I learned today that we need a “Wolf of Wolfenstein” movie.
I would see that movie in a heartbeat.
amazing title! haha
And that doesn’t just mean legal had the reigns. It means a weird percentage of the top leadership were literally D.C. attorneys.
The tensions go all the way back to the post-Doom (1) era. Carmack wasn't blameless either. Here's a fun war story from Sandy Petersen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ga1TFBrBo .
So they’re kinda like the Oracle of gaming :)
Everyone I know who works at Oracle seems to love it there. IME it's the people on the other end of the contract who tend to despise Oracle.
Yeah this is a curious dichotomy. Universally hated from the outside but beloved from the inside. It does seem perhaps a little cult like though, the median tenure seems incredibly long - people join and _never_ leave.
If they didn't love it there, wouldn't they leave? In this market, it's relatively easy to do so.
Work conditions and business practices aren’t the same things.
seems
Yeah, but Oracle is much better at it. If Zenimax really wants to compete with them, they need to be sending license auditors into my house to count the number of occupants as potential users and send me a bill for their use of &/or gaining of enjoyment through watching me play their games.