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Everyone works overtime, that's not what we're talking about. Crunch is an extended period of expected overtime. On GTA V ex-employees report working 100 hour weeks for a year. On GTA IV, QA analysts were were 24 hour desk swaps. This is totally fucked up...
Sometimes near the end of a project you have to come together to finish it, comraderie, yada yada. but truthfully, this should be a last resort + known as a failure of planning, not as an expected part of your job. crunch destroys lives and families. it's not fun...
Anyway I really must sleep now but I’ve enjoyed the discussion. Again, I’m against any sort of forced labour. I just don’t believe it’s as one sided as it’s being made out to be. Would be interesting to hear from employees who’s lives haven’t been ruined by crunch.
That's fair and I understand your points. I guess my closing comments would be that even if people enjoy it in the moment (debatable), over time it burns them out, hence why so many people quit the games industry to work less hours for higher pay. Good talk 
Enforced crunch is terrible. I’m not denying that, but seriously, I’m telling you this from much personal experience, sometimes even with the best planning possible, when working in a creative industry, “crunch” is not a failure of planning.
It’s not following blueprints to construct a building. There’s an element of that, but there is SO MUCH more that cannot be planned for. Plans change halfway through production, months of work get scrapped. New ideas come up. It’s quite a unique beast.
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