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… Imagine how you might feel if a fifth of your salary could be withheld without any justification or based on a single surprise factor." The crunch required to develop Red Dead Redemption 2 is well-documented, and one employee suggests crunch is so normalised at the company that it's baked into thei… …
… The request follows Rockstar firing more than 30 staffers last year in a move accused of being “union busting.” According to the release, IWGB members have been “actively” organizing since 2019 and “claim they now represent a significant proportion of the workforce across each of the studio’s sites… …
… To make matters more complicated, these anonymous employees informed Game Developer that RockStar Games has been attempting to normalize crunch culture by baking it into the contracts of its UK staff, forcing them to work many overtime hours for little reward. …
… "It seems the company thinks that offering specific and limited compensation as an incentive for overtime means it no longer qualifies as crunch." Notably, we were informed that Rockstar attempts to normalize crunch—the widely-criticized practice of forcing employees work extraordinary amounts of o… …
… "Part of the problem with crunch is that there is not an agreed definition, and now it seems the company thinks that offering specific and limited compensation as an incentive for overtime means it no longer qualifies as crunch." The employees claim, also, that this crunch is applied inconsistently… …
… We do have to acknowledge that the enterprising surveillant is at least not harassing employees directly or trying to enter the building, but we find it very unlikely that the poor employees trying to crunch and complete what might be the biggest video game of all time aren't aware of this cad—agai… …