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Hey, Reddit. This has been a tough couple of days. We don't have an official statement from our CEO out there because he was evacuated due to the recent fires affecting Southern California. A few notes:
- We have close to 50 employees working on Stormgate these days. There was no call for the team to review the game from our leadership.
- A few team members messed up and left reviews, and yes, that includes our CEO. He's human, is passionate about our game, and yes, he should have known better. We should have had a firm policy and education on this, which we're instituting.
- We are making it 100% clear that any communications related to our game coming from our staff needs to include a clear disclaimer of their connection to the game.
- Once Tim is back online, we'll make sure a disclaimer is added to his review or have him remove it. I don't know when that will be, unfortunately. He's dealing with other priorities at the moment.
- I believe any employees who deleted their reviews or hid their profiles as a result did so in a very human response to feeling like they might do the company harm. They feel terrible about it and the last thing they wanted was to cause the team damage. They meant well, and we're making an effort to educate all current and future staff to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Any critiques regarding how we should hold ourselves to a higher standard for employee communications are fair and warranted, and we are doing exactly that moving forward.
I appreciate everyone who has expressed support for us. Thank you.