Rockstar was not happy with the performance of Team Bondi during the development of L. A. Noire. The publisher handle increasingly powerful in the Australian studio, and now wants to be the publisher not games of Team Bondi to spend more.
A week ago it was already clear that the development of detectivespel L. A. Noire is not flawless was expired. A group of eleven ex-employees clapped out of the school about the poor working conditions at the Australian developer Team Bondi, which sometimes work weeks of 110 hours were made and overtime was only paid after the release of the game, and then only to the employees up to and including the end of the route and remain in service.
Now diving more ex-employees that their story would do. Website GamesIndustry spoke with a former gameplay programmer and game designer at Team Bondi. They emphasize that not only the employees of Team Bondi were dissatisfied, but also publisher Rockstar. According to the two, who together have more than eight years of service at Team Bondi have worn, is the respect that Rockstar initially had for the developer, during the development process turned into contempt.
Rockstar grip even harder in Team Bondi and according to the two ex-employees is that intervention to thank for the fact that the game is released. “I think that Rockstar, the project has saved. They are money in L. A. Noire continue to pump and their marketing was fantastic. Without their continued support, Team Bondi many years ago went bankrupt”, suggested one of the two. Rockstar provided additional producers to the development process to guide. They turned, to dissatisfaction of Team Bondi-director Brendan McNamara, many of the decisions that the leadership of Team Bondi had taken. Especially the last two years was Rockstar strongly with the development. The publisher produced in that period also support programmers, animators and artists.
According to the two relationships were in the first instance, so well that Rockstar was planning to Team Bondi to buy and to transform them into Rockstar Sydney. In the meantime, the proportions, however, are so bad that Rockstar games after L. A. Noire no games of Team Bondi wants to spend.