Erich Schaefer

One hidden reason why games industry has a huge crunch culture is simple. At some point, you're going to throw away a huge chunk of your game, and you have no idea what that will be or how significant it's going to be. 1/thread

Good thread. Also explains why old Blizzard and Nintendo rarely give release dates until the game is practically done. Warcraft 3 I think had 3 full rewrites with no launch dates for almost 6 years. Then it became one of the most popular games of the decade due to the time spent.

Yes but Blizzard has access to a war chest of cash and good will no one else has.

... and if we are staying on topic... None of that saves Blizzard from crunch. Last time I interviewed there, the two engineers who started my day off with me had literally just woken up from sleeping in the office. And laughed about it. Tbf, this is some years ago.