You skipped an entire console generation and make more than the GDP of most countries from GTA Online.
Time is not an issue for you.
Right? They’ve had over a decade. GTA V came out in TWENTY THIRTEEN. They have ZERO an excuse to be abusing their employees in the last year before release. And they gave themselves a year PLUS—didn’t they said VI was coming out “2025?” Like…how can you excuse that kind of shit?
Really hope it doesn’t get delayed but also wish for both the staff not to have mental health issues or us to get another unpolished game released to us.
I mean, we’ve waited 36 years since the last one, I’m totally fine with waiting a bit longer to avoid stress on the devs.
Lmao. I actually got tricked into doing arithmetic for a second there.
One of the last industries that would actually benefit from return to office. I doubt anyone writes better code or produces better art after getting stuck in traffic twice a day every day.
It might be hard to get mocapping done when the actors and director and camera men are all at home doing it remotely.
I would imagine those are handled more like recording sessions where it’s not a 9-5 but a scheduled event. I could be wrong though I’ve never done it myself.
…you are wouldn’t happen to play VR chat, would you?
I do.
What are your thoughts on face tracking for your skins? I recently saw it in action and I thought it was pretty dope.
I’d love it more if the Quest 3 had an internal camera to track my face/eye movement. 🤷🏻♂️
Though I have thought about v-tubing/v-streaming and have the camera setup for it already, which I could use the face tracking with. Right now it’s used for FBT.
Exactly. The main part where they’d benefit from being in an office is initial planning, story boarding, etc. That should’ve happened a long time ago, and right now they should be fixing bugs and performance issues, fine-tuning art, etc. That doesn’t require direct 1:1 collaboration, and generally benefits from an asynchronous process where QA reports issues and the individuals fix them.
Weirdly even if this was some vindictive way to get more overtime out of people, I believe studies suggest people who WFH are more likely to work overtime because it’s less impeding and the barrier to look at work is less (I don’t remember any studies off the top of my head). So I assume this is just a management problem as management are usually the people having trouble when it comes to WFH
When my family members briefly had wfh they did all of the overtime. You can do a full home cooked dinner, OT, and still have time to relax after. Breaks don’t feel like a waste of time you can’t even finish a meal within. None of these buffoons will accept that performance went up using the same metrics that they used to complain about poor performance before covid hit though.
Yeah, commuting wastes hours not only because of transportation, but how much earlier you have to wake up and go to sleep and how physically and mentally draining the process itself is. Takes quite a toll.
“it’s easier for us to force our employees to crunch if they work in our offices”
Yeah, pushing back-to-office and crunch timelines will really help, I’m sure.
When has being shitty to your employees, overworking and pushing your long-term employees with institutional knowledge out the door because they can find better jobs that allow WFH ever blown up in a company’s face? /s
falling behind? QUICK, everyone waste two hours of every day commuting to the fucking office so people can endlessly distract you from making it!
You do as the SCRUM Master told you or we will take away all your Fruit Baskets and free Tap Water! /s
I don’t get this. If you force me to drive through shitty traffic to get to work and to return home, I’m going to find a way to make it back. Similarly, if you try to force me to be at work 12 hours a day, I’m only going to do about 4-5 hours of real work.
Employees confirmed spending too many hours working for free instead of sitting on trains and buses.
Boss:
“You’re needed in the office. Please come in to the office now”
Employee:
“Come and fucking get me, you pussy.”
