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Time stamp for the ND part is 10:43 in case it doesn't embed properly. The video is about sony's many issues with live service in general and goes into multiple studio's woes but to me this stood out because everyone has assumed that ND has just been faffing about on intergalactic for the whole 7 years since TLOU 2 came out.

This is just yet more proof of why live service is a plague. Full quote from the vid

>A lot of people at ND were working on it. I think there's a belief out there that it was just kind of a side project while most people were working on intergalactic...no the opposite is true. Intergalactic did not have the majority of staff until after tlou online was cancelled. The majority of the studio was working on either tlou online or the remasters/remakes.

He also says tlou online cost "hundreds of millions" by the time it was canned.

Another mixed entry in the FF series for me, but I do love Lightning.

The gameplay with her riding Odin and wielding the twin-bladed sword is pure nostalgic awesomeness.

64 days left! 🎮

Kris Roberts worked at Rockstar for years, first tuning the vehicles for the Midnight Club games and then leading the design of Red Dead Redemption's multiplayer modes. He says the final six months of development on Rockstar's cowboy epic was the worst period of crunch he's experienced in the game industry, and he argues that the overtime wasn't even really about making the game better. Instead, it was about putting on a show for executives.

For his part, Roberts feels "conflicted" about airing these old frustrations, in part because he pushed himself into "self-directed" crunch on Midnight Club. "I was doing that because I thought it was important or I wanted to be involved at that level and it was me doing it," he says. But things were different with Red Dead Redemption, and Roberts is particularly frustrated by "artificial" incidents where Rockstar would declare "all hands on deck" overtime during weekend visits from executives like Sam Houser and Leslie Benzies.

"I remember a couple specific examples of a Friday afternoon, [when] management would send out an email that said, 'Just so we're all clear, we need to be here this weekend.' Then a follow-up email would say, 'And this weekend doesn't just mean Saturday.' I've made promises to my kids about what we're going to do this weekend. and Friday afternoon at 4:30 you're telling me I need to be here on Sunday regardless of what's going on. That's unacceptable," Roberts says.

"And it wasn't because, 'Oh, if you have a certain number of issues in Bugstar, or 'If you have critical things that must be fixed before the next build,' or 'If you have a legitimate business case for putting in that weekend time then we want you to be here.' It was more like, 'No, we need to put on the show of appearance that everybody's here all the time, because we have an executive visiting or something."

As multiplayer design lead, Roberts was then tasked with communicating these expectations to his team. This was a part of why he eventually said "I don't want to do this" and chose to leave the studio. "It was certainly in the top four" reasons for moving on, he jokes.

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