> Why employees in the games industry put up with this sort of thing is frankly beyond me.
They typically don't, forever.
But there's an unending stream of fresh meat entering the game industry who will put up with anything to achieve their dreams of working on video games.
I've been lucky, in that I've done a lot of games, but haven't worked anywhere that routinely required overtime of me. The occasional project here or there would go south, or there would be a bad manager, but other than the last week or two of crunch to get a project finished, I've not done too badly.
They typically don't, forever.
But there's an unending stream of fresh meat entering the game industry who will put up with anything to achieve their dreams of working on video games.
I've been lucky, in that I've done a lot of games, but haven't worked anywhere that routinely required overtime of me. The occasional project here or there would go south, or there would be a bad manager, but other than the last week or two of crunch to get a project finished, I've not done too badly.