Translators for Baldurs Gate 3 worked for 3 years translating more than 1 million words and Altagram Group only credited their execs and leads
That's how being a vender works.
I’d say that’s okay if only the company is credited by name, but the execs names were included. If they’re including names, include all the names. It’s not a long list from what I saw on Twitter.
You make a good point.
Literally every other translation team got credits except the Brazilian one
I don't see the issue here..did they expect to get their name in credits for doing their job? They can still put it on their resume...
did they expect to get their name in credits for doing their job?
Yes, that is the purpose of the credits. To credit people who did their job on the project.
But that's not how it works for most outsourced vendors. When you look at movie or game credits and you see a sector headed by a company name, it's because that company was hired to do a certain task. And in that case you mostly only see the leads names listed, not the actual workers.
Then hopefully if it was that important to them they were smart enough to have it in their contracts which means now they are owed compensation for that unfulfilled portion of their contract.
I don't like the down vote button so I will spare you with that. Yes, they can still put it on their resume but what the employer did is scumbag move cause translation is a hard job to do well and good translator can make good money doing various job. In creative industry, credit listed is a big thing for anyone that starting out. If not so, why does movie, anime, game that have those long scrolling opening/ending credit?( A xxxxx Film, Directed by xxxxx, Produced by xxxxx.) For a video game, there is no "screen time" limit like movie/anime do, so not including the team and only the execs is like slapping those that worked really hard for the project to make it a better game.
I guess the disconnect is that this is common practice in most industries. Is it right? I can't really comment on that. Do team leads or EC members get their name on things when 100's of people worked tirelessly under them and they networked at the golf course? Yes..all the time in business. Maybe this is different in the gaming industry.
They can put it on their resume but with out their name there's no proof they did any work. You can now put it on your resume and pretend you did it because no one is named.
It's done out of fear someone else might know who did their work and someone else might hire them, so by not naming them they weaken the employees chance of getting work elsewhere.
Stop defending this shit, this is a company dehumanizing their employees and your taking the companies side?
If you think this is dehumanizing, you got some rough lessons when you join the workforce. That being said, I'm not defending it in the least. I just think it's minuscule in the grand scheme of 'bad things a company can do to its workers' and if anything should teach the translators to get it in any future contracts. But then again, I'm in compliance management. I've seen companies discard poultry machines because they had a guard removed and they wanted to hide that from OSHA (and lawyers) to 'improve throughput' that then eventually cut a woman's hand half off, then fire employees who told OSHA who and why the guard was removed. Not getting your name credited on some work, OHTEHNOES THE TRAGEDY!! Fuckin grow up.
You can float any theory or idea why but this is always done for one of two reasons. Either they don't want to give credit and feel they are afraid they might be poached. Or they don't value their employees as human beings.
Either way no one should ever work for this company again and all execs need to be named and shamed so they can never get people to work under them again.
Disgusting disgusting disgusting. This is basic human decency.because I can guarantee if they pull this shit they under pay their employees as well
Typical C Suite douches. I bet they are monolingual and can't even translate.
"Pfft translation is easy. I can just pop it into google translate and something comes out. Can't be that much harder by hand"