God of War Ragnarök music production intern Jessica Mao says she wasn't credited for contribution to the game

Draugoth

Draugoth

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Uunfortunately, my name is not in the credits, and apparently it can't be added in a patch update. i was told that to be credited, my contribution to the game must hit some "minimum criteria," hence my tweet from Monday. still not sure what this criteria could be...
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Obligatory: "please refrain from hot takes" until we get more info, but it's not looking good for Santa Monica - putting anyone that worked on the game for even 5 minutes doesn't cost anything. "Minimum criteria" lol.
 
Well that's a crock of shit. Minimum contribution? The fuck does that even mean? They contributed to the game, pop their name in the credits, why would this even be an issue?
 
A) It could have been a geninune mistake on Santa Monica's part and they just forgot.

B) someone really hates her at the company

Regardless - a person should still be credited... small effort or not.
 
arranging music used in boss fights outside "minimum criteria"?
Season 2 Wtf GIF by Parks and Recreation
 
i forget which game i played but there was a section where peoples fuckin pet dogs were thanked.

whoever is in charge of producing the credits, get your shit together. contributions deserve credit. i'll even go so far as to say if you were crunching at the fuckin office and you had to order takeout to eat at work, hop sings chinese takeout or whatever the fuck should get a special thanks too.
 
If someone does a good job, even if they are hired just for a month, they should be in credits, period.

But if someone gets hired, does terrible job and gets fired after two weeks, yeah I wouldn't bother.

I assume in this case it's the former and she should be credited.
 
poodaddy said:
Well that's a crock of shit. Minimum contribution? The fuck does that even mean? They contributed to the game, pop their name in the credits, why would this even be an issue?
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I guess this is something like the producers, of you do over 50% you get the credit.

There must be some kind of industry or studio rule (written or not).

I don't know, maybe they just don't like her.
 
honestly, as a person who had interns, they prob legitimately forgot about her since she was only there for 4 months lol
 
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realcool said:
i forget which game i played but there was a section where peoples fuckin pet dogs were thanked.

whoever is in charge of producing the credits, get your shit together. contributions deserve credit. i'll even go so far as to say if you were crunching at the fuckin office and you had to order takeout to eat at work, hop sings chinese takeout or whatever the fuck should get a special thanks too.
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Give me a special thanks for shilling too
 
Negotiator101 said:
But you decided to do a background check for why exactly?
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A background check? I looked her up on LinkedIn. That may seem like an exhaustive investigation to you, but in reality it is a simple google search. As to why, why not? You have a problem with adding pertinent information to the thread? That's a you problem.
 
poodaddy said:
Well that's a crock of shit. Minimum contribution? The fuck does that even mean?
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Means that if you worked only for a few days or only made a tiny portion of the work you don't get credited in the same way than the ones who spent years on it working during all or most of the project, or at least during a long portion of time.

Hyperbole example: imagine the game has 3 music producers, 2 of them worked during the whole project or almost, across let's say 3 years. These 2 get credited in the game. The other one only worked during a couple of weeks/months doing some intern stuff and after that leaves/gets fired/doesn't pass the test period. And maybe even a big portion of what this person did was crap and someone else had to replace it or got cut. This third one doesn't get credited in the game.

There is no written rule but typically this is how it's done in the industry. Regarding the amount of work needed to appear in the game, there's no standard and even most companies doesn't have a specific amount of time working on the studio needed to be listed in the credits.

In the studio where I worked, at the start nobody got credited because the boss was afraid that the competion could hire us. Years later the bosses got credited and later everybody got credited with no specific rules. Some designer in charge of the texts of the game or some programmer simply kept updating the credits, or sometimes even the CM. In a few cases we forgot to include someone who was working during a short period of time in the game and added that person later. In other cases they weren't included on purpose. In other cases they were added as "Support artist" or "Support programmers" etc or under "Special thanks". We didn't follow any specific standard or rule, whoever filled the credits for that game decided the method.
 
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Topher said:
A background check? I looked her up on LinkedIn. That may seem like an exhaustive investigation to you, but in reality it is a simple google search. As to why, why not? You have a problem with adding pertinent information to the thread? That's a you problem.
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It added absolutely nothing, and you even admitted you have no idea how this works, right? So why bother with this pointless piece of information?
 
Topher said:
A background check? I looked her up on LinkedIn. That may seem like an exhaustive investigation to you, but in reality it is a simple google search. As to why, why not? You have a problem with adding pertinent information to the thread? That's a you problem.
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But You are wasting time which you could have spend on being concerned.
 
Negotiator101 said:
It added absolutely nothing, and you even admitted you have no idea how this works, right? So why bother with this pointless piece of information?
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Actually it's not pointless. We now know she was an intern there along with her exact roles while the information in the OP didn't provide that.

In all honesty the only things pointless in this thread are your posts.
 
I think she should still have been credited even if it's for a few months, but there are things worth starting drama over, this ain't it.
 
Negotiator101 said:
It added absolutely nothing, and you even admitted you have no idea how this works, right? So why bother with this pointless piece of information?
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Of course I don't know how this works. Neither do you. I posted her information and asked a question in reference to it. If you are unable to figure out how my post relates to the topic at hand then again, that is your problem.
 
GHG said:
Actually it's not pointless. We now know she was an intern there along with her exact roles while the information in the OP didn't provide that.

In all honesty the only things pointless in this thread are your posts.
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And what's that got to do with her being credited with the work she has done? It's just another case of the fools brigade (yes your in there) trying everything possible to defend anything related to the PS brand.
 
Negotiator101 said:
And what's that got to do with her being credited with the work she has done? It's just another case of the fools brigade (yes your in there) trying everything possible to defend anything related to the PS brand.
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Sorry that the extensive Sony background check team is keeping you in check. Someone has to do the dirty work.
 
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Negotiator101 said:
And what's that got to do with her being credited with the work she has done? It's just another case of the fools brigade (yes your in there) trying everything possible to defend anything related to the PS brand.
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Are you a bot or a real person?

It's got everything to do with figuring out whether or not she has a case here, it's called fact finding. I know that might seem like an alien concept to you and people of your ilk but you might want to try it out one day. It will help you come to more logical conclusions rather than ones based purely on emotion.
 
Negotiator101 said:
And what's that got to do with her being credited with the work she has done? It's just another case of the fools brigade (yes your in there) trying everything possible to defend anything related to the PS brand.
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lol...I never said she shouldn't be credited. I asked if interns normally are. If you are going to point to the "fools brigade" then start with the fools who are advocating rushing to judgement without all the facts.

In this case, that would be you.
 
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Boohoo, my names not in the credits that NOBODY READS. Apparently, she didn't do enough. SSM will talk to her if she reaches out to th,e besides twitter, I'm sure.

Did you get paid? then nobody cares.
 
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