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Mythic moves to credit workers past and present
Ed Fear Sep 26 2008, 3:20pm
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EA studio responds to criticism; develops online staff roll for both Warhammer and previous projects
EA Mythic, which recently came under fire for not crediting all of its past employees on the recently-released Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, has revealed a new crediting policy to recognise the efforts of all previous staff via an online listing.
Writing on his blog, EA Mythic GM Mark Jacobs wrote: "I’m not denying that our policy was as it was, I explained the reasons behind it in various interviews and we are still reserving in-game credits for the launch team as an extra way of saying thank you to them.
However, we’ve also expanded the policy because it is a nice thing to do."
Mythic had been the target of a rallying call by IGDA chairperson Jennifer MacLean in August newsletter, which said that Mythic's decision "misleads both comsumers and game industry peers." After Jacobs revealed that the Mythic policy was already under consideration when the comment was written, MacLean made a public apology for the comment.
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“heh some chance...”
Posted by: Brian - Sep 27, 6:18pm
maybe EA Chertsey will do the same - I should be on the credits for Shogun: Mongol Invasion, Harry Potter: Chamber of secrets and I was more involved in 007 Nightfire, the Sims and Medal Of Honor than some of the folk that are on the credits...I am on the roll for for F1-2002, but I didnt get to go on the jolly to Silverstone - my boss and the sysadmin blagged that one. If I had known then...aint hindsight wonderful?
“Re: heh some chance...”
Posted by: marco - Sep 28, 1:08am
Yeah, Chertsey had a nice group of people dedicated to work on The Sims. Shame none of them got credit for it, eh?
This aspect of the correct crediting problem stems solely from outsourcing, or in big companies like EA, SCE, Ubisoft, etc IN-sourcing.
It's a joke, really.
Will the people at SCEE Cambridge ever get the real, deserved credit for rescuing Heavenly Sword? No, of course they won't.