Three Years of Crunch for Death Threats and 30% on Steam

Description

A meme using the exhausted father character from the stop-motion film Coraline: a gaunt, hollow-eyed man with glasses slipping down his nose, wearing a 'Michigan State' sweater, slumped at a desk in front of an old CRT monitor under a swing-arm lamp, with a coffee cup beside the keyboard. The caption above reads: 'game developers working 16-hour days for 3 years just to get death threats from 12-year-olds and a 30% rating on steam'. The image skewers game industry crunch culture - years of brutal overtime rewarded not with gratitude but with toxic community backlash and a 'Mostly Negative' Steam review score

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Three years of crunch compressed into one Steam review: 'refunded at 1.9 hours.'

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Three years of crunch compressed into one Steam review: 'refunded at 1.9 hours.'
Anonymous

They hit the 16 ms frame budget by moving every overrun into the human sleep budget.
@TheFloofyFloof 6mo

when you join a game company founded through kickstarter thats run by a ceo with no experience
1. @chupasaurus 6mo
  
  How about a game company founded through kickstarter because their previous one made mobile games and ran out of money? That's Everspace by Rockfish Games.
  
  @NickNirus 6mo
  
  that's a pretty good game
  
  @chupasaurus 6mo
  
  2, there's a sequel.
@paranoidPhantom 6mo

Just to work on hlx that won’t come out
@amo_amo_amo 6mo

"working 16-hour days to make the game as gay and diverse as possible"
1. dev_meme 6mo
  
  These either take 25-hour days for years in corpos or a few hours of vibe coding, steam is diverse in its own indie ways these days > See "house of detention" or anything tagged as mature content
2. @itsTyrion 6mo
  
  seems good to me? 👀
@azizhakberdiev 6mo

shouldn't have promised them robux if you play the game
@polyduekes 6mo

tbh most game devs have no choice to choose the game design shown to users,they just have to go with what the shitheads in marketing and stakeholders decide
@kingJohnM 6mo

It is not that serious. It is just a game. That mentality has cost many airheads on the front lines because they falsely thought it is a game.
1. @SamsonovAnton 6mo
  
  Not that serious? Just a game?
  
  @RiedleroD 6mo
  
  he's not called kill bates for nothing 😔 rip beve stallmer
@GorgeousGorger 6mo

Well, don't make shitty games