Employee Mistreatment In The Games Industry

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Have you heard of Crunch?

Crunch is a practice done by some companies that require employees to work overtime in order to meet a deadline of a game, its often unpaid.

Yes

Some Triple A Companies in the industry have recently had articles written about their toxic workplace culture, have you seen any of these articles? *

Yes

Have you played any of the Games made/published by these companies?

some examples are listed

Rockstar: Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption 2

Activision: Call of Duty, Overwatch

Epic Games: Fortnite

Quantic Dream: Detroit Become Human, Heavy Rain, Beyond 2 Souls

NetherRealm: Mortal Kombat, Injustice

Nintendo: Mario, Animal Crossing, Pokemon

EA: Fifa, Sims

TellTale: Walking Dead, Minecraft Storymode, 7 Days to die

If None, Check this box

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The Companies listed above have been known for these controversys:

Rockstar Games are known for intense Crunch, making employees work "100 hour weeks"

Activision were in a lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing due to Alleged Sexual Harrasment which caused employees who spoke out about it to be fired and a female employee comitting suicide due to the conditions.

Epic Games have layed off and left 930 of their employees due to their poor financial decisions and greediness, intense crunch on employees too

Quantic Dream 3d modelled a woman nude without her consent and their lead writer is a sexist and homophobic person.

Netherrealm Caused an animator to get PTSD after requiring them to look at real gore for reference in their games.

Nintendos Playtesters faced sexual harrasement from the employees and no action was taken.

EA is known well for their Intense crunch. A Division of EA, Bioware, called making their employees work extreme overtime "magic"

telltale werent making a profit from their games and due to the Higher Ups making terrible decisions, caused the company to file for bankruptcy in 2018 and left all 250 of its employees without jobs, no severance pay or health insurance.

if your interested, sources are listed at the bottom of this form.

If you knew a company was treating their employees badly, would you still support them? (buy their products, merch and use their stores) *

Yes

would you want to work at one of these companies if you had heard that their employees weren't treated well? *

Yes

What are your opinions on crunch? is it necessary?

Would you choose to do crunch if you were working on a game? *

Yes

Are there any other controversial companies that I have not talked about?

Thanks for answering

Sources:

Rockstar:Inside Rockstar Games' Culture Of Crunch (kotaku.com)