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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Destiny: former music composer wins lawsuit against Bungie, documents reveal reason for the clash and why the games story felt at first "fractured" and game was delayed

- former music composer Marc O'Donnell who has had a long collaboration with Bungie that goes back to Halo won the lawsuit against the developers

- O'Donnell won cash owed by Bungie in stock that was on dispute after being fired by Bungie

- reason for O'Donnell getting fired was due to a sparring with Activision marketing team who wanted to score themselves the trailers for Destiny (thing O'Donnel always used to do for Halo games) which then resulted in the relationship between Bungie/Activision and the composer becoming "toxic", then a lack of "engagement" in the work by the composer led to him getting fired.

- the documents make an official confirmation to a "dramatically reworked story" that together with the clashing of Activision/Bungie against O'Donnell led to game delays.

- VentureBeat who got deep into the court documents says:

"While Destiny was planned for a September 2013 release, the story was substantially revised in August 2013. That pushed the release date back to March 2014. O’Donnell returned to work after a vacation, but the audio team and his supervisor did not consider him to be fully engaged in his work. The release date of the game, meanwhile, pushed back to September 2014. Bungie set in motion a process to terminate O’Donnell."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/09/05/destiny-lawsuit-solves-two-mysteries-a-composers-departure-and-a-fractured-story/

http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/04/ex-bungie-composer-marty-odonnell-wins-epic-legal-fight-with-former-bosses/



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he should get payed for his work. I thought the game was good,it just lacked content. I got bored of it,after a few months and traded it in.



This industry is getting a place that members of different publishers and developers stealing and plagiarizing stuff that belong to its creators without theyre will
I remember a japanese composer who is mute and stole dome others music
Im so sad what happens and is happening right know with the industry



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asqarkabab said:
I remember a japanese composer who is mute and stole dome others music
Im so sad what happens and is happening right know with the industry

I remember that but it wasn't him stealing work. He was deaf (which was in doubt) but he had a ghost writer and hadn't actually writen much/if not all of his work.

EDIT: found an article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/arts/music/renowned-japanese-composer-mamoru-samuragochi-admits-fraud.html

 

It's good this guy is being paid. I'm more concerned as to why the story was changed. I wonder if this was a change to divide the game up into what we have now to 'make more money'.



Hmm, pie.

What "story" got revised?



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Next DLC will be called Destiny: The Taken Story.



Luckily it ended well for the musician, but this way things go in triple A projects is quite worrying, creative people with artistic sensitivity could start finding them stifling, deserting them and choose smaller scale ones instead, to find again a more human and loyal work environment, even at cost of lower wages.



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