Question to those with shipped titles?

JO420 · Jan 2006

Do you usually get given a copy of the game you have worked on or do you have to go out and buy it?

Zatoichi · Jan 2006

Heh, well usually you get one unless the developer/publisher is reeeeealy cheap.

danr · Jan 2006

aye, i've got a free copy of everything i've done.

JonMurphy · Jan 2006

When I have worked in house, yes. With contract work, the studio may get a copy, but I will have to get one for myself (no problam, as they are normally cheap titles anyway

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Xenobond · Jan 2006

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aye, i've got a free copy of everything i've done.

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Same here. Weather I've wanted it, or not. haha

FatAssasin · Jan 2006

And usually, if it's released one multiple platforms you get to pick the version you want.

b1ll · Jan 2006

I make sure its in the contract.

poopinmymouth · Jan 2006

Neversoft gave me twelve copies of Tony Hawk American Wasteland covering all the platforms it was released on, even the handhelds. And twelve copies of GUN on all it's platforms (except PC).

Mythic gave me a copy of the games I worked on. TRI didn't, but by the time they all got their copies I wasn't employed there anymore, so I understand.

KDR_11k · Jan 2006

12 platforms??? I didn't know there even are that many!

Vark · Jan 2006

I usually get one copy per platform plus collectors version if there's any.

Paul Jaquays · Jan 2006

Coleco = Initially, no copies. Then only copies of games you actually worked on. Had to buy my own ColecoVision.

Freelance = usually got a couple copies of the PC game and half a dozen copies of any paper and pencil RPG game products I worked on.

TSR (RPG product) = got one copy of every stinking product the company produced (usually 6 or more a month), but something like 6 copies of games with my cover or art in it (between TSR and freelancing, I have TONS of RPG product ... eventually going to have to Ebay some of it).

id = several copies of all games we produced, plus at least one copy of games using an id IP developed elsewhere.

Ensemble/Microsoft = several copies of each version of each game that the studio itself creates (not ports or licensed IP).

NOTE: Any developer/publisher that is too stingy to give one (or more) copies of a game that an artist works on is likely to be questionable in other dealings too (IMHO).

Malekyth · Jan 2006

I've gotten one copy of each game I worked on too. Officially, I mean; Epic tends to leave big boxes of their games scattered around the studio, meaning that I could theoretically have gotten more than one copy of something, but I didn't need them so didn't take.

At my current job, I expect to get one single copy of Hellgate ... but fortunately my contract also states that I get 666 unborn souls, pure and innocent, to do with as I please. That's pretty cool.

nitzmoff · Jan 2006

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At my current job, I expect to get one single copy of Hellgate ... but fortunately my contract also states that I get 666 unborn souls, pure and innocent, to do with as I please. That's pretty cool.

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Unless you're not in-house, we're studio neighbors.

If not... well then let's never speak of this again. The pain would simply be too great to bear.

Dravalen · Jan 2006

For the contract work I did I never recieved a copy of the game(had to buy it on my own), however I know the non-contract people got a copy of the game/tshirt.

JKim3 · Jan 2006

I've gotten copies of both the games I've worked on. They would be given to us by the publisher. We'd get a bunch of PS2 versions, and some GC and XBox ones. The producer would then ask us to choose 2 versions we would like and then we would get one.

pogonip · Jan 2006

Isn't there a new law though about this kind of thing since the whole Enron scandel ? At least in America . I think that is what Fry was saying about not getting a Xbox360 he had to go out and buy his own even though he is the President of Microsoft games . Free products have to be filed now as part of your income ..something like that ?

malcolm · Jan 2006

I get one copy of the game minimum. Sometimes I get to two copies and we are allowed to pick the platforms we like.

Jeff Parrott · Jan 2006

I got a copy on each platform and any "limited/collector" editions. And a few weeks after launch we got a few extra if we wanted.

KDR_11k · Jan 2006

Pogonip: AFAIK that applies only to management.

swampbug · Jan 2006

When i interned on RTX redrock.. I never got a copy of the game from Lucasarts. So I bought it for 6.99 in a bargain bin 2 years later. :F

Volition gives us 1 copy of the game for each platform. thats what happened with punisher.

Ryno · Jan 2006

I always got free copies at Microsoft. Now that I work at an outsourcing company, I don't get copies from the publishers generally.

AstroZombie · Jan 2006

DICE gave me a free copy of BF:V as a contractor. As an outsourcing company we sometimes get free copies, but most of the time we don't.

kleinluka · Jan 2006

Valve gave me a free copy of DOD:Source even though I only worked on the original and not the Source version.

I didn't get a boxed copy of the original though...it was available for download anyways.

nealb4me · Jan 2006

Simbin gave me both GTR and GTLegends, I didn't get a copy of PGR3 as I worked through an outsourcing company. I think pretty much if you work directly with the company then you get free copies. I think how b1ll does it is good though, make sure it's in the contract

JO420 · Jan 2006

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DICE gave me a free copy of BF:V as a contractor. As an outsourcing company we sometimes get free copies, but most of the time we don't.

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That seems to be the case

oh well ill just buy it when its released.

Foehammer · Jan 2006

got my one copy on the platform of my choice from TRI and i'll get the same from Atari/Paradigm

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