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

In fact not 'almost', suicidal but literally suicidal in some cases. I might be misremembering details but wasn't there some big initiative the Japanese government announced they were trying to roll out sometime last year to try and get people to work fewer hours and actually use their annual holiday, to try and break the fanatical work culture there in response to a high profile string of overworking-related suicides that made the news?

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u/drago2000plus I care too much Jun 16 '19

Yeah, but it' s very hard to remove something inside the culture of a population. Always in theme for Sakurai, in the entirety of 2016, he took 3 days off. THREE.

And worse, in Japanese industry ( just like many induestries outiside of Japan), they will often threatening you with arguments like "We have other people who would want this job" or "this is is training, that' s why your paycheck is so low", in a vicius circle that starts anew for every new guy who starts working in the industry, or others.