Comments on: Red Fly CEO Responds To Ghostbusters Credit

By: Josh Straub

Josh Straub — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:57:50 +0000

I agree that this debacle has caused the Deviant artist who did the original ghostbusters art more publicity than if his name WAS originally included! And by the way, his art is Awesome!!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:07:20 +0000

Not enough room on the credits? Sounds iffy, IANAL but I would imagine that if putting his name on the credits was part of the contract then his name not being on the credits would cause the contract to be null and void. If there wasn’t a contract then, well too bad.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:23:09 +0000

What I find curious is that there was any notion of space limitation in the credits. Its not as if you few more lines of text would have prevented the game fitting on the disc. Well, what’s done is done and at this point you can only move forward.

You leave someone off in the film credits and you have the union banging down your door.

By: Justice

Justice — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:15:59 +0000

“and attacking me or the studio in the press was and is a wrong way to handle things. ”
Shoening didn’t attack him, he purposefully avoided naming Borth or blaming him individually. And with the game done and out the door, what other recourse does he have?
No, a “special thanks” on a blog, (especially on a blog!) doesn’t cut it. And the attempt at apologizing in the letter is severely undercut by saying he resents how Shoening made it public. Just say sorry and STFU.

By: Sir-G

Sir-G — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:11:34 +0000

It seems as though they removed the thank you post from their website. LOL!

By: Pizz

Pizz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:48:15 +0000

If he worked on the game, he deserved his name on it. Just like all these other people who worked on it. There’s no,
“Uh.. I spend an hour longer on it than you and im not in the credits!” – shit. Its not a compitition, he should be on there.
Red Fly, and that numbskull CEO can eat me.. and the artist.
That reply was stupid. And all i have learnt from it is Red Fly sucks.

Peace

By: Dooley P

Dooley P — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:49:52 +0000

Too little too late.
If his artwork is the cornerstone of your design (and it definitely seems that way), simply mentioning his name on blogs ain’t gonna cut it.

Funny thing though, with the amount of publicity he’s now getting, he’s got nothing to complain about any longer.

I’d hate to be one of those folks who put more hours than him and didn’t get mentioned. That’d suck.
I mean jesus, the id Mom got into the credits time and again, and she was their accountant, I think?

By: Bossman

Bossman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:08:57 +0000

Like I said. A fuck up. But like this dude said. Everyone couldn’t make it into the credits. People who “May have” worked longer on the game etc. Also the characters are maybe “inspired by” the characters Dan did. The reason the response was a bit harsh is its apparent that Dan may have been pestering these guys for a long time because he knew with the shake up of the transferal of rights of this game since its been in development he may get lost in the shuffle. And he did. So for him to make multiple posts about it on various blogs (as Redfly said) is unprofessional.

By: Sir-G

Sir-G — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:07:51 +0000

His reply does seem a bit harsh. And I get the impression he thinks Dan contacted various websites to get his story out. Well just for the record, I just happened to stumble upon his devinart page ( I frequent it every now and then) and saw his story because I thought the Ghostbuster art looked very familar. I wrote the original story here on TrueGameHeadz just to make people aware of the whole ordeal.

By: Big Dub

Big Dub — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:09:59 +0000

“So we reached an agreement that included money and an on screen credit.”

“Was Dan’s name left off? Yes it was.”

That’s all that needed to be said. No integrity.