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Naughty Dog, Having Tried To 'Eliminate Crunch', Is Still Crunching (aftermath.site)
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[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 25 points 5 days ago

It's 100% cultural, a combination of generational trauma ("I did it so you have to") and pressure from upper management leading to performative effort. We now know from productivity research that overtime periods in game dev get diminishing--and even negative--returns pretty quickly.