Take that you dicks!
http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/04/e...ell-wins-epic-legal-fight-with-former-bosses/
http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/04/e...ell-wins-epic-legal-fight-with-former-bosses/
Marty beats Activision /Bungie
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Marty comes off as an arrogant toddler in that article. Not that Activision looks good, but we already knew they were corporate bastards.
I love how Bungie wanted to be free of Microsoft just to become Activisions bitch.
The Bungie that was once great no longer exists.
The Bungie that was once great no longer exists.
Awww diddums... Bungie got what they deserved Val end of. They treated a key member(and others) like s*** and finally got punished for it.
I know Marty may have not acted the most professionally. But He was there from when Bungie started to take off and made big contributions to their success(yes music and sound are more important than anyone realizes), I don't doubt he felt trivialized and if you've never been in that position I understand, however its really truly awful.
Can't fault Bungie with the whole Destiny- Activision thing. They sold out for sure but they are making a ton of money on another huge franchise.
It's sounds like a pretty toxic culture. With that said Marty knew going in what the whole Destiny- Activision tie up was going to be about: making a ton of money. If that was not a driving principle for him then great but he went along for the ride at the start. Destiny had to ship and by most reports a ton got cut out and was a rush job. Within that context I understand the frustration of saying to Marty we don't have time to do it how we use to do it.
If you show up at a dick party, and hang out at the dick party, eventually you're a dick. If they want to fire him, subject to whatever his contract stipulates, that's fine. Taking away the stock he earned as a founder because he might be "disruptive" at shareholder meetings is unbridled dickitry and I'm glad that didn't fly.
I do think he should have left of his own accord when he saw how things were going to go down, we all knew it was the end for Bizarre when they inked that deal with Activision. It can be hard though, when your a creative person you really want your vision to succeed and he'd been there so long the thought of leaving was probably incomprehensible.
Thing about the rush job though is that it was due to a change of creative direction and now it even more looks like Activision may have pulled the trigger on that, it would also explain the other people leaving, Marty just probably decided to stick around and tweak everybody. I'm kinda shocked Jason Jones hasn't just sold them Bungie yet and got the f*** out, i'm sure its coming though.
But then he wouldn't have received his shares. Can't blame him for wanting his money.
Like Joseph Staten. Can't imagine he was thrilled with the direction of the story.
Marty thought himself really big between Halo: Reach and Destiny if you read interviews. In other such cases I would say he was arrogant, but this is Martin O'Donnell we are talking about. He was BIG. If he wants a share, I think he deserves it.
Who cares how Marty acted?
Activision/Bungie look like even bigger arrogant dicks anyway. Taking away his stocks, not paying him wages, trying to take his holiday cash. With the amount of cash Activision has rolling in it would have been smarter to just cash him out and be done with it. Now though, they have been dragged through the mud and shown to be f***ing @ssholes.
Activision/Bungie look like even bigger arrogant dicks anyway. Taking away his stocks, not paying him wages, trying to take his holiday cash. With the amount of cash Activision has rolling in it would have been smarter to just cash him out and be done with it. Now though, they have been dragged through the mud and shown to be f***ing @ssholes.
I wonder if he would have stood a chance against the corporate bullying if he wasn't such a high profile figure.
Well I doubt anyone would have cared about someone unknown
That sounds like they didn't even try. Why should anybody else give a fook if they themselves do not care enough to fight it.
I get bungie mixed up with Scientology lately....
You know what Activision translates to in latin...Xenu
It might not be a volcanic frozen death or a far off planetary prison, but it certainly seems like a prison for creativity and freedom.
Well at last we know that when given total freedom from being forced to make a sci-fi fps for 10 years, Bungies creativity was finally unstifled to make another sci-fi fps for 10 years, with crappier scores.
Good for him! Sure he seems arrogant as fk and tried hard to sabotage things but he seems to care a lot about his work and legacy. He wants what's his and fights for it. Also his work is amazing..Halo's soundtrack has always been stellar because of him.
You can't blame him look @ his body of work. I'm arrogant as fk with little to back it up besides my collection of Elvis plates.
Good for Marty. Corporate bullying is bunch of bullsh!t. Especially when a company like Activision is loaded and they're just being jerks. It was just wrong how he was treated. I don't blame him for acting the way he did.
I love how Bungie wanted to be free of Microsoft just to become Activisions b****.
The Bungie that was once great no longer exists.
The thing is though is that Microsoft OWNED Bungie and published their games obviously, Activision does NOT OWN Bungie, they just have a publishing agreement.
Activision didn't do that to Marty, BUNGIE did. They are no longer the humble Bungie of marathon, myst, H1/H2 era, since Halo 3 they have evolved into a egotistical company....
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It says a lot, I think, that so many stalwart Bungie employees have left since the move to Activision. s***, Joseph Staten and Marty O Donnell WERE Bungie. Whatever internal culture Bungie had before the split seems to be gone. Hell, Staten is back to writing Halo novels.