Josh Ling @ Adopt Me!

You’re making MANY assumptions here about the inner workings of Rockstar. All of what you said is speculation, and the 100 hour thing has been clarified by Dan Houser himself in that it actually referred to the higher ups putting in these hours and not the rest of the workforce.

Again, pure speculation driven by your clear pre-existing dislike of the company based on what you heard about them 10 years ago. “His clarification means nothing to me” says it all. I’m not saying crunch doesn’t exist there. But crunch itself has been demonised as of late.

… is when you feel most like a team, and you feel closest to your colleagues, and not only does it see the project to completion, but it pushes everyone to be better than they thought they could be.

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.