Jason Schreier: "a CDPR dev told me recently that they'd just clocked a 100-hour week."
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No you don't. Because if you did, you would have empathy. And you don't. What a pathetic post.
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The amount of snowflakes in this thread is fucking amazing. I wish I lived in the same dream world as you all where you get to coast through life without putting in any extra time and effort. If you don't adhere to the liberal agenda the dogpiling and name calling starts. Bunch of fucking pussies.
It took you long enough for the (admittedly flimsy) mask to slip, bro.
Unless I was getting paid like 100K plus you can fuck off, and even then I’d only do it for a short time
Moments in crunch like this just speak to me that either you are a horrifically poorly run studio and you probably have some dipshit higher ups who have no idea about game development and are trying to reach stupid goals
Moments in crunch like this just speak to me that either you are a horrifically poorly run studio and you probably have some dipshit higher ups who have no idea about game development and are trying to reach stupid goals
Lol your 80 hour weeks are doing wonders for your disposition and personality.
That is something positive I guess but it still doesn't really address the WTD rules that in my own experience have been taken very seriously at all the places I've worked here in England. They offer the option to sign the waiver but there is zero pressure to do so. I'm talking minimum wage unskilled warehouse/driving/order picking type jobs here.
I just can't fathom anyone being "forced" or pressured to do 100 hour weeks in a EU work place never mind a perceived prestigious company like CDPR.
Working over 60, 70, 100 hours every single week for months isn’t healthy nor should there be anyone defending it.
Bye.
I want to use this information Jason gave us, to make a point:
Absolutely there are gonna be tons of developers that enjoy working at CD Projekt Red, and it's possible that this is true and it is a great place to work. Though, people that throw this point in the face of criticism of crunch, are idiots. That isn't the point, and is moving the goal-post. There are tons of developers that enjoy where they work that hate crunch particularly because they aren't okay with being exploited. They aren't okay with the culture that is permeated by executives. There is nuance here, and crunch isn't individualized to one studio, it is a culture that has found its way into almost every development studio developing a AAA title.
LMAO you could have at least tried to be subtle
1/10, try again later
actually try again never, don't let the door hit you on the ass
Why is it wild. It's not like any of them have even the slightest shred of integrity. They're nothing more the ad people. Shit ones at that.
You must have a lot of burner accounts, to be wasting this one on obvious bullshit.
I once worked on a project for my work where I put myself into a crunch period. I managed that project and only involved one other person in the development of it (thankfully, I told him to log the fuck out at the end of each business day). For a period of about 2 weeks, I think I was pulling 80 - 100 hour weeks . It was HORRIBLE
Stress constantly. Days just melding together. Launch day coming up faster and faster. I was burned out for months afterwards and can only realize the impact that project had on me in hindsight.
My heart goes out to any dev out there going through crunch. 2 weeks was hell, and makes you feel like your life span diminished just a bit. I can't imagine what doing that for months on end is like :(
Stress constantly. Days just melding together. Launch day coming up faster and faster. I was burned out for months afterwards and can only realize the impact that project had on me in hindsight.
My heart goes out to any dev out there going through crunch. 2 weeks was hell, and makes you feel like your life span diminished just a bit. I can't imagine what doing that for months on end is like :(
This is common in a lot of jobs, transit,policing,business,nursing,basically almost every job. It still sucks.
I do 64-hour work weeks once every five weeks and it fucking sucks. My job is more physical but the fucking mental toll it must take on the fucking poor devs working 100-hours weeks. Jeez.
Man - you sound like my parents. "It's not a real job if you have actual fun at it and it does not make you angry every day"
Calm down.
Talk a big talk about working long hours and you can’t even handle a few posts calling you out. What a snowflake lol.
Amazing, gets butthurt because their favourite company is criticised and yet calls everyone else snowflakes.
Bye.
Edit: Rainbows. Unicorns. Chinchillas taking dust baths. Corgis with sweaters.
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The only time I've done anything close to those sorts of hours on a continuous basis was the last 2-3 weeks of my dissertation... and I was physically and mentally a wreck at the end of that. I can't imagine doing those sorts of hours for months at a time.
Let's cry because this thread knows exactly what you are and addresses you as you deserve. Woe unto you. You poor totally-not snowflake.
I worked an entire February once with no days off where I was averaging 10 hours a day (Sundays were typically only 2-3 hours so the rest of the days had more than 10). It wrecked me. Agreed at 50/60 not the same universe as 100. A body just isn't built to do that.
I'll let my rule on not responding to banned posts slip for this one occasion.
Fuck off back to 4chan you epic imbecile and enjoy your imaginary job.
I specifically was referring to a smaller Internet personality who's not quite at the influencer level. Granted, you're right, it's pretty clear that these people are still without integrity.
The larger influencer people are a whole other level of awful.
I am on the side of the devs and the engineers on this issue but JFC this board has really become something else. I don't know how mods handwave reactions delivered this way regardless if I agree on principles. Era was supposed to be a move away from NeoGaf toddler stuff like this. For pete's sake....
Sounds batshit crazy in that workplace. Still, those Polish mad lads don't seem to mind it lol? At least the overtime hours are actually paid. Sucks that there's peer pressure to work non-stop though.
That sentiment is also common at large tech companies / well-funded tech startups, where they feed you breakfast/lunch/dinner and give you perks as a more-subtle incentive to stay onsite more, and implicitly do more work.
It's usually not to the same degree as crunch in gaming development, but there's a reason "Work Hard Play Hard" is a common startup meme that's a red flag.
Seems as though a fair number of them do mind it unfortunately. Plus the ones that don’t have an adverse affect on the ones that do.
We did it everyone! We got DOUBLE bingo! Great job!
You chuds really don't get it. You're so beholden to your corporate daddies you don't realize stopping the exploitation of labor WOULD HELP YOU OUT TOO.
Absolutely awful.
Does not purchasing the game actually send an effective message?
I can’t imagine enough people will care. But pressure needs to be applied somehow.
Does not purchasing the game actually send an effective message?
I can’t imagine enough people will care. But pressure needs to be applied somehow.
We had "mandatory" overtime at my job for maybe a month or two. It did nothing to improve our numbers and ruined morale. It was not done after that.
People who think crunch or mandatory overtime is effective management can eat shit.
People who think crunch or mandatory overtime is effective management can eat shit.