• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    9 hours ago

    So they’re just announcing they have either incompetent product managers, executives who refuse to believe reality, or both.

    I hope their developers all find better roles.

    For record, as a developer, I have worked many a weekend in my career during crunch. I was never mandated to do so, and I always made up the time afterwards. Only once in my entire career was it 2 weekends in a row, and it’s because it was a big that was because of me.

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      8 hours ago

      Crunches are regular and common in game dev. The difference here is star citizen devs are well compensated and given time in lieu