>work on game for reasonable amount of time

>work on game for reasonable amount of time
>leave company
>company omits your name from the credits
>credit stolen

Heads would roll if this was anything but a Nintendo game. Instead the fans are more concerned about people emulating/pirating the game than an apolitical industry issue.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't care. Nintendo, Sony, Fromsoft, whoever. I don't care.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      fpbp

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    maybe he shouldn't have left the company

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >cant pursue other opportunities or else credit stolen because you didnt meet the company's arbitrarily decided amount of time you have to be on the project to get credited
      bootlicker

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You put games you worked on on your CV anon? No, you out the company and the duration you worked there.
        Go donate to Patreon if you want to be credited something

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        you're either serious about something or you're not
        don't expect your name on something you didn't finish

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Code monkeys are expendable and worth less than their paycheck, the opinions of expendables who couldn't follow orders well enough to keep a job are worth nothing

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This happened before. I think it was Nintendo last time, too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it was rockstar as well

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why should I care? How do the credits affect my ability to play the game? I ain't reading the credits.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Did you work on a game?
      >Yes.
      >Ok here is your name on the credits. This may also help you in future career prospects.
      Simple as.
      >Why should I care?
      Nobody's asking you to.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >company requires you to notify them 40 days beforehand if you want to leave
    >leave without previous notice
    >b***h about it having consequences

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    windows developers don't get credited, apple developers don't get credited, 99% of website developers don't get credited. who the frick gives a shit if some homosexual that worked a company for a month or less doesn't get credited on a game?

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Heads would roll if this was anything but a Nintendo game
    kek

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nintendo is the scummiest video game company there is. why does this surprise you?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Remember that time Sony was hacked and waited a week to tell millions of users their address and bank information was on the internet?
      Probably not zoomer.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        and? what does that have to do with anything?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >join one development day before printing
        >WHY ISN'T MY NAME ON THE GAME I WANTED TO BE CREDITED IN THE SAME LINE AS PEOPLE WHO WORKED ON IT THE ENTIRE TIME

        Applies to multiple industries, not just games or even nintendo

        >gave out two games for it
        >sorry prease understand, enjoy fattu princess and wipeouto

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      MercurySteam =/= Nintendo

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Oh shit, it's over.

    Nintendo doesn't dare to respond.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that MercurySteam is not on Dread's boxart not even on the backside nor are they even on the title screen. For all intents and purposes a casual consumer looking at the game would assume it was an in-house Nintendo title.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly at this point I'm half expecting Nintendo just to straight up buy them out like they did with Rare and Retro.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        MS hasn't displayed half the quality those two studios and they just sold half the company to another third party

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This is a good thing though

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nintendo is my friend so it's okay if they do bad things they didn't mean it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly this. I love them so much bros

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    every company does this shit

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >have a stated policy on work done for name in the credits
    >was very likely in the terms of your contract
    >b***h when it happens only because the game was a success
    Nothing's stopping these people from still putting the game in their CVs

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Every thread from development hell I wonder myself, is there any reason to not work on indie exclusively?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      game dev seems fricked as hell. Indie is too risky unless you already have an established reputation, and AAA gamedev is a shit ton of crunch and shitty work practices/culture for a quarter of the pay and twice the hours that high quality web dev or corporate software application development pay.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Work for huge publisher
    >they give you a chance to make a triple A game for them
    >Every single person you've hired to make that game somehow does not make it into the Gold you ship out to NInty for review
    >Ninty now tasked with finding out literally everyone who worked for the game or else they're unfair bigots

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Fun game, don't care.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Heads would roll if this was anything but a Nintendo game.
    Zenimax did exactly that with John Carmack's work on Doom 2016. He was the co-lead engine programmer and he's also the reason Snapmap exists.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >sign contract that says "your name won't be in the credits if you don't work here for at least 25% of dev time"
    >leave company before you've been there for 25% of dev time
    >WHAT THE FRICK WHY AM I NOT IN THE CREDITS
    are all spaniards this moronic

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That doesn’t make it okay

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        clearly they thought it was okay, or they wouldn't have signed the contract

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Don't sign a contract with terms you don't acknowledge the terms of. Additionally, it seems that the main dude in the initial report broke termination protocol to top it off. It's also strange that people seem to feel that being in the credits is the only way to have proof of employment or to validate an inclusion of a project on your resume.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Because all these people moaning about it either don't have jobs or have a CV with five lines in it and don't understand you don't list everything you do on it.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >happens constantly in gaming industry
    >dev keep mouth shut because they don't want to get blacklisted
    >last time there was any controversy it was for Kojima who was worshiped
    >dev of metroid dread doesn't keep his mouth shut
    >story will go nowhere
    >dev will be blacklisted from ever working for anyone

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Don't care, buying three copies as i post.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >join new job same week they are handing out bonuses
    >WHAT THE FRICK WHERE IS MY BONUS I WORK HERE TOO

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They got paid anyway so frick off.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Credit is how they get a new job. Metroid dread will probably be GOTY and they won’t be able to say “hey look I worked on the GOTY”

      You are defending this

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You shouldn't be saying that in your CV either. You say the date you worked there and when you left.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You've never worked a day in your life anon

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They shouldn't have left then, i will credit you when you complete the work.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >put game on your resume as work done
        >company hiring you calls the manager of your previous studio to confirm credits
        >manager says yes even if you aren't in the in-game credits
        Simple as.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So do people actually read credits? I hope Kotaku is sitting through each credit sequence. Ideally Far Cry 2 and AC Rogue.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I wouldn't want to be associated with development of a mobile game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Agreed but we aren't talking about a mobile game here, keep up anon.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >a twitter screencap of a clickbait headline
    everybody else ITT is a homosexual

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >kotaku obsessed with nintendo
    can the hulkster kill these Black folk forever

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Discussion is literally pointless here because it's always nintendo good everyone else bad

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