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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
And to think this is just a well publicized incident we've actually heard about! To think about how many other artists and devs get screwed over being contractors. 

The guy responsible for for the great art direction in Half Life 2 was just a temp employee, and like him not a single person seen on the credits for that game still works at Valve. Below management, anyways, the fact that it's been 19ish years now notwithstanding.
gpt
That’s what terrifies me about the gaming industry. Mick Gordon was basically as popular and high profile a video game composer could possibly be and they still felt like they could treat him like trash and get away with it. What awful shit do they do to the other contractors or even their full time employees that don’t have any public following to stand up for them in any way? There’s the constant stories about extreme overworking and crunching being rampant in the industry and then there’s stories like Activision Blizzard and Mick Gordon which you would hope are one offs but unfortunately it seems that level of abuse has secretly been the norm for a while. In any event, gaming devs desperately need to start unionizing to fight back.