I can already predict I'm going to be
very active in this thread.
Yes, because CDPR is holding staff at point blank range.
It's not like they can quit or go on strike.
No.
They're chained to their desktops.
Let's paint a caricature that can fit in a single catchy phrase.
Anything deeper would hamper the memes.
Please think about the memes.
Absolutely fuck that. I'd be out.
Finally, someone who gets it.
Don't like it? Talk to management and try to have them hear your point of view.
Didn't work?
Go on strike.
Still failed?
Quit.
OK everyone, let's crunch it up! Illegalize and criminalize crunch!
We could criminalize stupidity and that would certainly wipe out a number of post around here.
You don't get to decide, you don't get to interfere in voluntary relations between employer and employee. What if employers do want to crunch? I've crunched many times in my life. I knew what I was getting into. I was paid appropriately. I'd do it all over again, thank you.
I don't require your permission or your approval to take decisions that don't concern you and don't affect you in the least and neither should CDPR employees. They do not require the blessing of any gamer before making a professional call that concerns no one but themselves. This applies to both a decision to crunch and a decision to refuse to crunch.
Again, if they don't like it, they can try to negotiate, to persuade, they can go on strike, they can quit, start their own indie studio, go work for the competition, etc.
Their life,
their decision.
Not
your life and therefore not
your decision.
(...)
Jason can go start his studio, where he'll risk his money and run it according to his work ethic.
Not acceptable. No human should have to work more than 35 hours a week
Ah, yes, Comrade twistedmetal has decided for the whole of mankind what's acceptable and what's not and now the whole of Poland must comply. Even if employees voluntary want to crunch - because, for instance, they'll be compensated, or because they take pride in their work - our Dear Leader twistedmetal in his infinite wisdom and boundless empathy for the whole of Mankind has decreed that his imperial will is law.
If I were an ambitious young CDPR staffer with a career to propel I'd be laughing my ass off at any onscreen attempts to limit my own working schedule against my own will, all done, as usual, in the name of teh most pious empathy for others.
Yes, empathy for me translates into denying me the right to govern my life as I see fit.
Keep that kind of empathy to yourself.
