Jason Rubin To Leave Naughty Dog

Thanks to GameSpot for its story revealing Naughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin is leaving the company after Jak III is completed. Rubin, who has a long history in the games industry, helping create both the Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter franchises, mentions he's "made a conscious decision to leave Naughty Dog and explore other options in the gaming sector", arguably not a surprise since his recent DICE Conference speech on the disrespect paid to game developers. The GameSpot article notes: "While Rubin's speech took game publishers to task for not valuing talent, he maintains he was not singling out Sony", and a separate interview fleshes out Rubin's feedback from the speech, noting: "So far nobody has said anything negative, but those who do not want to hear what was said won't be the types to comment directly."

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Re:Out of curiosity

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Why don't you agree with Rubin?

Because he's being a whiny bitch. There's nothing there. At the end of the day Game Designers are game designers. They're not rock stars or movie stars and nobody gives 2 shits about 99% of what they do. The life of a game designer isn't glamorous.

At this point no game designer could do the same except those former independents who managed to wrangle lucrative publishing contracts while maintaining autonomy. (eg.. iD)

And this is where I call bullshit. There are those people. Rubins is one of them. There are bunches of folks like that. They've sold millions of units and kissed a fair amount of ass. But the same goes for indy films. Those things don't get big just because they're great, the folks play the game. Rubins definitely does that as anyone who's seen him in action at a Sony party knows.

To recap : 1) I think Rubins is full of shit and was just being a whiny bitch. 2) All this crap about indy games is missing the point, quit whining, kiss ass at E3 (parties) and GDC and make your fucking game.
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