The ex boss of UL twitted this Yesterday..in the blog seems that Jeff Is not so Happy too about kotaku (Today Kotaku will be running an article about Undead Labs, one of four studios I have founded in my career. It’s been two-and-a-half years since I was leading Undead, but two days ago Kotaku sent me a list of questions and gave me a short time to respond to them. The tone of the article is clearly going to be critical of me personally.)Fuck off Kotaku. Not going to read your ideological cult shit.
Glad they got out in front and stole their thunder from their typical mental diarrhea.
I don't know if 84% of your employees recommending working at a studio is a good number or a bad one. I suspect that's on the higher side personally. Thoughts?Wow, fucking wow. Been 4 years under Microsoft, and this is what comes out of undead labs? Microsoft also not moving mountains to change the situation when it seemed dire, is also a little worrying. Hope Activision/Blizzard mess gets sorted when FTC approves of the deal.
I don't know if 84% of your employees recommending working at a studio is a good number or a bad one. I suspect that's on the higher side personally. Thoughts?
They also did kick out the HR lead which seemingly some people like and others were confused by (not sure why they would be confused if they didn't like her but ehh)
Only if there's dirt in said article about you and the studio you once represented.Confused, do people generally announce when another news outlet is going to put an article out? That seems so...weird.
The joke about rag magazines is that they'd always be good for toilet paper... kotaku isn't even good for that. So what is it good for?
I see, so they are trying to preemptively damage control?Only if there's dirt in said article about you and the studio you once represented.
I see, so they are trying to preemptively damage control?
its growing to twice the size and its got 84% employee approval. We don't know what the state was before MS bought.These issues could have been ironed out. But to me it smells of Microsoft making the deal, studio head wanted out and doing so very quickly. WHich seems what Microsoft continued to do with other studios. And look at whats going on now?
its growing to twice the size and its got 84% employee approval. We don't know what the state was before MS bought.
Jeff stayed there for 18 months after the acquisition, it happens in start ups all the time btw.
It literally has been less than a month since we reset PlayStation's clock.I’m not saying Playstation is perfect but you rarely hear any complaints from devs outside of a few specific cases.
The article literally says THE EXACT OPPOSITE of this.ANd that article paints a story that they had issues pre-Microsoft buying them.
“We were afraid they would come in and change our culture but our collapse came from within, and we could have used [Microsoft’s] help.”
It literally has been less than a month since we reset PlayStation's clock.
The article literally says THE EXACT OPPOSITE of this.
“The culture the studio had up until recently was not the most hospitable for anyone that was not a white cishet man,” said one current developer. “It’s improved in the last six months or so. But the studio hired a lot of diverse talent that it did not adequately support [in the past].”
Strain didn’t officially leave Undead Labs until the end of 2019, but current and former developers say he already seemed checked out from the day-to-day by early 2018, when State of Decay 2 was getting ready to ship
Reading this, this guy was on his way out well before the acquisition. He just played his best cards.
Pretty much. Plus you can always spot a reporter's bias by reading their past tweets.So, in a nutshell...this is a nothing burger.
Pretty much. Plus you can always spot a reporter's bias by reading their past tweets.
It's usually along the lines of "Hi, I'm from <company> writer and would like to follow up on comments you made about <stuff years ago.> Etc etc." Basically trying to get quotes from you and make you look as bad as possible. A few folks are starting to call them out on their behaviour.Confused, do people generally announce when another news outlet is going to put an article out? That seems so...weird.