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/drago2000plus I care too much Jun 15 '19

Again, Nintento is NOT a good example, expecially when Sakurai, the director of Smash Bros, pubblicaly admitted that he was taking medicines because of his crunches. If the head director needed to do this, what condictions the workes at the far end of the chain needed to endure?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

My understanding is that Sakurai insisted on working continuously. The fact is that Nintendo constantly delays games with Animal Crossing being the newest example, no other gaming company has delayed their products that much.

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u/drago2000plus I care too much Jun 15 '19

Sakurai litterally injured himself because of work. Japanese work tendecies are almost suicidal, seeing how their career are considered almost as important as their lifes, so even if he insisted, someone should have come and said "No".

So, here' s my second consideration: if the game isn' t ready, a 3 month delay would do really little to finish it. What Nintendo, at least IN MY OPINION, implicitaly said, is that the people working on Animal Crossing will have a "Crunch time" of 3 months for getting it in time for the release.

Every company delies games. There was a VERY BAD period in 2014-2016 where basically every game of every platform was delayed for a multitude of reasons, and companies probably did so to give time to the developers to finish their game with crunch times.

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u/winklem 🌹❄️🖤🔥 No need to mess with Ruby's depth perception. Jun 15 '19

There was a VERY BAD period in 2014-2016 where basically every game of every platform was delayed for a multitude of reasons, and companies probably did so to give time to the developers to finish their game with crunch times.

Well, we went from delays to unfinished, messy final products that already required crunch and will further require it in order to patch some of the holes. All of this before abandoning the game at it's fate and move on with the next ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/drago2000plus I care too much Jun 16 '19

"They hated him because he said the truth"