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'Devs are getting ground up as collateral damage': Fallout: New Vegas lead says burnout has replaced crunch as 'the primary hazard of the game industry' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 23 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I don't get the statement "burnout has replaced crunch as primary hazard". That's like saying humidity has replaced water as the primary reason for rust.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It seems like they're using burnout as a stand-in for "stress" in this case. The article doesn't do a very good job of elaborating on what that means exactly and it seems like the quote might be missing context. TBF Josh Sawyer isn't exactly known for being able to convey an idea with brevity.

[–] SurvivalMariner@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Stress can be for a few days or weeks or months. Burnout is a months and years thing. It's the result of chronic stress. You can just get a mental block and cannot even touch or look at something. It may make you unable to do the work you once did. The mind can shut down for self preservation. Even after years of recovery you may not be the same person.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think crunch implies it's temporary (but frequent), burnout is continuous.

[–] daemoz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Which makes a lot of sense considering a lot of Dev shops went from waterfall oriented projects to continual devops. When fallout New Vegas came out, there were only a few MMOs that were selling horse armor. Now that has become the standard for almost all multiplayer games. Every multiplayer game now has its own in-game store to better suck dry addicts and make producers life lazier and easier. And since we're pushing out so many buggy rapid releases, the devs need to keep working to hot fix what traditional ly would have been QAd and improved before release. This is clear to me and I have never worked in a game studio.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, like stress casualties due to crunch have been a thing for a long time.