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What doesn't track is how any one person working 100 hours in a week is justified. With video games, just because of the sheer complexity of what goes into them, you're right - somehow it tracks that it'd take a lot of work.

Rockstar is made up of nine studios, so if we're talking about long work weeks, we're likely not talking about a team of a few dozen - we're looking at thousands of people working like that. They do that and can do that because they've made a bunch of money in the past. Rockstar focuses on pushing those boundaries. Rockstar basically invented the open-world genre with 'Grand Theft Auto 3,' and as it has become an increasingly dominant form in AAA games, there have been ways it has stagnated as a form, or plateaued in terms of design principles.

#Speedrunners game thread was being aborted series

'GTA' and 'Red Dead' are enormous games, and every major installment in those series has been pushing the perceived boundaries of the form. Mat: I think that what we're seeing with video games and crunch is, like you mentioned, an issue of scale. Jenn Sandercock, author of 'Edible Games,' started a weekly 30-minute break. When I got bugs about audio or lighting, I knew who to contact because I'd chatted to them over cake. For a newcomer to the company, this helped me immensely to meet people in different departments. It became a regular thing once a week which aptly was called 'Cake Day'. It seems like something that's intractably tied up with video games and with creative industries as a whole this notion that if you're not dumping literally almost all of the available hours in a single week into what you're working on, why are you doing it? Steve: I haven't played the first 'Red Dead,' but I did play 'Grand Theft Auto V,' and to hear that '100-hour work week' thing is both alarming and, given the depth and scale of those games, it makes sense, I guess? For me it raises this question of 'do video games need to be this big?' Is there a world where Rockstar isn't working 100-hour weeks, are there places where other AAA studios can release these massive, big-budget titles and not grind their employees into dust? They're long tired of seeing long overtime periods - as it's commonly referred to in the industry, 'crunch' - leading to worker burnout and not verifiably better end products. That statement has a lot of people in the games industry really, really upset.

He said that 100-hour work weeks were happening to get 'Redemption 2' out the door. In 2013, Rockstar released 'Grand Theft Auto V.' It made… approximately all the money in the world? Now they're out here talking about their new game, and something that Dan Houser - lead writer at Rockstar for this series and previous 'Grand Theft Autos' - said while interviewed for Vulture was really worrying. The game is coming out later this month - it's been in development for seven years, basically since the first 'Red Dead Redemption' was shipped in 2010. Mat: Then do I have a piece that you should read! On Sunday night, writer Harold Goldberg published a long look at the development of the Rockstar Games' open world Western 'Red Dead Redemption 2' for Vulture.