Anyone have any actual news on this?

@Littumulkero We aren't heading in the better direction, at all. Just look around, everyone cancels everyone, there's political tension everywhere, climate is in shambles, pandemic is almost out of control again... Or maybe we ARE going in the right direction, meaning that the best thing for us to wake up is a big punch in the teeth 🙂

@WreckingVi Even in games studios much smaller than Respawn, design decisions are hardly taken by one man / team alone. There are pitches, selection phases, thorough tests that can take months and all these involve a lot of people that carefully watch the data to predict what is going to happen before giving their feedback or vote.IT's hard to say whether DZK was a bad designer or not. Yeah, he was not the best at communicating with the community, but that's not normally part of his job. Some of the things players complain about may have been decided by others and even downvoted by Daniel.Anyway, the game isn't as unbalanced as everyone says it is. A lot of the drama is caused by resistance to change and the backfire effect. A real unbalanced game would not be near as successful as Apex is at this moment.

@OldTreeCreeper Yeah we knew that when it came out. It doesnt help when he interacts with the community in a negative way, which is what he was doing recently in response to criticism. So then he became a target and people dug it up. He was let go from riot a few years ago for similar.Good lesson for the kids out there tho. If you post things online they can bite you later in life.

@hayhor Watched vid... laughed...Really, really, really stupid, but funny. That eve thing, wow... just wow.But it’s funny how quickly ppl go for the ‘he’s almost 30, he can’t say such things!’ without taking into account the time of writing.If someone said the same thing in 1950’s, he’d be a ‘normal outspoken man’. Now, nahhh it’s slander, misogynistic. I get that it’s offensive, but it’s ‘creative writing’. Look at most male artists (vocal), if we go by what they say about women, sex and everything in between, they’re all misogynistic or offensive.I think a person should be free to say what he wants, except if it’s directed at somebody. Everything nowadays can upset someone. Heck even religious stuff is cause for most bloodshed since the dawn of time. For this reason I don’t think D. should have been fired from his job, but knowing the times we live in, if he wasn’t fired, the company would get bad press and likely even protests and/or a petition rally.That being said, companies are very careful nowadays. I remember that it started years ago that companies actually looked ppl up before accepting them for a job interview. If you had ‘indecent’ photos swirling online, companies would just blatantly ignore or tell you you weren’t right for the company. Indecent pics were anything from you at a certain party or just having a good time in a club to actually nude pics. This would even be if those pics were years old.

@hayhor this (Sweet) guy from Twitter just got blocked by me on Twitter today morning, lol he was saying something like ( we need another weapon like wingman) and comparing the game with Fortnite and talking like he got the cure for cancer or something.and guess what, he was replying to the comments that he doesn't like with the same arrogance as this dev did.when I saw this I just sent him a clown face and blocked him.moving on ....in general, I don't think any game devs should interact with the community, it's better for everyone.they will have their own opinions and some people will try to force another opinion on them then they will try to explain then players will try to prove their point then it starts to get ugly because there is a lot of people out there who just got all the time in the world to keep chasing something even if it's stupid ( WTF grow up, it's a game if you like it play it if not then no one cares).devs are humans as well so maybe they will get upset or maybe their opinion is wrong from the beginning but still, they want to stand for what they think it's best but the issue is their words are always highlighted and they are counted for when arguing with a player who no one cares about what they say and no one is going to screenshot their posts and comments then it's not fair honestly.so it's better that devs don't interact with any community, let an official representative do the talking, and let them do their work

I just heard Daniel Klein got fired. Is this true or is this just a rumor?

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hayhor
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4 years ago
@Axs5626Sxa5001 His twitter is now private and it says former respawn. 🤷‍♂️
hayhor
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4 years ago
@Axs5626Sxa5001 A bunch of bad past stuff surfaced of him a little while back.

https://youtu.be/L1pG2gEa8Z4
Axs5626Sxa5001
4 years ago
@hayhor Yikes!!
OldTreeCreeper
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4 years ago
@hayhor well that puts a very jaundiced view on things.
OldTreeCreeper
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4 years ago
@hayhor he's saying it's from 2007
https://mobile.twitter.com/danielzklein/status/1425208164849311749
hayhor
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4 years ago
@OldTreeCreeper Yeah we knew that when it came out. It doesnt help when he interacts with the community in a negative way, which is what he was doing recently in response to criticism. So then he became a target and people dug it up. He was let go from riot a few years ago for similar.

Good lesson for the kids out there tho. If you post things online they can bite you later in life.
OldTreeCreeper
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4 years ago
@hayhor I wasn't aware of the negative interactions. Looked up a bit of it and he appears to have been very self important. Surprising that they let him away with it for so long. Sad way to live imo, with the opportunities he was given.
Koochi-Q
4 years ago
@hayhor Give a breakdown! I’m not watching a vid! I did read the posts treecreeper linkposted :P

You’ll gey xp if you breakdown what’s said in vid ^.^
OldTreeCreeper
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4 years ago
@Koochi-Qjust the first bit
hayhor
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4 years ago
@Koochi-Q It is like 4 minutes. And I'm not in a good way with what I got going here so just watch it. lol