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The publishers of Doom Eternal have shared a strongly worded statement aimed at composer Mick Gordon, following Gordon’s recent outpouring on Medium. Bethesda tweeted their statement last night, calling Gordon’s lengthy post explaining his experience working on Doom Eternal’s soundtrack “a one-sided and unjust account of an irreparable professional relationship”. Gordon had replied to an open letter published on Reddit by id Software executive producer Marty Stratton, more than two years after Stratton’s letter was posted online.
Doom Eternal composer Mick Gordon claims that id Software director Marty Stratton “lied” about the FPS game’s official soundtrack, and that a Reddit post authored by Stratton in 2020 “severely impacted” his reputation, alongside other claims regarding crunch and legal challenges from Doom publisher Bethesda and parent company Zenimax, which allegedly attempted to issue a “gag order” preventing Gordon from discussing his work publicly.
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Composer Mick Gordon has published a rebuttal to an open letter by id Software executive producer Marty Stratton concerning Doom Eternal‘s soundtrack. Stratton’s post was written all the way back in May 2020, and Gordon’s response is a doozy. “Marty lied about the circumstances surrounding the DOOM Eternal Soundtrack and used disinformation and innuendo to blame me entirely for its failure,” Gordon said in the post on Medium. Gordon claims that Stratton later offered a six-figure amount if he never spoke about the matter, but Gordon insists he turned the money down.
Mick Gordon, the composer for a variety of AAA video games including Id Software’s Doom series as well as the upcoming first person shooter Atomic Heart, has released a tell-all statement about his time working on Doom Eternal. A lengthy, piece, it goes in-depth into claims of intense crunch, months without pay, mismanagement, and a lengthy legal battle.
For those not in the know, Doom Eternal’s OST was released back in April 2020 as a clearly muddled product. We covered this back then with lengthy feature, but it was clear that a breakdown between Mick and Id had taken place. Now, three years after an open letter written by Marty Stratton at Id Software laid much of the blame on Mick for the OST’s quality, Mick has come forward with his own side of the story.
Gordon’s Medium post (which we highly recommend you read in full here) covers a variety of issues he claims to have experienced during his time working on Doom Eternal, as well as in the months and years following the game’s release. This includes crunch, with Gordon stating: “ I worked straight for months, desperately trying to stay on top of things, and each week seemed to bring a new set of problems”. Gordon claims this was made worse by being cut out of meetings, unanswered emails, files being auto-deleted and information being withheld.
Instead, Spencer said Microsoft’s plan for Call of Duty is “similar to what we’ve done with Minecraft,” which has remained a cross-platform staple since Microsoft’s $2.5 billion purchase of developer Mojang in 2014. Since then, Spencer said, “we’ve expanded the places where people can play Minecraft… and it’s been good for the Minecraft community, in my opinion. I want to do the same as we think about where Call of Duty can go over the years.”
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