Nintendo fires editor for appearing in a podcast, Cliff Bleszinski buts in

[Nem]

mountaindewslave said:

Nem said:

Can companies even make that kind of contract? Did he reveal any sort of secrets or something? Something is wrong if companies have the power to veto freedom of speech. Has got to be inconstituonal. 

Leaking company secrets is one thing, but simply talking in public is a right of every citizen.

There must be something i am not seeing here. I'm shocked at the number of people who think this is ok an Nintendo is in the right. They just can't be, unless he leaked something. If he did, do tell me what it was.

you're wrong, he could speak privately about Nintendo, surely, but to go on a public podcast and announce private things about his company was not okay considering Nintendo deliberately has expressed they don't want that

some of the stuff he mentioned was kind of inappropriate in my opinion, he went on about the process of some of his job and testing some games at one point. he also made some comments that made Sakurai not look particularly good, something about how Sakurai got quite frustrated that he and some others did not get very good test footage of some Smash Bros. or something or other, and bear in mind Sakurai is a huge executive there

and then to comment about the localization of Nintendo's Japanese games and to essentially mock the fans who constantly are asked for things to be translated and brought to America- it was inappropriate, it wasn't his place

I think the guy was polite for the most part but it's just common sense, you don't share private company information about the runnings of how things are done or decisions if the company specifically has a non-disclosure agreement

and bear in mind guys- any company with this sort of agreement goes through this in orientation, there is no thin line about this sort of thing. most companies these days if you simply wear a work t-shirt to certain events or have a picture of yourself in a work shirt online next to an inappropriate may fire you

nothing new

Its fair enough if thats how it works (in the US). But in principle its just wrong. It means a company can be a country inside its own country by setting a group of arbitrary rules that allow them to lay off workers. That is extremely abusive, but i had heard that work laws were pretty brutal in the US before.

We do see it constantly on the games industry when teams are fired after they finished their project and then they rehire new staff when they decide on the next thing to do.