Are they tho? I don't think these people are the same fucktards spending their lives on era.
I don't think that the problem is circumscribed to cdpr, as this looks like a much wider industry problem. It's not just a matter of leaving for a new job with better conditions if everyone is crunching the same. As said earlier, I agree that at least the developers getting paid for overtime at cdpr kinda mitigates the issue. The problem that emerged from that dev post however is that people who want to work their working hours are also pressured into crunching.
I mean I would definitely say its a problem but it's a problem that realistically needs to be fixed by people just saying "nah I will just be working my 40 hours this week and enjoying my weekend, see ya".
Employees need to understand their contracts and stand up for themselves.
I would be a lot more sympathetic if this was some run down town in a developing nation where the only choices are work at the local factory for 12 hours a day or die in a ditch.
I am going to assume though that if someone is skilled enough to get a job at CDPR, resourceful and competent enough to get the qualifications for that field and navigate the recruitment process then that person is well placed to find other work in other sectors.
Now, if working on projects like this was their dream job then I have sympathy but again at some point personal responsibility needs to be taken.
The outside factor here is that we already know the kind of people Jason Schrier and Jim Sterling are and how they feel about "capitalism" and what the prevailing worldview is on ResetEra so they become a bit untrustworthy here also since they have a clear agenda and see this as an opportunity to push it.
I think in video game terms its kind of shocking for us to be all excited about new consoles that are manufactured in who knows what kind of conditions but we're up in arms over a developer paying their employees to work more.
I know it's possible to care about multiple things at once but in the video game industry I feel like crunch at CDPR is not a major injustice.