Levine saddened by abuse directed at Vonderhaar and Phil Fish

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In light of the abuse being heaped on developers like Call of Duty's David Vonderhaar and Fez developer Phil Fish, when I spoke with Ken Levine this week I asked him how he deals with abuse online.
"It doesn't upset me personally," he told me, after muttering how terrible it was to see some of the things directed at Vonderhaar over the last week - in response to Treyarch's decision to rebalance a sniper rifle, proportionality fans.
"Look, I'm very fortunate, Tom," he said. "Don't play a violin for me. I've got a pretty good life and I get to do cool things. I think it's more actually that it can end up being counterproductive for the gamers' own interests.
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