According to over a dozen current and former employees, Life Is Strange developer Deck Nine’s management has long let a toxic work culture fester at the studio, including protecting multiple abusive leaders, encouraging crunch, and allowing bullying of individuals advocating internally for more authentic representation.
Presumably they removed it all before launch. What I don’t get is how they didn’t figure out who did this (unless it’s mentioned later on in the article, I gave up after it got rambly), don’t they use version control?
If it was someone with certain rights he could theoretically remove trace of this from the history. In git you can do it by rewriting history and force pushing
Which is something typically only the maintainer/admin has rights to.
Which in most companies is actually everyone because they don’t want to pay someone to work on all the permissions and controls.