Inside Annapurna Interactive’s Mass Walkout: Internal Politics, the Surprise Remedy Deal, and Why It All Happened
Inside Annapurna Interactive’s Mass Walkout: Internal Politics, the Surprise Remedy Deal, and Why It All Happened
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And the award for ‘Worst Company Culture’ goes to… Annapurna Interactive!
Politics are antithetical to any work environment.
Reading all the events that led to the walkout and it seems to be: Ellison, Ellison, Ellison, Ellison, Ellison.
This definitely shed some light on the situation. That said, and this may be unpopular, the core question remains unresolved:
>While all this was going on, sources say that discussions with Ellison regarding the spin-off appeared to have stalled out, and in August Annapurna officially terminated discussion. Annapurna claims this was due to Gary’s lack of response to requests for feedback on legal drafts, and in a statement sent to IGN after publication, doubled down. “Any implication Annapurna was backtracking on the deal is false. We agreed to high-level deal terms and signed a term sheet in early April, which makes it all the more surprising that we never got a response.”
Who is responsible for the spin-off falling through? The rest of the story paints a negative light on Ellison’s intransparent communication and decision making, but intransparency in a company is probably the norm more often than not, which isn’t to say it’s good. Just not much of a scandal in and of itself.