I worked with Activision on a game years ago. It was absolutely terrible. People were working 18 hour shifts and eating junk food. Everyone was completely stres

I worked with Activision on a game years ago. It was absolutely terrible. People were working 18 hour shifts and eating junk food. Everyone was completely stressed out and some looked positively sick. The producer was prancing about in storm-trooper boots and basically promising that the beatings would continue until morale improved. He just struck me as a sick sadist, attracted to the job for the same reasons we get bad cops. I've heard similar stories from former EA folks, and others. It's just a shitty, crappy industry, that takes advantage of the perceived glamour to exploit people and burn them out without any conscience.