Another Day, Another Death Threat From Gamers to The People Who Make Video Games

Kotaku writes: "The very first death threat I got was when we decided not to support dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2," Robert Bowling, the former public face for the Call of Duty series, recently told me.

That was in 2009. He's had many more since, including batches of them every month throughout last year.

[turokgames]

*sigh* I understand that COD has gone down the drain...but seriously, blaming Robert on this matter?...

[Emilio_Estevez]

Yeah, I never understood that. Even if you don't care for COD, Bowling still seemed like he had good intentions, and it's not like he really had much say in anything anyway. If the higher ups want something done different, then that's the way it's getting done.

[Pekolie]

Yeh i mean if you want to hate COD then leave it with the game. Dont go sending death threats to the games creators.

These are the people that give the industry a bad name and who are probably those gamers FOX likes to tell us about with anger issues. Reminds me of the homophobic comments on ME3. People just go too far sometimes.

[darkride66]

And the same thing happened with Bioware as well. People started to target their hate campaigns at individuals within the company, regardless of if they even had anything to do with Mass Effect. Bioware employees saw their share of death threats as well.

They need to hunt down and charge every last one of those bastards, in my opinion. In Canada, uttering death threats could get you up to 5 years.

I know I've been on the receiving end of my share of hate mail from this site, and some of it's spilled over to messages from pissed off n4g members on PSN and XBL, and I've been told to **** off and die a few times but no one has ever actually sent me a death threat.

I don't think that many realize, you receive something seriously like that all you have to do is take it to your internet provider and they can start an investigation to track them down. And even if you don't live in the region where you threatened a person, are you breaking your local laws?

[ape007]

these people either trolling, attention W0res or have some mental symptoms

[redDevil87]

Probably all of the above mentioned.

[Hufandpuf]

The video embedded in that article was HI-LAR-I-OUS!

[CanadianTurtle]

Death threats over the net? That is by far the most immature way of getting developers to listen to you.

Oh and by the way, anyone reading this, I'm going to fucking kill you.

See how stupid that sounds over the net?