Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed... again

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An end of development crunch is one thing, but a year long crunch? Staff barely seeing their families for 6 months? 100 hour weeks? This is an extreme case even by many gaming companies already dismal standards, not even particularly efficient (Particularly in Poland) too as already pointed out, lots of people getting paid more per hour in overtime while inevitably working at a lower per hour rate is an expensive band aid solution to under resourcing.

100 hours is extreme yes. To the point of being ridiculous.

However, having lived out in the States? any one on "Salary" would be doing at least 60 any way. I often wondered why Americans had everything drive through. Were they really that lazy? no. Not at all. They were just so short of time they had no other option, as they just wouldn't have time to go to the bank otherwise.

My ex wife was "lucky?" enough to be on salary. It's all rather complicated, but basically if you are not on salary you are on 0 hour contracts. It's so that basically if you work under 40 hours a week they don't (the employer, state depending of course) have to offer you a reduced price medical package that they have to pay the rest on. So they will just hire more people on 35 hours, then they don't have to offer you anything.

Salary however? that's guaranteed 40 hours a week with all of the trimmings. So my ex was owned. Totally owned. No matter where she was or what she was doing? she had her company mobile and no matter where we were or what we were doing she was at their beck and call. No matter what.

She would walk in through the door at 6pm and her phone would immediately blow up and they would have her on her laptop auditing calls out of hours unpaid.

So whilst 100 hours may sound absolutely ridiculous? I can totally see it happening. Especially trying to deliver on a deadline, which is something else the Americans seem to love doing. Maybe they like torture?