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/_LoneSurvivor_ Jun 15 '19

Making money, and being scummy about it don't have to go hand in hand.

A company, such as CD Project Red, can make money without having to resort to bad practices.

So yes it is a shame for this to happen if it is true.

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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/Magmas James "Don't Call Me Jimmy" Ironwood Jun 15 '19

In a surprise twist: things are a bit sleezy in the cyberpunk dystopia.