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On the contrary, after the horror stories coming from Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard, sometimes requiring the government to intervene, my expectation is really low. If anything this is a dull affair since nobody got killed or sexually harrassed.

He did get vivid death threats though

> thus this looks bad for the industry as a whole

The industry has almost always been terrible for decades now, this situation is just another drop in the bucket of terrible stories.

This would never happen with an indie studio because they wouldn’t have the deep pockets to legally strong arm the contractor. If both parties were small businesses then the threat of legal action from either side would keep them both form misbehaving.