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Ryse crunching team served 11,500 dinners by ship date #rysefacts
- Thread starter Wario64
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THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
The hell?
Internet takes the fun out of everything.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Companies give out "free" food at lunch or dinner times news at 11.
lol at the responses... why so serious
Well I'd wager most of those devs would have preferred to have dinner with their families.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
zing.
But seriously, that is a lot of dinner. I wonder how many total people are on the dev team?
ProfessorLobo
Banned
Oh wow I love dinner lol
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Gotta hit that launch date, not surprised.
This response: http://twitter.com/Gaetano_Prestia/status/390237030489128960
Gentleman Jack
Member
Crunch cycles in AAA studios are disgusting regardless of how many studios do it.
lol at the responses... why so serious
because maybe it's not great to publicly "have a bit of fun" about overworking people?
HoodWinked
Member
twitter doesnt understand how product development works whats new.
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
That's a lot of crunching, how big is their team? Doesn't sound very healthy for the developers or the quality of the game.
Plates were upscaled to cram more food on them, creating the illusion of 1080 plates.
That's not an argument, and amazingly ignorant of the fact that these people are well fucking aware that this is the norm.
Askherserenity
Member
Wtf why are people so angry over this? What is even crazier is that these people seem like actual fans of the game. The internet is a scary place.
valkillmore
Member
@killzone: By the time #ShadowFall releases, we'll have served the @killzone team over 12,000 dinners throughout development. #KillzoneFacts
Responses:
'Wow, that's a lot of guerrilla meat! Good on you team!'
'Oh man, bet none of those dinners tastes as good as 60 FPS multiplayer! #killzonerulez'
'Hey, any leftovers? No? Oh that's ok, I'm cool with just the game!'
Edit:
. . . oof.
Responses:
'Wow, that's a lot of guerrilla meat! Good on you team!'
'Oh man, bet none of those dinners tastes as good as 60 FPS multiplayer! #killzonerulez'
'Hey, any leftovers? No? Oh that's ok, I'm cool with just the game!'
Edit:
. . . oof.
stump sock
Member
as someone who has been through a lifetime of work crunches, it can't be overstated how good free meals are for morale and motivation.
bragging about it on twitter seems silly, but whatever.
It's a reality of the industry that isn't going away. The tweet wasn't a good idea but condemning the studio for it is over the top. Those meals are some of the only breaks these teams get. The teams know they have to crunch and look forward to stuff like this. Bragging about it is dumb but a team that didn't have catered dinners during crunch would be absolutely beaten down.
I got a gut laugh out of this one.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
What's so disgusting about giving free dinner to your employees who are working overtime?
Tell us more on how all of GAF is one mind.
OT: good luck to them. hopefully the hard works paid off
Liquidsnake
Banned
I work in the same building as some gaming developers, and I come in early, and I see them taking a smoke break, looks like they have been here for hours already. When I go home at 5:30 I see them smoking, which tells me they will not be leaving anytime soon.
They work so hard. No joke, they look like they work hard.
They work so hard. No joke, they look like they work hard.
This isn't just limited to game development either. I'm a developer (not a game developer, just run-of-the-mill embedded application development), and even our teams have crunch time. I've never worked on a product that came leisurely strolling through to the finish line, where every developer was putting in only 40 hour weeks at the very end. Marketing can always find a way to add new functionality or pull in the release schedule if it looks like things are moving too smoothly...
These responses just sound like people who have no software experience of any kind, pretending that they know better. At least the studio is feeding their employees - I'm lucky if my boss brings in some donuts if I'm working over the weekend.