Naughty Dog: "It's none of your fucking business."
Satisfied?
I just hope they don't take it too personally when people speculate.
Naughty Dog: "It's none of your fucking business."
Satisfied?
Maybe we should make a thread every devs leave the studio. Not just ND lol.
Step 1: Help release a title that garners tons of GOTY awards and sells a bunch
Step 2: Put that on your resume and become more valuable
Step 3: Move to another job for more money and power
I agree. *claps*Microsoft has Rare
Sony has Naughty Dog
console parity
How many employees did ND have? Seems at least 2 people leave every week.
I'm pretty ignorant about it all but why not just close the studio if everyone is gonna leave?
Mountain meet molehill.It definitely feels like something major happened at not just Naughty Dog, but Sony studios as a whole. Tons of leads leaving, across 4 of their top studios. Very few game announcements. Delays of games. Silence from the usually chatty Yoshida and Boyd.
They are coasting on their great PS4 launch, but they haven't done shit for months but put out a steady stream of terrible news.
4 top leads at Naughty Dog, minimum
Lead of God of War
Lead of inFamous SS
Lead of The Last Guardian
Jack Tretton
All gone. Basically no exclusives shown at all, still, besides Drive Club and The Order.
Yes, let's close a 250+ studio, because 4 or 5 people were leaving....I'm pretty ignorant about it all but why not just close the studio if everyone is gonna leave?
It definitely feels like something major happened at not just Naughty Dog, but Sony studios as a whole. Tons of leads leaving, across 4 of their top studios. Very few game announcements. Delays of games. Silence from the usually chatty Yoshida and Boyd.
They are coasting on their great PS4 launch, but they haven't done shit for months but put out a steady stream of terrible news.
4 top leads at Naughty Dog, minimum
Lead of God of War
Lead of inFamous SS
Lead of The Last Guardian
Jack Tretton
All gone. Basically no exclusives shown at all, still, besides Drive Club and The Order.
There goes my hype for TLOU 2 then. The guy is absolutely amazing sculptor,the game won't be the same without him.
Yes, let's close a 250+ studio, because 4 or 5 people were leaving....
Amazing!
Internet memory is short.
Now that the new are trained, the old are flowing out, it's just a rotation of people which happens all the time in every industry ever.
I know *why* it looks that way. It's just never struck me as so, well, stickynotey before.For everyone complaining about the hair/beard. When you are setting up hair to be simulated you will make it into quad strips like this. Each strip will be mapped to a clump of hair that gets simulated and blown around. So don't look at this and think that he is incapable of modeling hair just because you don't know why it looks the way it does.
Isn't this pretty normal? I always had the feeling that american devs are getting laid off pretty fast.
I will never get this. Some kind of defense mechanism?
And ND still want hiring 20+....
So like some might have been replaced, by new cheaper employees. I think we will see more 20+ legend people leaving in the future.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - SCEWWS is clearly fucked. We have a mass exodus of top talent and there are no PS4 games to show for it. Obviously as a gaming fan this worries me especially since I have invested in one of Sony's consoles.
Internet memory is short.
Last year Naughty Dog hired a shit ton of talent and every post here was like: "OMG what is going on at ND, they most be working on a new Space MMO God Tier Epic Super Saga".
Now that the new are trained, the old are flowing out, it's just a rotation of people which happens all the time in every industry ever.
We can calm down now.
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Or what happened was Amy Hennig, director/co director on all Uncharteds, left in less than amicable circumstances and a bunch of key people soon followed.
~Mass exodus~ and ~all the top talent left~? So all the ~2000 people at the SCEWWS left? Tell us more, please!I've said it before and I'll say it again - SCEWWS is clearly fucked. We have a mass exodus of top talent and there are no PS4 games to show for it. Obviously as a gaming fan and consumer this worries me especially since I have invested in one of Sony's consoles on the promise that it would be gaming machine first and foremost. However, how the hell can this happen when all the top talent and major players have all departed, including Jack Tretton? You would have thought they would have done everything to actually retain someone like Tretton who has done everything right for SCEA.
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Or what happened was Amy Hennig, director/co director on all Uncharteds, left in less than amicable circumstances and a bunch of key people soon followed.
I'm assuming people are leaving because The Last of Us is résumé gold.
Do you write for kotaku?![]()
Or what happened was Amy Hennig, director/co director on all Uncharteds, left in less than amicable circumstances and a bunch of key people soon followed.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - SCEWWS is clearly fucked. We have a mass exodus of top talent and there are no PS4 games to show for it. Obviously as a gaming fan and consumer this worries me especially since I have invested in one of Sony's consoles on the promise that it would be gaming machine first and foremost. However, how the hell can this happen when all the top talent and major players have all departed, including Jack Tretton? You would have thought they would have done everything to actually retain someone like Tretton who has done everything right for SCEA.
Some people are falling for obvious trolling in this thread. Come on now.
Or what happened was Amy Hennig, director/co director on all Uncharteds, left in less than amicable circumstances and a bunch of key people soon followed.
ITT: We learn which people haven't got the slightest clue how an actual studio functions.
For christs sake there are h-u-n-d-r-e-d-s of people working at major studios at any given time, with people constantly leaving and joining. Do you have any clue how many key people left during the Crash days? Jak days? Even after Uncharted?
There are also these things called contracts. See, sometimes they run out. Sometimes these key guys actually specify they only want to work there for a certain amount of time, because most likely they're in the middle of striking up their next work period with another studio. Sometimes this happens in batches. Sometimes friends jump from studio to studio. Sometimes people leave for creative differences.
Seriously these threads always play out the same way. If only some of you had a clue how many key players have come and gone from your favorite studios.
Holy tap dancing fuck, people can't seriously be this ignorant.
Your logic is flawed. You were equally wrong about Shu.
And to be clear, you have no idea how the industry works if you come with hyperbole like that.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - SCEWWS is clearly fucked. We have a mass exodus of top talent and there are no PS4 games to show for it. Obviously as a gaming fan and consumer this worries me especially since I have invested in one of Sony's consoles on the promise that it would be gaming machine first and foremost. However, how the hell can this happen when all the top talent and major players have all departed, including Jack Tretton? You would have thought they would have done everything to actually retain someone like Tretton who has done everything right for SCEA.
Some people are falling for obvious trolling in this thread. Come on now.
Please explain how the logic is flawed. Just saying you are wrong, you dumb dumb, doesn't exactly cement your point.
Another one? What in the world is going on over there?
This is approaching a bit of a trend now. Question is are we seeing people leaving to capitalize on ND (and their success) to further careers or signs of something else or are ND big enough we're just seeing normal attrition?
I'll take your pic, and raise you a:![]()
Or what happened was Amy Hennig, director/co director on all Uncharteds, left in less than amicable circumstances and a bunch of key people soon followed.
This is approaching a bit of a trend now. Question is are we seeing people leaving to capitalize on ND (and their success) to further careers or signs of something else or are ND big enough we're just seeing normal attrition?