Oh, dear -- I'm so sorry about the deceptive interview, Jonathan.
For what it's worth, forgetting to give credit is apparently a pervasive issue for gaming companies. I know of several folks, myself included, who busted their chops for one particular gaming company, and were never paid, or got our names consistently misspelled, or had their (requested by the authors) input ignored. In one extremely distasteful episode, which killed any desire in me to ever help these folks again, one of the company owners laughed in my face when I politely asked whether I'd finally receive credit in future printings of a book.
I've been told this is the case in most gaming companies. In all these cases, of course, I don't believe there was any true malice. They were just a bit sloppy, a bit careless, a bit indifferent to their clientele... and eventually all the good volunteers left.
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Date: 2004-12-22 02:40 am (UTC)For what it's worth, forgetting to give credit is apparently a pervasive issue for gaming companies. I know of several folks, myself included, who busted their chops for one particular gaming company, and were never paid, or got our names consistently misspelled, or had their (requested by the authors) input ignored. In one extremely distasteful episode, which killed any desire in me to ever help these folks again, one of the company owners laughed in my face when I politely asked whether I'd finally receive credit in future printings of a book.
I've been told this is the case in most gaming companies. In all these cases, of course, I don't believe there was any true malice. They were just a bit sloppy, a bit careless, a bit indifferent to their clientele... and eventually all the good volunteers left.