SJW developers fired by ArenaNet

Jessica Price is a writer of Guild Wars 2, a well received MMORPG game developed by ArenaNet and published by NCSOFT. She was recently fired by ArenaNet after accusing a Guild Wars 2 streamer of sexism after he disagreed with her on Twitter. Fellow writer Peter Fries was fired simultaneously with Price after defending her actions on Twitter.

Enter the Toxic Dev
Like most other members of the social justice outrage mob, Price has a toxic, elitist attitude; victim mentality; and an inordinately large focus on finding things that she decides aren't okay. She was a project manager at Paizo Publishing from 2012 to 2017 and some observed that the moment of her joining the company coincided with Paizo's sudden tilt towards regressive leftist attitudes amongst their staff. During her time with Paizo, Jessica was show to be an ardent supporter of SocJus, and the interviews she had showed just as much. She also has a tendency to politicize her games while justifying her actions with the common SocJus claim that "all games/RPGs are political".

Most infamously, she once openly harassed another company - DriveThruRPG, a pay-for-download web store that was in direct competition with Paizo, for carrying a product titled Tournament of Rapists. This was a book of bad guys (even if the book's storefront page could have done a better job driving that home) for the PC world to oppose.

Besides all this, Price has also celebrated TotalBiscuit's death by cancer, smeared old-school D&D designer Frank Mentzer for the "crime" of being slightly flirty with her (which led to his Kickstarter being cancelled) and calling Avengers: Infinity War "rancid trash" and inserting gender politics in the film.

The Triggering
On July 3, 2018, after a Reddit AMA, Price made a stream of tweets where she expressed her opinions about how MMORPG characters can never be compelling as a pre-designed character. A GW2 streamer by the name of Deroir decided to express his disagreement by presenting her his own opinion. Price, for some reason, decided to draw the victim card by accusing Deroir of sexism and mansplaining, calling him a "random asshat".

"like, the next rando asshat who attempts to explain the concept of branching dialogue to me–as if, you know, having worked in game narrative for a fucking DECADE, I have never heard of it–is getting instablocked. PSA."

"— Jessica Price (@Delafina777) July 4, 2018" This is a particularly big blunder, because A: Deroir was being very civil and polite during the discussion, (mind you this is him the day before he got his bird flipped by Price) and B: he is not some "random asshat", he was so well known in the GW2 community that he has his own NPC.

Needless to say, many people began to call her out for her childish behaviour, but Price only acted more and more toxic.

Her extremely unprofessional behaviour was posted on GW2's Reddit community, which received more than 4,000 comments and 7,000 upvotes.

Peter Fries, another writer for GW2, decided to be the white knight and rush to Price's defence with truckloads of weak excuses, claiming that Price "never asked for feedback", how these are their "private" social media accounts, how those who defend Deroir are merely "mansplaining", and that his unprofessional and irresponsible behaviours were completely justifiable because "it's the 4th July" and he is drunk.

The Firing
Needless to say, reality comes at you VERY quickly.

Just 2 days after the incident, ArenaNet founder Mike O'Brien made a public statement that both Jessica Price and Peter Fries were fired for their behavior.

Many showed support over O'Brien and ArenaNet's decision, some believed that firing them may be too drastic of an action, but it was completely justifiable as both Price and Fries are damaging the company's public image. Some also called this decision "a breath of fresh air" in a time when developers are more than glad to attack their own costumers when facing their own failures and shortcomings.

The Fallout
While most gamers praised O'Brien & ArenaNet's decision to value their customers and advised their peers not to bombard the writers' Twitter with insults and mockery, sjws of all kind are rushing towards Jessica Price's defense. Anita Sarkeesian attacked Mike O'Brien for firing a dev that harmed his company image; MMORPG.com posted a hit piece on him whilst downplaying the role Price played in her sacking; Giant Bomb produced a podcast defending her whilst completely ignoring O'Brien's statement on why she was relieved of her position; Rami Ismail put on a glorious display of projection and butthurt on his Twitter; Andrew Todd of Birth. Movies. Death used his article on James Gunn to claim that Jessica Price and Peter Fries were fired thanks to the work of "internet nazis". ResetERA also tried to white knight Price by claiming that ANet was "corrupted by GG", but it backfired spectacularly as posters calling them out became so numerous that they have to shut down the thread. Randy Pitchford also claimed that he would rather side with the toxic devs than his customers.

As for Jessica Price herself? Well, even today she is refusing to back down, in her interview with Polygon, she put on an excellent display of hypocrisy claiming that it was "highly unprofessional" for ANet to fire her (mind you this is what she said about her former employer Paizo). Her current Twitter description read: "Fired by ArenaNet & Paizo for refusal to act like I'm men's property. I won't play demure for you. Block often."

But no matter how glorious display of butthurt Price puts up, nothing is going to change for now. ArenaNet has clearly shown no intention to hire her again and the people who criticize ANet are those who don't buy their products.