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After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages

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Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages after being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs: 'This can happen to you too when you sacrifice over 2,000 hours of your time to help the industry'

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Never has it been easier for small people to attempt to knock people down to their level. It’s a shame people feel alright being so nasty to a complete stranger
This person appears to deserve recognition and respect. It is also a macabre PR stunt to defect criticism for layoffs during what's essentially an industry party of self congratulations.
Two things can be true.
- sure, but that's not his fault.
- I honestly expected TGA to be more tone deaf and not address it at all after speeches about the „golden era for gaming“ from previous years. The entire award show is a PR stunt anyway. At least this single award spreads some awarenes and reminds us layoffs aren‘t just a number, but real people.
People be licking boots out here.
Man, that fucking sucks. The work this dude is doing is worth respect.
I 100% trust this guy. He's just a incredibly genuine guy who wanted to help and has done an incredible amount of work. So happy he got the award.
God I hate Gamers™
No good deed goes unpunished after all
The article was incredibly light on specifics. What were the hateful / threatening messages? Why would anyone have a problem with helping developers find new jobs? Why were those developers fired in the first place?
- The "Go woke, go broke" man babies who believes that failed games were because of politics™, and any attempt to help those people is a act of aggression.
  
  These people complain about woke this woke that and don’t even know what the term means.
His speech made me tear up a little and I have absolutely no dog in this race whatsoever. The fuck is wrong with people?
This man is a hero, everyone spewing hate at him needs to take a long hard look at their life.

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