Nobody Wants to Work With LA Noire’s Developers, Boss In Buyout Talks

With Rockstar reluctant to publish LA Noire developers Team Bondi's next game, rumours are circulating that studio founder Brendan McNamara is in talks with George Miller's KMM studio, with the aim of being absorbed into the Mad Max and Happy Feet creators.

[xtremexx]

ohhh nooooo

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[buddymagoo]

I'll take a job.

[gamingdroid]

That is before your abusive work conditions. You will be his b!tch! :)

[BlmThug]

When you said this i had Family Guy on my TV

[xtremexx]

hahaha

[BeOneWithTheGun]

"KMM studios is currently headed up by God of War 2 director Cory Barlog, who was working on a Mad Max game, to be designed in tandem with a new George Miller movie based in the Mad Max universe. At the moment, however, all of Miller's resources are being moved to Happy Feet 2 to meet an extremely strict deadline that many within Dr D believe the team can't make."

Umm, someone please tell me why someone would make a happy feet game over MAD FRICKING MAX?

[scotchmouth]

Why would anyone think there is money to be made in a happy feet game.

"happy feet" lol

[DeadlyFire]

Cuz you can make utter crap and the license will pay you anyway. That is why. Its just more funding for Mad Max if you ask me that isn't a bad thing.

[manman6]

Sad to hear

[malol]

i dont know what all this fuss is about
they seem like they are a really good developer
WTH is going on ??

can some one please till if they did something wrong ?

[xtremexx]

apparently they had a fall out with rockstar, thats all i know, and now noone wants to work with them

[DarkTower805]

TB complained about not getting paid overtime, and staffers not getting mentioned in the credits for LA Noire.

[gcolley]

asshole boss. to sum it up in 2 words

[modesign]

if the developers are great thats one thing, but if the developers are great and are douchebags then thats how you drive away business, it looks like this team was great and a bunch of douche bags.

[manman6]

The work condition that the employee went through. Plus some people wasn't credit for making the game.

[Nitrowolf2]

From what i heard, Rockstar didn't like the development time for LA NOIR. Also they had Credit issues and conditions.
Rockstar a powerful company so that could have done damage to them

[TheIneffableBob]

They may have talent but the work conditions are not great which consequently makes unhappy employees.

[Organization XII]

They are Australians, what do you expect?

[hatchimatchi]

Let's see, LA Noire was in development for roughly 7 years. Brendan McNamara would make the team work 100 hour weeks, people tasked with doing multiple jobs, mcnamara being a raging asshole. All kinds of things.

No one wants to work for him, he's an ego maniac that has a chip on his shoulder (the getaway was supposed to blow GTA out of the water and it failed). Mismanagement can turn the easiest task into a headache of epic proportions.

[ngecenk]

probably because they does not have career link on their website! i'm dying to work with these guys, but cant find any info about it from their 'ultimately simple' website. and apparently they put those info under contact.

[t0mmyb0y]

There was an anonymous employee who talked about the working conditions while making LA Noire. It sounded terrible.

[BubbleSniper]

sweatshop conditions @ the studio. nuff said

[Eiffel]

Well, I know once I'm done with college. I don't want to work with Rockstar.

[UnwanteDreamz]

Take more reading comprehension before you leave. R* didn't do anything wrong.

[Eiffel]

Keep telling yourself that, this isn't the first time we've heard issues like this from Rockstar. Rockstar San Diego developers were working hours to the bone 12 hours to more, the wives of these developers filed lawsuits against Rockstar. 100 work hours is over kill, yes they did wrong. Do some research.

[GoldPS3]

LA Noire didn't do GTA type of sales like Rock Star wanted so now they kick Team Bondi to the curb. That's how I see it.

[REALgamer]

Wrong.

IGN did an investigative article about the horrible working conditions at the studio (over 80-100 hours a week!), rapid changeover of staff and terrible boss that treated the developers like expendable resources, preferring to bring in interns to work for free before kicking them out instead of giving them a job as is supposed to happen.

Plus, the people who rightfully quit did not receive any mention in the credits in spite of years of hard work.

It's a very infamous studio here in Australia.

[newn4gguy]

I wish these guys got credit.

Perhaps another developer can sign them on. There is SO MUCH talent there! Media Molecule? Sony Santa Monica?

EA got the COD guys after they left. Why don't they take ex-TB guys?

[tarbis]

It's sad that these talented developers were treated like this. =/

[nightmarex121]

It because team bondi rat out rockstar so now they get screw b/c they trying to sue rockstar.

It the same case as sexual harassment b/c yes its wrong but now companies know that you try to sue so no body want to work with you, that's why you better get enough money from settlement to live with out a job or their no point b/c you get screw at the end.

[newn4gguy]

Exactly! It's the same reason you shouldn't join a Union! You're either on strike or fired for being in a Union. They had a purpose at one time, but people took advantage of it and now, there's no reason for them.

[eddvdm]

It's nice to see some market being explicitly affected by ethics. R* always kept its mind about the games they make and now it's saying that doesn't agree how the game development was done. Being a company it just couldn't throw off a long dev title like that, but now it just doesn't agree with certain methods to make a game to happen.

I'm not a fanboy, just realizing facts I've read last months... but I would tattoo a BIG YELLOW R* on my butt if I were gay and fond of tattoos.

[Acquiescence]

after treating people like s*** for years on end. I hope he never works in the industry again. R* own the rights to L.A. Noire (thank God!), so if there's ever to be a sequel then the franchise is certainly in the right hands.

[KMCROC]

Hey Team Bondi MGS could use some first party developers, gave them a call .

[qwertyz]

was going to say the same. MS could also buy square enix since they're in trouble right now. the desperately need first party studios.

[sikbeta]

It's not going to happen, if for the 2nd or 3rd time SE is about to go down and there is a chance to sell out, buyer will be Sony, they saved Square once when Sakaguchi made that FF movie and the company was about to disappear, in "exchange" Sony got 20% of SS, after the merger, Enix recoup +11% of the stocks, so they still have +8% of the company plus they can easily have the support of the other shareholders which most of them are Japanese banks

http://www.square-enix.com/...

[DragonKnight]

No. If MS bought SE then there truly would be no hope of them ever regaining what they once lost. SE would be made to make FF Kinect, and no one wants that.

[Sevir04]

considering you were originally going to be PS3 exclsuive with the release of LA Nior!

[Hozi89]

So on average how much money did these guys earn a month? or Year?

I'm sorry to hear that shit like this can happen especially for something I love so much. Videogames.

[Bolts]

No biggie. Find a new job. It's tough but these guys obviously have skills so unemployment shouldn't be terminal.

[Johandevries]

''Hopefully'' Wait, what?

[belal]

Sony will buy them out? :P