The rhetoric and message that it is Neil Druckmann and only Neil Druckmann who created The Last of Us has been spread like prose by both Sony and Naughty Dog (and we in the gaming media who conveyed it to you) for the past six years and when it has now resulted in the omission of co-creator and producer Bruce Straley from the credits of HBO’s ongoing TV series based on the first game. Stingy, sneaky, naughty, mean… You can say a lot about that, of course, which Bruce Straley did in an interview with the Los Angeles Times now says that a union is needed for game creators to prevent things like this.
“It’s an argument for unionization that someone who was part of the co-creation of that world and those characters isn’t getting a credit or a nickel for the work they put into it. Maybe we need unions in the video game industry to be able to protect creators.”
What is your opinion of this?
