- Producer set an unrealistic timetable and acted like a fucking baby when Gordon pointed out it wasn't working and suggested a restructure that kept all the same major milestones in place
- Withheld pay from him for nearly a year, twice in a row
- Announced the Mick Gordon Doom Eternal OST by Mick Gordon releasing like a month away without ever talking to Mick Gordon about it
- Agreed to make a joint statement, then publicly libeled him on Reddit
- Shared his fucking personal contact details with Reddit trolls so he could be doxxed
- Ended up using all the music they rejected and thus refused to pay him for; roughly half the soundtrack
- Tried to settle the issue with hush money while refusing to admit fault or even take down the fucking Reddit post
Goddamn what a fucking shitshow of a publisher. Pure fucking evil.
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If you read closely it sounds like when he reached out to Bethesda directly they were pretty willing to immediately hash out a contract, and it's mostly this Marty Stratton asshole who was fucking with him
But yeah, there's so much worse in out there
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Exactly what I was thinking reading this, they're not even the worst publisher owned by Microsoft but they do fit right in with Activision
Well for one a certain frog :france-cool: studio is filled with abusive racist sex pests that it constantly protects
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Which one?
Quantic Dream. David Cage being quite the creep and terrible person beyond being shit at making games.
CW: Homophobia, misogyny, slurs
He famously said that "all the women in my games are whores" and "we don't make games for f*gs." He also started screaming and crying in court when someone sued the company for a toxic work environment.
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In addition, there's also ub*soft
:france-cool: is bad, :gamer-gulag: is bad, and when you add them together, well :shrug-outta-hecks: