Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Orders 6-Day Weeks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-29/cyberpunk-2077-publisher-orders-6-day-weeks-ahead-of-game-debut

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tannedNerd• 6 years ago

I feel like without some quotes from the dev team this feels very one-sided. It could be that the devs weren’t unhappy to do crunch if the trade offs are fair. I don’t think anyone in SV can say that they haven’t had to work crunch hours, usually with zero extra pay. I hope that there is extra bonus days off on top of the extra pay.

philistine3• 6 years ago

I respectfully disagree with your point. This is trying to force a middle ground when the reporting here is straightforward: the company is untrustworthy. They announced no crunch earlier this year, and now they’re breaking their promise.

Hearing from developers happy with their employer lying to them in front of the whole world would only serve to pretend a company breaking a promise is A-OK. It’s not.

philistine3• 6 years ago

It is vital to remember that CD Projekt Red received a ton of goodwill reporting when they announced they would not force crunch on employees. I personally joyfully bought my lovely wife a Switch and Animal Crossing when Nintendo announced they were pushing the game instead of committing to crunch for it. My point is announcing no crunch time is a positive PR move for a company that can bring in more sales.

CD Projekt Red should be pilloried in the gaming press for its callous backpedaling. My heart goes to all those developers who were lied to.

amiantos• 6 years ago

To be fair what is being ordered is a 48 hour work week. They’re not allowed to work more than 8 hours a day, six days a week, and it’s (I believe) legally time-limited. It’s a stretch to say they should be “pilloried” for this, since their “crunch time” doesn’t sound anything like what American companies impose.

gamblor9562• 6 years ago

US game studios usually have 50-60 hour standard weeks, with crunch being far in excess of that (see, e.g., EA Spouse's account, or the accounts of Riot Games developers).

So a 48-hour "crunch" week is still less than the standard US game dev work week.

tareqak• 6 years ago

Same story from The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/29/21494499/cyberpunk-2077-d... .

NetOpWibby2• 6 years ago

My heart skipped a beat, I thought CP2077 was delayed again.

thebradbain• 6 years ago

I’d rather management delay again than go against their word and order a crunch.

Especially because I will not be surprised if — and am almost expecting thar — management realizes 6 day workweeks won’t cut it alone and additionally delay the release again. And who wins in that scenario?

Clearly they need more time. The game will only be worse off from rushing it — on top of the larger point that all of their talent (and customers) were lied to.

NetOpWibby2• 6 years ago

Maybe they think they’ll kill their own hype if they delay again. This makes me think they sent Sony and M$ incomplete games and will require a massive day one patch to add the rest.

In any event, I’m expecting postmortems from defectors once the game ships. I’m curious as to why they’ve had so many delays. One obvious variable is COVID-19 but mismanagement sounds like a candidate as well.

Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Orders 6-Day Weeks

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