“Compliance and Labor” – Sakurai’s Famitsu Column, Vol. 542

[lupianwolf]

In the game industry, there's a lot of overtime, all-nighters, and coming in on holidays! It's a practice that has been occurring for a long time. That suddenly changed in recent years, though.

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Actually, if you look at other companies and even myself, 10:00 p.m. is when everyone goes home. Or rather, maybe we're getting shut out? I go to work at 10:00 a.m., so I usually spend about 10 hours working each day. In the past, it wasn't that uncommon to work until 1 or 2 in the morning so compared to those days, I'm taking it easy.

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The rest at the link:
https://sourcegaming.info/2018/05/02/compliance-and-labor-vol-542/

 

[Regiruler]

Jesus Christ

 

[Deleted member 2793]

So, is Sakurai's life making games for like 10 hours a day, then going home and playing games for 2 hours or something?

Anyway, it's interesting that he talked about this considering how famous he is for overworking.

 

[Dark Cloud]

So he used to work from 10 am to 1 am/2 am. Crazy hours

 

[leenbzoold]

I could never be part of this industry.

 

[Zombegoast]

This out a lot stress on anyone. At college I had to stay up until 4am to get something done by the deadlines without Unity and Perforce deciding to screw us over.

 

[DanteLinkX]

Oh shit so much hard work, its incredible.

 

[criteriondog]

I adore Sakurai's compassion for game development, but hearing about his hand pains, and in general being overworked, no matter how hyped I am for Smash 5 and any future projects he does, I feel bad for him.
He truly needs a good long break.

 

[Deleted member 14002]

How are his wrists holding up?

Work culture in Japan isn't healthy.
Work culture of the games industry isn't healthy.

 

[Aia]

Damn, almost two months left to go on that vacation.