Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of Star Citizen, has mandated its developers to work seven days a week to meet deadlines for Citizencon on October 19th.
I’m sure this will do wonders for morale. Are they paying people overtime for these extra days or is it free labor demanded based on unrealistic deadlines? Nope… just time off.
They are not paying directly. As per the article you can get additional PTO days in the future, albeit only after Squadron 42 is released (whenever that’s going to happen) and if you are still with the company.
A pretty sketchy approach.
Should be time and a half or double… even if pto…
Agreed, but this is Star Citizen, even from a neutral perspective; a pretty sketchy project run by a sketchy organization (CIG).
EDIT: Clarification
Yeah, agreed. When the game was in its initial round of getting money I spent some money on it, knowing it was a bet. Since then the drama has unfolded and I’m just very interested in how it will unfold.
Since then I have not stopped spending money on some select early access, but simply from the perspective that I’ll sponsor development and hope it goes somewhere. I’ll even sometimes try and give feedback, although nowadays a lot is in discord… and I refuse to yell into that void.
Back to the topic… It’s silly that a company like this still ends up in time crunch before an annual event they plan themselves… and the shadiness of giving pto only after launch and if you are with the company. Hell then they should give pto then and equity now… they are requiring their staff to invest in the company and offering 1:1 pto in compensation… that’s not compensation… that’s theft… as time in the future is less valuable than time now.
Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are the games. Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) is the organization. It also operates as Roberts Space Industries (RSI) but that’s primarily a marketing arm.
Ah, I see, the early access model except for employment. Put in extra work now and maybe you’ll get some days back in a few years. Unless the project fails… or you leave the company… or we don’t feel like giving you those days anyway.
I’m sure that this will result in some highly innovative and top notch updates. Star Citizen will surely be the greatest game ever. One day. After the last star has blinked out of existence.
The time off should be well over the amount of extra weekend time, to account for the nonlinear negative effects of going 14 days on.
Like each weekend worked should yield a week of PTO.
And it should be an optional trade.
I’m guessing the top management didn’t learn that crunch is perceived negatively and doesn’t always yield quality results. I’m so glad I never backed this game all those years ago.
The Crobler strikes again!
wow my dyslexia had a field day with that title. I was very curious what “Senior Citizens Develop Could Emporium” meant
I would have said I can’t be any more disappointed with this company, wow.
I hope they just don’t show up on weekends.
Sooo 4.0 not this year then? 😂
I lost interest in this game. Will check it out again if they come with a beta before I retire.
I tried to check in last week. My computer made it one hour before shutting down due to heat. It runs everything else just fine. I can’t be interested if I can’t even play the game.
I would kill myself with no weekend. It’s no way to live. Just work slaves
Especially for Star Citizen lol. Like what are they gonna show? Given their track record, at best it’ll be some half-baked new mechanic that doesn’t work properly and will eventually be tossed and replaced anyway.
The whole game right now is just a series of those duct-taped together, as far as I can tell.
Star Citizen has Deadlines? Since when?
Since the 2014 release date.
I believe they started 12 years ago
I guess this is a feeble attempt at showing teeth to investors .
Anyway, lawsuit incoming.
with staff receiving company TOIL (time off in lieu)
I like their self-aware acronym there.
This is a very common term. I encountered it back home in Canada frequently, and just as much here in the UK.
What does it mean? They get vacation days equal to the weekends they put in?
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The company that sells ships in an unfinished game with IRL money that cost more than a real car is being scum? surprisedPikachu.gif
Are they just cruel for fun? Do they think that out of all the gaming communities out there this community expects deadlines to be kept? If you opted into SC then you surely don‘t mind waiting, no? Or maybe it‘s got nothing to do with customers and it‘s corporate speak and about fucking investors, Idk.
It’s investors for sure. Customer-focused companies don’t have this level of delusion in their management.
Imagine actually working on this game. What the hell is wrong with these developers?
I’ve never seen a single game make less progress at a slower speed while also been on sale. Who out there is deluding themselves into believing this will ever be released as a finished product?
There are game studios that have come into existence, had many commercial hits, and shut down in the time it’s taken them to fail to make one game.
