Never said I am ok with it. Said I understand why it happens. And while we can talk up how bad it is... that's not the solution. The solution to things like these is always money. Be rest assured, if it was made mandatory for companies to pay twice the wages if making devs to put extra hours two things will happen. People will start complaining less about crunch, and companies will become more flexible with their release schedules.The amount of crunch that CD Projekt Red has done is claimed to be some of the worst in the industry. I don't see why the issue for you is the potential of them not being paid for crunch when the real issue is the crunch itself. There are so many studies showing how long work hours affects your mental and physical wellbeing, so I really don't understand why you're ok with this.
The real messed up thing is that if devs realize they get paid more during crunch, they could actually purposefully low things down a bit just to ensure they get to have a longer (better paying) crunch period. Yh, human beings can be devious like that.
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