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| Leynos said: As I figured. It's just a PR move. https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/1fzc6c0/senior_animator_will_waltz_who_used_to_work_at/ |
Lol. I'm sorry but this dude sounds bitter as fuck, when even r/Halo is suspicious, the most angry group of Halo fans...
"I miss the days when you were there with us earlier on. Bonnie, Chris, Josh, Kiki, everyone was so fun to work with."
Oh so he enjoyed working with the old leadership, Bonnie Ross, Josh Holmes, Kiki Wolfkill.
"Imagine telling a studio (loudly) almost daily how to succeed for 13 years, 7 of them were spent educating a clueless executive team (with a purely corporate publishing background and no real hands-on coding or art and in some cases, gaming, experience) how to actually make something"
Then he proceeds to slag them off, Lol. (And seemingly thinks he has the answers to everything).
Like this is how bad it got: they released the game without an industry standard in-game player reporting feature. It came down to me seeing a female streamer being harassed by male gamers while she played and I looked for a feature I just assumed the UX team would have built a robust version of. Nope, nothing. So me, an animator, had to lead this charge and literally design the UX wireframes for the in-game reporting feature POST LAUNCH and then force Jerry Hook into a meeting in which he basically lambasted me for taking on the work myself (even though we basically had nothing going on except the occasional bug to fix)
Jerry Hook is no longer at the studio.
Then he makes claims about Pierre, who has been Studio Head for exactly 2 years now, Halo Studio's new leadership is literally the leadership that fixed TMCC and added a ton of content to it. Pierre was Studio Head for exactly 4-5 months before Will Waltz was laid off, hardly enough time to make such a damning comment on his leadership when Will himself says that he "basically had nothing going on"
He comes across as a very bitter ex-employee who is full of himself and wants to ride on the current low-hanging "bash 343" fruit, a professional in the industry does not go to Linkedin and publicly call people "cancer" or make weird "#SaveHalo" posts and the fact that he seems fond of the old leadership is a bit concerning too, 6 years ago he was posting about how 343 is a wonderful place to work for, I don't doubt the leadership was a mess but it feels like he's angrily blaming Pierre for him being laid off after 12 years of working there.
Pierre likely has more actual gaming development experience than Bonnie Ross too so he's no clueless executive and it's weird he talks about as if Pierre was in the leadership team with Bonnie/Frankie/Etc before Halo Infinite launched (he was not). He only joined Halo Infinite and thus 343's core team in 2020? as Head of Production for Multiplayer, a year before the game released, after that messy E3 reveal and a messy development.
If Will was telling Pierre to switch to Unreal Engine then, firstly, it wouldn't have been Pierre's decision, secondly, if Pierre told him to shut up then he would have been right to do so because it would have literally been impossible for Pierre to switch Infinite to Unreal Engine 5 a year before Infinite released, Lmao.
Pierre was on the MCC team before joining the core team in 2020 and MCC used Unreal Engine but switching to Unreal Engine for everything is a huge task and the fact that this dude thinks Pierre didn't make a massive decision like that in 5 months of him having the ability to even make that decision means Pierre is cancer is a bit ridiculous.
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