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Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Team Will Work Extra Long Hours After Latest Delay

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"During a Q&A session, CD Projekt Red was asked if the development team would need to "crunch" to finish Cyberpunk 2077. Adam Kicinski, who is CD Projekt Red's joint CEO, confirmed that he expects the team to need to work long hours to finish the game, though he said there is a plan in place to attempt to lessen the periods of crunch."

"To some degree, yes--to be honest," Kicinski said. "We try to limit crunch as much as possible, but it is the final stage. We try to be reasonable in this regard, but yes. Unfortunately."
 
chefbags

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hello Crunch time, my old friend.

sucks that video game companies do this to their employees.
 
Kemal86

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To the surprise of no one that actually has experience working in the industry. When one of the AAA games I was working on in 2008 was delayed, it signaled the start of the most brutal crunch I had ever experienced. We thought the finish line was close, and then over night, it turned into "Don't forget, you're here forever."
 
Issen

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Absolute fucking garbage.

Like Jim Sterling would say: "And it IS abuse".
 

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Why didn't they just delay it another month then
 
Darryl M R

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Or.. you can give yourself a longer delay period to avoid this.

I wonder if this response is a sign of progress: acknowledging crunch and not masking it as employers loving their work so much that they want to work long hours.
 

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At this point they should take their time and not rush OR crunch. A cross gen launch and this could be the premiere next-gen game to get.
 
DGenerator

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Psychoward said:
Why didn't they just delay it another month then
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To think that even CD Projekt RED has its development pipeline plotted out down to an exact science for the next five months and haven't delayed it for that long based on estimations and vagueries undercuts the sheer difficulty it takes to make an AAA open-world RPG, let alone any major video game.

It's not that CD Projekt RED are necessarily the bad guys for making an unending crunch. They're just the ones being incrementally more open and honest about it than the rest of the industry (oh, and also all of them are the bad guys for perpetuating it).
 
GameAddict411

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I assumed the delay was to elevate the crunch? Without it, the developers would probably put even more hours in. It's a sad reality of the industry even when not required. Peer pressure will always push employees to do this.
 
Hero_of_the_Day

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Imagine how shit the last few months must have been when adding 5 fucking months of dev time doesn't alleviate this shit.
 
Cenauru

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Um, delay it further then to avoid crunch? They just announced a delay, and then tell us they'll STILL be crunching?
 

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Crunch isn't a problem since they get paid but I hope people aren't forced to or if they want time off they can get it.
 

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Another month of delay would means millions more in expenses. And then there is burn outs from working on the same thing for years. Really sometimes is you just want to get the product out of the door. Hopefully CDPR compensates affected employees properly in form of overtime pay or a reasonable period of break.
 
Cordy

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Fam it ain't that serious, no crunch.

Hell every response I saw about the delay wasn't even mad, people were saying "hey as long as you do it then we'll wait whenever."
 
MagnusGman

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Why not put in November instead of September then? If you're gonna delay the game almost six months, might as well go for almost eight to ensure this doesn't happen.
 
RollTheDice

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having worked in gamedev and been in this EXACT position, our schedule turned into 80-ish hour weeks. I feel really bad for them.
 
Calibro

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Here's your daily reminder about CD Prjekt RED paying their devs terribly low wages compared to the rest of the industry btw.
 
Mary Celeste

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they could delay it another year and there would still be crunch. That's just the culture there it seems, unfortunately.
 
TheUnseenTheUnheard

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I'm upset about the delay, but this is not what I wanted to hear. I actually thought it was so long because they weren't doing this.
 
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