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Kojima is crunching to meet Death Stranding's release date
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Every single AAA game goes through crunch time before release. This is absolutely non-news thread.
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It's sad and shouldn't be needed but it's a systemic fact of the current game dev cycle and to expect it to go away overnight is naive - this isn't exactly news.
With Red Dead Redemption 2 it happened for a prolonged period, not just before release.
Someone was crunching there too. All it would take is some last minute bug popped up as the game was releasing and you have 2-3 devs working overtime to get a patch out.
Also "crunch time of development" doesn't necessarily have to mean they're crunching (even though they probably are), especially when you consider that English isn't Kojima's native language.
I had a feeling they were doing that with what he posted the last month.
Hopefully they take breaks at the very least.
Hopefully they take breaks at the very least.
The situations aren't the same. Kojima Productions is doing a crunch right before launch and we have no idea how long the crunch is and how many hours employees make. At Rockstar (also Naughty Dog) there are very long periods (sometimes more than 9 months) of crunch with inhumane amounts of hours.
crunch is 'okay' if it's....
- not 24/7
- not mandatory or 'passive-agressively' forced to do it
- the OT are being paid on time
Everything in the history of time with a deadline had some 'crunch' in 'some form'...it's just depends on whether it is compensated and how bad it is.
- not 24/7
- not mandatory or 'passive-agressively' forced to do it
- the OT are being paid on time
Everything in the history of time with a deadline had some 'crunch' in 'some form'...it's just depends on whether it is compensated and how bad it is.
Guaranteed QA was in crunch, which also means plenty of crunch work to fix bugs leading up to launch.
Sure, but saying every AAA studio crunches is still wrong (WB Montreal has a no crunch policy for example and people from EA here on ERA said that their studios don't crunch)
It's one thing crunching for one month or doing 10 hours/day instead of 8 and it's another thing crunching 4 months before the release of a game.
Also, Iron Galaxy https://kotaku.com/how-one-large-game-studio-avoids-crunch-1835613873
Lmao and that weak ass alt righty libertarian fuck trying to lie to shit on unions. Jason handed them that L summarily
I wouldn't say every crunch situation is a bad thing. If you're a small passionate start up team trying to prove yourself in the videogame industry its pretty normal that you work hard to get your game to high standards. Crunch is a problem with big publishers forcing big software teams to work overtime to meet deadline.
4+ months out and crunching? just delay the game, it hasn't even been in development that long compared to other SIE games. I doubt Playstation would say no, given the team size and development time.
Also this, like come on.
With red dead we knew a little more than "rockstar are crunching". We heard of 100 hour weeks, treatment to employees through the crunch etc.
There's always the possibility that this game can be delayed into next year, just bear that in mind.
Uh, is this a small passionate start up team lol? Of course if you're starting your own business or game then you're going to work insane hours (as you never really stop working).
We don't know the situation behind this crunch other than it's happening, but seeing all those pro crunch posts is surreal. The game is still 3+ months out. If you're crunching already, then maybe delay the game.
