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1/28/2016 4:30:42 PM
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still have no idea why they fired Marty...the dude is amazing at what he does.
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The short version of the story is that he was risking the contract Bungie has with Activision.
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They wanted to take his creative freedom that was given to him in his contract and he was angry about it. He took their asses to court and won, but that's when bungie fired him and started acting like they were the victims. He even announced that one of the songs in the advertising for destiny wasn't one of his pieces. To put it simple say you ask me to make you an advertising campaign and we make up a contract where you give me full creative freedom then we meet when I have it done. When we meet you say "you did good, but there's this other guy and we're gonna use his campaign and I'm not paying you." I can actually take you to court because I did all that work and you put in the contract I had creative freedom over this whole project then you go with someone else's work.
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I thought he was fired first and THEN he took Bungie to court because they wanted to renege on their previous contract that included bonuses and stock options. Bungie claimed that since he was fired he wasn't entitled to those bonuses. Marty sued and won with the court stating that he was considered a founding member of bungie and due his stock options and bonuses. Also, to address your point about the contract. If a company contracts with you to create an advertising campaign, but ultimately choose not to use your campaign, as long as they pay you for your work it is the company's choice on how to use it. You can try to sue, but what would be your losses? What are your damages? Besides in Marty's case he worked FOR bungie. He was not a 3rd party contractor. Anything he did and created was property of bungie not Marty. Like any artist he was butthurt that they didnt use his stuff. But instead of reacting rationally and professionally he lashed out and was toxic to the whole group. I really don't blame him for what he did. All I am saying is that I understand why bungie fired him. Having someone being toxic in an office environment is tough. Perhaps they could have pulled him aside and told him he was close to the edge, or perhaps they really wanted to get rid of him and used this as an excuse. I don't know for sure.
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Because he became toxic and was trying to pull others into his misery. If you have a complaint about something there are ways to address it. Going around bad mouthing the company and direction then trying to get others to agree with you, taking up their time and just being an overall drag is not the best way of handling it.
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How's that dick tasting?
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Talk about being toxic.... You sir epitomize what is wrong with this community. Instead of having a rational discussion on a topic you lower yourself and degrade the discussion with tasting of dicks. Oh well.... I wouldn't know what your mama's dick tastes like. She was too fat for me to find it.
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shames @EmeraldSwords for being toxic....responds with another toxic immature comment....oh the irony lolol
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lol i was trying to be sarcastic.... guess it failed. ;P
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He was "toxic" because he saw the downfall comming. First, Vanilla Scrap and then, his soundtracks. So he try to step in and change something but in the wrong manner and got fired by the end of the day.
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You misunderstand me. I am not faulting him for being upset over what happened. He is an artist and they dumped on his art. Understandably he was upset. However, both sides acted unprofessionally handling it. Marty could have sucked it up and completed his contract and got the work done. Instead he chose to let this eat at him and he became toxic over it. He could have and should have been more professional about it. At the same time Bungie should have fought for him a little harder on the front end, but with Activision holding the purse strings you really don't know how much pull they really had. Also it was total b.s. for Bungie to pull that crap about the stocks and bonuses when they fired Marty. If they truly felt he was a valued member they would have just parted ways amicably and let things be what they were.
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I dunno, I find your comment to being toxic, so I added another toxic comment to balance things out for ya.
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Sorry, I don't understand why you think my post was toxic. I am merely stating my opinion of what happened with Marty. He didn't like the decisions being made and like most artists he was a bit too personal about it. Instead of handling the decisions with professionalism he went around bad mouthing the whole group, and management. You can't do that in an work environment and expect people to get along and work well with one another. We just fired a woman last month for calling a manager a "bitch". The woman had a chip on her shoulder and she didn't care who she let know about it. Had she gone to another manager or the owner and said, "I have a problem with this person". Things could have been worked out to everyone's mutual benefit.
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But that's exactly that, it's your opinion, but the actual events differ from your point. I'm not going to delve into it as you can easily search this information up. My gripe with the comment was that it was made as if the information presented was accurate, which it isn't in the slightest.
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Really? Then please correct me where I am wrong, because from the accounts I read, my comments are right in line with what happened. **O’Donnell responded to the Activision-scored trailer by tweeting during the game’s E3 presentation that the music was not Bungie’s, threatening fellow employees in an attempt to keep the trailer from being posted online and interrupted press briefings.** **O’Donnell believed the Bungie spirit was being compromised by the Activision agreement, and perhaps they were. But management saw his actions as disruptive and harmful. O’Donnell was given a poor employee review in the fall of 2013. In lieu of his next review in February 2014, Bungie drafted a termination agreement.** **By early April the audio work was piling up, members of O’Donnell’s team were complaining to management that his presence was frustrating completion of work and he wasn’t contributing as much as he was expected. The Bungie board of directors terminated O’Donnell’s employment without cause on April 11.** ** - Pulled from an article on Kotaku regarding how and why O'Donnell was fired.
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Well there's your problem, you're relying on -blam!-ing Kotaku, the least credible news outlet out there. Have a nice day.
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Well then please point me to a more credible source that explains the events differently? No? Can't be bothered? Well, your first response of " how's that dick tasting" pretty much sums up your knowledge and maturity level. So, thank you I will have a nice day, and same to you. :)
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he wasvfighting for bungies creative freedom and for a better game, but no one support him, even after bringing it up to harold ryan
