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Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon

Tom Henderson

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Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of Star Citizen, has mandated its developers to work seven days a week to meet deadlines for Citizencon on October 19th.

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I get that there will be some that have issue with this. Most people that work will have or will at some point be in a situation like this. At least there seems to be some benefits from it like the day in Lieu.

I've worked in the communications industry and I know its a different scenario but when storms are rolling in time off is cut. You gotta do what you gotta do at times when you are employed by someone.

The gamin industry seems to be one im glad I wasnt a part of though other than to play games.
 
If you work for this company and have worked there for 2 years or more, take your employer to tribunal. This is literally breaking UK law.

Working Time Regulations guarantee employees additional weekly rest periods. These can be either 24 consecutive uninterrupted hours for each 7-day period or 48 uninterrupted hours for each 14-day period.

You can get this changed but it can only be changed via an elected employee representative in a collective workforce agreement which I sincerely doubt they have.

At an individual level you can opt out of the maximum working hours component which stipulates nobody can work more than 48hours per week on average (over a 17 week period). But you can not opt out of the rest of the Working Time Regulations on an individual basis. Your employer can't force you to sign this either or punish you for refusing to opt out.

Any employees at this company who have worked there for more than 2 years are entitled to take this to workplace tribunal, which they would win. Once the new laws come in this will apply to all employees of any amount of time worked at the company because they're removing the 2 year requirement to take employer's to tribunal as it's used to abuse newer employees.
 
Don't see this as a big thing.

I've been a PM for years in the finance industry, and sometimes extra time is required. Time is given back. It is only 2 weekends.

At one point my flexi time was at 100hrs+, due to the project and travel. I got it all back and enjoyed a few weeks off afterwards.
 
Any employees at this company who have worked there for more than 2 years are entitled to take this to workplace tribunal, which they would win.
Id guess anyone that does that would immediately be in the crosshairs of the higher ups and unfortunately for said employee be a dead man (or woman) walking within that company.

As long as its not an ongoing thing and as this time seems to be just for a few weeks my advice, not that it means a thing, would be to suck it up make some extra money and get those few extra holidays.
 
I used to be a game developer when i was younger.

Not so much nowdays (it's probably a really good jo if you are an executive whomever)
 
I was a web designer/web developer making ecommerce sites and would regularly do this 2 or 3 times per year to finish a project. At least they are giving you the time back and buying you breakfast and lunch, which is more than I got.
 
its 2024 . companies are lucky if we work a full 5 days. let alone 7 lol. they are not doctors, or firefighters etc lol . not the important.
 
CIG also employs developers in Germany; these regulations are not compatible with the German Labour Protection Act. Especially not their interpretation of when time off in lieu may be taken. In Luxembourg, such announcements would be immoral and the state would immediately prosecute those responsible.
 
Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of Star Citizen, has mandated its developers to work seven days a week to meet deadlines for Citizencon on October 19th.

Read the full article here...

star-citizen-7-day-week.jpg

This game fascinates me for multiple reasons, positively & negatively.

In a nutshell of my feelings for it, it's the most expensive game ever conceived budgetwise but for like a decade now it's not yet done?

I've seen some guys say it's a scam or money laundering, etc who knows but I don't know at some point you gotta release a FINAL WORKING VIDEOGAME on disc right?

Interesting nobody has filed lawsuits to these guys or government guys have intervened...

At least not yet.
 
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