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Ex-Lab Zero Games employee claims Mike Z repeatedly abused power [UP1: Multiple Employees Resign] (UP2: Mike Z allegedly lays off remaining employees)
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Prlase look forward to Lab Zero's exciting new fighting game made by its lone megalomaniac coder.
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I said this almost verbatim in another thread, but wow, it's so crazy that the suspicions some of us who weren't drinking the Skullgirls kool-aid had about Mike Z all those years ago were true, and then it turns out he was even worse than any of us imagined.
I mean, he's still got a chance at making a statement to explain his side of the story to clear his name, but it isn't looking good right now. This is looking like he's hitting self-destruct and trying to salvage whatever of value is left while he can.
I mean, he's still got a chance at making a statement to explain his side of the story to clear his name, but it isn't looking good right now. This is looking like he's hitting self-destruct and trying to salvage whatever of value is left while he can.
So SG is in ok hands now (right???), but what's going to happen with Indivisible's remaining DLC?
Yeah but the weird compromise they had for Indivisible was they would raise enough money on Indiegogo themselves for 505 Games to cover the other half. So to me, I don't have a real clue what that deal pertains to in regards to ownership.
Who the hell knows at this point, you'd need an entire new studio of folks to pick up where they left off and I wouldn't blame anyone that wanted to wash their hands of this whole thing even if they were offered jobs to finish the work without Mike.
The mobile team is on SG now but Indivisible is the tricky one.
Wonder what it means for the planned animated show.
He's already burned all bridges. This is just the logical conclusion
Wait until he realizes there's no bridges for him to escape across though.
Whoopsie.
I don't know if he cares at this point, he's probably intent to go down with the ship
Ooof. Yeah, that sounds about right of something he would do, seeing how this entire scenario has turned out so far.
Ordered a book in support. I wish I saw this earlier in the day, otherwise I would have bought the other volumes that ended up quickly selling out.
Really hope they all find a place after this mess. That's too much talent.
505 owns the IP, but Lab Zero has right of first refusal.
Mike Z was working on the upcoming GGPO update to Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R: https://gamasutra.com/view/news/372...suspended_from_work_on_Guilty_Gear_update.php
Arc System Works and the fan group working on this update hired him after the implosion of Lab Zero and, in an amazing coincidence, they decided to let him go right around the time journalists started asking about him!
This is insane.
Arc System Works and the fan group working on this update hired him after the implosion of Lab Zero and, in an amazing coincidence, they decided to let him go right around the time journalists started asking about him!
This is insane.
Turns out some people love bad boys.
This is bizarre, why would they hire him after the shitstorm and not, Y'know, wait it out a bit? Why hire him at all???
I'm so confused, is there something about this I'm missing? I guess it's a good thing it was short lived, but like, it feels like a bad call to hire someone who is in the middle of a lot of controversy like that before the dust settles.
This is bizarre, why would they hire him after the shitstorm and not, Y'know, wait it out a bit? Why hire him at all???
I'm so confused, is there something about this I'm missing? I guess it's a good thing it was short lived, but like, it feels like a bad call to hire someone who is in the middle of a lot of controversy like that before the dust settles.
Is rollback really such black magic that you'd need to hire a guy as radioactive as MikeZ? There's got to be other people capable of implementing it, right?