Recently CD Projekt Red was outed as one of the developers who were forcing mandatory crunch on their employees, and this hasn't gone well with others.
gameinfinitus.com
"Adrian Chmielarz, who is the founder of People Can Fly as well as his current studio The Astronauts,
wrote a lengthy Facebook post this Sunday where he talked about how game development usually leads to crunch and there is a lot more to it then simply people overworking to deliver on a release date. He called it a complicated situation.
Łukasz Szczepankowski, Lead Technical Designer at CD Projekt Red, was one of the developers who
responded to the post by Adrian Chmielarz by adding that he doesn’t consider “game development managers” as “proverbial capitalists.”
After the news of the crunch broke out, CD Projekt Red Studio Head Adam Badowski addressed the topic to say that his company will once again share 10% of its yearly profits with the development team. One user who was in conversation with Lukasz was skeptical of this claim to which he
replied back saying that this is not a new thing but has been going on for a long time. He suggests that this news might be an attempt to put CDPR in a “bad” light.
Considering how outspoken some of the usual hypocrite journos can be (*cough*JasonShreier*cough*JimSterling*cough*), is it too much to expect them to follow these statements?