An anonymous developer does a guest editorial for Kotaku, sharing his frustration and sadness towards the gaming industry.

“Granted, feedback is warranted. If we fucked up and our game is broken, you should tell us. I don’t ever want to ship a broken product. But stuff like "I hope the idiot people who made this just kill themselves after they kill their family” makes me want to quit my job and move to another industry. Seeing statements like that spread across the Internet—seeing insults hurled at hard-working developers who love the games they work on—just makes me lose hope in people. (…)

I’m relatively new to the field—I’ve been working in games for five years—but I have never seen this level of hatred in any other industry. Do thousands of people say they want to kill Tom Cruise if he plays a scene in a way they don’t like? They might criticize it, but they don’t tell him to go kill himself because they disliked what he did. Honestly, at times this hatred makes me not want to work in games anymore. (…)

So before you send death threats to people, or give out zeroes on Metacritic, or write unnecessarily mean things about games you’ve spent just a few hours on, remember that what you’re playing is the culmination of years of someone’s life. Usually it’s not just one life, but tens, or hundreds, or even thousands of people who wake up every day at the crack of dawn thinking about the experiences they’re going to create.“