Jusagi Chan

One of my past bosses worked on the original Far Cry. He told us about how development reached a point where many devs never went home in order to finish the game, and the sheer exhaustion destroyed their ability to even talk coherently in meetings. Then when my former boss went home after the game had released, some freak of a player discovered that he had been responsible for a particular feature that the gamer hated (unstated here since I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say what exactly), and the guy sent a long message about how they were going to find him and do things to his mother (you can imagine what they said for yourself).

That was the last straw and what led to my past boss leaving AAA game dev forever.

Nobody working there is lazy. Nobody working there might even be sane to be able to put up with abuse and garbage pay like that (and even worse) using the same skills that can get them hired in software with triple the pay instead.

“Day 25 : Bartender”