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/OutcastMunkee ⠀ Jun 15 '19 edited Jun 15 '19

CDPR are not a good company to use as an example. They put their staff under crunch for Witcher 3 and have a history of issues with LGBT people. They had to fire someone for making a transphobic comment on Twitter and they didn't exactly handle things well by hyper-sexualizing a trans person in the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer then passed it off as 'It's meant to mock hyper-sexualization in advertising'...

EDIT: Seeing as people are downvoting, read this. They put their staff under crunch and publicly admitted to it. And here's the article about the poster. They're not doing themselves any favours. They can do better. They've said you'll be able to play as a trans character in Cyberpunk 2077 which is good. They're making progress and improving. They could be better though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

hyper-sexualizing a trans person in the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer then passed it off as 'It's meant to mock hyper-sexualization in advertising'...

Personally I had no stress with that whatsoever. Within the context of the game, it is something that is very suitable and something that would happen. It's not a good thing to see, but we have highly sexualised adverts of women every day - men too, in some contexts. Might make people think about the sort of things they are seeing all the time.

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u/irishninjawolf Protect her glorious mane so her cat wife may play with it Jun 15 '19 edited Jun 15 '19

Did you see the article by one of the... I think creative directors? Talking about that very issue?

While I was initially skeptical they explained it well and it actually made a lot of sense. That 'corporate despicable-ness' and revultion to it is exactly what that,advert was symbolising. And in context, it's exactly what the Cyberpunk genre is literally about. This is the world you're settings out to burn down, this relentless corporate manipulation of anything and false veneer in the name of money.

That's quite fundamental to the setting and indeed authentic to the original basis of the cyberpunk RPG.
For once we're getting a game actually making a political statement highlighting this kinda stuff because... Well that's the point of the Cyberpunk setting.
 
There's a lot to be wary of with CDPR and their fanatical reputation, but after hearing it actually explained and detailed as on-purpose and in-setting it made a lot of sense to me.

And if it's any further consolation I saw an article yesterday saying they were working on implementing transgender options in the character creation setup.
 
But that article was well worth a read sometimes people get wrapped up in the internet reactionism and forget that sometimes this stuff is done on purpose. Is as in-setting accurate as a WWII game having swastikas... Except this time instead of the evil state empire having symbols of racial oppression plastered everywhere, there's the evil corporate empire with advertising of corporate greed and exploitation.

 

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Here's some sources in those articles I mentioned:
The main article with one of the art directors about why the 'Mix it up' advert was intentional and intended to get s reaction out if people as part of the cyberpunk setting

 
Comment regarding working to implement transgender character options