Holy shit. I would be burned out after one week lol
What are hyperbolic replies to extreme peer pressured crunch?
So you think this is ok?
Well, not necessarily. I was under the impression that UC4 was one of those games where like 90% of it got shitcanned about 12 months from release and they pushed ahead rather than delay. For a game which doesn't have massively troubled production, it's not really what it takes at all.
Why do you think it's hyperbolic? Because it's naughty dog?
It's explained in Blood, Sweat and Pixels, but a lot of it seems to come from how they're structured. They have a lot less managerial staff than typical.
That's your take away from this? You're worried more about the reaction than the actual workers at ND.
People are working 7-day weeks and your worries is that people might boycott TLOU2?
Yours is the first and only hyperbolic reply in this thread.
I remember in one of the Game of Thrones BTS videos they talked about how they'd be working day and night for something like 3 weeks on some shoots. So I'd imagine they have crunch, just no where near as long.
All industries have "crunch" if you have to make a deadline they have crunch. I remember i was working at a printing company in the early 2000's and we had a large printing job that had to get done and i worked a 24 hour shift, first time i did that but our bosses did give us the next day off tho.
I'm obviously not ok with it. But it's always the same reaction and same replies, and I bet a lot of people here love to showcase "support" by posting on a forum but will be there day one for their latest release. It's hypocritical. Also, crunch happens fucking everywhere in the tech industry. It's a shame but it is what it is. Not buying product or services from these companies won't do shit to change this, as history shows.
This is real. Of course you could say "fuck what others think of me," but companies being companies and departments being departments it can get really nasty for you. There's a reason why people often pretend they're drowning in work even when they have less stuff on their desk. You don't want to look bad, so you either pretend or indeed work your ass off to unhealthy degrees. This is not game industry exclusive, though.
When shooting, you have really strict union shit that mandates how many hours you can keep people. It's a lot different when it comes to meeting deadlines in pre and post production though, where there is a fuckton of crunch. I'm pretty confident that nothing is as bad as VFX studios though, those are a fucking nightmare from what I hear.
