This is going viral in the MMO community and everyone should read it

[Amayasu]

Except your hypothetical makes no sense, because it is not a job. I know you don't have a real job, or even a life, so you like to think it is. But I'm afraid it isn't. It is a game, a form of entertainment. Although challenging, it is fundamentally meant to be fun. Needless bullying has no place in games. The same as your pathetic comments have no place either. What if I am a child? Does it make you proud as a middle aged (most likely divorced) man to insult and pick on a young boy or girl? No wonder you hide on the internet, because there's no place for you in the real world sweetpea

Fascinatingly wrong, but keep trying.

While this isn't a job, it is a social network built around individual performance much like, say, an office. Sure; it's a game. It's meant to be fun. If the game wasn't fun you'd say that was a developer responsibility, correct? So if individuals don't find the game fun, but instead find the game full of impatient, elitist morons because of the design of the game and how time is rewarded, that's not a developer responsibility?

But I can see you won't accept that, so fine.

Needless bullying has no place in games.

There's no such thing as needless bullying; it's never needed, and that's the point - It has no place anywhere, not just in a game "because this is a game".

As a society (wait that's like a community, right?) we build social systems to aid those who struggle and remove tension and bullying. By "We" I refer to the people who sit at the top of the community; government, teachers, employers, care works, moderators, Facebook admins, twitter, etc etc etc.

So tell me why this isn't the responsibility of developers? The people who (through design) can have a massive influence on the behaviour of a community.

Developers are part of the community. It's their responsibility as much as ours, and more so because they can, through design of social and reward systems, improve things considerably.

But hey, I can see nothing I say will change your mind; it's easy to deal entirely in binary opinions.