Witcher 3 was very buggy on launch, the bugs were fixed over time and it runs flawlessly nowadays. Bizarre situation and an example of why people should be cautious about unions. Dedicated fans will buy anyway, but presumably a large fraction of preorders came from people who just jumped on the hype. Exactly. Cause issues with the underlying OS intentionally or not (like how an Anthem update supposedly caused PS4s to need to be initialized or recovered). If a game studio wants to maintain a very high level of quality, they have to be willing to lose a publisher by rejecting this. Isn't not quite consistent 30fps basically the norm on PS4/Xbox one? The game development industry has been a cesspool for worker exploitation for the longest time and this adds to a long list. It works in ViolentMonkey on MS Edge Chromium. It later went public, but collapsed in the dot-com crash. At that point working conditions at Rockstar became a side-topic barely mentioned in reviews and discussions about the game, if at all. Roads require labour of others to build and maintain, yet every American would object if they suddenly had to pay to use them to get anywhere - how is that any different. Since it's a critical time for both of them not only because it's christmas but also because of the new gen I'm also pretty sure they decided it was more worthwhile for them to still certify it the second time even if it wasn't up to the standards. This kind of ruins one of the selling points of consoles - that the game that you buy for them just work. > (lynching) It overwhelmingly refers to hate crimes along the basis of race or religin. team oriented camaraderie. In RDR2 you are forced to take bad weapons like the double-barrel shotgun and it is a permanent fixture on your weapon wheel whether you ever use it or not. Here, the username is hidden in a sentence of status text, on the same visual level of the number of minutes ago the post was made, all of which is rendered in a light grey font. That bot-wielding only works on products where supply is limited. Yes and no, TW3 was bad like really really bad it still is really sucky on base consoles. I had 2-3 crashes and saw some bugs like objects hanging in the air or the weapon not being visible. It overwhelmingly refers to the practices by Charles Lynch punishing loyalist supporters of the British during the American Revolutionary war, which had nothing to do with race or religion. Though looking at especially the Xbox One S footage, it is hard to believe anyone could be trusted to make it playable in a few weeks. Christmas Day should be a little shitty for your gift recipient, in that that they'll have to download a big fat patch, but hey, at least the game should work well. Oh the same thing goes for vision insurance, alternative medicine (RMTs and acupuncture) and some medical devices - i.e. Bonuses are almost never legally promised in practice, so they remain at the grace of the employer. Shareholders have no interest in owning a failing company, it is in their best interests for the company to be sucessful and profitable because they are the ones with skin in the game. NHS charging a flat £9/per prescription is preventing moral hazard so you don't request medicine nilly willy. Itâs rather pathetic that consumers give such leeway to irresponsible management. Read content from different sources in one place. As of now, you haven't given any principled reason for which services should be provided free by the government and which should not. I, for example have just an hourly rate set, and then I get paid for the hours worked. It was always designed for PCs. CDPR also has pretty much the best pro-consumer practices track-record out of all of them, releasing AAA titles with not even as much DRM as a serial; Just an executable anybody could copy and distribute. > Also it may be illegal, i.e. They can (must) also be sold when paying tax so pretty liquid asset. >> Why is your first reaction to "riot" instead of just "quit"? They probably made more money launching as is than they would have if they had just waited. That's why I take issue with singling out CDPR as it's happening right now; It's a scapegoat distracting from an industry-wide problem. Theoretically. How do I know? If however you are employed through the âemployment contractâ (âumowa o praceâ), the limits on overtime are really strict, and you must be paid for it, in fact 50% extra, and double pay for overtime worked during nights, sundays and holidays. Or didn't love the game concept but loved the tokens.). If you are in management of a company that literally publishes one game, it would make some sense to actually play this game. If I got paid in tokens at a startup, I would riot. They only lost money if they bought on the peak and then sold the stock after the 30% fall. Like, maybe this overall pretty strong list of releases not being available on Steam was part of total revenue issues, while somehow also not being EGS' fault. >CD Projekt joint-CEO Adam KaciÅski has praised Cyberpunk 2077's performance on PS4 and Xbox One in an investor call. You'd be shocked at what Canadians put up with. They could have released the PC version and wait a year or two to release to consoles. The revenue difference between selling at Christmas (even if reviews are awful) vs selling around Easter, the next available "good" retail holiday, is huge. I dunno about Poland, but where I live this type of employment has some caveats: - You need save for your time off (holidays) yourself. Vancouver is a large market for tech as is Toronto, and now the rest of the cities in Canada are picking up. ), photo editing of large RAWs and as the most overkill Citrix client in history. Yes. Tech workers at non-tech companies can get overtime. [2] According to him, getting a work visa in the US was not remotely a possibility. If there was enough investment available locally and local companies had the resources to hire more workers and were successful enough to pay them well, those salaries would be higher, but the resources to make that happen have to come from somewhere. I guess no one paid attention during The Social Network because they spelled it out clearly in that movie. For regular dev jobs, I think the market is less imbalanced than it appears on the surface. But if you're paid for an hour of work ("time & material") you will get paid for your "overtime". Crazy idea, I know, all PC problems are EGS problems. Playing on a 3080, minor bugs I've experienced aside it has been a true taste of the next generation of games. Just because a company produces a product you like does not mean you have to turn a blind eye to horrible practices. Iâd imagine the premiums would be super low for such a high deductible. TW3. The problem is that itâs too expensive because of artificial constraints on the supply of doctors and other medical resources. I agree there are plenty of shitty practices in the games industry, of course. Here's a first crack at making user names more prominent. Ah yes. Because there isn't a single other major December release. Don't regret it. Colloquially used it refers to citizen vigilante justice, and that's very much how a lot of this CDPR hate feels like. Help me achieve my goals and Iâm all yours to help you achieve yours. Iâve never seen out of pocket maxes that high but Iâm limited to my own experiences. Not you getting a service from them. Look closely at any industry here and corruption/abuse run rampant. The games I have had crashes with have all been ports from other consoles. Loss-aversion is a very powerful force, especially in the hands of senior leadership. Sony has pulled the game from the Playstation Store. If by "they" you mean investors, I'm not sure if that's correct. The theory goes that the big foreign corp (ie. Particularly cynical to complain about the commodification of trans-people, in a setting where even peoples memories and individual body-party are just another commodity. an OK game but an excellent world), Cyberpunk so far feels like what people who don't like games feel games are like. The government here provides health insurance for the very poor and subsidizes private insurance for the somewhat poor. But theoretically shareholders donât care about these things as long as the company will grow a lot in the next 30 years. Company 1: The company went bankrupt, founder renamed the company, started a new company with the same name as the original, transferred some assets for pennies on the dollar. I don't know how the Polish corporation works, but at least in my country, nebulous "investors" would have a lot of difficulty pushing through random product decisions in a public company. I'd say that it feels like someone in the media has an axe to grind here. Of the places I've worked that promise some form of bonus, I have only been paid a single one - $172. Have I been wrong all these years? sounds like a sure fire way of baking in "low hanging fruits" in release, and heroically picking them to get the bonus :), If getting anything at all for overtime and crunch is your definition of shittiest, you've not seen shit :), I worked for a game studio that did this. I think the union leaders trying to block the law were getting death threats from the workers they were supposed to be representing. Blogs, RSS, Youtube channels, Podcast, Magazines, etc. Lynching refers to a vigilante execution by citizenry having no legal authority. They also knew about how bad the game runs on PS4 and released it either way because âmoney>everythingâ. The difference is a law "partner" is called that because they become a partner in the LLP. Performance is fine. Happened to me three times... upvoted to bring light to this as startup finances is tricky for most mortals. It was kind of a silly thing though and wouldn't be considered compensation, there were normal bonuses and stock grants. It's just risky trying to find them. If you're on a TN visa, you can be turned away at the border at any time, for any reason whatsoever, including no reason whatsoever. May be CDP had reasons to do what they did - I'm not questioning that. How much of the lost reputation will not be recovered, even after all the refunds and patches? Yes. No, quiting is for people who want something they don't have. Yeah, but for smaller companies there is usually options and preferred ones etc. The upside is a lot larger as well of course. Unfortunately PS4 (although at least they are running a PS4 Pro). Alas, can't buy neither a new 3080 nor a new PS5. That doesnât really account for the difference. No, the reason why so many Ubisoft games are made in Canada(and other studios as well, take a walk around central montreal, there's tonnes of games studios there) is that the Canadian government is giving out massive subsidies to the game industry to grow it there(last I've heard it's literally half of every salary - an absolutely ridiculous amount of money). Because I want to. He has compensation that is generous, but it took him 17 years to get there. It looks very impressive, but I still boot up assassin's creed Odyssey (of all games) just to wander around (i.e. Do your due diligence. In most scenarios these are not an issue, because if one can negotiate high pay justifying B2B, one can also negotiate time off and lack of overtime. If local salaries are depressed like that, this implies the outside investment is sorely needed. It's supposed to be the whole advantage over having a PC. This is not an unusual benefits package as far as I can tell. It forces everyone to work in overdrive. Also if your startup needs skill and services not available locally that have to be sourced outside thatâs more cost, whereas a company coming in will have to provide those services at its own expense. And Iâd rather have extra 100k and pay the 10k for health. The key part I think is just making overtime paid, then the incentives all align much better. You are betting that CDPR will put in its due dilligence to regain trust of consumers. There's centuries worth of legislation about equity. if you are employed like a full time employee - you cannot work as an independent consultant/contractor. > If Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't targetting PS4 and Xbox One, CDPR shouldn't have released it for them at all. Because now (where I live), the wealthier you are, the more elaborate schemes you can run to avoid paying taxes on your income. you give 3 month warranty on the code you write, or have some bogus penalties for contract breach, or other things, which I've never seen enforced) then it cannot be treated as full time employment, even if you have just one client for which you issue invoices. The double standards at play here are mind-boggling. Whoâs on the board? http://stockoptioncounsel.com/blog/standards-ownership-canth... Do not work overtime without compensation, no company is your baby and companies have no legal obligation to remember your service. Making it less terrible after-the-fact, after tons of bad press and outside pressure, and when you desperately need the devs to stay on and fix the problems left after the launch they no doubt told you was not going to work⦠not sure that deserves much praise. I saw someone post a synopsis on Reddit (forgot the sub) of the actual recorded phone call and these were the points mentioned: Question remains, why did Microsoft and Sony certify them? https://gist.github.com/capnmidnight/b61dcecf587949d6adf1dc4... in practice, I've certainly heard people use camel case to refer to either convention. Laughable. After 5 or so years, it still did not have much revenue to speak of. Law firms aren't healthy workplaces, but I wouldn't worry about the legal rights of the lawyers working for them. Everyone wants to go to the better doctor, but thereâs just not enough of them. I noticed a lot of extremely successful companies were employee-owned for a significant fraction of their early growth. Even worse, despite the outrage everyone will immediately purchase or even preorder a hypothetical Cyberpunk 2088 again. Feel free to respond to that. Any decent software employer in the US will have good insurance that basically guarantees your max out of pocket health expenses wonât exceed a few thousand dollars. If you have a problematic history (which includes things entirely outside of your control, like being born in the wrong part of the world[1]), it can be nearly impossible. (As a side note, I'm playing the game on low-end gaming hardware and it works fine. Medicine is not free to provide. 3. When I was negotiating my current job, I had a competing offer for around $100k more plus equity but it was essentially Engineer #1 after the technical co-founder. It takes someone like Steve Jobs to pull this off and may be in game industry it is tricky. Our system in the US is far from perfect: we let the doctorâs guild limit the supply of doctors, we are too uncomfortable with ending care for the very old and terminally ill, and the whole hospital and medical device industries could use an antitrust shakeup. 1. > if your house on fire, the fire brigade will come and help, free of charge. In my experience gamers are very quick to forgive and forget a bad game and will still line up for the next hyped release from the same publisher/studio. I'm sure people play-tested it and tried to raise alarms, but bad news regularly get's softened, maybe to accept less blame/responsibility? I have another reply to you that engages with all of your points. I've worked on two big AAA releases in the last 6 years and my total overtime was statistically zero, I did some extra hours in the last 2 weeks leading to release, but that was mostly to watch over the server infrastructure to make sure the launch went smoothly. It's not like Vancouver is solely populated by foreign studios. Everything fit with some slight bending of inner lip at the top. The tokens were handed out by peers. Imagine the sales numbers if supply wasn't so badly constrained. You had to ask around and notice it was always the same week to figure out how it worked. There's some documentaries about it online as well. I'm playing on a PS4 slim and the game is fine, I really don't understand all the negativity (v 1.0.4). This is basically what the industry was like when I joined 15 years ago. This is not an MMO that behaves differently after the million users log in. No, it is not illegal - I've been practicing this for the last 10 years, never had any trouble with tax office. They are rock solid. Management may very well have had little or no choice in the matter. And who knows if you can recreate this hype after the pandemic ends, after other games come out, after you delay the release over and over. The majority of the investors were "friends" and had to give sign off. >>They are also exorbitantly expensive because of the absurd moral hazard they create. [0] https://www.gov.uk/right-of-way-open-access-land/use-your-ri... My out of pocket max per year is around $6000 USD, and my salary is double what I was (under)paid in Toronto, and taxes are a bit lower here (CA). I saw some people saying âI bought it, but Iâll wait a few months to play until theyâve patched it,â and they think thatâs fine. It's not like the PC version was ready. Give it a month or two and people will stop talking about this one too. For me it's highly probable the last delay have been caused by the game being denied the certification at first. They overestimated how much they could fix in the time between the initial delivery and the day-one patch. > So why did the management still decide to go ahead with the release this year? It has issues that can not be fixed in another 6 months of development. Company 3: Still working on it. I feel like I did. The downside is that I make $80k ($62kUSD) as a mid level web dev, and that is not really considered low for the position. I decided to go with an overpowered RGB aesthetic, both to spite the people that complain about RGB puke online and because I like the mood lighting it provides for my living room at night. I don't have any real evidence to back it up though. its just that you can pay yourself some salary and the rest you can pay out at the end of the year as profit that is taxes different. Meanwhile when Ubisoft releases yet another "Doesn't look anything like the marketing footage", usually also crunched into existence, people just shrug it off. 3. At ours we only participate in one of them, the other is done by management, and for most of my career ours would just pretend he decided to give us a bonus for our hard work one day. CamelCase is such, you're referring to mixedCase. The out of pocket expenses that people quote in this thread are insane - having to suddenly pay few thousand dollars for treatment would cripple my finances, and I'm a software engineer. Search "Red Dead Redemption crunch" or "Rockstar Games crunch" and you'll find loads of similar articles. That document is not saying they are "worth" less than in America but that they are undervalued which I imagine a lot of them would agree with. Getting paid in participation tokens doesn't. Mostly in a visual sense though. Whether they'll be fixed remains to be seen. Well they state it right in the movie that he deceptively tried to screw Saverin over and his own lawyer in a nutshell said "Settle. It's sad if that counts as "progressive" business practices in the games industry.
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