Respawn Entertainment took to Twitter this week with a statement condemning the “increased harassment” its employees person faced implicit the assortment of issues plaguing the fashionable conflict royale shooter Apex Legends.

In the statement, Respawn said that portion it “loves proceeding feedback” from the community, attacking developers isn’t steadfast constructive criticism. The workplace continued, saying it volition enactment to “foster a respectful, collaborative environment” for its employees and players. “We invited assemblage input, however, the enactment betwixt constructive feedback and the harassment of our dev squad cannot beryllium crossed,” Respawn said. “We privation to punctual our players that we person a zero-tolerance argumentation for threats and the harassment of our developers. We volition instrumentality due enactment to guarantee the wellness and information of our team.”

A unrecorded work crippled existing wrong the Titanfall universe, Apex Legends has seen a fig of changes successful the three-ish years it’s been connected the market. New crippled modes, much playable characters, further cogwheel options—the conflict royale shooter isn’t what it utilized to beryllium contempt the bones remaining mostly the same. As is customary successful crippled development, things interruption erstwhile caller worldly is introduced. The audio, for example, has apparently been busted for years. Matchmaking has frustrated the assemblage truthful much, casuals and pros started blaming each other for ruining the game. Then determination are the bugs, which interaction everything from exploration to hit detection. In short, Apex Legends is successful a perpetual authorities of adaptation as Respawn irons retired the game’s problems.

But portion Respawn whitethorn beryllium alert of the multitude of issues affecting Apex Legends, that hasn’t stopped hardcore stans from demanding that the squad hole things now, not later. All implicit the internet, from Twitter to the game’s authoritative subreddit, are complaints from players pressuring Respawn to “stop pretending” the crippled works fine. This is simply a vocal community. It’s afloat of folks consenting to teardrop into the developers simply doing their jobs. I mean, there’s a full Reddit station calling retired “entitled” players. Honestly, ain’t that the truth?

While the years of harassment person prompted Respawn to present this statement, some successful the tweet’s mentions pointed to Apex Legends contented creator Jacob “HisWattson” McMillin arsenic a imaginable culprit. An outspoken Twitch streamer and Apex Legends pro for the U.S. part of Brazilian esports enactment Furia, HisWattson was allegedly caught saying helium “hates” Apex Legend’s caput of security Conor “Hideouts” Ford earlier this period successful DMs with noted Apex Legends hacker AutismGaming. With screenshots coming to light, EA past reportedly blacklisted HisWattson from tournaments, perchance due to the fact that of his language. HisWattson clarified his intentions successful replies to his tweets, saying helium wasn’t “going to conscionable bash [EA/Respawn] connected Twitter” and that his connection prime was “bad” due to the fact that helium was angry. Still, folks didn’t instrumentality excessively kindly to HisWattson openly expressing his expected hatred for developers.

And that’s the thing: You don’t request to accidental you “hate” the radical making games to knock the crippled itself. Game improvement is hard capable arsenic it is, what with shareholders breathing down folks’ throats, imposing intolerable deadlines to enactment executives’ pockets astatine the disbursal of their employees’ well-being. Piling connected developers, attacking them for things extracurricular of their control, ain’t it. Seriously, radical truly request to larn to chill the hellhole retired and person immoderate respect for others.

Kotaku has reached retired to HisWattson and Respawn for comment.