Helldivers 2 community manager seemingly fired after encouraging negative reviews over now-canceled PSN mandate: "I knew I was taking a risk with what I said"
Helldivers 2 community manager seemingly fired after encouraging negative reviews over now-canceled PSN mandate: "I knew I was taking a risk with what I said"
Fuck it the negative review stays because of firing him.
Don't do it for him, he was by far the worst CM I've ever seen. He was acting like a Reddit mod, he would hand out bans without any reasoning, would get into arguments with the players and was just overall antagonistic and apathetic towards the community. People would literally meme that Spitz is the Gollum and Twinbeard (who is actually a pretty good CM) is Samwise. Even his initial response to the PSN fiasco was along the lines of "It's not the first game to require a third party account. If you can't be bothered to make one then don't complain here, go leave a negative review on Steam" and he kept antagonizing the community for quite a while before doing a 180 to side with the community. And while that was a good thing from the community perspective I don't think that one example excuses all the prior shit he's done.
The comment he gave for the article (and the overall tone of the article itself) is just trying to whitewash the fact that he was a shit CM who deserved to be fired even before rallying people to ask for a refund.
I'm glad he did what he did, but holy hell is he bad at being a CM.
I heard a lot of people in the community calling for Spitz’ firing both during and after the situation. I’m getting mixed signals, since this article seems to describe Spitz as more of an ally to the community in the situation.
Spitz fucked up initially with a few poor responses, but ended up being one of the most important players in getting the PSN requirements removed. For somebody employed by the studio to tell their community to refund the game was not only ballsy, but likely was a major reason Sony walked back the policy at all.
Spitz had a whole-ass redemption arc play out in 24 hours.
For the first 12 hours after the incident Spitz was unhelpful. Saying things that were both a little bit toxic, a little bit dismissive.. The next day however he did a full 360, was being helpful, understood people's viewpoints, acknowledge that his first day response wasn't correct. He basically humanized himself. A redemption arc in 3 days
The person being fired should be the dumbass who caused this whole mess from Sony's side.
Or it could be because of the flippant and condescending way they responded to the initial change and complaints. End of the day could be a lot of things but encouraging negative review probably didn't help things.
Not everyone makes it to evac.
Really amusing seeing how many people are ready to pour one out for the fired CM just because he was fired, and don't realize how friggin awful he was as a community manager. I bet y'all think Darth Vader was a good guy just because he did one last good thing before he died, too.
Was he a bad CM? I almost got myself fired from my previous game dev gig standing up for the players. Sometimes upper management pisses you off that much
Edit: looks like he was a bad CM
For democracy!
For firing the incompetent guy?
But not the one falsely accusing people of being serial rapists?
F
Does he have a donation link? I think some people in the community would like to help him have a soft landing.
https://80.lv/articles/amid-helldivers-2-controversy-game-s-community-manager-almost-got-fired/
He was "almost fired" a couple days ago
so this game will be on a fast track to a decent discount soon would be my guess
Takes a lot of ..something.. to roll into a a thread already with answers and give the by far worst one.
RIP Spitz. It was a ballsy move encouraging users to leave negative reviews in order to make our voices heard. Gotta respect it.