My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)

https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

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os2warpman2• 1 year ago

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.

unethical_ban2• 1 year ago

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?

castlecrasher2• 1 year ago

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...

animitronix• 1 year ago

Wow, never has the phrase TLDR been more appropriate

microsoftedging• 1 year ago

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.

My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)

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