RUMOR - TT Games employee gets fired, may be sued for Wii...

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RUMOR - TT Games employee gets fired, may be sued for Wii U controller image leak
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This comes from system development consultant, Erlend Wollan...

Dev at Traveller's Tales who leaked updated WiiU controller (now with sticks!) already fired and may be taken to cort. Respect NDA's folks.

When you sign a non-disclosure agreement, you're supposed to stick to it! You can bet that Nintendo takes those very seriously.

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[LegendofSantiago]

Leave the poor man be. He has enough to deal with especially with the Nintendo assassins after him

[marco]

Wow, that sucks.

While I do feel bad for him and hope he'll be able to find a new job soon, that wasn't the most practical thing to do. ( I appreciate the image though~! ouo; )

[DcalebX]

Oh no...

Poor guy, probably had no idea, but he broke a law. An IMPORTANT law. Hopefully he finds work elsewhere...

I'd be willing to bet even if he didn't know it was illegal, he knew he shouldn't have done it. It's cool to get a sneak peek though.

[J0RdAnN]

It won't be legal action the Nintendo Ninja's are sure to poison his fish heads!

[KingBroly]

These Ninjas wear Suits and Ties.

[motovres]

Yeah... I wouldn't doubt this being true. And I do feel for the guy, but... certainly can't blame Telltale or Nintendo.

[obishawn]

Could this be today's GoNintenddo Nightly bad news? There really hasn't been any bad news today, has there?

[GulAtiCa]

Sucks for him, but that's what happens when you break NDA's.

[motherbra1n]

holy shovel.
but really, using your twitter account for a leak? it's as if he was begging to get fired.

[NeroSuferoth]

Too bad for the guy... For what it's worth, seeing that the circlepads are gone brought me joy.

[The_King_Up_North]

I can understand being fired, but taken to cort on top of that? All over a single image? That must suck big time. What happened to the person who leaked that Ubisoft trailer that showed off the NFC features? Surely that was a bigger deal?

EDIT: Btw, I hate how saying cou*rt translates to cort on this board.

[enigmaxtreme]

Is anyone really surprised....

[BigLord]

Heh, googling for "Leaked WiiU controller" now gets you tons of results. The internet has it now.

That said... Poor, poor guy. Getting the boot these days is awful. I wish him the best of luck :/

[Battlestriker123]

Haha. What a poor soul. Probably had no idea what he was working with.

[FatFace83]

Oh no...

Poor guy, probably had no idea, but he broke a law. An IMPORTANT law. Hopefully he finds work elsewhere...

He knew alright, Nintendo are well known when it comes to their NDA and secrecy, and surly every employe are told this before they are given the job and told the rights agreement and what-not

[KingBroly]

Oh no...

Poor guy, probably had no idea, but he broke a law. An IMPORTANT law. Hopefully he finds work elsewhere...

He knew alright, Nintendo are well known when it comes to their NDA and secrecy, and surly every employe are told this before they are given the job and told the rights agreement and what-not

If he feared the mighty hand of Iwata he wouldn't have leaked it in the first place.

[bunny-cow]

He gave the internet people with Wii U speculation fever a bone and now he gets the boot. Hope he finds another job soon.

[FatFace83]

I can understand being fired, but taken to cort on top of that? All over a single image? That must suck big time. What happened to the person who leaked that Ubisoft trailer that showed off the NFC features? Surely that was a bigger deal?

EDIT: Btw, I hate how saying cou*rt translates to cort on this board.

I remember the poor guy who lost a prototype of the iPhone 4, the guy was beaten many times and treated like vermin until he took his own life

[The_King_Up_North]

@FatFace83

Wait seriously? That's horrible if true. :/

[LegendofZelda1996]

I can understand being fired, but taken to cort on top of that? All over a single image? That must suck big time. What happened to the person who leaked that Ubisoft trailer that showed off the NFC features? Surely that was a bigger deal?

EDIT: Btw, I hate how saying cou*rt translates to cort on this board.

I have heard that breaking an NDA agreement is considered to be copyright infringement by the government.

[Star Luigi]

I'm sorry, but you shouldn't have any misunderstandings when you sign an NDA. It's all right there.

[ocre]

While I do feel bad that he lost his job and am glad he was so excited about the Wii U controller to share that picture via Twitter, I can't help but feel that he wasn't the only one that was harmed from that photo being released. The worst thing about that tweet was that it jumped the gun of Nintendo's own intended E3 2012 revelation (while the employees of Nintendo and other companies have had the respect to be silent for a year or more already). It takes away the bang of their intended revelation, and that's why it's so serious that he pays for it with his job. An example has been made. As for being taken to cort, that's another legal reality of this situation and I think it's appropriate.

[motherbra1n]

jesus christ they need to calm the heck down. So we now know the controller has analog sticks whooptido, I'm sure that us knowing it a few weeks earlier than they'd have liked us to will hardly kill anyone.

What difference will it actually make. They have one less thing to talk about at E3 now, actually sod that, they'll talk about it anyone and act as if the leak never happened and that we've never seen the final design of the controller (assuming that was the final design) so really what's the big deal

[FelipeGonc]

I can understand being fired, but taken to cort on top of that? All over a single image? That must suck big time. What happened to the person who leaked that Ubisoft trailer that showed off the NFC features? Surely that was a bigger deal?

EDIT: Btw, I hate how saying cou*rt translates to cort on this board.

I have heard that breaking an NDA agreement is considered to be copyright infringement by the government.

Of course. If you have agreed to and signed a NDA that tells you not to reveal information, on no account should you do so.