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LA Noire is the evidence at the heart of a credit dispute between developers from Team Bondi and Rockstar Games. Team Bondi developed the title for five years, and now 130 people who contributed claim they aren't being given proper credit. The hard work and long hours paid off, at least for Rockstar, as it recieved critical acclaim across the board. G4's LA Noire review received a 5/5. A website, lanoirecredits, was created by some of the uncredited employees to make sure everyone involved is acknowledged.
Employees who worked on L.A. Noire claim to regularly have worked 12-hour days, not just in "crunch time" but all year round. The IGDA, International Game Developers Association, has guidelines that dictate anyone who has worked on a game for 30 days must receive credit, although these guidelines have yet to be put into use by many major publishers.
Rockstar has been accused of failing to credit their employees in the past. In 2007, 55 employees from Rockstar Vienna were not credited for their work on Manhunt 2. Jurie Horneman, one of these uncredited employees, commented on his Facebook about the familiar situation with LA Noire. "As someone who has been left out of credits for 2.5 years of work on one of their games, I salute your efforts and wish you well."
Source: SMH
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incredible78
Yeah right, like I'm the only one that hits X to skip the credits. The only people who read the credits are those people that are in the credits.
Reese8732
I said the same thing when all the reviews came out, even G4 said all the credit to Rockstar. I felt that no one the credit to the people most deserving it Team Bondi. Think about it when it comes to something like Mass Effect, Bioshock, COD, or countless others they give the developers all the respect in the world. Come to think about it, they did the same thing with Bulletstorm, people praised Epic, but no one really said anything about People Can Fly the actual developer. I'm glad to see someone taking a stand for themselves.
koolboricua
can they get sued for that? not saying that they should, but if they can, i feel they should just take some time to credit them before they go on a multi million dollar sued.
cardinalsfan1122
If they get paid, and can show a new employer that they worked on it. They should not be complaining. It's not like anyone reads the credits! As long as they can reference the game in their resume and they were paid for their work their is no problem in my book.
Whipfats
Did they receive a paycheck for working those hours? If so, then thats all the credit they need. Putting their name in the credits is a unnecessary bonus.
deedubya
how cruel. if someone did that to me... ima afraid that things would not end well.
Socrates'sMind
An interesting bit of news. I hope Rockstar does something to address this and not just ignore it.
Socrates'sMind
An interesting bit of news. I hope Rockstar does something to address this and not just ignore it.
JustTheBeginning
I never liked how Rockstar took credit for this game, it would be like Activision saying they made Modern Warfare when it was actually Infinity Ward.
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