Re:Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
by nickthegreek on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:20PM
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They also told their staff there would be mandatory overtime after promising the community that would not be the case. And now it's being delayed, so does that mean the mandatory overtime just got extended another few weeks as well or did they delay it so that they could cancel the mandatory OT?
Right, they've been in the overtime phase for "finishing the game" since ... january? now?
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
by dkersten on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:40PM
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If that was true, it would put them over the legal limits for overtime under Polish labour laws (max 8 hours per week, 150 hours per year).
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
by dkersten on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:34PM
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> brutal mandatory crunch
It was my understanding that they asked people to work an extra 8 hours per week (the maximum under Polish law, for no more than 150 hours per year) and paid extra for it (again, as required by law). While this is definitely not ideal and crunch is, IMHO, due to project mismanagement, especially after promising they wouldn't, but I wouldn't exactly call this "brutal", especially considering that covid has messed up many people's plans.
Now, if non-polish contractors got a worse deal, I don't know...
More importantly, it adds data points to the story of CD Projekt Red getting press for bragging about no ‘mandatory’ crunch time and subsequently adopting a brutal mandatory crunch at the home stretch.