What do you do when MMO devs mess with your favorite class? If you’re a handful of Star Wars: The Old Republic players, you spam invective at BioWare systems designer John Jarynowski on social media. But you don’t stop there. You also hunt down the accounts of “his family members with the sole purpose of harassing, insulting, and threatening him” because of his class-related forum posts.

BioWare community manager Eric Musco posted a response today on the game’s official forum. “Please understand John didn’t need to communicate his perspective about the class. John and the combat team knew giving their views on Sentinels and Marauders, in some cases, would not be received well, but he did it anyway,” Musco wrote. “The alternative is that we stay silent. If the reaction of this community is to go out of your way to personally harass someone we will stop having a dialog.”

[Source: BioWare forums ; thanks Slambit!]