Some disgruntled Rockstar employee’s unofficially told Joystiq about the unrest at the San Diego studio following the release of Midnight Club: LA. A employee said “Jay Panek and Mark Garone, people who were at the company for over 10 years, were fired in 2009 after the completion of Midnight Club: LA… other major people quit, as they lost hope in the company after the handling of MC: LA and didn’t want to work on Red Dead Redemption.”
Another spoke of the problems that they were encountering with the “top brass” in the New York head office. He said that “anyone from the New York office is feared, because people in the San Diego office know that they are unstable and needy… in other words, if a comment comes from a person from New York, it’s a mandate that needs to be immediately addressed regardless of previous priorities.”
Rockstar have yet to make an official statement on the matter.