Bungie says it’s reduced communication with players due to ‘real threats’ towards staff
Bungie has stated that it’s reduced the amount of communication it has with its player base due to harassment and threats.
In a reaction to a Reddit post noting that Bungie was responding to users far less frequently, one user replied: “That’s what happens when developers receive harassment and death threats over a video game.”
When another user suggested that the focus on “the rude minority” was “a deliberate PR-driven attempt to reduce communication without backlash”, Bungie community manager ‘Dmg04’ claimed that the situation had gone beyond merely rude remarks and had escalated to threats.
“Here’s the thing, the harassment we’ve spoken to isn’t just rude replies on twitter or vague comments,” Dmg04 wrote. “There have been real threats towards our people and our studio.”
They added: “We’re taking them seriously, which is leading to an amount of reduced communications as the team plans future protections / strategies to help avoid these sorts of things.
“I will be very clear in saying that I appreciate the studio in the amount that’s it’s helped me personally after some serious harassment towards me and my family. I’m taking time off in part because of this. Just because you can’t see it directly in a given tweet or forum reply doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen.”
Noting that this did have an impact on the decent players who were now lacking the ability to communicate with developers, they added: “None of [this] is meant to be a punishment to the people who can leave clear and respectful feedback for our developers, mind you.
“There are no instances at Bungie where people actively look at a conversation and plan retaliatory actions towards our playerbase via hotfixes, updates, or comms strategies. Sometimes, we just need to
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