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Upset Employees

criminiuscriminius Member Posts: 184 Arc User
edited September 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
It?s interesting read about how gamer employees feel about the studio they work for. Granted everyone thinks the grass is greener on the other side except VALVE. It seems that VALVE is a great place to work for.

Did not see anything about cryptic or pwe though.

http://kotaku.com/5940672/pissed-off-employees-bash-pretty-much-every-major-video-game-company


So, to all the DEVS at STO keep your spirits up even though we may rag on you (hence my Gecko Signature :p ).
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  • drkfrontiersdrkfrontiers Member Posts: 2,477 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Being a developer myself, must just say. It's ruthless.

    The personal effort and hard work that gets put into something, and I'm taking about passion, that is sooooo easily shot down, is really a hell of a shutdown.
  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Tee-hee-hee

    Certainly would explain a fair bit of what we see on the consumer end of things, though.
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  • syberghostsyberghost Member Posts: 1,711 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    I'd say compared to the gaming industry as a whole, Cryptic's reviews there are above average.

    This is not to say that Cryptic shouldn't read those reviews and figure out how to do better; there are recurring themes in the "cons" that ought to be taken seriously.
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  • mrkollinsmrkollins Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Pros ? Interesting people to work with. Flexible hours. Good health insurance. Dog friendly office. Cool IPs to work on. Powerful and flexible game editor for content design--one of the best I've seen.

    Cons ? Disorganized. Management constantly changing & constantly changing their minds. The company cares a great deal about creativity, but puts almost no value on management skills. This ends up creating extra work and plenty of false starts. Also poor on communication. Low end of the salary range.

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  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    I think it actually says a lot about Cryptic that half the time a developer leaves, he ends up coming back.
  • alastairnallalastairnall Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    futurepastnow wrote: »
    I think it actually says a lot about Cryptic that half the time a developer leaves, he ends up coming back.

    I'd say that says more about the state of the economy than it does about Cryptic (or any single company for that matter).
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