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Ryse crunching team served 11,500 dinners by ship date #rysefacts
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Twin Tails
Member
Eating Dinner #Disgusting
GrizzleBoy
Banned
ASSHOLES.
Why are you so proud that you served so many dinners?
I bet its literally YOUR fault that the devs are crunching! I bet they wouldn't have to if they weren't eating food all the time!
Man, I hate you.
You should go sit in a corner and cry. Cry because you're a nasty piece of work who obviously takes pride in the fact that launching games parallel to console launches is hard. I can just tell. I can tell by the way you used that smiley there. Yeah you know what I'm talking about....ugh.
I was going to buy Ryse, but I hate you now.
I hate you.
-GrizzleBoy.
Why are you so proud that you served so many dinners?
I bet its literally YOUR fault that the devs are crunching! I bet they wouldn't have to if they weren't eating food all the time!
Man, I hate you.
You should go sit in a corner and cry. Cry because you're a nasty piece of work who obviously takes pride in the fact that launching games parallel to console launches is hard. I can just tell. I can tell by the way you used that smiley there. Yeah you know what I'm talking about....ugh.
I was going to buy Ryse, but I hate you now.
I hate you.
-GrizzleBoy.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Crunch is an inescapable fact of professional life, but AAA studios are notorious for going at it for months, which is inexcusable abuse of hardworking employees who are frequently made redundant the second crunch ends. Crunch shouldn't go away but it shouldn't be overlooked because it's common or be crowed about because of how awesome it is to eat dinner at work instead of with your family for half the year.
Cert.in.Death
Member
Sheesh, tough crowd on Twitter these days....
From what I'm gathering, it seems like some few are surmising that if Crytek was managing their development process properly, there wouldn't have to be any overtime...
Or fucking something.
Game developers are chained to their desks. The food they get is the processed remains of former employees who attempted to escape.
That's not why people are reacting like that.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
What's the cause of video game development crunch anyways? Ideas being too ambitious for the time allocated? Not enough employees? A lot of time being wasted early on? Why hasn't this sort of thing been eradicated yet?
heyyyooooooooo
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Rome wasn't built in a day.
valkillmore
Member
I wasn't commenting on GAF, just the general state of the Xbox brand today and how people are quick to shit on Microsoft, or companies developing titles debuting on Xbox One. Nothing to do with GAF sentiment at all, and I didn't mean for it to come off like that!
Gentleman Jack
Member
Why do you two insist on this being about the console wars. This is about basic treatment of your employees.
Dead Prince
Banned
I don't get the quote. But hey. Big numbers is big but it doesn't matter until we know how m
Any work there and how many have 2 or more servings
Any work there and how many have 2 or more servings
Welcome to the internet!
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
What the hell at the comments
Tap 'A' for gravy.
Haunted
Member
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stump sock
Member
people who have never worked in software development EVER, basically.
Hi, welcome to how the real world works.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Are people seriously attacking them over that? Wtf...
Prince Vultan
Banned
FullMetaltech
Member
Come on guys. If you wanna make fun of people on twitter at least grasp that they aren't outraged at the giving out dinner part, but at the crunch time that requires employees to stay overtime long enough to amass that amount. Then you can talk about how software crunches are normal and defend why it would be hard to prevent it.
Dental Plan
Member
Lots of big dev studio crunch. That's the way the industry works. It sucks its that way but its not gonna change.
At least they'll win "Best Lunch Game".
Quadraphonic
Member
Crunch is always blamable on higher ups.
It's down to scope, management, features, and over-promising crap to the developers.
You should know your team's ability and promise honest deadlines. Not meeting those deadlines is 100% on the producers ability. That's literally their job. That's it.
When games end up in crunch, it's because deadlines are closer than anticipated, or the publisher is asking for asinine shit at the last minute and the producer didn't stand up for the developer.
Crunch inevitably happens on any project, but some studios thrive on it. Some very big famous studios, which I have people TOLD ME in person "I'd rather be homeless than work for them" even though it'd look great on their resume.
It's not good and not something to boast about. The fact that this account chose not only to ADMIT there's crunch, on the order of months, but as a fact of pride, is nasty.
Those people, those programmers, those artists, those QA people, don't get to see their family. And this twitter jockey is making light of that. FUCK THAT.
Before you go thinking this isn't a big deal, look at the accounts responding to this. These are the people making your games that are most upset. Unless you've dealt with crunch, you have no idea what this means.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Jesus Christ. Is this really what it's come to?
This generation transition continues to surprise and amaze.
This generation transition continues to surprise and amaze.
I'll skip the usual "nice persecution complex" and just jump straight to, shut up.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Hi, I've worked in software development for over a dozen years and haven't had to crunch for longer than a week in my life.
Game companies grind their employees through months of that shit. That's not 'software development' or 'the real world.'
akachan ningen
Member
One dinner for each copy of the game sold.
Lol this is wrong
Maybe because most of the people who are getting angry about it are devs who have lived crunch and it is the fucking worst, and seeing it used as some kind of twisted marketing tool - implying that the more hours were spent crunching, the better the game will be - is a damn good reason to get angry.
It sure won't go away if people keep accepting it as a normal thing or even promote it like this tweet does... Obviously the tweet is just a tweet, and Crytek isn't the only company doing this, but it feels like it's rubbing it in gratuitously.
...and, since apparently that needs explaining, the fact that lunches were served isn't the issue - the problem is that they needed to be served in the first place
"Why complain? It could be worse."
SloaneRisette
Member
I can't help but laugh at the response that said #cool #dinner, lol
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
All that extra development time and they couldn't get it to 1080p?
/s... but not really.
/s... but not really.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
This is like the new expert on Japanese culture
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Lets not act naive now.
Moral Panic
Member
I seriously can't see how you can be proud of this fact. Crunching is a necessary evil, not something you should be talking about as a highlight of your project.
KillerTravis
Banned
Those responses, ugh.
polyh3dron
Banned
A big budget game had an extended crunch development period?
I am SHOCKED.
I am SHOCKED.