Development Officially Delayed due to COVID-19

[Tsumdere]

You mean like US developers and publishers are having to do cause they're considered non-essential in California, Washington and Texas? Some of those have already been working entirely remote for a month now.

Guess Japan doesnt do the working remote thing?

Maintaining patch schedules now is living hell - I would know since I work for a company that isn't delaying games/patches despite everyone working from home. It's absolutely awful and they are pushing forward at the expense of the physical and MENTAL health of their employees. Several people have already quit from my company because of how horrible and taxing it is to keep up the corporate schedule while all of this is going down.

Good on SE for taking the health of their employees into consideration.

[Paladinleeds]

Good on SE for taking the health of their employees into consideration.

Exactly this. I'd rather have delays than the staff literally riding roughshod with horrible physical/mental health. A delay to the game just means I have to wait until a later date to enjoy the content, but staff having horrible physical/mental health from being pushed too far in these times means they could end up hospitalised, or potentially even dead from the stress causing their immune system to fail on them. yeah, I'll take the delay over hospitalised staff thank you very much.

[Nedkel]

Maintaining patch schedules now is living hell - I would know since I work for a company that isn't delaying games/patches despite everyone working from home. It's absolutely awful and they are pushing forward at the expense of the physical and MENTAL health of their employees. Several people have already quit from my company because of how horrible and taxing it is to keep up the corporate schedule while all of this is going down.
Good on SE for taking the health of their employees into consideration.

Working remotely from comfy home is living hell, then what should tell those working in transport/food/health industry?

IT always full of themselves, as usual.

[Lersayil]

Working remotely from comfy home is living hell, then what should tell those working in transport/food/health industry?

IT always full of themselves, as usual.

Generalization is fun!

Anyways, while he clearly exaggerated, it isn't exactly all comfy rainbows and rose smelling farts. Working from that comfy non-work environment, under the same load, with the technical and practical issues it introduces to the work process, it usually means extra hours, or lowered output.

Wouldn't compare the difficulty to some of the front line jobs in this situation (for multiple reasons), but for the sake of fairness, lets not belittle it either.

[Nedkel]

Generalization is fun!

Anyways, while he clearly exaggerated, it isn't exactly all comfy rainbows and rose smelling farts. Working from that comfy non-work environment, under the same load, with the technical and practical issues it introduces to the work process, it usually means extra hours, or lowered output.

Wouldn't compare the difficulty to some of the front line jobs in this situation (for multiple reasons), but for the sake of fairness, lets not belittle it either.

Sorry but no.
IT remote jobs does not even stand close to what regular keyworkers has to come by with during the lockdown. A lot of people are on sick notes or staying at home, and those forced to do those jobs have to work extra hard due to the staff shortage and higher demand.
If someone is working in IT and have problem to set up their job remotely then just oof.

[Lersayil]

Sorry but no.
IT remote jobs does not even stand close to what regular keyworkers has to come by with during the lockdown. A lot of people are on sick notes or staying at home, and those forced to do those jobs have to work extra hard due to the staff shortage and higher demand.
If someone is working in IT and have problem to set up their job remotely then just oof.

Ah yes, oof. A shorthand term for unpaid vacation or lay off. Totally not an issue for those involved.

My point was: these are hard times for everyone. We all have our issues. Some, more than others. It's good to have perspective, but no need to belittle a group, just because another has its different kind of worse problems. Even more so, since the guy you responded to made no such claims to begin with.

[Tsumdere]

Working remotely from comfy home is living hell, then what should tell those working in transport/food/health industry?

IT always full of themselves, as usual.

I never said that those working transport/food/health aren't going through a hard time either. Those folks are doing God's work. However, one person's struggles do not invalidate another's.

IT is putting themselves through the wringer to please people at the expense of their own happiness/mental health. Imagine working all day, every day because servers are buckling under the strain of everyone being locked at home all day. Or working all day because customer support cannot keep up with the incoming volume of tickets. Or being subjected to constant verbal abuse, gore pics, and death threats because you're not doing something a customer wants as fast as they want because the employees cannot keep up with the sheer influx of players/requests and the normal patch cycle.

Once again, bless to everyone who is working at this time, no matter the job. Everyone is putting their physical and/or mental health on the line to make people happy/healthy. Bless to the non-essential companies who take into consideration their employees and not cowtow to babies who couldn't cope if their patch didn't come out RIGHT NOW!!!!