist who gets off on being mean to women!

[@TheKiroshi]

At first glance, I would think this is hyperbolic. but I honestly do believe this is dangerously close to how it played out in her head.

[@theoncousland4587]

When I first heard about this i thought that the firing was an over reaction. But after seeing how Jessica responded I believe the right decision was made. She seems to have a victim mentality with a toxic personally that would of been a disruption to the rest of her team. How many other people have we seen lately being fired that have taken it graciously even when their termination appeared to be unjust?

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Fakjbf One crazy bitch.

[@ErraticFaith]

Probably prertty much exactly how it went down. Unfortunately as someone with a fairly big window into this world (best friend was a curse presenter) I can promise you she’s not even close to the worst. They try and dress it up as some noble quest when truth is they know exactly what they are doing. Lying and exaggerating for sympathy. They ruin the credibility of legitimate women and men who are struggling with this sort of thing and it’s disgusting. She got exactly what she deserved. Good on you ANET for having some courage.

[@Zathren]

Mike O'Brian is my new God damn hero. I hope he never loses this amazing spine that he has. Don't worry O'Brian, no one is angry at you. Or at least no intelligent person is angry at you.

[@CorruptionAura]

So good to have someone in gaming trying to foster communication and goodwill

[@judge_dreddpool7593]

TheUnholyOne Mike O Brien is the Gaming CEO many publishers would dream of having as CEO (Activision, Ubisoft, Electronic Arse etc...).

[@theballness1414]

Yeah, at the end of the day they did what was wholly in their right as an employer. Price doesn't have a leg to stand. And she has more to lose here than anyone else. It's usually a bad idea to burn bridges.. so publicly.

[@Zathren]

Chris "Burned" doesn't feel strong enough here. I'd go with "Nuked".

[@МихаилСтупин-л5м]

Yup.And,as an icing on the cake,I'm getting a feeling that GW 2 can expect an influx of new players as a reward for O'Brien's loyalty to the consumer and not SocJus lunatics within ANET's ranks. Good karma brings good business.

[@falsetitle6940]

She knows exactly what she's doing. She's manipulating the situation in order to be vindictive.

[@Tomgd420]

Normal World it'd make her Unhireable.

[@falsetitle6940]

Sharky Thomas You're from the UK too aren't you?

[@cammo353]

Pretty sure the _CEO of the entire company_ has every reason and right to be there

[@kungfuskull]

Yeah that bit puzzled me. And Yong was right to say she'd almost certainly bitch about him not being there if he wasnt. You cant win with such people.

[@FitzgeraldKrox]

Jessica doesn't "not understand." Jessica understands everything fully and tries to manipulate her environment into accepting false accounts.

[@shorewall]

Yep, she is using her sex as a shield to consequences.

[@vane909090]

I doubt she's stupid tbh. She knows exactly what she's doing. Maybe she accidentally fucked up and got carried away with the tweets, but after she got fired you can tell she's bitter af and trying to smear ANet.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Jim Beauchamp I'm guessing you don't watch Honey Badger Radio. That is mostly women taking a stance against feminism.

[@disky01]

Jim, human beings are diverse. Some are good, some are bad, some have dealt with things in their lives that have driven them to do something that would be considered inappropriate. To say that "women" are emotional manipulators that are incapable of rational thought is a gross, unrealistic generalization. Saying something like that leads me to wonder what happened to you in your life to make you react that way, and it makes me feel like you aren't really that different from Jessica.

[@TallicaMan1986]

Jim Beauchamp too much generalizing. Take it Case by Case. Because you're leaning on the radical side that sits on the opposite of radical feminism. I hate them both.

[@pmt1103]

She must be asking herself now..."I played the feminism card so why am I still being villainised?" Sorry lady but this wasn't about you being female...it was about you being wrong in the first place.

[@RED_Theory038]

pmt1103 and now she's dragging down all female employees in the industry essentially making them not worth the hassle of hiring in thw first place. Zero self awareness and foresight lol

[@luxie8097]

"BUT I'M NEVER WRONG! IF A MAN CORRECTS ME ITS SEXISM!!!"

[@spriggsyspriggs2237]

Yep. In any career that kind of behavior is frowned upon and it's usually something that is grounds for firing

[@e1337prodigy]

agreed. And she still can't see what she done wrong, blinded by the feminism card as you say.

[@pmt1103]

Just want to put this out there after rereading my comment. I'm all for feminism. Equal rights means equality. My comment is in no way trying to say that women are always wrong or anything of the sort. I firmly believe that women deserve equal treatment and this women just tried to use feminism as an excuse to come out on top and get away with it. And I am firmly against that.

[@LateNightHalo]

What’s gross is how SHE is ruining the fight against sexism with her “boy who cried wolf” act. Thanks Jessica, you just cried wolf and made it harder for women to speak up because now everyone on the internet will take female devs talking about sexism with a grain of salt.

[@madmac223]

LateNightGaming Exactly trying to say that there are issues where there are none only Hurts a cause. Also I don't think she actually cares about women at all I think she just wants to pass blame on something else because she knows she's in the wrong.

[@xxXDrunkardXxx]

She is not the first to say something like that

[@kombuchas4684]

I KNOW. That is what frustrates me so much about this. Mansplaining does actually happen but now everyone will think it doesn't exist because of her.

[@calimantis]

Third Wave Feminism doesn't actually care about women or women's issues as much as it does blaming everything bad that ever happens on sexism, men, and "the patriarchy".

[@loganhinds74]

Saying ("boy" who cried "wolf") is sexist!!!!! Correction: small person who cried wild animal.

[@EvilRickQueenVita]

I just found out she also celebrated the death of Total Biscuit not long ago... dear God, people defending her must live in another Place.

[@Evulchair]

EvilRickMaster Wow... honestly I'm not even surprised at this point. >_>

[@JackyUnoriginal]

She is just way too passionate about her work. It's not unusual for professionals to be at odds with their criticizers, especially when criticizers are not in that profession themselves. She is very passionate about her own profession as a writer and takes criticism on her work very seriously. I am sure she equally hates other KZbinrs who doesn't have any experience in game developing but talks shit about games for a living, although the lack of empathy towards someone's death is totally uncalled for. Obviously, she handled this very poorly, and I am pretty sure she has temper issue, fairly narcissistic, and has fairly below average EQ. But still, I don't think everything that had happened was completely unjustified (as far as the GW2 fiasco goes). It's unfortunate nearly the entire comment section is on attacking feminism, and no one is interested in having any form of productive discussion in this community. While it's true that Jessica was the one who VERY stupidly brought in the gender card, I don't think that's even the core reason why she was upset. She was upset because she cared too much ,and thought she can just say what she wants to defend her own work in a public medium. Extremely dumb, but understandable for anyone who possess a set of skill that often gets criticized unprofessionally by laymen.

[@skdeathxlife]

J - KZbin reviewers are there as the gamers they let us take a look at the game while giving us constructive (hopefully) criticism and just because someone like TB never made a game doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand them in the end I like games I can’t make one but I can tell you what’s fun about the game what’s bad and what could be improved etc and just because someone is passionate doesn’t excuse such behaviour

[@Mauriziobarenboim]

Ooh you mean the guy who shows off his IQ, yelled at his wife, blocking Twitter users for disagreeing with him, says get cancer and die, goes on a hunt for the person who made a joke about traps, and expects people too baby him when he's sad? Not saying I'm happy he died, but the dude was an asshole.

[@redfridge3610]

@@Mauriziobarenboim Huh sounds like your happy he died

[@DummyAccount]

I think this company dodged the "crazy bullet" the best way possible, by her own hand, good riddance.

[@strikeforce1500]

AsciiGDL agree. Good thing there is still good company that have the guts to fire assholes regardless the gender

[@WillyTung]

What does a fantasy writer do when fired? Create a fictional story why she was fired.

[@illefeel]

deserve more like

[@Changetheling]

Want credit for the T-shirt I'll be doing?

[@WillyTung]

What t-shirt?

[@vankrelian]

This is the most reasonable thing I've heard all day.

[@Draliseth]

Damn!!!

[@blueblazer9991]

She is probably just really taken off guard by how this developed She probably expected everyone to take her side and face no consequences, because that is how this usually goes and now she is just doubling down with the usual things and claims My stance has always been that if you present yourself as an employe at a company and you use that to build your platform you abandon the right to claim "private" Those 13k people would not care about her if she weren't a dev at some gaming company, but she doesn't get to expect this to be her own little echo chamber

[@_scions]

Game devs have it so hard, man, it's easy to see her argument here! We're just too entitled as customers. When will females ever get a break?! Guild wars? More like Man-Guild Wars, right guys!

[@benrussell-gough1201]

IMO, she could have defused the whole mess simply by posting: "Hi, I don't want to discuss this here so please put your comments on the original thread." If he keeps pushing, block him. Problem solved.

[@NeXMaX]

Welcome to the world of people with a massive ego.

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

People like that only surround themselves with people who will agree with them. Anyone who doesn't agree is a faceless nobody. In her eyes everybody really does agree with her.

[@GuvernorDave]

That might have been understandable..

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

So,Jessica tries to convince us that she was fired because she is a female developer and nothing else.

[@shaamaan]

Feminist victim card play right there. It works too, given how some articles have been written...

[@Delphinad7]

She’s a dumb bitch

[@mishking9547]

She should take time looking in the mirror and wonder outloud to herself "Maybe I is just a crazy bitch...yeah, I is crazy bitch."

[@skyMcWeeds]

And no surprise Anita Sarkeesian is joining the fray

[@773superprguy]

kirby march Barcena she doesn’t wanted to give head to get ahead

[@hubertET]

Male and female were fired. But only the female is brought up as "victim". What, fired male does not fit into the "sexism" narration?

[@khalee95]

hubertET typical all tough and then damsel really quick to exploit.

[@zynix3698]

Nah men are disposable so we don't care about them. Doesn't matter that he was far less vulgar or worked at the company over ten years.

[@albaarmoredcavalry6348]

ZyniX 36 that shit’s fucking sad

[@digitalunity]

The news has become one of the most chilling works of fiction ive ever seen.

[@zucini]

He wasn't vulgar at all. He defended her...

[@ABlob]

"The first time the values are tested" She made fun of a person's death before so... no.

[@MattS747x]

Really? Who?

[@Threaldaveoss]

Matt Spinoza Total biscuit. She said things along the lines of I'm glad he is now gone.

[@TallicaMan1986]

A Blob yeah from what I remember a man lost his job for saying something similar... so what the hell.

[@AriesFireTiger]

Claims sexism while making sexist remarks. Class act 👌

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Aries Fire Tiger We all know men can't experience sexism, it's only poor women who are oppressed by the evil patriarchy

[@BadObserver]

Get out of here with your male privilege, human garbage

[@darthrevan704]

BadObserver please tell me you’re being sarcastic

[@BadObserver]

Darth Revan You really need to check your privilege. (I'm just yanking chainsmy friend)

[@cammydwhammy]

Yeah. It’s not like sexism is a concept and an action, nah. It’s this big scary monster that only like to attack women because this monster hates them and only them.

[@Karma20XX]

I love how Jessica implies several times that all GW2 players / reddit that disagree with her are either male or bots as if women don't exist. :/

[@darkdogzstudioz]

K A R M A in her mind, no woman would disagree with her.

[@Rakshiir]

Every woman with a bit of a brain would disagree with her. Why would they? She is talking bullshit. And no matter what gender you are, you will point out bullshit. Or at least you won't stand behind the person who throws it around. But: It is rather clear that she would never start to think that the massive backlash is because she is the one running in the wrong direction, because she made mistakes and her actions where wrong. Thats just not a thought that crosses her mind, that much is obvious.

[@m.a.d.pandagaming6895]

This! She literally attacks men for being men.....nothing more. It's obvious that she's the one with sexist issues. The guy never said anything sexist and her reaction to every person disagreeing with her is "fuck you, penis monster". Absolutly disgusting.

[@PoisonInc]

It's cute how Polygon still think they're a reliable and unbiased news source.

[@GothicGamer2012]

VodkaFox Just as delusional as Jessica.

[@denverbasshead]

Polygon is the worst of all

[@Tamaki742]

Why's Ben Kuchera's still there???

[@Space_Ache]

VodkaFox polygon is a beacon of bigotry, selfriteousness and echo chamber delusion. I cannot stand them.

[@The_Girth]

Same with kotaku. Regardless of the obvious bias they're just bad game journalists all around.

[@river7874]

In any job I've ever had, if anyone attacked a customer in the way that she did, they would be fired. Without question. The fact that she can't understand this speaks volumes about her.

[@porkcutlet3920]

It speaks volumes about the people supporting her.

[@river7874]

Agreed.

[@TheCakeIsDelicious]

Yeah, remember that time Hideki Kamiya attacked a customer on his twitter and never worked again?

[@dickheadjohnnybraindamage9751]

Had a chick at my maccas that would straight up yell at customers, start swearing at them and fighting them etc.Would also bully some of the men cuz she knew she was hot and could get away with it. We were by far the lowest ranked maccas in our state and we were always on the border line of being shut down. Idk how she kept a fuckin job for so long and she only left by quitting not getting fired.

[@alexanderloughran2716]

Dickhead Johnny Brain Damage prolly gave the manager head

[@Skrocker]

The kindest thing I can say is "I'm glad she's is no longer around to keep doing harm."

[@blackestpopo4673]

Eyyyyy

[@mattbrown9404]

I can hear Totalbiscuit laughing his fat ass off in heaven. 👏 😄

[@idaofficial1173]

Got eemm

[@vOddy75]

D E S T R O Y E D

[@ArseneGray]

to the top with you

[@paulcantshutup]

This woman is an incredible hiring risk.

[@AspectROish]

And she ugly as fuck

[@flobro6768]

So sad, she was actually making good points on her original twitter feed and the reddit AMA, when it comes to writing a story

[@ArcViper]

She's so good at writing fiction that she's living in her own and making others believe in it.

[@Con5tantine]

How to get yourself blacklisted as a game dev in several tweets.

[@JacaboBlanco]

Paul Aulridge Jr I would not hire her under any circumstances. Doesn't matter if she's good at her job. That type of attitude and behavior is not acceptable

[@dustyM]

So she's basically going full Anita Sarkeesian. Never go full Anita Sarkeesian.

[@AscendantStoic]

Well said ;)

[@Fat_xeno]

dustyM don't go any percent Anita sarkeesian

[@pseudophori6541]

i dont think shes going any percent anita sarkeesian, but whatever keeps your fragile self image afloat i guess

[@AscendantStoic]

GGryphon ... Really!!!! you think she is the victim here, wow .. how delusional you need to be to not see her terrible and toxic behavior not just this time but plenty of times before, just wow.

[@pseudophori6541]

TheHunterWolf lol what? she’s an asshole who’s trying to exploit a cause she doesn’t care about to get people on her side. Don’t put words in my mouth.

[@wearelegion3718]

Can't imagine what it's like to work with someone like her, who is willing jump to sexist card at any opportunity.

[@Bred0nSch00lV2]

I wouldn't want to be in the same room alone with her without CCTV out of fear of some sort of harassment claim.

[@Kiddy7180]

Well thats why you don't hire the woman with ahe short red hair, facial piercings, tatoos, and lgbt pride t shirt, as long as you don't fo that you're good. And don't hire off of gender nor ethnicity, but rather the person's experience and how much of a hard worker they are.

[@Sushityphoon01]

WeAreLegion she is awful plain and simple, this is the chick ppl are willing to fall on the sword for? Smh, people sometimes i swear...

[@Elfaia]

"Hey wanna grab lunch later?" "ARE YOU HITTING ON ME?! A WOMAN??!!!! THIS IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT!!!! SEE YOU IN COURT!!!"

[@Sas-ym4gg]

Lmao, straight up. And she is the one taking about how they were making improvements on “toxic” work environment. She seems like the most toxic person alive atm

[@jakey960]

Personal Twitter? Why isn’t it private? Why put your place of employment on it? Why get verified if you want to be private? Why talk about your work on it?

[@Quandry1]

if she hadn't done the last 3. She probably would still have a job.

[@RecklessFire29]

+Jacob Palmer By your logic anyone reporting that they have a job with a company is open to having their account poured through and used against them in hiring/firing. Basically, what SJWs are already doing on the daily.

[@noone9260]

RecklessFire29 If you're part of a company you not only represent them, but you're taking its morality with you. Any society have its morality defined and represented by the members of that society, companies work the same. Thus, if you're part of a company and you say something in public that goes against that company morals, they will fire you.

[@endlessslumber441]

+Bruno Hernandez Montenegro What's funny is she's probably one of these loony ppl who think ppl should be fired for what they do in private.

[@The_Girth]

Bruno Hernandez Montenegro As much as I hate the argument of "freedom of speech isn't freedom of consequences" but it applies to this without a doubt. When an employee starts shitting on the people who keep you paid and all the other people who work for you, you get them out of there.

[@WeekendWarrior1]

3:40 - Oh yeah Jessica, the whole thing was highly unprofessional. Just not in the way you think.

[@zmalitas]

Weekend Warrior

[@kylealabs]

Your boss is under no obligation to hear your side of the story. Especially when the justification is literally posted all over the internet. She had better believe that a man in her position would get chastised the same way and fired all the same.

[@athath2010]

Are you gonna make a video about this, WW?

[@sullysosavage365]

I don't think she realizes just how much this makes people want to work for ArenaNet. Knowing that they dont take this kind of blatant disregard for the fandom means they actually care. And that matters.

[@paveesfox375]

That's hilarious, Anet is absolutely horrible with balancing any of the classes along with their story being absolutely abhorrent. It just sounds like the guy in charge took advantage to boot folks he personally didn't want to deal with. If they cared about the fans then they wouldn't drop so many steamers on the lore, balancing, and gameplay issues

[@ironwoodkid9577]

She is delusional. There is no other explanation for her behaviour. I feel bad for people who had to work with her *everyday*

[@davevd9944]

Like every 3rd wave feminist or ''progressive'' liberial in existence.

[@falsetitle6940]

I think she knows exactly what she's doing and is just being vindictive and manipulative.

[@wareforcoin5780]

That's what I'm saying. Can you imagine working with someone like that? "Hey Jessica, I moved your lunch so I could fit Jim's birthday cake in there, just letting you know." "IT'S BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN"

[@-iZLA-]

she was unprofessional during employment, now she unprofessional during unemployment. trying to drag ArenaNet's name through the mud, one of the most non toxic, and inclusive devs out there. i really hope she gets blacklisted.

[@thepajay]

Well, Mike O'brien sounds like a professional leader to me, and ArenaNet a place where toxicity is simply not tolerated.

[@Slavfactory]

this whole thing makes me want to work at arenanet more.

[@Horatio787]

There's also the part where Jessica says they told her when they hired her that they don't care if she's outspoken. If I can work at a place that doesn't watch me like a hawk, but is willing to fire me for legitimately bad behavior, then that sounds like a wonderful environment.

[@beratsalija8888]

"Bad behavior" yeah.... against the customers. Try running a business where your employees are so toxic to your customers, let's see how sales will go. I am pretty sure "bad behavior" could be tolerated to a certain extent especially inside the company but an all out attack against a pretty reasonable and polite customer is unacceptable by any means.

[@GigglingStoners]

Doesnt matter if it's the third video, keep up the good work Yong, the disgusting behavior of people like Price needs to be talked about.

[@muratsavci2578]

Hey that's my avatar. 🙂

[@spriggsyspriggs2237]

Agreed

[@skyelouisekowe]

Agreed

[@MrBlitzpunk]

*robs a bank* *Got caught by police* *Thrown to jail* "Is tHiS bEcAUse iM a WomaN!?"

[@gerydb]

lmao

[@mikearaujo377]

Whats worse is how they use the "private" social media as an excuse. If its private, then why the fuck is it on public setting?

[@Navifaerie64]

There was an episode of Powerpuff Girls that was essentially this

[@MrBlitzpunk]

*woman got promoted* "Wow good job congrats" *Man got promoted* "PaTriArcHY!!!"

[@TheMADmk]

Vercusgames totally I think area net should apologise for hiring her in the first place

[@saltygoat9034]

I have never seen a bigger hypocrite in my entire life, it’s jaw dropping. She is both instigating, and the sole person doing ALL the things she is accusing others off: lying, being sexist, in-group bias, harassing people, being toxic, accusing others of acting childish because of hurt “feels”, twisting peoples word and intentions etc etc etc... The only thing “professional” about Jess throughout this whole ordeal, has been her victimhood complex. Mike absolutely did the right thing. Thanks yong for being one of the only real journalists in this industry.

[@mistamisa7271]

Quite disgusting isn't it. She's most def a psychopath.

[@IndianTelephone]

I guess you have not heard about Anita Sarkaseen.

[@kitkami]

They should have fired her for that Totalbiscuit comment. Better late than never I guess.

[@DjSlayer32]

Very likely it was why she was fired so quickly after this latest debacle. She has a history of toxicity.

[@haysen123]

can u tell me what she said about TotalBiscuit? People said she even celebrated because of his death, wtf?

[@Rakshiir]

I think it was "The kindest thing I can say is I am glad he's not around do any more harm" or something like that. And its just despicable in my opinion. I mean, I learned that if I don't have anything nice to say, I should just be quiet. She didn't even manage to just not say anything. But after all that has gone done, it seems like stepping down is just not her style. Just lash out at everything and everyone and claim every backlash is sexism...

[@pocketfox743]

Jessica is the one who was trying to incite MOB MENTALITY!

[@Marth667]

Pretty much her defence is that because its a stressful job and women can sometimes be treated with prejudice in the work place she deserved to tell that guy Deoir to get fucked with no consequence.

[@ViciousArcanum]

Exactly

[@awesome9174]

I'm more angry at the gaming media twisting this story than I am at Price for starting it. This is unacceptable. I will never support Polygon, Rock Paper Shotgun, and Kotaku ever again.

[@Vorusen]

Awesome! Same here, I used to go to Kotaku every other day but if this is the way they want to twist shit, I'm done with them

[@PattyOflan88]

what gets me is, i dont understand how most of them keep their doors open. i don't know a single, i guess we can say "active gamer" who reads ANY of these outlets. not one single one. the only reason i even know about half of these media outlets, is from my games on steam showing "recent news". they are all trash and push the same damn narrative, and push the same broken products. when your front page is plastered with adverts from new games, how can i trust their integrity in the first place?

[@vstev3472]

PewNews and YongYea are some of the reliable, not fake as fuck news broadcaster/media out there. Polygon, rock paper shotgun, kotaku etc doesnt count in there

[@Jinrai_]

And PCGamer, The Verge, BuzzFeed (obviously), pastemagazine, Fortune, and many more

[@richard_returns_IRL]

Awesome! buddy where were you during gamergate? these fuckers have been lying bias scumbags for a long time...

[@SSZaris]

Did everyone forget that she posted on Twitter that she was happy Total Biscuit died?

[@diegoantoniorosariopalomin4977]

no , everyone seems to remember it

[@Nobody-uo2eo]

Judging by the comments on this video... Nope.

[@manefin]

Is that illegal in usa ?

[@Kingdeather]

It's not illegal, but it's pretty distasteful.

[@kshitijjhalak1939]

Here's a proof of what she said : twitter.com/delafina777/status/1000045432007938048?lang=en.

[@Urinbigtrubl]

This makes me want to work for ArenaNet

[@atomicsquid9836]

"Zero warnings". As I understand the situation she has a history of this sort of thing. I'd be willing to bet she's been warned about this before.

[@thehousealwayswins8398]

Yep, she has a history of belittling members of the Guild Wars community, plus she celebrated Totalbiscuit's death. This was the straw that broke the camel's back.

[@xanderbose974]

If she’s being genuine and not playing a “card,” that woman needs to seek help - it appears her previous experiences at her former employer have skewed her perspective of her interaction with men. Good on the company. Her behavior was unacceptable. You can disagree, you can become angry and defensive; but you can’t attack.

[@originalsinquirls1205]

i've seen it be genuine before.

[@craigslater2321]

If her latte was not made right at Starbucks she would scream sexism. That type can't get off the agenda.

[@revanshan3308]

she clearly has some mental issues and that either mean she is a mean person and sexist at that, or that she has a sever mental trauma from before in that other company

[@athe5217]

She did something wrong, but plz no one take that as meaning they need to belittle her more than she already has herself by sending her insults, etc., however, spreading some truth on the matter when some of the websites were being biased in her favor is a different story, I hope she can learn from this.

[@az_3kgt714]

or either she lied about what happened at her last job. feminists don't tell the truth anyway.

[@CloakofAuron]

Mike O'brien's response to Price's lame deflections and claims of victimization after being a complete jerk was nothing but class. This guy right here makes me want to get GW2, and I never had interest in the game before. Knowing that the CEO of a company has this much respect for both his company and for the customers who make their company possible gives me confidence in how they run the game.

[@jadevenator5659]

I mean, there's a reason this game has been thriving for years and years. GW2 is wildly popular and heavily supported, but they don't really market the game at all and rely on word-of-mouth.

[@At0micFruit]

I can wholeheartedly recommend it if you're considering giving it a try :) I've been playing since launch in August 2012 pretty consistently and I always find myself coming back to the game. Plus no sub fee so it's no issue if you want to take a break from it and come back at a time that works for you.

[@ssPeto]

Welcome aboard CloakofAuron! You'll find the community to be respectful and helpful to new players. Just ask in map chat and questions will be answered. If they aren't you picked a bad time to ask like when everyone is working together to run a meta event or kill a righteously nasty boss! :D

[@ionhere9810]

I’m downloading GW2 right now :)

[@At0micFruit]

Ion welcome friend! Enjoy and don't be afraid to ask questions in map chat you'll find people are usually really helpful :)

[@vitorion007]

So, I just took a look at Kotaku's article on the matter. I had no idea how biased and selective those gaming "journalism" sites are, because I never read them. It just comes out as disgusting, especially since so many people are seemingly influenced by it. Some of the comments people left there were even worse.

[@immikeurnot]

Yep, that was what Gamergate was all about. That horrible, biased activism thinly veiled as "journalism."

[@ThatZenDude]

Polygon being a biased trash newssite? Who would have thought.

[@Sushityphoon01]

Helter Skelters937 ikr, kotaku trash asf tbh

[@davevd9944]

In next shocking news...Water is wet.

[@kloa4219]

Helter Skelters937 They can't even play videogames properly. Just a bunch of incompetent activists who LARP as gamers.

[@Bloodhurl67]

Dave Vd Water is dry.

[@PripyatVeteran]

Imagine my shock

[@ghouldash9761]

Isn't it ironic that Jessica's the one who's sexist?

[@SumDumGai5]

Ghoul Dash *Women can't be sexist!* (Only filthy men can!!!!!)

[@trebot9292266]

just like every other extremist. people will say "feminist" and "SJW", but those are vastly different than "extremist".

[@Trakesh]

Calling them extremist is wrong because this is the basis for feminism. There is nothing 'extremist' about the position they are taking inside of the group they are a part of.

[@0LoneTech]

This is not the basis for feminism. Feminism is somewhat misnamed and frequently misinterpreted, but started as a reaction to rather severe injustice including inexcusable abuse. Some extremists took the fight and ran with it, and now you have groups claiming they are feminist when they are seeking conflict and projecting all sorts of straw men to get targets, typically with an unhealthy backing of misandry. We've seen the same in many other fields, such as people claiming they can't be racist because their race has been oppressed (as have they all). This form of abuser tends to have not encountered the original abuse, and instead rely on the protective reactions as a shield or weapon.

[@Trakesh]

Prove it then, because all feminist leaders have gone on record as rabid man-haters whose only goal were to attack men. Your generalized and extremely vague statement says you know nothing of statements from feminists like "Men are machines, walking dildos" "Man hating is an honourable act" "When a woman reaches orgasm she is helping the patriarchy" "All sex even consensual sex is rape" "I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp" Were all extremely common for prominent feminist icons in the 1900s. You don't know anything about the history of feminism so don't even bother trying to get into the subject. When all the leading figures of feminism was spouting stuff like this you don't get to say "oh not all feminists". You are objectively ignorant. Don't try to make your romanticised and fictional idea of feminism into a reality. It doesn't work with someone who actually knows the history behind feminism.

[@milesedgeworth132]

Its funnier that Guild Wars 2 subreddit has been balancing out the firing by praising members of the company that are professional and pleasant. Would Jessica and her group of manipulative journalists do that? Probably not. They'll just shit on the company as a whole and ruin it for every other employee because she's too insecure to handle criticism. Imagine one immature person taking away hundreds of job for selfish reasons. People don't care about the full picture. They want justice for this martyr without thinking of everyone else below.

[@Solzero00]

Miles Edgeworth I made a post thanking Ben and it exploded. Good timing I guess lol

[@Quandry1]

Arenanet is one of the few companies that supports it's player base and their player base genuinely supports those that deserve it in return. Perhaps Jessica Price should have taken that a bit more in mind. As a side note. I've heard that just days before this the person that she lashed out at initially had just done a piece actually Praising Jessica for work that she was doing at Arenanet

[@TheMistyBlueLounge]

@Quandry1 On his Twitch page I saw a clip from one of his videos a month or so before this all went down. I can't remember the specific wording, but he seemed like such a fan he even said she was a "god" of witting/narrative design, or something along those lines... the word "god" was used as a compliment, that much I remember... so yea, definitely not a hater lol. He loved Jessica's work, admired her, really genuinely wanted to have a discussion with her about some narrative decisions... and was called sexist, had his genuine interest twisted into an attack, and made to look like someone telling Jessica her work was wrong, and he could do better... I wish I had the link, someone gave it to me, I don't really use Twitch myself, but the video is still out there.

[@FixTheWi-Fi]

Thank you, Mr. Edgeworth.

[@milesedgeworth132]

TheMistyBlueLounge clips.twitch.tv/CrypticMistyStingrayDxCat

[@TheBenoliPx]

I'm getting the feeling she was a nightmare to work with so her boss jumped on this opportunity to get rid of her.

[@joshualee4498]

these kind of people are the type of people to say that it’s not their fault or someone else did it whenever the blame is on them

[@luxie8097]

Pretty much what radical 'feminists' do. "Something bad happened to me! It's obviously all the men's fault!"

[@ropete33]

Yep, classic person always playing the victim card. You just don't engage in something like that with the player base whether it's on your personal Twitter or not that's paying customers as far as the company is concerned.

[@mcdonaldstitties556]

Authority without responsibility that's what they want and often get.

[@Sniperbear13]

some people don't want to own up to the Mistakes they make. in their minds, it makes them look bad to accept that they are going to make mistakes. Victory is all that matters, even if i have to cheat to win; that sort of mentality.

[@KaiserAfini]

Just a Scrub Yep, people like that think they are perfect and the absolute truth of the world. It really shows they don't have any depth of character, if they need to lash out to satisfy their insecurities.

[@Doctorgeo7]

Interesting thing to note is how Polygon quietly disabled comments on their article, when it's normal to have that enabled. Looks like they also don't want any discussion or disagreement on this.

[@shorewall]

That should always be a sign.

[@SuperDarknut]

How come news sites called awful and horrible have comment sections open while the good guys often feel the need to crack down on community feedback? It's so WEIRD, isn't it?

[@catreese4515]

They got the clicks needed to pay the bills for the month so why bother listening to people correct them for the bullshit article.

[@shinobilive]

Some while ago I commented on an article regarding a gender issue and the writer just replied that I disagree with him because I'm a man (I'm not). I unfollowed them.

[@SuperDarknut]

Let me just dust off the ol' progressive response chart. Let's see, female... who disagrees about gender issues with feminists... ah yes here it is. You have internalized misogyny because of patriarchal brainwashing

[@windowwax]

Games media defending this lady because of her wild claims and completely ignoring what she did is 10 tons of infuriating.

[@giroromek8423]

window wax or maybe Five Guys?

[@lowerclassbrats77]

window wax Par for the course. The legacy games media hates it's customers and sucks up to game makers (unless they have the wrong thoughts).

[@MegaDeathRay10]

window wax cucktaku is not journalism it’s retardation

[@jeangentry6656]

Jessica Price gets canned for unprofessionalism, then claims that CEO Mike O'Brien was unprofessional in personally dealing with the matter. That's rich. Jess, O'Brien has every right to be upset, you just embarassed the company, and you're STILL trying to make it a gender issue. You weren't, nor are you currently being harassed, you acted like a fool online, berated a fan/customer, and yet you still claim you are the victim. Get the hell out, Stay the hell out, and please, PLEASE let the door hit you on the way out. We do not need toxic people like you in gaming.

[@ssjwes]

If not for your avatar I wouldn't pick up on seeing you everywhere. Hope your having a nice day :)

[@jeangentry6656]

ssjwes I'm having a good day thus far thanks 😉 I hope your day and weekend goes well 😁

[@a_lonely_moderate8449]

You're mostly right here, except for at this point she's enticed so much hatred towards her that I'm sure there are a number of people legitimately harassing her. Of course, that's not what created this incident, and not what any of it was about, but anytime there is an internet hate mob, justified or otherwise, some will ride the backs of that mob to get their kicks, harassing and threatening people.

[@_CaptainCanada]

Man, mad respect to Mike O'Brien for not falling for the bullshit gender-card-pulling that Jessica did. Pretty dispicable that she can't take responsibility for her own actions, and is trying to smear Mike and the company. It's disgusting that she's trying to somehow make this about her being a woman, rather than being about her long track-record of toxic public behavior.

[@shorewall]

Yeah, she is using her sex to protect herself from legitimate consequences. It is despicable.

[@Shishomuru]

For real, I would have been really disappointing if ArenaNet went full Starbucks. Price 100% deserved to be fired, she is a dishonest sociopath that can't even see that she was in the wrong. ArenaNet is better off without her, they don't need her stupid ass trying to force gender politics into their games narrative.

[@AStarInAndromeda]

MrFuddyDuddy I'm curious, what do you mean by "full Starbucks"?

[@AStarInAndromeda]

MrFuddyDuddy IDK if shes a sociopath but she seems like an asshole, for sure. It sucks bc these issues about sexism are real but I doubt theyre present here

[@Shishomuru]

Starbucks not too long ago closed like 7600 stores for racial awareness or some bullshit, because of backlash to the following situation. 2 black dudes who were loitering in the store, refused to purchase anything, refused to leave even when asked by the manager, who then had the police called, who then also refused to leave when the police asked them multiple times, who then finally got handcuffed and escorted off the premises. But obviously it was the Starbucks managers fault am I right, she had to quit or got fired too I believe.

[@ArchHippy]

Jessica's rampant dishonesty makes me sceptical about why she was fired from her last job too.

[@diegoantoniorosariopalomin4977]

i wonder if there is a way for us to get the details

[@shorewall]

I wouldn't trust a word out of her mouth. The opposite of Tony Montana, she always lies, even when she tells the truth.

[@CplYakob]

Indeed, "sexual harassment" is a scary term and rightfully so, but with the pointlessly hostile and blatantly false garbage this person is spouting, one wonders exactly what happened. "Hey Jessica, sorry to drop this on your lap at the last minute but can you take a look at the latest gamecode and check for errors?" "Drop in my *lap!?* RAPIST! RAAAAAPIST!!!!!!!!!!!"

[@alextheloud]

She celebrated total biscuits death.... this wasn't her first strike

[@Quenlin]

Companies tend to not divulge the reason for a dismissal out of professional courtesy. However if an employee tries to cause them a bad rap or outright lies, they will gladly publish their side of the story and publicly embarrass said employee.

[@joshtimothyleonero7063]

It's not "injustice" or "sexism", she's just a vile person. I'm very disappointed with the games media's biased handling of the situation. Honest journalism is dead these days. I wonder how they sleep at night, knowing full well that they lied to and misled their readers while claiming to be "champions against sexism and injustice".

[@kage432]

Josh Timothy Leonero Nah, she's sexist friendo.

[@lewdpanties]

I'm a feminist and I showed this whole drama to my other feminist friends and we're all mindfucked that there ARE people who think Jessica is right. She's the only sexist person in the entire drama, she was the only one bringing anything related to genders and she said ''manfeels'' WTF. How can you live your life, constantly thinking viciously against other genders? That's not healthy! The KZbinr guy who disagreed with her was too precious and way too fucking nice to be a part of this -_- I feel so bad for him.

[@hassathunter2464]

TWC... what the hell is wrong with you?

[@yeefoongphoon8505]

TWC Dude, calm down. Just because she is a feminist doesn't make her magically evil. Feminism in its core is actually to achieve equal rights for women. And hating them for these bad eggs is kind of unjust. We can't answer hatred with hatred here. Otherwise, these bad eggs will achieve their dastardly goals of just making the world a worse place. ( Completely neutral non-American or Feminist here)

[@lewdpanties]

TWC How am I responsible for what a nutjob woman said? I don't hate anyone. But if that quote is real, she surely shouldn't be a leader for anyone. And a quick google search shows that she was a nutjob and I don't like her views at all. But hey, surely I'm the hateful fanatic and you're a great person, right? Lol.

[@kelly4250]

As a woman, I feel embarrassed by her feminist tirade...smh

[@evewhoo]

Kelly Lee Same. Same. That she pulled the gender card in an original post that had nothing about gender at all. It feels like she's using feminism (as I imagine it was originally intended. As a positive movement for women) as a weapon and a shield to wave at other people. I don't believe this is how feminism should be at all. This isn't advocating for women's rights. It's flat out attacking someone who never wanted to start this flame war to begin with. People who can't take any sort of feedback shouldn't have their hands on communication to the public. Female or not. I'm potentially going into the game industry as a career, and this incident wouldn't steer me from Arenanet if that was where I was going to work. This just makes me embarrassed that someone would ever do this.

[@jeremyjohnson8844]

Don't worry guys, women are still fantastic. No one sees this as a mark on women, promise.

[@dorugoramon0518]

@@jeremyjohnson8844 I do not consider feminazis women.

[@sefii05]

Maybe bullyhunter will hire her

[@flofromprogressive9367]

'virtuous clapping'

[@frostie7546]

SeFii the ultimate bullyhunter

[@zezimashelpr]

BULLYHUNTER 78 confirmed?

[@TuberoseKisser]

SeFii lmao

[@strikeforce1500]

SeFii ok. I giggle at this. You deserve more likes

[@jasonwilson8402]

HR was involved. If Jessica being fired would have harmed the company, without actionable justification, it wouldn't have happened. I'd be willing to bet that this was an on going concern by HR already.

[@davevd9944]

Well being happy that Total died should've been enough to get her fired already. But hey better late then never.

[@Eltrotraw]

Jason Wilson I feel like so many people are overlooking this among other factors

[@GeorgeMonet]

I bet that she received a written warning over that. This was likely strike number 3.

[@miikey376]

It's normal for HR to be present when someone is getting fired.

[@jasonwilson8402]

Jubeininja69 it is true HR is present when someone is let go. Which also means that it was a corporate decision and not just a manager 'flexing his manager muscles to denegrate someone'. It's a simple detail that makes all of this much simpler, they very likely have means to defend themselves against 'wrongful dismissal' lawsuits.

[@Zeknif1]

Gonna say this right now... if Jessica gets hired by a company before she expresses any genuine regret from her actions on that day, I'll boycott their games. If ArenaNet had let her stick around like that after she acted in that way, I'd have steered friends away from any of their games.

[@GigglingStoners]

I'm already never touching anything by Gearbox, Bossa Games and Infinite Fail. If you defend this kind of objectionable behavior you and your studio can go fuck yourselves.

[@jslaughter95]

Why would she express genuine regret? She believes she was in the right, because men

[@HowlingDoom]

Ryan Rentfro I don't understanding what your saying. People aren't being emotional because they refuse to buy something from a company they feel are in the wrong for an action. I wouldn't want to trust a compnay who hires people who clearly is a dick to the consumers and community. Would you suppost a company who has an employee that is actually openly sexist and racist?

[@JarinXeno]

For women the only reality that exists is how they feel. She feels that anyone disagreeing with her about anything is sexism. So she will never believe that she did anything wrong.

[@HowlingDoom]

I just used the wrong word in my statement. Other words could have been used I just used "feel" a lot. And I mean in technicality almost everything people do have some emotions behind it. I still don't see what your comment is trying to suggest? That people should just ignore everything? Like your comments is irrlevant to the actually situaiton at hand

[@W4lhalla]

Aaaaaand it continues. She still rants about it on her twitter now, saying that everything was teamwork and THEN that everything was her work while saying that mike reduced her "work" to only one scene in one episode when actually Mike praised her work even after all the shit she had done. Srsly, there is burning bridges and there is..... this. Any HR manager with any shred of common sense would avoid her like the plague.... no they would rather choose the plague than her.

[@floydlooney6837]

Burn bridges, salt the fields, kill the cow, melt the plow and stole the horse on the way out.

[@budemawa411]

I love how so many activis- I mean game journalists are just eating this story up, like “oh you were totally fired for being a woman, not because YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG” holy shit man... I feel a lot of misandry from her

[@Julius3774]

budemawa hah they are only doing this to get people to check their website

[@tetzy5172]

Because "Someone get fired because they are woman" can get them more views than "Someone get fired because of their bad behavior"

[@az_3kgt714]

well shes a feminazi. so what did you expect. Man-haters are gonna hate

[@eugeneenriquez2691]

Not just that, you know by now once a media outlet has a story on a woman they have to butter up to her. Why do you think if by example, "sexual assault" If it was a guy who did it to a woman it is considered "rape" If it was the other way around, it's just called "sexual assault"

[@pindrop.]

budemawa I get the joke, but calling them even activist is being too generous. At best they are slacktavist bloggers failing at thinking. At worst they are clickbait harvesting husks of humans fully cognizant of the lies they are promoting and of the damage and rifts they are helping to fuel all for a measly profit.

[@justinrice5405]

Sounds like the perfect employee for BioWare! Also, talking shit about your previous employer like this keeps you jobless.

[@atrocious7766]

Hey, BioWare was respectable once and still somewhat are, it's EA she'd be perfect for.

[@tofu6465]

Naww BioWare fully jumped the shark with Andromeda.

[@pinionification]

tofu6465 Bioware is made of multiple studios. Andromeda's SJW nonsense isn't necessarily indicative of Bioware as a whole.

[@tofu6465]

Tye they invited Anita Sarkassian to take a look at Anthem. No it's pretty much the whole company.

[@SomethingMoreOriginal]

tofu6465 once again, bioware isnt a complete feminazi cesspit just because they invited Anita to look at their game. They have a large number of them, but there are plenty of normal people there, too. One bad apple doesn't spoil the entire barrel here, strangely enough. (Plus, the bad apples will rot and fall apart, similar to the bad apple we have seen over the last week or so.)

[@Beriorn]

For Jessica the Price was too high and Peter Fries with her.

[@johnwerner6445]

Beriorn hahaha good one!

[@grambortino]

Fries as in burger-frying? 😏

[@МихаилСтупин-л5м]

You could also safely say that both Jessica and her buddy Fries... (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ...paid the price.

[@905JimRaynor]

you are sexually harassing me.

[@martindrengenxbox360]

Congratz, you won the internet!

[@GenesisXV]

And this why many love and support you, Yong. You're legit for actually being critical and seeing the situation for what it is, calling people out on their bullshit instead of just believing all the false information on some of these gaming news outlets. All of this could've simply been avoided had she handled this in a respectful and professional manner. No one said she was forced to agree with Deroir nor did the man (nor anyone for that matter) insinuate anything about her incompetence as a writer, only that they had simple feedback about the game they loved playing and they presented their opinions respectfully but unfortunately she couldn't handle one's simple disagreement on the subject and showed her true colors... But it is what it is at this point. No need to cry over spilled milk. Either way, keep up the good work Yong~

[@blackhorde22]

I hope Mike sues the crap out of her for defaming his company. DO NOT EMPLOY THIS WOMAN!!

[@LouSassol69er]

Black Sheep same, she deserves to be blacklisted from the games industry.

[@roguecactus7]

Spaghetti and Meatballs for blackballing. 😁

[@RacinZilla003]

Defamation would only go through if Arena loses money over this debacle Guild Wars 2 is incredibly popular and if anything, Arena would get more of a gathering because of this

[@taitloyek7980]

Corvo@AZ please tell me that’s a joke

[@blank003]

Corvo@AZ dude ,delete this before a wave of angry people come at u with pitch forks.

[@yostoyou]

This woman is one of the most frustrating cases of lack of humility and introspection. Peter Fries was stupid, but I'd at least understand the action of defending someone you work closely with. ArenaNet might want to consider giving him another chance since he's definitely a veteran at this point.

[@connorhandforth814]

Salient Simon Yea it's more so of him trying to defend someone without fully reading what was said between both parties, shame really.

[@filipwolffs]

I'm guessing they'd love to have Peter back but can't because if they take Peter back those who are portraying this as a case of sexism would have something they could portray as evidence. EDIT: just to make it clear, I would not be agreeing with those who'd portray it as evidence.

[@Fractured676]

I'm with Akeya. Sadly, thats probably also why he got fired. Because Price would clearly use that as her flagship statement regarding it being a sexist issue.

[@Arcalite]

IF they hire him back, you can bet your ass that jessica will say shit like OH OF COURSE YOU HIRED THE MALE BACK ARENANET IS SEXIST BLAH BLAH

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Salient Simon It's like watching a combination of Veruca Salt and Daffy Duck.

[@SuperDarknut]

It really pisses me off that she's treating the employee-employer power dynamic as inherently sexist just because she's a woman and her boss is a man.

[@MissHeathen]

Sucks huh? It's like how can you tell when someone is actually being sexist these days?

[@ericohm9474]

It's because feminism teaches that any dynamic between men and woman are inherently misogynistic. Every man who has authority in the work place is oppressing women by default. This is the shit colleges are teaching to future generations.

[@lewdpanties]

Eric Ohm Feminism doesn't teach anything. I'm a feminist and I didn't take classes to learn how to be an asshole to everyone from other genders. Look, imagine all those flat-earthers and conspiracy theorists, right? They always claim to be on top of other people and keep saying people need to ''wake up''. They have their own vicious little world where everything is against them and all famous people are killed or enslaved by Illuminati, right? Now take one of those conspiracy theorists and give them something else to think about, like feminism, and you get Jessica. She lives in a world where every man is against her and that nice and precious KZbinr who disagreed with her was just trying to attack her because she's a woman. She's just crazy and there are a lot of people like her, sadly. But really, feminism in its core is not what these people make it out to be.

[@tywren2486]

Jessica Price seems to be confused, just because you barely reach the threshold of Marginally Talented, that doesn't maker you a "Marginalized Talent".

[@generalrendar7290]

She got fired because she doesn't know what she did wrong. She likely argued with her boss, showing her ignorance and stubbornness, she was fired along with Fries.

[@tristanbackup2536]

I think that's what down. She was called in a meeting & was forced to apologize, she refuse & then so got fired. 😂😂😂

[@DoDPUB]

I kinda felt bad for Fries until I realized he saw a category ten shit storm and walked straight into it.

[@braydude104]

iNShadows Anything for head.

[@ZDehuman1ze]

iNShadows He just couldn't resist the damsel

[@mr.grumps3544]

Dehumanize Exactly. He felt as a man, that he should defend his female co-worker, even though she was clearly in the wrong. She's a feminist so she probably got offended that he felt the need to stick up for her so she probably didn't even appreciate his help and he got fired for it. Sucks for him.

[@peppercat1887]

I happened to notice how the entire context of the argument has been left out of these articles. The articles definitely intentionally tries to keep the readers in the dark about what was actually said by both parties, showing pure bias towards Jessica. Deroir has done nothing wrong. It's funny how they don't show what he actually said because they want to twist this issue for Jessica. They know if they do show Deroir's tweets that their entire self righteous article goes to shit because anyone could tell that Jessica was in the wrong. I don't know who exactly wrote this article but they clearly behave like we are too stupid and oblivious, as if we only gonna read this article and rely on it, like they are the only source of information.

[@Verdiumm]

"clearly behave like we are too stupid and oblivious, as if we only gonna read this article and rely on it, like they are the only source of information." I've got sad news for you man, most people do exactly that. most people won't do research. i can 100% say that a large portion of anyone that learnt about this FROM the article won't look at the original tweet. people are lazy, and believe the first version of events they see.

[@Verdiumm]

I should link this too, because it's been studied before en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring one of the many Biases that make people act irrational.

[@bliczb8772]

+Golden Witch I think you're overestimating human intelligence.

[@bliczb8772]

+Verdiumm I'll do it with a pain in my heart, but I can admit that I was acting like that too. It took me two years to realize my mistake, two years to realize my stupidity... It makes people awake at night, makes them want to go back in time and act smarter.

[@MarvinsArtCat]

too bad that the target for that article was clearly the sjw crowd who, by definition, are oblivious for sure, probably a bit stupid and expecially tend to read only sources that side with their views. sad truth.

[@MrMazza4321]

Yong... Bro..... Don't ever apologise for what your putting up, your always relevant and interesting. I appreciate your thoughts on what's going on in the gamin world. Great content keep up the great work👍

[@jitobu3425]

Well said Mike O'Brien - much respect. The actions he took are very understandable and well within reason.

[@SignoftheMagi]

Basic Business 101: Don't use your personal, public media account for business. If you want to talk about, release information or discuss your job, do it either on your company's forum or through a corporate public account. Twitter and Facebook are NOT private. Claiming privacy just because you don't like someone or don't want comments is stupid. Never directly insult or namecall your fanbase. Ever. It is unprofessional.

[@GenJotsu]

Wow the mental gymnastics that those publications and her has to do corrupt the truth so much is almost amazing, if it wasn't so blatantly garbage.

[@Blue-ke5sb]

Jo King GamerGate is real.

[@Wydliez]

#doublethink

[@beastofbray1742]

ArenaNet was only doing what they promised: Creating a non-toxic work environment. Hence, she was fired.

[@amisfitpuivk]

They should’ve kept Jessica around to write all of the dialogue for the next villain. Commander: who might you be? New Villian: Did you just assume my gender? I’ll destroy all you Tyrian racists! Asshats!

[@camillecirrus3977]

And that villain will have only one weapon, the almigthy RANDO-ASSHAT DELETER.

[@Vorusen]

I hope this woman never finds work in the gaming industry again. These aren't bots or fake accounts they are real people voicing their opinions but I bet if anyone were to agree with Jessica I'm sure she'd respond right away about how right she is. "He had the power to command a woman go just stand there". Yeah he had the power to command a man to stand there too, that's why he's the boss. Your boss. Your higher up that is chastising you because you attacked members of your community and turned something that was never about gender into just that. If anything she's made herself harder to higher, look stupid, and make a joke of the exact cause she was trying to push

[@pseudophori6541]

Vorusen to be fair, any feminist (or person who claims to be a feminist in this case) in the games industry will constantly be receiving death/rape threats

[@walkingalive1093]

GGryphon rightfully so

[@pseudophori6541]

Who Da Fook Is That Guy could you elaborate on that?

[@buzzylullabee]

Who Da Fook Is That Guy no, not at all. not all feminists are extreme ones. if you believe women should have equal rights, you are a feminist.

[@Black-je7pj]

GGryphon Because modern day feminism is a joke. I don't think rape threats are appropriate though. Sad we even have to have that pointed out.

[@psivampire13]

I think it would have been very funny if Deroir was a female and at the end was like “I am a female btw....”

[@JETWTF]

She would have spun that as well and call "her" a traitor to her sex, she is a sexist herself so she will perceive everyone else of being a sexist against her regardless of their sex.

[@jadevenator5659]

As a female that has played this card a handful of times with accounts that have gender ambiguous names, the only responses it seems to get is "Yeah right" or immediate sexual abuse with the intent to offend me.

[@kevinjackson7169]

I believe Jade meant playing the "By the way I'm female" card, when accused of being sexist to a woman. Not the "Sexism victim" card that Jessica Price played. (Edit: Some lovely person thought that seeing as Jade seemed to enjoy "playing this card", she deserved sexual abuse. For some reason that person has deleted their comment...)

[@Threaldaveoss]

Jon C. What if they are a trans black man?

[@GrOOvedelta93]

Jon C. What does being gay have to do with hypothetical sexism and how would being gay turn the tables in any way?

[@RavingRoman]

She legitimately does not seem to know right from wrong... don't they call that sociopathy?

[@thehousealwayswins8398]

Nah, don't insult real sociopaths with this delusional douche. She's just a mediocre fantasy writer who got lost in her own little fantasy world and believed her own narrative BS.

[@thecomfyknight5594]

RavingRoman she’s definitely crazy.

[@David-zj2xy]

Narcissism is what this is flyingmonkeysdenied.com/2017/04/21/list-of-narcissistic-behaviors-commonly-symptomatic-of-narcissism/

[@blackcamcorder]

No it's called feminism

[@MrPkerz]

blackcamcorder agreed

[@celestinosilva8681]

"...promising they will steer candidates away from ArenaNet..." that must have as much credibility as her claiming it was all about gender, in other words another twisting of reality because after this debacle the only thing companies are going to steer away from is from her. PS: Devs reaching to her in droves?? kakakakak

[@technicasualty19]

Yeah, that whole bit sounded like the loser, who has no friends, shouting that they're going to bring a big gang of people to beat you up. It's empty, meaningless posturing.

[@georgiverse]

Who would be so mad to approach this tantrum-throwing, disillusioned and one-track minded big kid? She doesn't deserve a job in a customer-orientated industry. Doesn't deserve much, period. Way too hostile, arrogant and selfish.

[@marcuso.530]

This is unbelievable. She openly bashed members of her companies community and people are defending her. When you misrepresent a company in such a negative way, you should be fired. Simple as that.

[@RecklessFire29]

I disagree on the idea it was, indeed, her personal account. Do you honestly like the idea of people getting fired over things said in tweets? Because that's what SJWs have been doing in droves, trying to destroy careers. She's a genuinely terrible person yes, especially after I saw what she said about TotalBiscuit's death, but I still argue firing over tweets is a slippery slope I don't want. If she does the job, does it well, and it doesn't mess with her work, she should be free to say and do stupid shit on her own private time. The only point I could genuinely see being made here is the angle that she was slandering a business partner of ArenaNet by openly trying to paint him as a sexist, and we all know that's some red-letter bullshit that can destroy a career, and now she's trying to attack the entire fucking company, which is NOT going to help her get another job in gaming.

[@GothicGamer2012]

I genuinely believe this woman is delusional. She believes the guy giving feedback is sexist despite gender not being raised once by him. She believes a public platform is a private space. She also believes that she can only be criticised or given feedback about something when she asks for it. Just wtf.

[@marcuso.530]

RecklessFire29 I'm not saying that she should be fired for stuff she says on her personal time. People can say whatever they want, that's fine with me. But when you openly mock a member of your companies community who politely wanted to give feedback that you could ignore or turn down maturely at any moment, then proceed to ridicule and slander the entirety of said community as a whole, that reflects negatively on the company you represent. This applies WHENEVER you talk to fans about the game or product you represent.

[@jbrown87]

@@RecklessFire29 when you do or say something as a representative of your employer, it doesn't matter if it's on company time or your personal time/accounts. everything you say and do goes back on the reputation of the company. That's why you see employees who post pictures on facebook of themselves doing drugs or other illegal activities or making nasty comments getting fired. it goes back on their employer. Plus, most employers also have a social media clause in the hiring process that employees agree to that gives the company permission to randomly visit their pages and see what they post to make sure they aren't saying or doing things that would hurt the brand and cost profits.

[@RecklessFire29]

@@jbrown87 Ok, and i'm completely against that. All I care about is if someone does a good job. Freedom of Speech is getting slaughtered because of this, where corporations can tear apart your lives if you dare to speak out about anything you may be passionate about. If you're all for that just to get at a shitty game dev, hey, that's on you. I value Freedom of Speech too much for that sort of shit.

[@BicBoi1984]

"I block often" yeah we figured...

[@SumDumGai5]

BigBoi Keep your opinions to yourself, you filthy oppressive male!!!! You're probably even a filthy straight white male!!

[@MissHeathen]

BigBoi Being a woman who did something slightly wrong garners lots of hate. So yeah. I'd be blocking all death and rape threats.

[@VileVamp]

Jack Heathen Welcome to the internet. Here's a tip: if they happened at all - they are empty. Personally, I think you, or whoever said there were threats are full of shit. This claim has been made far too much to be taken seriously.

[@TheQwertyisdead]

She says that O'Brien simply wanted to vent his feelings and command power over her, but to me it looks like she was venting her feelings and trying to command power over Deroir. The fact that such a perfect parallel can be drawn from her own words only goes to show how oblivious and hypocritical she is. Edit: Forgot to say, loved the video man. This is an important issue that a lot of us can empathize with you about, and we're here for your thoughts and opinions. Keep it up!

[@lecoqsclock1002]

James Khil holy shit you crack the code

[@revanshan3308]

well said

[@MrWillypanda88]

James Khil she forgot one very important thing, O'Brien IS HER BOSS, the commanding (sorry) power comes within the job description. This woman is a good Arkham Asylum candidate, they haven't got any delusional supervillain as far as I remember

[@Alphakennyjuan]

Watching this string of videos has absolutely convinced me to sub your channel. I appreciate what you do YongYea. It's difficult to find media people that aren't hypocritical. You fit the bill for not being a hypocrite.

[@CRAM079]

It's actually really hard to believe that there are gender issues in the work place when so many women like Jessica cry wolves when there are none. Back in the 80's and 90's I could believe it. But with how the political climate is nowadays. It sounds like more of an excuse to avoid taking responsibility for your actions.

[@Notcognizant]

Being alone with a women in an elevator is a great way to get into some legal doo doo so i ve heard.

[@NinjaTyler]

Gnome Warlock and yet men are still expected to be the ones initiating a relationship via flirting... Gotta love hypocrisy,

[@MAINFRAMELaboratories]

Imagine this. A man get fired from a game dev studio for directly attacking a friendly member of the community. The man then proceeds to say, "I got fired because I'm a man, no other reason at all". How ridiculous is that? What Jessica did is literally no different. I hope she gets off her high horse someday and realises how absurd and delusional her stance is.

[@metalliclark86]

CuffRox If there is one thing absent on this whole deal, is sexism. Some woman says dumb shit to insult the fans, she gets fired. Some man says he agrees with the dumb shit his colleague said to the fans, he also gets fired. Both genders being equally held accountable for their actions at its finest. ArenaNet deserves nothing but praise, they clearly gave attention to the current state of star wars and how bad for business is letting your employees insult and shit on your customers on a daily basis on social media.

[@nosrepsuomynona7192]

CuffRox she needs to be taken down hard, that is the only way these types of people will learn.

[@Hotwopper]

Reminds me of the time when a Riot games worker got fired for saying that a streamer should get killed

[@JohnDoe-xf2ke]

Women receive no more abuse or harassment than men. There are numerous studies examining harassment both online and offline which have demonstrated the reverse: Men as a group receive more harassment, more abuse than women. What women are, according to psychological studies, is more sensitive to and get more upset by perceived slights, abuse, and harassment. This accords with women's generally higher trait Neuroticism (Neuroticism is the N in the OCEAN Big 5 personality test).

[@eliassantos6993]

Mike O Brien made me reinstall Guild Wars 2

[@azure401]

Elias Santos Same. I don't really like it all that much but now I'm willing to grind it out to max level and see if that changes my mind.

[@warex4501]

The irony of a feminist talking about toxic behaviour and mob mentality. This all boils down to Jessica believing she could act in any manner she pleased because she was a woman without any repercussions. Then she got a reality check by getting fired and instead of accepting this and taking a look at herself she decided to have a temper tantrum.

[@korvasterindar9672]

She's not the only one. I watched a video of a semi intoxicated woman who was violating the rules of the beach she was on force the cops who were trying to stop her to act and then claimed they couldn't restrain or subdue her because she was a woman. If you do stupid shit, it doesn't matter what gender you are, you get the same treatment as the rest of us.

[@elonwhatever]

This woman is not a feminst...

[@andresgv10]

BOYCOTT POLYGON AND KOTAKU! STOP GIVING THEM REVENUE!

[@kenetickups6146]

andresgv10 been doing it for nesrly 4 years

[@user-rk9su1jc4c]

andresgv10 Hol up, why?

[@andresgv10]

+The Man Who Created Turtles To Take Over The World Because they always try to push their social justice agenda whenever they can on their articles, even when they side with dishonest people like in this case. You saw how they distorted the facts and the truth on the articles they published about this mentally unstable ex-GW2 developer. Guess what, this is not the first time they do it. They don't deserve the revenue they get from the traffic on their site. This is not real journalism. They manufacture narratives accordingly to their political beliefs instead of writing objective and enlightening texts. There are much better and trust worthy gaming media sites out there other than them. All of this that I'm telling you should be pretty much common sense nowadays in 2018, but unfortunately this pseudo-gaming journalism from Kotaku and Polygon is still very prolificent. That's why everyone should boycott them. They have no compromise with truth and professionalism. There are some other terrible gaming news sites full of these "journalists" like PC Gamer and Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and I could give a whole list of these gaming news sites but Kotaku and Polygon are on whole different level of bullshittery.

[@jonbodhi]

I've gone there regularly, but I think I'm done with them both. It's shocking to me that ANYONE could read that exchange and think that JP was anything but wildly overreacting. I also think she's flat out lying about all this support she's getting.

[@brianseem]

jonbodhi I never used polygon because they were related to the verge and that site turned into a shithole in record time. As for kotaku....honestly I went there until recently because they consistently quickly reported about games and got a lot of inside info. Buuuuut....I quit them because I got really sick of seeing op ed pieces by Heather Alexandra on there with just the most idiotic shit in them, and then he would go double down in the comment sections on the idiocy. (Ditto for Nathan Grayson). Add in the fact that by going to the site I’m giving money to the company that owns the jezebel and root sites.....and having seen the disgusting shit they write.....made it real easy. It’s sad to say ign is a better game news source than kotaku or polygon. The worst they do is inflate review scores.

[@maxmen1004]

She has my dream job, yet she took it for granted..

[@littlebylitttle5866]

Hey look at the bright side, a position is open ;)

[@FreyjaYngling]

I'm just gonna assume she's used to getting whatever she wants just by whining and playing the victim. If you can't do that, you won't get far in our modern society.

[@maxmen1004]

Dazer12 thank you! It really is frustrating to see.

[@kulvurt8386]

Interesting that places like rock paper shotgun and kotaku argue "Jessica didn't ask for feedback" - Funny as I don't recall Total Biscuit's wife asking for Jessica's opinion regarding her husband passing away.

[@neglesaks]

"I have a security team handling my social media. I'm under full bot assault...". Where have we heard this before...?

[@monkeydjelly6059]

Who takes polygon seriously? Everyone knows they're a joke.

[@thehousealwayswins8398]

SJWs and fake progressives. Sadly, there are a lot of them on the internet, enough to pay Polygon's bills anyway.

[@yaqbulyakkerbat4190]

The fact Mike isn't backing down makes me consider buying Guild Wars 2. He's definitely a guy who cares about his customers

[@yoloswaggins2161]

"Speaking truth to power" is that what attacking community members is called?

[@constrainedanacronysm1370]

More like punching down at the community.

[@jimbeauchamp1135]

She isn't speaking truth to power, she is power speaking. The left are delusional asshats that control everything yet think they're the underdog, it's fucking pathetic.

[@SuperDarknut]

She's a woman so she has less power and agency than a random youtuber. Apparently

[@BTiffney71]

Superdarknut That's exactly right she "speaks truth to power" by punching down a random man in the community. She's a virtuous martyr standing up to the big bad and mean patriarchy.

[@constrainedanacronysm1370]

I'd like to try to rationalize her bizarre belief that she is speaking truth to power, through what I learned in College. Two left leaning professors explained to me the theory of "Asymmetrical Power" in my junior year. Under that theory and the mindset it creates you can be as mean-spirited, antagonistic and downright evil; to people who have no desire to be the same to the offender, and still be in the right. The theory dictates that as long as you are lacking privilege in a social situation, that you are justified in doing anything to against the "privileged." This privilege does not take into account your personal position, such as being a game dev, merely the persons skin color and gender. So in her mind she is speaking truth to power because she views the GW community and the wider industry as a monolith of misogynistic men waiting to hurt woman at every opportunity. That fictionalized construct is what she uses to justify her bad behavior and to prove to herself that she is in the right no matter how mean she is to other people.

[@nickwilliams8302]

I just love the contribution from Fries: "She didn't ask for his feedback." Posting something on Twitter _is_ asking for feedback and discussion of what you posted. That's what Twitter is _for._ It's like stepping onto a tennis court with a racket in your hand, serving a ball, then complaining when the person at the other end of the court hits it back.

[@RadMatter_]

of course she talked to Kotaku, I am surprised she didnt also talked to RPS

[@Kiddy7180]

Im waiting for the CNN interview, you know fake news

[@soselek1544]

gamejournopros are at it again

[@weegar]

Kiddy that would be Fox news

[@jayfarias8440]

Or Feminist Frequency yuck!!!

[@alexanderloughran2716]

Carbon Night both of them are stupid b she’d appear on CNN because they support the kinda things she’s saying

[@countesschewi2399]

These kind of people are why feminism and women's rights (and pretty much most social justice movements) have gotten such a bad rep on the internet - they cry sexism(/racism etc.) at anything bad that happens due to their own actions, unable to understand that their political beliefs doesn't justify terrible behavior.

[@brainrich1358]

Metadragon The Left eats themselves. They are imploding faster now.

[@countesschewi2399]

I imagine you're talking about TERFS - excluding them from pride events and the community at large is something I can actually get behind, because TERFS are highly transphobic (as well as being RadFems in general).

[@killer660]

Brain rich and the right is sending the US back to the stone ages...

[@killer660]

Chewi Fully agree with you homie

[@countesschewi2399]

Oh god please don't have a political debate in this comment chain...

[@JheregCG60]

Isn't she one of the folks who cheered TB's death?

[@CeruleanRogue]

twitter.com/delafina777/status/1000045432007938048?lang=en Yes

[@JheregCG60]

I thought as much, I do not do twitter so thank you for the link.

[@CeruleanRogue]

No problem! :D

[@diegoantoniorosariopalomin4977]

didnt she made other comments about ?

[@knives0244]

I was irritated by ignorance at first... I'm straight up mad at the bitch now.