| fatslob-:O said: Human sacrifice is absolutely necessary to make better products. Heck, labour is necessary to be productive. I can't fathom why you can't understand this when you yourself have job ... The contract is not between Rockstar and their employees. It's a contract between Rockstar's employees and their customers because ultimately it's not Rockstar who compensates their employees, it's the consumers and Rockstar is just a middleman figure who represents their employees and if they don't like the working conditions offered then they can leave for better working conditions ... Don't blame the studio since it's just another faceless company that isn't alive. Games are becoming lower in value inherently which means that being a game developer isn't all that special anymore so the only way to hold consumers accountable is by demanding more value out of them for your work like how big pharma does when they charge high prices for their blockbuster specialty drugs which usually have a smaller pool of customers ... (I don't see consumers here praising big pharma one bit for their amazing working conditions and instead of drug research scientists being hailed as the heroes their reviled as a bunch of villains while the invaluable game developers are given more pity here) High prices mean that customers care more about your work and low prices mean that customers care less about your work so that's the way how it'll work in real life ... |
Maybe human sacifice isnt the right term to use here.
Quality comes with more man hours, i agree with that, however to achieve more man hours is as simple as hiring out more people. Forcing staff to work beyond there expectations is not required in the modern days, thats all greed which we should not just accept.
I can expect this kind of stuff happening with smaller struggling businesses but not the top of the food chain companies. Sadly its a common thrend across the board because companies are focusing more on the dollar and less on the morals.
Its easy to over work employees and its harder to achieve company goals in its deadlines. Thats where the true talent is.
My point is Rockstar could have made RDR2 as good as it is now without the bad practices but they choosed to go the way of greed.
