Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
Doesn't surprise me at all. Devs are increasingly antagonistic towards consumers nowadays.
Usually, these events are done with non-SE personnel, contracted to do the work for the specified event. I could be wrong, but the handlers are usually not devs. That's only the people at the panels themselves.

And any antagonism towards certain aspects of the playerbase is fairly well deserved imo. Theres a lot of screeching that goes on on the forums over the silliest things.