I'm surprised this wasn't made a thread yet. This is awful, the crunch that these devs have to do is insane and now it will be even worse with the delay to December 10th of Cyberpunk 2077.
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Jason Schreier: "a CDPR dev told me recently that they'd just clocked a 100-hour week."
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I'm surprised this wasn't made a thread yet. This is awful, the crunch that these devs have to do is insane and now it will be even worse with the delay to December 10th of Cyberpunk 2077.
This is sick. How messed up does management need to be to ask people to ruin their lives like this?
Yikes. People complaining about the inevitable next gen patches post-launch should read this and think about the crunch involved.
for the people in the back
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As I said in the other thread, CDPR upper management are scum. Transphobia enabling, workforce breaking scum.
Why is management so poor that they even consider doing this
They should just stop setting release dates till after a game is done at this point. Dont even announce it till you are in post development and release within 6 months of announcement
They should just stop setting release dates till after a game is done at this point. Dont even announce it till you are in post development and release within 6 months of announcement
Waiting for the "I, too, have bad working conditions, so that makes it okay and we shouldn't feel bad for them!" post.
Surely it's being fired up as we speak. This is brutal. The timeline of this game has been insane, and the missteps management has made publicly have only compounded this mess. I feel terrible for the people working those hours.
Surely it's being fired up as we speak. This is brutal. The timeline of this game has been insane, and the missteps management has made publicly have only compounded this mess. I feel terrible for the people working those hours.
People who think going gold means development is over should be paying attention to this story and the one about the delay caused by the fact that the game isn't ready for next gen consoles.
So..... why don't delay it 3 months and give people a normal life? Come on, the game is gold, wtf. If they trying to sell it and optimizing the game for next gen, just delay it. Period.
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Right, I forgot it's easy quitting your career and finding a new job.
Especially in 2020.
Do you even hear yourself?
Too late. Boomers are already here with their bad takes 👇
Yeah, because it's pretty easy to quit your job and find another one in the middle of a pandemic, right?
This sucks but that whole last part about the former dev seeing a friend who looked physically ill seems a little bit of a stretch. While it might be true, it kind of reads like "I know a guy who knows a guy and he said..."
I've worked a 12 hour day once for a go live and was miserable the day afterwards, but I got that day off, I can't imagine having to log in and just start working again...
Edit: I did the math wrong, it'd be like working 20 hours days. I can't even conceive that...
Edit: I did the math wrong, it'd be like working 20 hours days. I can't even conceive that...
I attempt to document every classic response to tweets like this:
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Bingo card for you:
- What's Jason's agenda with this reporting?
- People aren't working 100 hours.
- Jason only talks to one source, I doubt that everyone does this.
- Crunch happens in every industry, this isn't new.
- Why does he have to steal the developer's spotlight, can't he just let them have some happiness for once?
- I mean at least they are getting bonuses.
- Their overtime pay is going to be crazy then.
- Well they aren't forced to work 100 hours a week, they could just, ya know, quit.
- If its so bad, why do they still work there?
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Bingo card for you:
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Me too! I clock 40-45 a week most weeks. But I've done up to 60 and it's terrible. I can't imagine doing 100 hours of work in one week. I feel sorry for this team.
Fuck off with this misery Olympics. There is NO defense for them being worked this inhumanely hard (or working 70-80 hours a week for that matter), REGARDLESS if they could find another job. That's not even mentioning that we're in the middle of a global pandemic right now with a tight job market globally.
In my line of work (transportation) it is quite easy, yes. No one is forcing them to work there.