That open letter from Marty always felt fishy to me, because everything I ever saw about Mick made him feel like someone who is simply enthusiastic about music and all the stuff he claimed smelled wrong. I ended up writing it off as "Maybe he's just better at a public persona than I figured," and was sad but moved on. But now? Oof I wonder what Bethesda/Zenimax/MS does about this, because the look is NOT good for Marty, and Mick seems to have the receipts to back it up.
Conjecture: Marty will sue him for defamation and lose when discovery proves that substantially every allegation Mick made was true.
This was Mick's entire life for two years, but was just another contractor Marty was (badly) juggling. One of them will have a far clearer memory of what's going on.
I would agree with that. I said the look wasn't good because I can't know everything but Mick seems to have enough receipts finding a detail that makes Marty look less bad will be challenging at best.
My guess would be Marty made promises to upper management and things fell apart due to mismanagement. If this was JUST Mick and Marty interacting without some level of outside force I doubt Marty would act this stupidly.
I knew Marty's open letter was bullshit back then when I first read it since the game was originally set to release in 2019, and here he was talking about not having Mick under contract for the OST in January 2020. It was also suspicious that he said that they didn't have the source material for the game music after that contract has ended. That would be such a tremendous oversight, the studio not owning all the material for their game.
It all makes sense after reading Mick's statement. Chad was tasked with the OST for the original release date back in August 2019, and he was supposed to use the game music, including the parts that ended up being rejected for the game. This is why Mick was ignored for months when asking about the OST. They only went back to him in March 2020 when it was apparent that the studio is not up to the task.
I also think Chad was the original plan for the OST. However I don't think Marty/id ever decided that Chad isn't up to the task. Note that Mick only got the contract by going straight to their parent company Bethesda. Marty only showed up after Bethesda was already doing the contract anyway.
What's more, the announcement of the OST has some ambiguous wording. They announced it as Mick Gordon's DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal original soundtracks. This stuck out to me immediately as a combination of Mick Gordon's DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal. Mick cites this in his medium post as Mick Gordon’s original DOOM Eternal soundtrack but I think that is (understandable) wishful thinking.
