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Entrepreneur at http://Binomial.info , Khronos member working on Basis. Ex-Valve/MS,Age1DE,3/Halo Wars/Portal2/DotA2/CS:GO.

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    Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 23

    I've seen entire game studios get caught up in a "manic depression" style of game development. They crunch for X days a week/month, and during their non-crunch time devs still come in but don't get much done. It's totally possible to push an entire studio in this direction.

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      2. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 23

        If you push the crunch too hard, people get tired or burned out so on the off-days they basically push the mouse around but don't do much. Which then makes crunch time even harder and more necessary.

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      3. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 23

        Once you introduce the concept of crunching into your organization it's a rush to the bottom. You've now introduced a culture of fear and you've devalued everyone's time. You're also now in very dangerous waters because you can easily overwork your staff leading to endless cycles

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      4. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 23

        Ultimately, your best people will leave unless you pay them a lot of money in studios like this. The end game of a game studio that crunches is one with less experienced staff overall. Everyone knows they're going to crunch so they don't bother working as hard during normal hours

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      5. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 23

        The less experienced staff makes mistakes that otherwise wouldn't happen, or takes longer to do things. It's a big positive feedback loop. I expected the game industry to have figured all this out many years ago, but it hasn't.

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      6. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 23

        At several companies I've personally watched the execs sneak out during crunch time. Everyone figures this out quickly and it causes anger and disrespect to be directed at management. It's very unhealthy to a studio.

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      7. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 23

        Crunch-based studios burn through talent. Word quickly gets around that your studio crunches endlessly and it hurts your recruiting. Senior devs avoid your studio like the plague because they want to work to live, not live to work.

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      8. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 23

        Crunch-based studios also push their developers into drugs, alcohol, or caffeine addiction. Sometimes the added chronic stress causes physical illnesses such as IBS, etc. Unhealthy employees take more sickdays leading to more crunching.

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      9. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 23

        I would argue that crunch-based studios are fragile systems. It's tempting to the execs to push just a little bit harder to get what they want. If they push too hard the whole thing snaps and you get a bunch of bad press that totally wrecks your studio's reputation.

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      2. Eric Nevala‏ @Slayemin Oct 24
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        I am hypothesizing that when you average it all out, a crunch based studio is equally productive to a non-crunch studio, but just with more suffering and turn over.

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      3. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 Oct 24
        Replying to @Slayemin

        We analyzed a bunch of perforce submission data at Ensemble Studios, back in the day, and basically came to this conclusion. It was just a culture of crunch which justified itself as "we're more productive this way".

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