I mean the first thing management has done is set targets for "major patches", one in January and one in February, for a version of the game that some game devs and journalists are saying probably needed at least 6-8months.
They'll probably get their scheduled Christmas week off and then be crunched and abused worse than ever to try and do the impossible.
Yup. CDPR basically promised everyone their bonus regardless of review scores, partly as good PR but also because you have to continue working for them for at least three months in order to get it. So basically they can hold devs hostage with their bonus - which probably isn't insubstantial given CDPRs low wages - and crunch the hell out of them for three more months before there's an exodus of people leaving the company. In that context the newly unrealistic Jan/Feb deadlines make a lot of sense. They know they'll be hemorrhaging staff after that.
I mean the first thing management has done is set targets for "major patches", one in January and one in February, for a version of the game that some game devs and journalists are saying probably needed at least 6-8months.
They'll probably get their scheduled Christmas week off and then be crunched and abused worse than ever to try and do the impossible.
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Yup. CDPR basically promised everyone their bonus regardless of review scores, partly as good PR but also because you have to continue working for them for at least three months in order to get it. So basically they can hold devs hostage with their bonus - which probably isn't insubstantial given CDPRs low wages - and crunch the hell out of them for three more months before there's an exodus of people leaving the company. In that context the newly unrealistic Jan/Feb deadlines make a lot of sense. They know they'll be hemorrhaging staff after that.