The other day, the Sonic Twitter account released a remix of the Sonic R classic "Can You Feel the Sunshine" composed by Jun Senoue and Tee Lopes with vocals by Tee's sister Mariana Lopes, which received a positive response from most people... except the original composer of the tune, Richard Jacques:
This was quite a rude comment from Mr. Jacques considering Tee Lopes almost certainly had nothing to do with putting credit on the video, as well as the fact that most fans listening to the remix would probably be aware of the fact that he was the original composer, but he deleted the tweet shortly afterwards so I assumed maybe he was just having a bad day.
...That is until I saw these tweets from Bentley Jones, best known by Sonic fans for Silver's theme "Dreams of an Absolution" from Sonic 06 and the theme to the original Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.
That this behavior is confirmed not to be a one-off but something known to Sega for years is appalling to say the least. Wikipedia has him credited as working on Sonic as recently as this year with a remix for Team Sonic Racing, but if this is how he treats other Sonic composers then clearly he needs to go.
This was quite a rude comment from Mr. Jacques considering Tee Lopes almost certainly had nothing to do with putting credit on the video, as well as the fact that most fans listening to the remix would probably be aware of the fact that he was the original composer, but he deleted the tweet shortly afterwards so I assumed maybe he was just having a bad day.
...That is until I saw these tweets from Bentley Jones, best known by Sonic fans for Silver's theme "Dreams of an Absolution" from Sonic 06 and the theme to the original Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.
That this behavior is confirmed not to be a one-off but something known to Sega for years is appalling to say the least. Wikipedia has him credited as working on Sonic as recently as this year with a remix for Team Sonic Racing, but if this is how he treats other Sonic composers then clearly he needs to go.