Rockstar preparing to drop both financial and working support with Team Bondi after recent news revealed the company was furious with how badly Team Bondi mismanaged the company's money involving the L.A. Noire project.
Rockstar has already refused to both publish and finance the next project currently in development by Team Bondi with the final break-up expected to occur pretty soon.
The biggest reason for Rockstar's decision was due to the increasing "fighting" and resentment between Rockstar and Team Bondi's founder. The main issues ended up being Team Bondi refusal to make any changes Rockstar felt were needed and the studio's habit of firing and hiring too many people multiple times during development.
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"Rockstar also made a huge contribution to the development. Their producers were increasingly influential over the last two years of the game's development, and overruled many of the insane decisions made by Team Bondi management. At a lower level, Rockstar also pitched in with programmers, animators, artists, QA, etc. Part of the conflict between Team Bondi and Rockstar was due to Rockstar's frustration with Team Bondi's direction, and eventually Team Bondi's management in turn resented Rockstar for taking lots of creative control. It's also worth pointing out that Rockstar used to be very keen on making Team Bondi something like 'Rockstar Sydney' – the more they worked with Team Bondi management, the more they came to understand that this was a terrible idea."
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The decision to pull their support from the studio also comes after recent news of Rockstar being completely blamed for the poor working conditions and the large list of contributing names missing from the credits list of L.A. Noire.
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