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L.A. Noire Lead Was "Angry and Abusive"

Posted on Saturday, June 25 @ 15:16:15 Eastern by

L.A. Noire immediately struck players as a completely new experience. I've heard comments from non-gamers about how much they enjoy the game from Team Bondi and Rockstar Games. Their typical reply is that it's much like an interactive movie. Of course, getting the 1940s crime drama to the state it's in now was not an easy road.

Reports are coming from anonymous developers in Australia about the conditions during development of the game, with particularly pointed comments aimed at management and development leads. With an entire website dedicated to uncredited developers of L.A. Noire already established, claims about working conditions haven't held back any punches. One report states specifically:

I can certainly attest to the appalling working conditions, the angry and abusive boss [Lead Developer of L.A. Noire Brendan McNamara] and the ineffective leads who were completely unwilling to do anything to protect their team members.

Another states:

It's abhorrent that these young kids are being thrown into a 24/7 corpse grinder with perpetual crunch and weekend overtime.

When presented with claims that he "just won't listen to reason" or that he was "making this unreasonable demand", McNamara responded by saying:

I can go to anyone I want. It's my game. I can got to anyone I want in the team and say, "I want it changed."

Game development jobs are notorious for their crunch time near the end of development, but working such hours through a seven-year-development cycle would not be fun.

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Related Games:   L.A. Noire
Tags:   LA Noire, Rockstar Games, Team Bondi


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  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Jun 25th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
    Hearing about things like this kinda makes me glad I abandoned ship on a career in game development when I did. I'm sure the end result of all that hard work is an extremely rewarding feeling/paycheck, but treating employees like dogs just to reach a deadline is pretty despicable. The same can be said of any business, not just the gaming industry.
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  • Anthony_Severino
    Anthony_Severino
    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Jun 25th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
    Be glad that you don't work here at GR. You should see the **** I do to the guys. I dock them an hour pay for being 10 minutes late, I deny vacation time, and I not-so-secretly eat their lunch from the break room fridge. Oh, and I'm the one that never puts on a new roll of TP. Like a boss.
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  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Jun 25th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
    You sound like a real bastard. Are you guys hiring?
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  • TheDiesel
    TheDiesel
    Joined: May 2009
    Posted: Jun 25th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
    Being part of a crew that finished a video game to release, I can tell you that crunch time is very crazy since once that release date hits the web, it's pretty much your lifeline. Especially if the company you work for has no A-List Publisher and is Debuting their company with said game [I was part of the QA team for Global Agenda]. They may say he's angry and abusive, but something tells me they're fabricating the issues a bit.
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  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2011 at 11:33 am
    What about duke nukems release dates....good thing they rushed to get it out
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  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Jun 25th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
    Seems like their company is starting to sound more and more like the activision of human rights :\
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  • RoadieTrash
    RoadieTrash
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Jun 25th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
    Holy horseshit, mouthy Australians. Will wonders never cease?
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  • Daddio
    Daddio
    Joined: Nov 2008
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2011 at 5:32 am
    .... welcome to the working world kids.
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  • xxmrcyanidexx
    xxmrcyanidexx
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jun 29th, 2011 at 11:29 am
    Well at least their tears and pain is providing millions with joy and false sense of detective skills.
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  • CaptainPicard
    CaptainPicard
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Jun 30th, 2011 at 3:22 am
    Sounds like they probably had some fat paychecks, with the overtime and all :P Plus they are being a part of something millions will love...... maybe they should be happy they arent working a shitty $8 an hour job to make ends meet.
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