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Sadly, there's more than a few folks working in the gaming industry that consider "crunch time" something to be proud about (it's an annual event for some franc

Sadly, there's more than a few folks working in the gaming industry that consider "crunch time" something to be proud about (it's an annual event for some franchises).

tekla 4y ago
People are allowed to be proud of accomplishing things.
- serf 4y ago
  they're accomplishing a launch date and a paycheck, nearly any other quantifiable metric is reduced or removed during a launch crunch -- aside from all of the negative personnel effects from instigating such madness. The Diablo franchise is, due to franchise reputation, basically above any scare of competition reducing sales. People waited 11 years from Diablo 2 to 3. Some finance guy would have to take an extra long time explaining to me why crunching towards an arbitrary marketing launch date (and trampling all of the personal lives and well-being of the personnel) is going to somehow be better for our company's reputation than releasing some of the most volatile pay-to-win/monetization mechanisms in all of gaming. [0] tl;dr : if at the end of a corporate instigated launch crunch you feel accomplished, more power to you -- but from where i'm at it just looks like more employee abuse with little incentive other than a pat on the back. [0]: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-play-diablo-immortal https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-pl...
  - musicale 4y ago
    Here at Buzzard Entertainment, we value "great management." That's why we're planning six months of crunch time in order to lower productivity and reduce code quality while damaging the physical and mental health of our employees. This will, we understand, make it harder to hit our scheduled release date, so make sure to nerd harder so that we can push a barely adequate version of our next game over the finish line!
- synicalx 4y ago
  They shouldn't be proud of accomplishing things that force unreasonable demands onto others.

Sadly, there's more than a few folks working in the gaming industry that consider "crunch time" something to be proud about (it's an annual event for some franchises).

tekla 4y ago

People are allowed to be proud of accomplishing things.

serf 4y ago
they're accomplishing a launch date and a paycheck, nearly any other quantifiable metric is reduced or removed during a launch crunch -- aside from all of the negative personnel effects from instigating such madness. The Diablo franchise is, due to franchise reputation, basically above any scare of competition reducing sales. People waited 11 years from Diablo 2 to 3. Some finance guy would have to take an extra long time explaining to me why crunching towards an arbitrary marketing launch date (and trampling all of the personal lives and well-being of the personnel) is going to somehow be better for our company's reputation than releasing some of the most volatile pay-to-win/monetization mechanisms in all of gaming. [0] tl;dr : if at the end of a corporate instigated launch crunch you feel accomplished, more power to you -- but from where i'm at it just looks like more employee abuse with little incentive other than a pat on the back. [0]: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-play-diablo-immortal https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-pl...
- musicale 4y ago
  Here at Buzzard Entertainment, we value "great management." That's why we're planning six months of crunch time in order to lower productivity and reduce code quality while damaging the physical and mental health of our employees. This will, we understand, make it harder to hit our scheduled release date, so make sure to nerd harder so that we can push a barely adequate version of our next game over the finish line!
synicalx 4y ago
They shouldn't be proud of accomplishing things that force unreasonable demands onto others.