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Top Retro Studios staff leave - escorted from premises.
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Design director Mark Pacini, art director Todd Keller, and principal technology engineer Jack Mathews were escorted off the premises last Friday. The simultaneous departure of senior staff members is generally indicative of an intention to branch off and form a new development studio.
Contrary to other rumors, Shacknews has also learned that Retro Studios is not in danger of closing.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52373
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This is a little out of left field, isn't it?
I never asked for this!
Metroid Prime has hopefully run its course anyway.
Frag wins the round!
Luckily I'm not a Metroid fan or this would be quite disconcerting for me.
Uh, they're supposed to. If not then it's just because they don't find this weeks humour funny.
It was fun while it lasted but Metroid kind of needs something fresh again anyway.
Hopefully some 2D/2.5D DS shit. I guess that's not fresh. But it's been a while.
Well Bungie could only take so much Halo.
That's probably what happened here. That or they just quit normally and 'escorting' is company policy no matter what level or position the former employee held.
Nintendo normally doesn't have problems with letting a company not produce sequel after sequel. Metroid isn't that good of a seller to force a company to do that anyway. Mark Pacini even said they were taking a break from the series. I know he was just fired but still...
Sounds like a pretty retarded company policy.
Huh. Learn something new every day. Can't say I've personally run into companies where it's standard procedure to do so, although admittedly my experience of such is limited.
I wanted at least one more Metroid Prime, because god damn the controls in Prime 3 were too good not to make another one. Ah well... maybe Nintendo will pass the series off to NST, and we'll get a real online multiplayer Metroid FPS for the Wii.
many companies don't want to risk an ex-employee making off with sensitive information, sabotaging a project before they leave, or even being stupid enough to send a company wide email bitching about something and stirring up lots of drama
I never asked for this!
Maybe this is more common Stateside than in the UK. Can't say I've really heard of it here. Most of the places I've worked at have been fairly amicable about employees leaving. There's often send-off parties and stuff too. *shrugs*
It's the truth. If you quit, or are terminated, then it's in their best interest to escort you out. Less chances of flipping out on the party leaving, less chance of a law suit for the employer.
Besides, once they're gone, you want to make sure that they're really "gone," don't you?
Nope, but wildly flailing conjecture is far more fun.
Cause that's what Im gonna do. I've got the zip ready.
Plus, we get a shit-ton of office shootings/threats here, which you pretty much have to treat as a real possibility in most situations.
This is the sign of an individual that's pleased with their job.
Indeed. At the company I work for, a guard will check your box (if you are leaving with one), walk you off the premises and then take your badge on your last day, regardless of "why" it is your last day. Been that way since the day I started, and I've been there eight years.
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I can sort of understand if there have been incidents or unpleasantness or something. But, last company I worked at, when I left it was customary to bring in a load of cakes and things and pass them around the place, people would send well wishing e-mails. I handed in my smartcard on the last day, then came back 5 minutes later and asked for it again quickly so that I could say goodbye to a few people I had forgotten about. If you had been with the company for years people would often get a collection around in the weeks beforehand so that they could buy you a leaving gift.
I dunno, it just seems weird to me otherwise if it's just a case of moving on to other things and there's no real negative feeling there.
Dammit!
also 'rippedBYSc@R@|3.txt'
And the entire contents of the folder labeled "misc".
Oh, I wasn't trying to imply that they're very impersonal about it or anything, just that someone leaving is treated more formally than just "see you guys later!". We have going-away events for employees all the time, with cake (no lie)!
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edit: well, I guess IGN is listing it as news now so maybe not.
I don't know why this is news worthy. This is not something uncommon in the game industry.
This news is very o_O
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Well, they could feel restricted in what they are allowed to do.