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Former devs speak out about 'severe crunch' at Mortal Kombat studio

"Another former employee, who also requested anonymity, said they and a workmate filed a formal complaint about NetherRealm Studios with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
"We brought up the harassment, the bathroom issue, the secret nicknames that the devs had for all the female employees, the lack of women who actually had full-time jobs, the singling-out that we experienced, etc etc. It took a year for the EEOC to decide that apparently nothing bad had happened and on top of it all NRS insulted my coworker and me, telling us we were misremembering everything and taking personal jabs at our skills," they told us." An former Netherealm employee says.

Metalfury1826d ago (Edited 1826d ago )

well japanese developers do the same with their workers so it isn't unfair.

Kaze881826d ago

developers? almost every company does that in Japan, no matter on what field you work. Tho the bosses are on the workplace long too, nobody leaves until they do.

gamer78041826d ago

so the number of people/companies doing something determines whether something is good or bad?

That said I've had friends in the gamin industry, they made a couple of games and then got out because they wanted to start a family. They are now doing even better off because of the skills they learned making video games they were able to negotiate higher salaries. Now working half the hours plus a pay increase, they make nearly double what they did in the games industry and now have more free time for their family and friends.

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Mr Marvel1826d ago

Toughen up. No one likes a sook.

Tankbusta401826d ago

I mean, nobody is forcing these people to do this. For 12 dollars an hour I might find another profession.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein15h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii11h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo11h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9011h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19892h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

qalpha11h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno11h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan11h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno10h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198111h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6692h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno1d 7h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno11h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga1d 7h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator1d 1h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac23h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto2d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger882d ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 15h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 13h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.