News Spouses of Rockstar devs complain over workload

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2010/01/11/spouses-of-rockstar-devs-complain-over-work/1

The spouses of some developers at Rockstar have complained about the working conditions at the studio.

 

QQ, maybe the Mad Doc is ruining their lives like he destroyed Star Trek Legacy.

 

I'm no lefty socialist, but isnt this what unions are for.

 

Did the women who wrote that swallow a thesaurus prior to writing?

 

No, she's just married to HP Lovecraft. True story.

 

Err this is in the US = no unions, despite Unions over here have no power either.
Too many companies in the games industry are still treating workers like ****, and before someone goes well they are being paid for it, really the wages are NOT that good, trust me I DO work in the industry - you don't do it for the money.

 

Working 12 hours a day, 6 days in week, that sounds like slavery to me.

 

Developers would be termed a "professional" career, generally don't get unions for this sort of thing. Unions are more for service industries, public sector and unskilled labour.

Employment laws in America are a lot less stringent than in the EU. Its easier to fire or make people redundant in America compared to here.

 

Also, in the UK and Europe we have the Working Time Directive, which limits the hours that employees can work per week (unless they opt out).

 

Thing is, the 'victims' in this failed to tell their spouses that they are actually all down the pub.

 

6 days a week? Some of us work 7

 

Which would make no difference in this circumstance as it's within those

At least 11 hours break between shifts, and at least 24 hours rest once per week (or 48 in 14 days).

I was reading them the other day.

 

Meh, big corporations treating their employees like slaves. Story as old as the world. Hope Rockstar is made to pay out.

 

Any wonder why some people go postal?

 

You obviously missed the bit that limits the maximum length of a working week to 48 hours in 7 days...

 

LOL, shh don't tell my employees

You are of course correct.... git!

 

Not rare at all. I want to get into the games industry, and I have no delusions that it's a shitty job for a lot of people, with the bad hidden behind a wall of public relations. If you get lucky, you wind up with a comfortable, stable and enjoyable position. If you don't, you're flying all over the country every six months for peanuts, hoping that your name will show up in the credits of a game as more than just "QA Tester" so you might finally get a decent job somewhere. That's not to say there aren't advantages. If you're a creative type then making games can be extremely fun and rewarding, and the actual workplace is quite casual, with few dress codes and the like. How much corporate ******** there is really comes down to the company you're working for.

 

GM begs to differ, and even the unions and a union, no lie.

 

So now we know why GTA IV was such a heaping pile of fecal matter. Especially for the PC.

 

This is pretty much the norm in the industry, there are many grads willing to take up the slack if you don't want to, sadly I can't see this changing much (the pay is next to useless as well)