External translators who've worked on major franchises including The Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing have been refused credits and locked into decade-long NDAs.
  • missingno@fedia.io
    14·
    5 months ago

    I’m surprised this is even legal. Why do we not have a law requiring credits to properly give credit?

    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      We do, standard contract law. If your contract says you should be getting credit, and you aren’t given credit, that’s an enforcable contract violation.

    • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      The correct answer is because game developers are, as a rule, not unionised. No one is pushing developers or publishers to properly credit their staff, so a lot of them simply don’t.

  • mindbleachEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    That is some 1980s shit - like giving devs forced nicknames, to prevent other companies from poaching them.