I have serious doubts about it ever happening. Didn't I read somewhere that CDPR is now focusing on new content for the game? I also been watching some videos about the latest update and the improvements are only marginal at best. The game will probably remain as it is.
I would say that...
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29.8M to 865 employees
I mean they very well could have cut the percentage they take. You don't know. Overall I think it's unrealistic for people to expect pay structure at a company to suddenly change because a game over or under performs. The percentage difference between standard employee bonus and CEO bonus would be the same regardless of sales for a particular year. That obviously could change in the future based on past performance but it won't suddenly change in the moment. I think the question everyone should ask themselves is if CDPR had a better reputation for how they treat their employees and if their game wasn't broken, would we still be having the same conversation about pay inequality? I would hope so but somehow doubt it.
People have been criticizing issues with crunch at Naughty Dog and Rockstar in this forum. I don't think CDP would be ignored no matter what.
I don't get these kind of posts.
I mean everyone at the studio got less money because there was less to go around. That's pretty much how this stuff works. The exec group isn't going to suddenly undercut themselves unless they have shareholders pressuring them to. Right or wrong the bonus percentage range was set when people entered their positions. Also it's not uncommon for an employee's bonus payment to be affected by executive decisions. If Jim Ryan made decisions that made Sony less profitable, everyone suffers. The same as if Jim Ryan makes good decisions. Ultimately everyone is dependent on a few making the right yes or no decisions to keep that bonus money intact. The people that do the hard work have little power over those big decisions such as the CDPR decision to push the game out the door.
Executive pay is a much wider problem than what you see in the game's industry. At this point it would probably take government intervention in many different countries to solve the problem. It's not going away.CDPR is brought to you, and run, by:
There really needs to be a shift in the industry. Board members shouldn't get more than developers who pour their hearts and souls (and with crunch, I mean that literally) into a game. It did do very well, financially, but it didn't do the numbers they expected.
I personally wouldn't call it that flop, of course, but you know, those same board members who caused this issue are willing to call it a flop because it means less money for the devs.
CDPR is public just like Sony. Shareholders are going to have to reign in exec pay. Execs on their own aren't going to just give money back to the company unless they see it as an investment into future financial growth for themselves.
What's the budget and expectations? Flop is a very subjective term. The game flopped in terms of investment and expectations.
Yeah but JSchreier seems to like publishing scandal news. Sometimes with success, but this is not it imo. I wish I got 20k bonuses.
Almost like people don't wanna engage with the uncomfortable truths in his articles and instead wanna obfuscate discussion with irrelevant tangents.
