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Unfortunately, threats targeting game developers are nothing new, and SEGA couldn't avoid that horrible fate. However, this case has a happy ending thanks to the company's active actions.
As reported on its website, SEGA has been dealing with a person harassing one of its employees by making "excessive slanderous and insulting comments on social media" (machine translated). Since the person refused to stop, the studio took legal action and requested the court to provide identifying information. As a result, the harasser now has to delete all insulting comments, pay damages to the employee, and never do that again.
"We consider slanderous acts against employees, such as announcements of violent acts, threats, and intimidation, to be serious human rights issues that damage the dignity of employees and lead to a deterioration of the work environment. We do not tolerate any harassing behavior, and in order to respect all employees and protect their human rights, we will continue to take appropriate action based on our Customer Harassment Policy when we judge any behavior to be malicious."
SEGA is far from the first game company to be attacked. Nintendo received 39 bomb threats from a disgruntled player who blamed it for "bringing such a sh*tty game into this world." Turned out the game was Splatoon 3, and the man was stressed over losing matches there. He has recently been caught, but as a result of his threats, several events had to be canceled.
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