David Jaffe, who politely refers to me as “Mr. Totilo,” has posted his commentary about my interview with EA CEO John Riccitiello regarding crediting individual game developers. Read the whole thing, though if you want to know just how strongly he feels, this excerpt will do:

(Curses cleaned in the following excerpt to meet MTV’s language standards, Mr. Jaffe):

Alot of the net posters commenting on this story are assuming game devs who want this treatment are ego maniacs. They then go on to say that movie stars and movie directors are ok to ask for it because that’s just how it is, but game makers are a–holes if they as for such treatment. To these folks I say: go f— yourself. The movie folks negotiated for those credits and fought tooth and nail for them. They were not just given them by the movie gods or the kind folks who run the movie studios or the movie going public. So don’t accuse us of being arrogant just because some of us would like to be treated with as much re$pect (be it money or credit, and preferably both) as we can get away with. Plus, granted Miyamoto and Wright are not as big of names as Spielberg. BUT THAT IS BECAUSE MIYAMOTO AND WRIGHT DON’T HAVE NAMES ABOVE PRODUCTS and they don’t have ability to negotiate for the sort of press treatment and PR perks that movie folks get (which, in turn, turns them into brand names). The only way they will become mainstream is if they MAKE THEMSELVES mainstream. It is not magic, it’s a calculated process. But that ain’t really gonna happen unless there is a big shift in the way games are financed. I just saw some of the ex Midway guys are starting a console game co. with VC money…so maybe when the money comes from VC versus publishers, the VC will be more willing to let the game makers have their very valuable time in the sun.

More on the names and number of names he thinks should be on game boxes over at his blog…