There are definitely people who look up specific devs to dox and harrass.
I wouldn’t say it happens more often than your local female meteorologist gets harassed, but it does happen enough that if I became a game dev no one online would ever know.
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Yeah, you’re just human beings, but your bosses are greedy fuckers. I don’t hate you specifically, I just hate most AAA studios.
Do that many people look up devs to harass? I don’t think I can name any unless people like Hideo Kojima count as one.
It’s just Kotaku outrage blogspam
It’s definitely been a problem for CSGO, RuneScape, and Destiny devs in the past to name a few
There are definitely people who look up specific devs to dox and harrass.
I wouldn’t say it happens more often than your local female meteorologist gets harassed, but it does happen enough that if I became a game dev no one online would ever know.
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