Former Guild Wars 2 writer Jessica Price was fired last week without, she has said, any warning.
“I was given no opportunity to argue my case,” Price told Polygon. “[Studio co-founder and president Mike O’Brien] spent some time insisting that developers must be friends with the company’s customers, and that it was unacceptable to say that we aren’t, even when we’re not on the clock. He told me I’d look back and regret this, because we were doing great work and I’d ruined it.
“The whole thing was highly unprofessional. There was zero reason for him to be there. He wanted to vent his anger, and he had the power to command a woman to stand there while he took his feelings out on her, so he did. Then he walked out, [the manager] got my stuff from my desk and the HR person asked for my key card.”
Source: Eurogamer Fired Guild Wars 2 writer says she was given no warning