Because it still objectively is nepotism, no matter how hard you try to spin it as something else. They planned to hire 4 people, and they did. Then those 4 people persuaded them to hire their friends who the company originally didn't plan to hire because they wanted only 4 according to that interview which is a very shameful face of nepotism.
Have you ever actually had a job that involved working with other people? Referrals from existing employees is a completely standard method of finding new employees.
By the way, shouldn't you use to term cronyism? Nepotism is appointing relatives whereas cronyism means appointing friends to positions regardless of qualifications. Or maybe use the broad term favoritism.
Have you ever actually had a job that involved working with other people? Referrals from existing employees is a completely standard method of finding new employees.
I sure have but there's a difference between hiring someone based on qualifications and only because they're friends with someone.
I sure have but there's a difference between hiring someone based on qualifications and only because they're friends with someone.
Modders would have been hired based on their qualifications. Aside from the original devs, who else would have so much working knowledge of the Infinity Engine?
I am shocked by some of the attitudes displayed here, and think it says an awful lot about the people who have those attitudes, however they dress them up.
'You really should be working harder to provide me with the things I want. I don't care if your doing it for love. I don't care if your not being paid. I don't care about all the great things you've done in the past. I don't care if you have a job, and a family, and things to do'
Stamps feet really hard and holds breath until cheeks go very very red.
'I want it. I want it. I want it. And if your not going to do it for me I want you to find someone else who will. And the fact that I can't do it, or won't do it, isn't the issue. I want it NOW'
EDIT: While I am disappointed that Ascension isn't out yet (*pokes @Cuv with a stick* Hurry up you!) this isn't a KOTOR2 scenario where the base game is irrevocably broken or unplayable without the mod (like K2 without TSLRCM) guys. So let's keep this in perspective shall we?
While I am disappointed that Ascension isn't out yet (*pokes @Cuv with a stick* Hurry up you!) this isn't a KOTOR2 scenario where the base game is irrevocably broken or unplayable without the mod (like K2 without TSLRCM) guys. So let's keep this in perspective shall we?
Uh... KOTOR2 is playable without the RCM, straight through to the end. Might not make a lick of sense without it, but those are the facts. Let's not start with false comparisons.
Have you ever actually had a job that involved working with other people? Referrals from existing employees is a completely standard method of finding new employees.
I sure have but there's a difference between hiring someone based on qualifications and only because they're friends with someone.
Nowhere does the article say that. From the article:
When we were working on Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, we reached out to the modding community, and we hooked up with a couple guys who’d been modding Baldur’s Gate for the last 10-plus years. They’ve done amazing stuff. They’d done all these fix packs. ... We wound up hiring a couple of them. And then they said, hey, you should hire this guy, you should hire that guy. At last count there’s a dozen of them.
That's not hiring someone "only because they're friends with someone." That's the people they hired referring other members of the modding community, i.e. people whose modding work they know and can vouch for to Beamdog.
You are right, I have been a terrible person by sitting on the assets for Ascension - They should be freely available to the entire world and the modding community. Here they are:
This thread is closed. The mod's resources are available for anyone who wants to work on them, but the blatant disrespect being showcased here is absolutely not okay.
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'You really should be working harder to provide me with the things I want. I don't care if your doing it for love. I don't care if your not being paid. I don't care about all the great things you've done in the past. I don't care if you have a job, and a family, and things to do'
Stamps feet really hard and holds breath until cheeks go very very red.
'I want it. I want it. I want it. And if your not going to do it for me I want you to find someone else who will. And the fact that I can't do it, or won't do it, isn't the issue. I want it NOW'
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While I am disappointed that Ascension isn't out yet (*pokes @Cuv with a stick* Hurry up you!) this isn't a KOTOR2 scenario where the base game is irrevocably broken or unplayable without the mod (like K2 without TSLRCM) guys.
So let's keep this in perspective shall we?
https://forums.beamdog.com/uploads/FileUpload/0f/6bb50aca4a4ef55405076a90f19e7a.zip
http://weidu.org/asc.html
This thread is closed. The mod's resources are available for anyone who wants to work on them, but the blatant disrespect being showcased here is absolutely not okay.