Uncharted director criticizes triple-a development, says it can 'destroy people'

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pray4mojo said:

arcaneguyver said:

EA: Good news! We're doubling our staff with equally qualified people!We're talking 40 hour work weeks, people!
Devs: Woohoo! It might be hard to coordinate with close to 1,000 people involved, but we'll take it!
EA: On a completely unrelated note, your salary has been halved.
Devs: Oh...

I don't know about you, but there's no amount of money that could make me work 12 hour days, 7 days a week. At that point, no matter how wealthy you are, you don't have time to enjoy ANY OF IT. 

A lot of people do what they have to at times thinking that it's temporary. Quiting something like Uncharted must be a terrible career move for most of them.

I'm going through something similar myself in academia. I see it as building for the future. It sucks but the alternative is worse.