@Dagbiker said:

@Andorski said:

@FTomato said:

@Andorski said:

@Brodehouse said:

@Questionable said:

I see no point in mixing personal life with games.That the creator turns out to be a asshole does not make the game any less fun.

Seriously, how many of these haters actually stopped playing LA Noire after all the team bondi hate took off?!? and thats a 60$ game versus a free ios title.

Fucking A. No one posted images of them snapping their LA Noire discs in half when the McNamara stuff came out. Why is that? You're the big man standing up for employee rights when it's a 1 dollar game, but when it's 60 you don't give a fuck anymore? Hypocrites.

McNamara didn't have LA Noire made and then shit on his employees in the public eye. Don't get me wrong, the conflicting reports on LA Noire development made Team Bondi's management and their employees look like asses too, but they didn't revel in their assery. It's like differentiating between a quick stab with the knife and slowing stabbing with a knife while twisting it.

You mean like removing people from the credits if, despite working on the game, not sticking through all the way to release?

Wasn't that an issue of the game industry in general having requirements to be in credits? I don't know how it works for games, but in the movie industry there is actually a set of standards that must be met to receive credits.

I dont know about the games industry. But in the Movie industry its because of the union. The SAG ( Screen Actors Guild) and several other guilds that demand that when you hire there actors/directors/gaffers you put them in the credits.

Infact some guilds demand that you must put actors in the begining of the film. Star Wars got in trouble with this.

http://www.lanoirecredits.com/about.html

@Andorski said:

Deleting his app does next to nothing, but it's cool to see the industry self-regulate from a moral perspective and stand up for the small guy who got dicked by his former boss.

This is not the industry self regulating. The people outraged over this make up a very very small percentage of the market for this game.

@Brodehouse said:

@Questionable said:

I see no point in mixing personal life with games.That the creator turns out to be a asshole does not make the game any less fun.

Seriously, how many of these haters actually stopped playing LA Noire after all the team bondi hate took off?!? and thats a 60$ game versus a free ios title.

Fucking A. No one posted images of them snapping their LA Noire discs in half when the McNamara stuff came out. Why is that? You're the big man standing up for employee rights when it's a 1 dollar game, but when it's 60 you don't give a fuck anymore? Hypocrites.

After finishing L.A. Noire I certainly wanted to snap that piece of shit in half. Another game that was flawed to hell and back yet the gaming press lapped it up.

@freewilly5 said:

@Andorski said:

Deleting his app does next to nothing, but it's cool to see the industry self-regulate from a moral perspective and stand up for the small guy who got dicked by his former boss.

This is not the industry self regulating. The people outraged over this make up a very very small percentage of the market for this game.

Again, this is just from a moral perspective. This isn't about damaging Draw Something's sales. Dan Porter has somewhat retreated from his original tweet, so the overall idea of "hey, don't be a dick" is getting through.

@FTomato: Thanks for the link. That's a shit thing to do. What this due to McNamara being an ass, Team Bondi's management being incompetent, or a bit of both?

Well I guess I will continue to never play draw something. What a piece of shit that guy is.

I know who I'll be drawing when the word twat-head appears.

To quote the sentiment of the internet: Man, fuck that guy.

@SpikeSpiegel said:

Shay Pierce seems like a really cool guy too. Check out this post by him on Gamasutra.

You're totally right.

Edit: Also this, if you haven't seen it: https://twitter.com/#!/tfadp/status/186460580201238529

@Chavtheworld said:

@SpikeSpiegel said:

Shay Pierce seems like a really cool guy too. Check out this post by him on Gamasutra.

You're totally right.

Edit: Also this, if you haven't seen it: https://twitter.com/#!/tfadp/status/186460580201238529

haha. I love how people say they're sorry when the backlash hits them. No weight to that apology whatsoever.

Whelp, at least he seems to understand he fucked up. He did apologize on twitter.