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3/18/2016 5:18:12 PM
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Marty O'Donnell IGN interview
He talked about what happened between him and Bungie.
What fascinates me is even he doesn't know why he was fired.
Enjoy
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#feedback
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2 RepliesEdited by Bytehoven: 3/18/2016 7:43:52 PMNice interview... IMHO, the experience we all share as Bungie and Destiny customers is really all you need to know regarding the WHY. Add to that the impact of $$$ and how human nature can reinforce a narrative for relieving a business partner of their share of the pie, and I think you have the big picture. Obviously, Marty landed on his feet and will go on to share his creativity on other projects. For those on the forums working toward a career in the biz, this is a teaching moment regarding how one must protect one's interests, even among those you might believe to be your "friends". I wish Marty all the best.
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3 RepliesEdited by Bytehoven: 3/19/2016 9:43:29 PMNothing angers Management Suits and Marketing Geeks more than creative people who assert themselves and defend their creative product. When Marty says there were things he might have done or handled differently, I'd wage some $$$ it had to do with a Marketing Geek or Management Suit having ideas about the music or sound track. I see it all the time, Management or Marketing expressing their views regarding "what the client wants". And nothing pisses them off more than blowing them off AND having leverage to resist any leverage they might have. My 2nd wager would be a relative or friend of a senior Marketing/Management type being assigned to a job like Music Producer. Many times such "producers" have no experience what so ever and might just as easily be given an Associate Producer gig. The real creative people have to put up with these "producers" all the time. God forbid these "producers" be denied their creative input and suffer the realization they have nothing creatively to contribute to a project. You would think usually making more $$$ would satisfy "producers" but such is not usually the case. They appear to possess some relative functionality in the underdeveloped or atrophied right side of their brains, just enough activity to trigger a brain fart, causing them to think they have better ideas which NEED to be expressed and executed. #facepalm
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2 RepliesApparently, Marty was not willing to have his Salary determined by Destiny's Loot Drop Mechanics like other Bungie/Activision employees. Knowing Luke, Deej and others may or may not get paid based on complex loot scheduling theory (worse than LUCK) kinda explains their attitude toward the player base. I'd be angry too.
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9 RepliesRIP Bungie
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He name dropped Paul McCartney. Sorry but he should not be allowed to speak to people under 56. His decision to hire Paul McCartney was gross misconduct and against all that is holly. ITS 2016??????
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1 ReplyThanks for posting this. What a classy guy. Just makes bungie management look even worse than they've already shown themselves to be.
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2 RepliesIsn't he the guy who wrote the music for destiny but then they fired him and used his music anyways.
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5 RepliesThe most forgotten despicable part of this whole thing is that they're currently hawking the Destiny soundtrack on the store.
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Spread this around like wild fire everyone needs to see
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Bungie messed up again Marty is the man
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6 RepliesEdited by WINTER PROPHET: 3/18/2016 5:38:41 PMWorked in law for slightly over 4 years. The one standing attribute I've witnessed time and time again, is that those who [i]think[/i] they were untouchable [i]werent[/i]. And the satisfaction of watching them go to prison, or jail, or put on permanent record for the rest of their lives in the public eye was rewarding in and of itself every dam time.
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1 ReplyBecause Bungie is full of idiots obviously
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Edited by N7riseSSJ: 3/19/2016 6:19:03 PMWhy uh er were er you are were are er why where were what you er unm fired why? Marty - "That's a [i]great[/i] question!" [spoiler]i made myself laugh[/spoiler]
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Get rekt bungie
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3 RepliesGreat stuff ... good interview by Marty - and bonus points for him basically carrying McCaffrey through his own interview. He (McCaffrey) was that verbally clumsy and off-putting during the whole thing that you'd think he'd gotten his media coaching from Luke Smith and Deej. :\
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O45XwvT9Fu4 This is the link for the 2 hour soundtrack of the original game. There is also an extracted 6 hour version of all of the music.
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They couldn't have plucked the three inch hair from the giant mole on the left side of his neck first??
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27 RepliesOne thing I've learned in the workplace is, whenever someone is fired and doesn't know why, one of two things is true: 1) They are too stupid to figure it out. 2) They're lying. I'm not saying that unjust firings don't happen, but in a case like this, I wouldn't be surprised if they just were unhappy with his compositions or they were just sick of his attitude. Personally, I like the Destiny TTK soundtrack.
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You begin to understand why a company of 500 people can't get out of their own way when you hear of stuff like this.
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3 RepliesI kinda got the feeling McCaffrey was frightened, and thats probably why stammered as much as he did.
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1 ReplyI know why he won the lawsuit.
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Read the judgement - it actually reveals what both O'Donnell and Bungie did - both sides told their story and the judge made comments to both sides and awarded. Facts are way more interesting that fiction in this affair.
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2 RepliesI thought it all stemmed from his Twitter comments about the last minute soundtrack change Activision mandated at E3. Then, after learning his soundtrack [i]Music of the Spheres[/i] wasn't getting a standalone release, his attitude went downhill. I get being mad and feeling insulted about the last minute change to the music and not getting a standalone release for the soundtrack, however you don't take those frustrations to social media for the world to see. I find it odd he made no reference to any of that. From my experience artists, music or otherwise, tend to be overly prideful in their creations - pride goeth before a fall.
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Bungie is starting to like more and more like Activision before it started axing its employees left and right. O wait...
