• Skip to content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

GameMax

Latest news for Gamer

  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimers
  • DMCA
  • Contact Us
  • Submit your story

You are here: Home / Premature evaluation / Warframe players speak out against crunch

Warframe players speak out against crunch

November 10, 2018 by rockpapershotgun Leave a Comment

Free-to-play acrobatic shooter Warframe just dropped its second expansion, bringing a whole lot of new stuff to the game. It was doubtlessly a lot of work for developers Digital Extremes – but, say some of its players, hopefully not too much. In a positive step, they’ve encouraged the team to avoid overwork and crunch, even if that means the game gets slower updates. If you’ve been following games news lately, you might have heard a thing or two about crunch. It’s rarer to hear about fans telling developers that their health is more important than their work, but that’s exactly what Reddit user Spacesheepie did, creating a graphic referencing Stress Awareness Day that reads in part “crunch is bad for wellbeing.” Other users chimed in their support, too, making the post a pretty wholesome thing to scroll through. Many, posting before expansion Fortuna released yesterday, said they wouldn’t mind if it were delayed, if that would allow the developers to work reasonable hours. “I’d rather have a late Fortuna than an exhausted and dispirited team,” wrote one. Spacesheepie also tackles some of the big misconceptions when it comes to crunch, like arguing that developers working 60, 70, or 100 hour weeks are just “passionate.” “Humans need rest, time with family, etc. regardless of their passion for their work,” they write. “Workaholicism is also a thing, and isn’t healthy, sometimes we get lost in our projects and don’t take the time we need to rest,” they add in another comment. Digital… [Read full story]




  • Warframe players can get Ash Prime by watching TennoLive 2018
  • Why Digital Extremes is finally reworking Warframe's level progression
  • Digital Extremes on 38 million players and 5 years of Warframe: 'Change is a constant for us'
  • Warframe prime relics: how to get the best gear
  • Warframe's new expansion is a stunning alien landscape full of giant robo-bugs
  • 5 things you need to know about Warframe Fortuna, including hoverboards and animal scat
  • How to prepare for Fortuna, Warframe's stunning open-world update
  • Warframe is getting co-op spaceship combat that looks like a third-person FTL
  • Warframe's June expansion trailer has players scrambling to decrypt its hidden messages
  • The Sacrifice Update Comes to Warframe on Consoles July 5

Filed Under: Premature evaluation spanish speaking soccer players, digital extremes, warframe, crunch

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


Primary Sidebar

Categories

Action Activision ai Namco All topics and Android Anthem Bethesda Blizzard blockbuster Bungie Capcom Deals Destiny Destiny 2 E3 2018 Entertainment Epic Games Explainers Film Fortnite Gamasutra games Gaming Hardware iOS Microsoft mobile News news games Nintendo Nintendo Switch Off Topic Discussion PC PlayStation Podcasts Pokemon Pokemon GO Premature evaluation PS4 Switch Tags Tech xbox Xbox One

Recent Posts

  • [Rumor] Apex Legends Survival Leak Shows New Game Mode & Two Legends
  • Fortnite Adds Overtime Challenges for Free Season 8 Battle Pass
  • Apex Legends Twitch Prime Pack Offers Exclusive Pathfinder Skin
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Operation Grand Heist Update Out for PS4
  • Black Ops 4’s Big Operation Grand Heist Update Out Now On PS4
  • Epic Games is suing the organizers of the unofficial Fortnite live festival
  • Path of Exile: Synthesis Launches March 8, Simultaneous With PS4 Release
  • Twitch Prime subscribers get a free Apex Legends skin and packs for February
  • Pokémon Go finally adding Clamperl through limited research tasks
  • OpenGL: Depth Stencil buffer won’t write underlying texture attached

Copyright © 2019 GameMax. Power by Wordpress.