I wonder why companies do this? does it actually make it get done faster? Last I knew most workers were only efficient at their job for like the first 5 or 6 hours if that, spending an extra 8 ontop of it sounds like a waste of salary.
Ex Activision QA employee here - It does not get anything done faster, and it burns out the devs and QA alike so more mistakes are made. It’s always about hitting dates on time for shareholder profits, the C-suite people in charge do not give a shit about releasing a quality game.
Because most CEOs are wholely incompetent and don’t know how to run a successful business.
Do they hand out adderall or something? How do you even produce quality work like that…
You don’t. Mandatory crunch produces a mediocre result and drives away your hired talent.
Why am I not surprised. Overtime is always ordered by the folks who clock out at 3.
Fuck Neil Druckman, Naughty Dog, and Sony, in that order. Amy Hennig carried the whole PlayStation brand identity and got couped over some good ol industry sexism so that N.D. could opine about how hard it is to be a white man
