Ah could be! You might be right on that.
Most likely. Jessica Price was cut loose after embarrassing a guy who did nothing but try to talk shop about story telling, who also happened to be a some what prominent member of the GW2 community.
Publicly humiliating and antagonizing paying customers should get you fired, yes.
I have no idea who Jennifer Scheurle is- google turned up a relatively recent art school grad whoās body of work was exclusively indie developments.
If I was Blizzards staff I would be offended by this. That woman is a wack job to the 10th power, smh.
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And people are surprised she got firedā¦?
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Well when that bloke who tried to ātalk shopā was effectively telling her how to do her job, yeah, she got snarky. People who have experience working in a particular field often donāt like it when someone completely uneducated tries to give them advice on what they should do.
Itās something that happens a lot, and it happens far more often to female game developers. People just think that they āknow betterā and want to impart their infinite wisdom on others, when the reality is that they know next to nothing, and have no idea what that developer has or has not tried to do yet.
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Sees this thread andā¦
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I think the project she & others were working on was cut and thatās why she & the rest were let go.
- I really donāt know though. Iām not an insider, just going by stuff I hear & read here and there.
I posted above who she is and what she did. Also, thereās this comment above:
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Blizzard will get 10 different demands within 1 month and the company has hired enough twitter activist that should be laid off
Iām guessing the f2p model didnāt work and youre saying the company went out of business?
Edit I havent heard anything thats why Iām asking.
Iām assuming this is another Roux-like issue?
No clue who this person is, but first google search result is her Twitter. I see a woman with glasses and a buzz cut with pronouns stated in her bio, so itās not a big stretch to see this for what it is. Lol
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What happened
Guild Wars 2 is actually doing fine (they have another expansion coming soon) but they (Arena Net) have never been really good at getting other projects other than Guild Wars released. This isnāt the first time theyāve had a project reshuffle which has caused people to lose their jobs, and I doubt it will be the last.
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There was a project reshuffle at ArenaNet which created a few layoffs, one of which being Jennifer Scheurle who was the lead designer of an unannounced project. They gave her very short notice of her termination and locked her computer (the locking part is fairly normal), which didnāt give her any time to wrap things up or say farewells to her team.
It was also her only computer, so she lost her ability to play other games with her collegues and other game developers, which she was doing in her off hours.
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That sucks
Sorry to hear that
Lol no. That is absolutely not what happened. Even if it were true, her reaction would and should get her fired from almost any game company.
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Who?
what? <><><>
Actually it is exactly what happened. Jessica wrote a long twitter thread explaining video game writing and the various aspects of it, including difficulty. The bloke, who went by the handle Deroir, responded first with compliments, then tried to inject his own opinion about video game writing and how it should be done.
He is not a video game writer. He has no experience writing for video games. Heās a streamer and someone who plays Guild Wars 2.
So yes, he was telling her how to do her job, and she was justifiably upset at having a random bloke chime in and tell her what she should be doing as if he knows better. And while yes, she and one of her collegues did get fired for that outburst, it also pissed off plenty of people at ArenaNet, and several other game companies/recruiters who stopped working with ArenaNet as a result.
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Uh oh, did I step on a social land mine again?
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