When the Doom Eternal official soundtrack (OST) was released to near universal ridicule in 2020, id Software manager Marty Stratton took to reddit to explain how it was all the fault of composer Mick Gordon.

2.5 years later Mick Gordon joined the fight with his own tale of unpaid contracts, abuse, and mismanagement, and things are getting messy.

Now Bethesda, parent company to id (and subsidiary of Microsoft) has defending its employees...in perhaps the most hollow way possible.

Sometimes silence truly is golden...in Virtual Legality.

#doom #doometernal #ost

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*** CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 01:12 Stratton Statement (short form) 06:31 Gordon Statement (short form) 08:18 Bethesda Statement Analysis 19:05 Conclusion

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*** Discussed in this episode:

BETHESDA STATEMENT

https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1592971214817222656

REDDIT POST (2020) https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/gdg25y/doom_eternal_ost_open_letter/

GORDON RESPONSE (2022) https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

*** "Virtual Legality" is a continuing series discussing the law, video games, software, and everything digital, hosted by Richard Hoeg, of the Hoeg Law Business Law Firm (Hoeg Law).

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