Helldivers 2 community manager fired after Sony controversy

Only a day ago, Helldivers 2 community manager Spitzerfx seemed to be in the clear, but they have officially been demoted after Sony controversy.

[TwoPicklesGood]

From a business standpoint I can understand why they did that…but man, he stood up for the community and thats huge.

[SeraphTeran]

He did! There is an entire Reddit thread now where many are thanking him for his help in Sony controversy. Hope he lands on his feet!

[jambola]

Title "seemingly fired after controversy"
Preview text "he seems to be in the clear but demoted"

[Skuletor]

Journalism as per usual

[shinoff2183]

Like someone couldn't tell the difference. I might as well go write.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

He did an amazing job and I hope he lands somewhere good too. He's a hero someone who cared about gamers.

[Eonjay]

He didn't get fired. The I wouldn't call the title clickbait. I would call it fake.

[Lightning77]

Standing up for his own company from a bigger company then gets demoted for doing his job as a community manager. At least he's still employed.

I hope Sony doesn't buy Arrowhead. They need to let them be. No corporate medlings and docking someone's pay for standing up form the ppl.

Wtf is going on with these companies?

[Eonjay]

I highly disagree but let me explain. It's fine if they remain independent but the work they have done with Sony has paid off in spades. It's like they hit the jackpot and that is only because they got to work with Sony's IP. In general even if you don't agree, you don't want to bite the hand that feeds you. Don't forget, this all happened because Arrowhead was being paid to do the game but couldn't get it to work. Sony was trying to help them. Then got broadsided and made out to be the bad guy.

Still the guy didn't lose his job so alls well that doesn't end in firing.

[shadowT]

already debunked, he was not fired, changed position within the company

[BeHunted]

Did you not read the description?

"but they have officially been demoted after Sony controversy"

[Magatsuhi]

So, do you understand the difference between fired and demoted?

[notachance]

the title shouldn’t have been “fired” then if the description immediately said “demoted”

[Hugodastrevas]

You fight for the consumer, you get screwed. What an industry!

[outsider1624]

What exactly did he do if you dont mind? Was it the comment " make your issues known" something like that..

[Azurite]

Spitz told people to review bomb.

[Sephiroushin]

I think people misunderstood the message though… he said something along the line of if youre not happy leave a negative review, and he usually gave those kind of comment like he was trolling, like his usual if you do not like it here then leave, and if they didnt leave “i thought you was going to quit” …

I honestly think he was actually pretty bad at doing his job… closed Helldivers 1 discord w/o notice and mentioned he had it because he could do w/e he wanted with it, and again he was pretty bad at his job and i am sure the comment about leaving a bad review was trolling and not asking people to review bomb and backfired on him

[MWeaver589]

I really think this is an interesting case of controlling the narrative. I read the comments here and it seems like Spitz is this unsung hero that fought big Sony by rallying people to review bomb Helldivers 2, was successful, and paid with his job.

Yet you can search for reddit posts from him and his initial response to the issue was to just make an account and shut up. When he learned about the counties without he apologized, but he still retained that mentality just with an openness to make sure people in unsupported regions weren't screwed. Even the general belief on the official reddit is the dude was a dick, got frustrated with the comments and basically told people to go complain elsewhere, and when he became a hero insisted it was always the plan. People were even against ( https://steamcommunity.com/... him getting the job in the first place, and a petition to remove him during this event ( https://www.reddit.com/r/He...

Mind you, I won't claim to know anything beyond what I see posted, but there is a lot more to the story.

[H9]

I hope all the Sony and Arrowhead ass-kissers see this that when someone stands up for the fans they get demoted, notice how the employees who tried to own and troll the fans are keeping their positions

[neutralgamer1992]

As a long time PlayStation fan I don’t like this Sony. They have been so greedy lately even though they are making a lot of money. This Sony will become too full of themselves and screw up just wait and watch. This is just how obnoxious they had become during the PS2 era. Forget about being pro gamers right now they are only pro profits

[InUrFoxHole]

It's not just sony though. MS as well. Never trust these companies

[Shane Kim]

All of these companies are.

[outsider1624]

"As a long time PlayStation fan I don’t like this Sony."

Long time playstation fan here too. It's no use. Change of leaderships and their ideas will do this. I dread now for whoever will be in charge now. What will he bring to the table? More gass? Less single player games? More layoffs? Closure of studios. Jeeze.

[Sephiroushin]

Problem is that leadership wont change anything, not unless the change in leadership is done because their wallet is getting really hurt…

The CEOs from every corpo are there in place to make money for their shareholders, they do not care about you, me, or anything besides making money for the corpo and its shareholders!

Do GAAS make lot of money? Yes, right, so they will try to make a couple that bring constant flow of revenue.
Laying off people from a studio or closing the whole studio huh? If they are not performing as good as they want and doing so would increase the flow of revenue within the company and bonuses of CEO and executives then they will do it and then later tell you it hurts them.
If Single player games are not bringing enough money then you will have more MTX that i would no longer call mtx since they are not really anything micro!

New CEO will bring to the table the same as other one, a way to increase revenue for the company and its shareholders. Sadly their ideas change when market change direction and gaming is moving toward, subscription BS and mtx …
Even private one make stupid mistake, take battlestate games and what they have been doing as an example!

[PapaBop]

Yeah it's starting to feel a bit like the late PS2 era, unfortunately there isn't anybody to humble them and get them to pull their fingers out their ass in the same way Microsoft did with the early 360 days.

[Profchaos]

He should be promoted not demoted he did what was best for the player in the end that should be praised

[Aussiesummer]

Of course, gamers seem to think big companies are their mate, no they are simply there to make a profit.

[Ra3030]

You shouldn't ever bite the hand that feeds you!

[anast]

Good on Spitzerfx. They stood up when it was difficult to do so.

[DustMan]

He knew it was coming. Sacrificed himself in a display of solidarity. Super Earth is proud.

[babadivad]

Good. Never a good thing to antagonize your player base. This needs to happen more often.

[z2g]

There’s responsible way to handle these things. Review bombing is childish.

[PhillyDonJawn]

That's messed up. Sony and MS have become.....you know the rest. We here on out we need to lay the hammer down on them when they do anything unsatisfactory. I'm proud of my fellow gamers that spoke up and took a stand at the gold price increase ms tried and Sony helldivers 2 fiasco. Let these company's know we aint playing no games with there bs.

For the first time it feel like the console war is diminished and gamers uniting cause it's hard being a fanyboy to either one due to there greed.

[TheKingKratos]

It's sad but he wasn't fired though ?!
he was demoted