The Day Before was an even bigger disaster than you thought: devs reportedly made to pay fines for bad work, learned it was an MMO from the trailers, and no one's sure where the bosses are
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-day-before-was-an-even-bigger-disaster-than-you-thought-devs-reportedly-made-to-pay-fines-for-bad-work-learned-it-was-an-mmo-from-the-trailers-and-no-ones-sure-where-the-bosses-are/
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newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y
Forced to pay fines for bad work? The fuck?
DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Idk how you would continue to work for the company after that.
TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Vulnerable workers who need the job and don't know that this sort of thing is usually illegal.
wildcardology@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
They said the devs are volunteers.
https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/gaming-news/the-day-before-developer-defends-use-of-unpaid-volunteers-3258893
Daxtron2@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y
If you read the article you'd see that the devs are full time employees. The "volunteers" are QA and localization teams.
wildcardology@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Wait... The devs are all volunteers...
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I would tell anyone collecting those fines to eat a dick
UpperBroccoli@feddit.de · 24 pts · 2y
Does that remind anyone else of the “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” segment “Film Scene”, where the “director” would change the type of film mid-scene several times?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Who had Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady, and Colin Mochrie set up a gaming studio?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
On one hand, I want to see these guys face justice. On the other, if you pre-order a game from a basically unknown developer with only cinematics and promises, you probably deserve to be scammed. Hell, even gameplay videos have been faked. Just don't fucking pre-order ever. If they have enough of a game scraped together, they can do early access and I'm all for that.