Cyberpunk 2077 Crunch Was A Majority Vote

<p>CD Projekt RED has gotten a lot of criticism on social media lately for their decision to commence crunch on Cyberpunk 2077 leading up to the game&&num;8217&semi;s November 19th release date&period; In a recent report&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;cyberpunk-2077-crunch-has-begun&sol;">we shared<&sol;a> that CD Projekt RED has begun crunch on the title&comma; despite promises not to do so earlier&period; We also highlighted the compensation the workers are getting and the Polish law that should hopefully protect CDPR&&num;8217&semi;s staff from being overworked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The situation might seem very black and white on the surface&period; And it almost seemed like CDPR was forcing its staff to work crunch on the game&period; However&comma; a recent reveal by GameInformer&comma; where they <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;DwqCBCj9TVk" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">interviewed some of the developers<&sol;a> paints a different story&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So what we&&num;8217&semi;ve learned from this reveal is that the CDPR staff sat down and asked themselves an important question&period; Did they want to delay the game again&comma; or work crunch to get it done on time&period; And you might be surprised to learn that the majority voted for working 6 day weeks on the game to get it done on time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is in very stark contrast to the picture that has been painted around CDPR as of late&period; And the situation is definitely more nuanced than bad capitalist CEO forcing its staff to work overtime to meet a deadline&period; Despite this reveal a lot of people are still holding on to that crunch is bad&period; Well&comma; is it when the workers themselves have agreed to do it&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;10083557&sol;cyberpunk-2077-street-kid&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-164338" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;10083557&sol;cyberpunk-2077-street-kid-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"cyberpunk 2077 street kid" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">A Controversial Game<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Cyberpunk 2077 has been a controversial game for years now&period; Whether it was rumors of microtransactions&comma; or how the game portrays trans people&period; And this decision didn&&num;8217&semi;t help&period; But we think it should be important to inform people&period; Most of the devs working on this game are committed to finishing it on time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game has now officially gone gold&period; So no matter what&comma; it seems we are getting the game on time&period; So rather than lament the crunch that the staff willingly agreed to&comma; we think it&&num;8217&semi;s time to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;cyberpunk-2077-will-have-free-dlc&sol;">get hyped<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What are your opinions on this new information&quest; Let us know in the comments&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;