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That does not excuse the developer's reaction, but because she did not feel like the situation was addressed thoroughly enough, she chose to leave the team. While she continued to receive unwanted personal messages, she did not make that explicitly known to me until the end of March. If you don't know what has been going on, just know that Taini and a junior AQ3D developer had a personal relationship that ended badly last October. You’ll find the excerpts from the letter below: “Our official policy prohibits retaliation against anyone reporting discrimination, harassment, threats of violence, or anyone participating in an investigation of such a report.”īohn and Flaremist have also penned a joint letter to address the matter. It is and has always been our policy to strongly urge any and all instances of the above be reported,” Bohn said in another follow-up tweet. “We do not condone any form of harassment, discrimination, or threats of violence. Then, we will be making a follow-up post letting you know what actions and changes have been taken.” “Since this post regarding Taini’s departure was originally written, we have been receiving and investigating new information,” he tweeted. That’s not something I can forgive…”īohn followed up his original statement saying that new information has been brought to light and that they will be taking appropriate action. Then came the dismissal, the self help books, the stories. Yes, that means if they removed him, I would probably just buried all of what happened to me and continued to work there. “I literally just asked for him to be removed from the Community Management channel so I could work without being around him. “You know what’s the saddest part of like this whole situation? I didn’t even ask for him to be fired or demoted at all originally,” she said. No matter what other rumors start flying, that is what happened.”Īs for Flaremist, she said that she had already resigned herself to letting the matter slide and expressed frustration on how the situation was poorly handled. When we were made aware that she was uncomfortable, we took action with both parties to resolve the situation. Two consenting adults who were both team members, both of roughly equal rank, had a private relationship outside of work. “I’m sure that slanderous things are going to fly, as that is the nature of these emotionally-charged situations,” Bohn said. The CEO also described Flaremist’s refusal to work with the developer as unprofessional and that she was asked to take a month of paid leave as a direct result of that. By the end of the talks, both were still interested in working together and as far as we knew, that was the end of it.” We spoke with them both to understand what was happening and resolve the situation. “As soon as we learned of that, we took immediate action to investigate. “At the beginning of this year, we learned that Taini had begun to feel uncomfortable working with the developer,” said Bohn. Bohn claimed that Taini and the developer in question were involved in “a private relationship outside of work” and that by the time they learned about it the relationship had already ended and both parties continued to work together after the fact. “This team member was not reprimanded, not demoted or removed from work channels, nothing.”Īrtix CEO Adam Bohn issued an initial statement regarding the matter, expressing disappointment on Flaremist’s departure and attempting to clear up the matter from his point of view. “When this information, with screenshots/proof, was brought forward to my leads, they chose to do nothing,” she said. She also accused them of offering her self-help books and tapes before she eventually decided to resign from the studio.

The bosses, however, allegedly downplayed the situation and instead asked her to take a month off before she decided on whether she would be willing to work with the said developer again. She also claimed that the said developer got drunk and called her offensive names.įlaremist said that she filed a complaint with upper management and asked them to transfer the developer to another department. AdventureQuest 3D developer Artix Entertainment is currently in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal that has potential lawsuit written all over it.įormer Community Manager Taini Flaremist has accused a fellow developer of using private conversations to take advantage of her emotional vulnerability and making inappropriate and sexual comments towards her, as she recounted on Twitter.