My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)(medium.com)
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My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)
https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce
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Wow, never has the phrase TLDR been more appropriate
Apart from the part at the top of the blog post which gives some context;
Essentially Marty Stratton (id Software Studio Director) behaved extremely unprofessionally towards Mick, publicly smearing his name. He lied repeatedly, posted the Reddit thread after the two agreed to not post anything and to make a statement later amicably, and much more.
He put him under a massive time crunch (sleeping in studio over Easter and more), didn't pay him for like half his work, replaced his work on the OST with Lead Audio Designer Chad Mossholder's made of edited chunks of his in-game score, they'd been working on, without telling him for six months, which was not up to scratch (you can hear some here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbhWmLVAvJw) didn't pay him, and tried to shut him up with a six figure settlement and a gag order.
That's just the tip of the iceberg but you can tell how bad it is.
He put him under a massive time crunch (sleeping in studio over Easter and more), didn't pay him for like half his work, replaced his work on the OST with Lead Audio Designer Chad Mossholder's made of edited chunks of his in-game score, they'd been working on, without telling him for six months, which was not up to scratch (you can hear some here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbhWmLVAvJw) didn't pay him, and tried to shut him up with a six figure settlement and a gag order.
That's just the tip of the iceberg but you can tell how bad it is.
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If my employer ever fires me, even if it is unwarranted or unjust, item number 1 on the list "Shit I ain't gonna do" will be:
1. Don't write a fourteen thousand, five hundred, and twenty-three word (not including title) Medium post about my firing.
As far as I can tell, every single person involved in the video gaming industry from executives to workers to consumers falls into a category of person defined by their extreme levels immaturity and pettiness rivaling or even exceeding the film industry.
1. Don't write a fourteen thousand, five hundred, and twenty-three word (not including title) Medium post about my firing.
As far as I can tell, every single person involved in the video gaming industry from executives to workers to consumers falls into a category of person defined by their extreme levels immaturity and pettiness rivaling or even exceeding the film industry.
I don't know if you read the essay. If you had or had followed the story, you would know that he was not only fired but his character and professional reputation were smeared publicly by who was it, Marty Stratton I think? I read this last year.
When your reputation is being dragged through the mud, why is it "petty and immature" to defend yourself? How do you know what works or doesn't in the entertainment industry?
When your reputation is being dragged through the mud, why is it "petty and immature" to defend yourself? How do you know what works or doesn't in the entertainment industry?
Yes, Marty's incredibly unprofessional attack on Gordon predates the latter's response by about about three years: https://old.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/gdg25y/doom_eternal_o...
Do people, in general, form opinions of others based on reddit posts?
That seems... odd... to me.
For example, I work in a very, extremely, small and specialized subsector of the aerospace industry. Everyone knows everyone else, or close to it.
If I'm going to work with Alice and I don't know Alice I can be assured that Bob knows Alice or at least Charlie, Bob's and my Director of Engineering, knows Alice. Maybe she's new? Doesn't matter, Alice works for either Charlie, Dan, or Erin.
If I was directed to a reddit post about Alice not only would I not read it, I would be instantly suspicious of the person who wrote it (What kind of dickhead goes on Reddit and complains about a coworker? A huge dickhead, that's who.) and the evidentiary weight of any discussion that would be forced upon me (because I wouldn't read the post to begin with) regarding Alice would be so low as to be irrelevant.
You can see how (edit: incredibly) dumb all of this is, right?
When I read "My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)" I thought it was going to be about egregious bugs or something, not bullshit People Magazine drama.
All of that being said, if Frank writes a reddit post about Alice, and Alice responds with a FOURTEEN THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, AND TWENTY-THREE word essay that I'm tricked into reading, my only thought is "wow, Frank and Alice are both apparently dickheads".
That seems... odd... to me.
For example, I work in a very, extremely, small and specialized subsector of the aerospace industry. Everyone knows everyone else, or close to it.
If I'm going to work with Alice and I don't know Alice I can be assured that Bob knows Alice or at least Charlie, Bob's and my Director of Engineering, knows Alice. Maybe she's new? Doesn't matter, Alice works for either Charlie, Dan, or Erin.
If I was directed to a reddit post about Alice not only would I not read it, I would be instantly suspicious of the person who wrote it (What kind of dickhead goes on Reddit and complains about a coworker? A huge dickhead, that's who.) and the evidentiary weight of any discussion that would be forced upon me (because I wouldn't read the post to begin with) regarding Alice would be so low as to be irrelevant.
You can see how (edit: incredibly) dumb all of this is, right?
When I read "My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)" I thought it was going to be about egregious bugs or something, not bullshit People Magazine drama.
All of that being said, if Frank writes a reddit post about Alice, and Alice responds with a FOURTEEN THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, AND TWENTY-THREE word essay that I'm tricked into reading, my only thought is "wow, Frank and Alice are both apparently dickheads".
"All that said, if Frank (a giant in the industry) drags someone through the mud with lies and tries to pay them less or ruin a career and Alice comes back with receipts, I'll think equally poorly of them"