Ex-Bungie composer Marty O’Donnell wins epic legal fight with former bosses
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http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/04/ex-bungie-composer-marty-odonnell-wins-epic-legal-fight-with-former-bosses/
It's a long, detailed article with a lot of interesting information. I get the feeling some folks were just itching to get Marty out and his beef with Activision was their window.
Marty O’Donnell, the composer who created the music for the Halo and Destiny video games, has won his case in a legal battle with his former employer Bungie.
Under a final ruling issued today from a court-appointed arbitrator, Bungie must honor its agreements with O’Donnell that gave him the right to hold a considerable share of stock in the company. And the filing contains for the first time a description of the ordeal that O’Donnell went through as he quarreled with Bungie over issues of creative freedom and stock ownership in the company that he cofounded. The court papers reveal a rare, unseen story of the making of Destiny, and the internal struggles that happened between Activision, the publisher, and Bungie, the developer of the game that is now played by millions.
The arbitrator found that Bellevue, Wash.-based Bungie violated its contract with O’Donnell — recognized by the parties as being known for his “brilliant and iconic work on video games, including Halo, one of the most successful video games of all time, and Destiny” — when it fired him and forced him to surrender all of his stock and forego participation in the company’s profit participation plan.
It's a long, detailed article with a lot of interesting information. I get the feeling some folks were just itching to get Marty out and his beef with Activision was their window.
I'm glad that he won tbh. Just the tidbits of information that had leaked out was really jut outrageous and grimey. If nothing else, he deserved better.
By DY_nasty Go To Posthe deserved better.I woudn't be so quick to throw out this narrative. Dude's a douche, who knows what happened behind the scenes.
By db Go To PostI woudn't be so quick to throw out this narrative. Dude's a douche, who knows what happened behind the scenes.
The article tells you what happened. There's that huge Polygon article about the culture at Bungie from a couple years ago that tells you a bit more.
He's an outspoken conservative, while most of the team is liberal (I think). He won awards as an individual for his achievements in game music and the studio head didn't like that he had become a mini celebrity because of it, elevated above the rest of the studio. Combine that with the information in this article, I can connect the dots.
By db Go To PostI woudn't be so quick to throw out this narrative. Dude's a douche, who knows what happened behind the scenes.
It tells you in the document that he blatantly interrupted meetings out of spite because of how they treated his work.
Bungie did Marty wrong though.
