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A developer on upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, has backed up WAR Online developer Mythic’s stance on the crediting of personnel, saying that staff “lose the right to complain if they leave”.
Earlier in the month game website Shacknews reported on a number of disgruntled ex-Mythic employees who contacted the site to complain that they would not be credited in the final Warhammer Online game. EA-owned developer Mythic Entertainment later confirmed that the former staff members that contributed to the game would not be recognised.
Supporting Mythic’s stance, Blizzard’s J Allen Brack, production director of Wrath of the Lich King, told VideoGamer.com in an interview from Leipzig Games Convention, that while Blizzard “try to credit appropriately”, his philosophy was that ex-employees “lose the right to complain if they leave”.
He said: “For us, anyone who worked on the game we try to credit appropriately. Even if we had people leave. We actually had hardly any people leave so we didn’t really have to deal with that. But just from me from a philosophy standpoint if someone left, they have no idea what happened after they left, they have no idea whether they had to get rid of their stuff or re-work it or anything. They lose the right to complain if they leave. It’s a weird thing to be angry about I guess.”
Head elsewhere on the site for our full Wrath of the Lich King interview from Games Convention.
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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre(s): Massively Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online, RPG, Science Fiction
