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Diablo IV developers allege mismanagement, crunch and disturbing creative decisions in new report

December 9, 2022RockPaperShotgun

Current and former Blizzard employees have shared details of alleged mismanagement and crunch during the ongoing development of Diablo IV. Speaking to the Washington Post under the condition of anonymity, the employees say that impossible deadlines, managerial indecision, and disturbing script revisions have led to employee dissatisfaction and high turnover. Read more

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Bully 2 may have been killed by stretching resources too thin, layoffs – report

December 31, 2021VG247

Crunching on other projects may have contributed to the Bully 2 studio’s downfall. Game Informer’s Blake Hester published a detailed report all about the Bully 2 that might have been and what led to the studio developing the sequel’s downfall. In short, Rockstar New England was pulled in multiple directions to the point where Bully 2 was no longer the focus of the developers who worked there. Rockstar New England, which was purchased by Rockstar when the former was Mad Doc Software and was responsible for the next-gen remaster of the first Bully at the time, had ambitious plans for…

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Respawn refuses to crunch team for Apex Legends

November 12, 2020VG247

By Alex Calvin, Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:21 GMT Apex Legends maker Respawn is trying to update the game without breaking its staff.Developer Respawn Entertainment has said that it won’t make its staff work long hours to increase the amount of content for Apex Legends. In an AMA event on Reddit, game director Chad Grenier replied to someone accusing the studio of being “extremely slow” with new updates for the free-to-play battle royale title.“We also refuse to crunch the team, so we’ll probably be slower at making content than if we worked 15 hour days but that’s just not something…

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