Neil Druckmann and Evan Wells, presidents of Naughty Dog, shared their opinions on the problem of crunches in the gaming industry. According to them, it is necessary to create comfortable conditions — including not prohibiting “passionate” developers from voluntarily working overtime to improve the project. However, studio bosses were criticized by industry colleagues for their position.

Many Chinese gaming companies have rather harsh working conditions — specialists work six days a week from 9 am to 9 pm. However, Lightspeed & Quantum studio, owned by Tencent and developed PUBG Mobile, decided to fight crunches. To do this, she made a number of small concessions for her employees.This was reported by analyst Daniel Ahmad.

The problem of crunches in the gaming industry is widely covered in the media, but rarely it comes to processing among journalists. Former employees of the popular YouTube channel GameXplain accused the management of the lack of compensation for the sleepless nights they spent trying to have time to release a review by the deadline.

To the urgent question of crunches. It is quite realistic to manage a game project in real time so as not to overwork developers. This opinion belongs to Tami Sigmund, producer of Zynga Studio.

Yesterday, the European Court of Justice ruled that employers in Europe should implement a system for tracking employees’ working hours. According to a number of analysts, this decision will contribute to the fight against crunches in the gaming industry.

Game dev workers in the USA deserve more than crunches and meager salaries. The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Unions (AFL—CIO) recall this in an open letter published by Kotaku.