Typical C Suite douches. I bet they are monolingual and can’t even translate.
“Pfft translation is easy. I can just pop it into google translate and something comes out. Can’t be that much harder by hand”
That’s how being a vender works.
I’d say that’s okay if only the company is credited by name, but the execs names were included. If they’re including names, include all the names. It’s not a long list from what I saw on Twitter.
You make a good point.
Literally every other translation team got credits except the Brazilian one
You can float any theory or idea why but this is always done for one of two reasons. Either they don’t want to give credit and feel they are afraid they might be poached. Or they don’t value their employees as human beings.
Either way no one should ever work for this company again and all execs need to be named and shamed so they can never get people to work under them again.
Disgusting disgusting disgusting. This is basic human decency.because I can guarantee if they pull this shit they under pay their employees as well
I don’t see the issue here…did they expect to get their name in credits for doing their job? They can still put it on their resume…
did they expect to get their name in credits for doing their job?
Yes, that is the purpose of the credits. To credit people who did their job on the project.
But that’s not how it works for most outsourced vendors. When you look at movie or game credits and you see a sector headed by a company name, it’s because that company was hired to do a certain task. And in that case you mostly only see the leads names listed, not the actual workers.
Then hopefully if it was that important to them they were smart enough to have it in their contracts which means now they are owed compensation for that unfulfilled portion of their contract.
Yes we all know how famously strong labor rights are around the world.
Are you ignorant, stupid, or a troll?
He’s an executive at this company. Obviously
Nice, you can tell the reddit crowd has moved over when their side of the discussion is this :)
That’s fucking hilarious cause in the Reddit thread for this article the top comment is asking what the big deal is like you are.
You more Reddit than anyone else I’ve seen here. Go back or be nice
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Stupid it is
I don’t like the down vote button so I will spare you with that. Yes, they can still put it on their resume but what the employer did is scumbag move cause translation is a hard job to do well and good translator can make good money doing various job. In creative industry, credit listed is a big thing for anyone that starting out. If not so, why does movie, anime, game that have those long scrolling opening/ending credit?( A xxxxx Film, Directed by xxxxx, Produced by xxxxx.) For a video game, there is no “screen time” limit like movie/anime do, so not including the team and only the execs is like slapping those that worked really hard for the project to make it a better game.
I guess the disconnect is that this is common practice in most industries. Is it right? I can’t really comment on that. Do team leads or EC members get their name on things when 100’s of people worked tirelessly under them and they networked at the golf course? Yes…all the time in business. Maybe this is different in the gaming industry.
They can put it on their resume but with out their name there’s no proof they did any work. You can now put it on your resume and pretend you did it because no one is named.
It’s done out of fear someone else might know who did their work and someone else might hire them, so by not naming them they weaken the employees chance of getting work elsewhere.
Stop defending this shit, this is a company dehumanizing their employees and your taking the companies side?
If you think this is dehumanizing, you got some rough lessons when you join the workforce. That being said, I’m not defending it in the least. I just think it’s minuscule in the grand scheme of ‘bad things a company can do to its workers’ and if anything should teach the translators to get it in any future contracts. But then again, I’m in compliance management. I’ve seen companies discard poultry machines because they had a guard removed and they wanted to hide that from OSHA (and lawyers) to ‘improve throughput’ that then eventually cut a woman’s hand half off, then fire employees who told OSHA who and why the guard was removed. Not getting your name credited on some work, OHTEHNOES THE TRAGEDY!! Fuckin grow up.
Let me know when you create something worth while or assist with that.
You’re speaking like a child who has never seen the real world. I worked in the games industry for 12 years. Trust me getting your name in the credits is a major thing, and being excluded is dehumanizing. It doesn’t matter that there’s worst thing, not getting the credit for your work is absolutely unacceptable, and you sill are somehow trying to defend it.
Gross.
Stick to the gaming industry I guess. Not understanding that questioning something and saying there are much worse issues does not = defending. You might be better served pushing your compatriots to actually, I don’t know, get things they want in their contracts. My guess is you’re a late teen early 20s person working at gamestop for 12 years and feels that equals ‘working in the industry for 12 years.’ Good on you tho!
I worked on saints row red faction guerilla and Armageddon and another seven games. Now sit down and learn something about how the world actually works. You know why I can claim I worked on all those games? Because I have actual credits on each one.
And I’m forty, next time you want to act like you know something pay attention. We are talking about the games industry so what I said matter, what you have said was insulting and continues to be so
Grow up kid. One day you’ll realize there’s more than siding with corporations who will use you up
Sure ya are, son! And repeating incorrect assumptions ad nauseam doesn’t make them correct. Siding with corporations? Acting like you know something because you don’t pay attention, much?
