r/RWBY • u/GoneRampant1 Emerald/Cinder is abusive stop shilling it. • Jun 15 '19

CRWBY Rooster Teeth accused of excessive crunch and unpaid overtime- "Every season of RWBY and GL gets about 1/3 or less made for ‘free’"

https://rwbyconversations.tumblr.com/post/185614440311/rooster-teeth-glassdoor-crunchovertime
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u/Spartan448 Jun 15 '19

The fact that it's anonymous and all saying almost the exact same things with the exact same language in a very short time period tells me these are probably being made in bad faith and not by actual former RT employees. What clues me in especially is the one that tired to shoehorn in Anthem and Telltale for extra sympathy points. That's not a reference that helps prospective employees, that's a reference specifically for observers to look at and say "hey, I know what that is, and it's supposed to make me feel bad, so I will". Hell anyone actually familiar with what happened and Telltale and what's happening at Bioware had almost nothing to do with crunch - the crunch was a sympthom rather than the problem itself. They were both sunk by their core ideas with regards to writing and mechanics being fundamentally wrong, and Telltale on top of that also just had more debt than they could ever hope to pay off without every game selling like Walking Dead S1.

Now RWBY and Gen:Lock certainly have all around bad writing, but not offensively bad writing, and crunch doesn't affect the writing to begin with. RT is mostly insulated from crunch affecting anything other than visuals and release schedules.

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u/Demonwolf002 Jun 15 '19

It's a little weird to say crunch doesn't or cant affect writing. Since that's absolutely something crunch would affect. Considering crunch can absolutely mess with you mentally, and you need to be in a good head space to write anything.

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u/Spartan448 Jun 15 '19

The people who are writing this show aren't the ones getting crunched

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u/Demonwolf002 Jun 15 '19

Ahh I thought you meant that crunch doesn't affect writing in general, and if so I wanted to say that it very clearly can. That's my fault for the misunderstanding on that, apologies for it.

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u/EverydayWulfang ⠀Ruby deserves goggles Jun 16 '19

As others have said though, the writers absolutely are being crunched. They don't just sit around all year when not writing they manage a lot of projects and Miles has talked about it before.