It’s one of the ugliest divorces in the game industry, and it’s only getting worse over the years. Composer Marty O’Donnell was responsible for the iconic Halo score and the launch music of Bungie’s Destiny, but after being removed from the company, a lengthy legal battle ta
Past all this, Bungie is demanding that O’Donnell not just pay them whatever he’s earned from sales of the material, but also almost $100,000 in legal fees, which O’Donnell’s camp says is too steep. It’s unclear how much O’Donnell has racked up in legal bills on his side already, but he’s tweeted about the high cost previously and has asked fans for support, telling them to buy his more recent soundtracks that he still owns.
O’Donnell ran afoul of the Destiny community when he began spamming subreddits with links to Music of the Spheres and his Bandcamp, which were removed, and he was displeased about it. But he was very, very publicly circulating this material for a long time, and it’s not exactly a surprise to see this ruling, if you’ve been following his actions for a while now.
O’Donnell has a new studio, Highwire Games, working on the controversial game Six Days in Fallujah. Destiny 2 is currently mainly scored by Michael Salvatori, who has been well-received by fans since O’Donnell’s departure years ago. Others who have worked on Destiny 2’s score have been Skye Lewin, C. Paul Johnson, Rotem Moav, and Peter Schlosser.
The O’Donnell situation is just unfortunate, but this result, given his actions with Music of the Spheres, is not shocking. We’ll see if this is the end of things, but this has been ongoing in some form for the better part of a decade now, and there continue to be new chapters unfolding.
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