ManaByte
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That sounds like a bit of a blanket statement. I refuse to believe that everyone on the dev team was a dick like that, its simply implausible from a pure selection standpoint. Not to mention that there would be hierarchies of their own within that group of people, each with their own perspective and sense of value to the company.
The truth though is that the creative engine should always rightfully be treated as more important than their functionaries, because one group can be replaced or outsourced, the other simply cannot without fundamentally impacting the product. Trying to play this off as some sort of injustice is kinda disingenuous.
Lets be real: Who's more important your favourite band or their road crew?
None of this is an excuse for shitty behaviour, all I'm saying is that this whole shit-show is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to settle all kinds of old scores, and so people should be selective in deciding what are individual grievances and what are systemic issues. Because at the end of the day, any ruling on this case should be being decided on the latter.
I'm speaking from personal experience. Back in the Theory days, those on floor 2 were untouchable gods who the peons on the ground floor weren't to speak to unless spoken to. From the IGN article above, it sounds like that caste system had continued into the new Irvine campus and festered into the explosion that just happened.