New Lengthy Jamie Otillie Interview: “We cannot right the wrongs of the former company”
https://gamedaily.biz/article/1478/telltale-20-we-cannot-right-the-wrongs-of-the-former-company
Great long read. Looks like Telltale is opening positions in a few weeks and they’re aiming for 30-35 employees by the end of 2020.
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Great interview, I feel bad for Jamie, as he is being held responsible for something he had no part in. I understand the skepticism towards the Telltale Brand, but this isn't Old Telltale, this has no ties to Old Telltale, Jamie has no intentions of repeating the mistakes of Old Telltale, so why continue to hold him accountable for what Old Telltale did? I'll be so happy to see all of those doubters and skeptics hush when they see what's in store from New Telltale.
As for former Telltale Devs, I completely understand how they feel about Telltale being revived, it was a traumatic event for them, and that trauma was induced by Telltale. Their anger and sadness isn't directed at Jamie, it's at Telltale.
I have seen a handful of comments on here asking why are they still upset over the layoffs, but we can't comprehend that as we didn't experience it ourselves, from the outside, we may eventually come to terms and move on, but being a part of such a Community within a Company that was, according to the noclip documentary, like a family, they may never be able to move on from such an event, but I genuinely hope they do overcome it. My heart goes out to them.
Apologies for the super long comment
The article sounds reassuring. I do believe that we should give the new Telltale a chance. I like that they are planning to grow slowly rather than quickly as the former did. In retrospect, this is what the former company should have done after TWD 1. Take things slowly and innovate.
This New Telltale is sounding very promising and already showing they have way more care in what they are producing than Old Telltale was. Sucks there is so much wrong info out there mostly due to a ton of people who are not aware what was going on at Telltale when it reached its final days but act like they do know what was going on.
Oh yeah, great interview. I do feel bad for Jamie seeing his new company revival is getting lots of misinformation-ed hate. Hopefully it'll die down soon, and when Telltale's ready to show off their next stuff, people won't immediately discount them as a joke brand. At the very least if all goes well for Wolf 2, that should fully solidify that they're doing good for the company.
Problem is, I've seen lots of comments online about people wanting New Telltale to compensate the laid off employees of last year. While that would be a great thing to do... how the hell would they do that, internet?? Where's the money coming from??
Gosh, this just makes me sad.
Anyways, here's some good stuff:
I believe in THEM
Honestly, all Jamie Ottilie said in this interview seems to make sense. So yeah, I wish the new Telltale good luck and I hope everything will work out fine for them.
Much better than Kevin Bruner.
anyone is better than Kevin Bruner as long as they don't run the company into the ground
Screw him, glad he's gone
Hopefully this means we can finally have Bill Farmer and Nick Jameson voice Sam and Max again!
Anyone is better than that goddamn goatee bearded prick Bruner.
Nah man, that's nazi propaganda!
Because I secretly have a crush on him.
See, guys!
Its nazi propaganda!
Who doesn't?
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A company isnt the only thing he can fuck 😳
Too far, man. Too far.
Loader bot is a pretty close second for me in terms of crushingness.
Third would be Alfred.
If there is one thing that Kevin Bruner cannot solve, it's definitely issues.
Yeah, I probably shouldn't be drinking while reading these discussions.
Well, if it helps, I'm sober.
One big oof, to solve a sad big oof.