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1/6/2013 8:30:53 PM
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Working With Bungie without working AT Bungie?
As Recommended by Recon Number 54, here's the relocation of my thread:
One of the new Jobs at Bungie is "Localization Editor - Spanish (Castilian)" and I've been wondering: Has Bungie ever hired personnel who don't necessarily have to work AT the Studio? (Someone who lives in another country but still manages to work with Bungie).
Here's what he had to say about the topic:
[i] "They are ALL about in-person synergy (even Skip participating in round tables had the POSSIBILITY of an unexpectedly good outcome, at least the possibility). It was experimented with Bungie-West and I don't think that was the sort of studio that the team wants or works best with.
For example, I don't think that _________ would be either inclined (or blessed if they wanted) to telecommute.
Marty
Staten
Jones
anyone" [/i]
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If Bungie is looking to internally hire for localization, as opposed to farming/contracting it out (which stop me if I am wrong, but that is pretty much typical) then I would speculate that Bungie is going to have ongoing content that is going to require regular and updated localization. If the content is going to be that dynamic and constantly increasing and being developed/shipped, then I would suspect that they would want their localization folks in-studio, especially since they are hiring for those tasks personally instead of contracting/farming it out to an agency or other external party. In other words, they may like/prefer/want and even NEED their localization specialists to be involved in development and story/dialog choices in an ongoing and collaborative realtime manner. Of course that is me using my consultant-speak to speculate wildly. I certainly don't know anything, but if they are hiring internally for something that is more easily (and cheaply) outsourced, I would imagine they are doing so for a very serious reason.
