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Archived tweet from his twitter account, @MartyTheElder
(Community post from his own youtube channel in question)
In another recent tweet, he also mentions that he is thinking of retiring for good from the games industry. Yet another tweet simply says "Ask Pete Parsons".
Background information:
Martin O'Donell, for those that don't know him, is a notable video game composer. During his time at Bungie (which is is now no longer an employer of) he was responsible for the soundtrack of the original Halo games and Destiny. Recently, he announced that he would be working on Six Days in Fallujah, a game on the receiving end of several cancellation attempts.
He's also known to be conservative/right-leaning, as was pointed out in one of the replies to the above tweets.
Pete Parsons (@pparsons) is the current CEO of Bungie. Take a look at the man's twitter banner.
That aside, the circumstances in which Bungie was bought over by Activision (and Marty's subsequent exit from the company) are complicated. If anyone can provide a short and accurate summary of the events, please leave it below.
It may be true that Marty has uploaded copyrighted content on his Youtube channel, like the complete Music of the Spheres (the rights are owned by Bungie, even though he had a hand in composing). There are also rumors that he was very demanding and a very difficult individual to work with.
I don't want to point fingers, since a lot of things aren't known at this stage. Hopefully it's a purely business affair, but given the politics involved...I'm really not optimistic. He's one of my favourite composers, and Halo's soundtrack made up a good part of my childhood, so it'll be sad to lose his insight from youtube.
What do you all think?
(Community post from his own youtube channel in question)
In another recent tweet, he also mentions that he is thinking of retiring for good from the games industry. Yet another tweet simply says "Ask Pete Parsons".
Background information:
Martin O'Donell, for those that don't know him, is a notable video game composer. During his time at Bungie (which is is now no longer an employer of) he was responsible for the soundtrack of the original Halo games and Destiny. Recently, he announced that he would be working on Six Days in Fallujah, a game on the receiving end of several cancellation attempts.
He's also known to be conservative/right-leaning, as was pointed out in one of the replies to the above tweets.
Pete Parsons (@pparsons) is the current CEO of Bungie. Take a look at the man's twitter banner.
That aside, the circumstances in which Bungie was bought over by Activision (and Marty's subsequent exit from the company) are complicated. If anyone can provide a short and accurate summary of the events, please leave it below.
It may be true that Marty has uploaded copyrighted content on his Youtube channel, like the complete Music of the Spheres (the rights are owned by Bungie, even though he had a hand in composing). There are also rumors that he was very demanding and a very difficult individual to work with.
I don't want to point fingers, since a lot of things aren't known at this stage. Hopefully it's a purely business affair, but given the politics involved...I'm really not optimistic. He's one of my favourite composers, and Halo's soundtrack made up a good part of my childhood, so it'll be sad to lose his insight from youtube.
What do you all think?