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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Following a blog post last week describing unfair work conditions at Rockstar San Diego, a former Rockstar New York staffer spoke to MTV Multiplayer of the fear the East coast office instils in the developer’s West Coast employees.
An anonymous blogger filing under the heading “Rockstar Spouse” has penned a letter of complaint about working conditions at Red Dead Redemption development studio Rockstar San Diego.
Obvious sentence of the day: It takes atomic tons of effort and man (or woman)-hours to build a game. The game industry may have a bit of a checkered history with the “QoL” or “Quality of Life” issue, but since the infamous ea_spouse dished on her husband’s seemingly-endless eighty-five hour work weeks in 2004, the industry seems to have been taking a closer look at its practices.
A new Gamasutra feature on games industry quality of life asks, “Does Anyone Still Give a Damn?” On hand to answer the question is Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), the workers’ organisation that followed up the ea_spouse scandal with a QoL survey in an attempt to improve the landscape.
Four years later, what’s the state of things now?
