I don't think there is a single country within the EU which allows you to sign away your rightsRJ 17 said:Unless there's a clause in the contract stating "You agree to be fine with the fact that you won't always get paid"...
I don't think there is a single country within the EU which allows you to sign away your rightsRJ 17 said:Unless there's a clause in the contract stating "You agree to be fine with the fact that you won't always get paid"...
Yeah, the often overlooked "Slave Clause" in the contract. "You hereby agree to not be a paid employee of Cyrtek Studios, and forfeit all civil and legal rights to become an unpaid slave belonging to Cyrtek Studios. In the event your manager believes you the slave to be deserving of gratuity such gifts shall not exceed $5 US currency, to be delivered in a 12-month window at the manager's discretion."RJ 17 said:My guess would be that employees are under some kind of contract so they can't just up and quit (which is what any sensible person would do after not getting paid for 6 months).Silentpony said:Who would continue to come into work for six months without getting paid?
However if that's the case, I would have to assume that Cry is in a massive breach of contract on their end for not paying them, so I'd have to wonder why the employees aren't suing Cry into oblivion. Unless there's a clause in the contract stating "You agree to be fine with the fact that you won't always get paid"...
munx13 said:I don't think there is a single country within the EU which allows you to sign away your rightsRJ 17 said:Unless there's a clause in the contract stating "You agree to be fine with the fact that you won't always get paid"...
Hey, I'm just spit-balling explanations as to why every employee hasn't quit and/or filed a lawsuit.Silentpony said:Yeah, the often overlooked "Slave Clause" in the contract. "You hereby agree to not be a paid employee of Cyrtek Studios, and forfeit all civil and legal rights to become an unpaid slave belonging to Cyrtek Studios. In the event your manager believes you the slave to be deserving of gratuity such gifts shall not exceed $5 US currency, to be delivered in a 12-month window at the manager's discretion."RJ 17 said:My guess would be that employees are under some kind of contract so they can't just up and quit (which is what any sensible person would do after not getting paid for 6 months).Silentpony said:Who would continue to come into work for six months without getting paid?
However if that's the case, I would have to assume that Cry is in a massive breach of contract on their end for not paying them, so I'd have to wonder why the employees aren't suing Cry into oblivion. Unless there's a clause in the contract stating "You agree to be fine with the fact that you won't always get paid"...
Are you kidding me? They're part of the studios which are so well known, people will pay them money for whatever game they churn out, whether it's decent or not.Hawki said:Ubisoft's trying to avoid being taken over by Vivendi, you really think they want to carry out acquisitions of their own right now?
My theory would be upper management has been stalling. "Oh you'll get paid next month, I promise" and because these people are "doing what they love", they deal with it just a month longer (and then another month and another), holding onto that sliver of hope until eventually they can't deny it any longer.Silentpony said:Who would continue to come into work for six months without getting paid?
That is likely to be the real explanation. It is sad, but as long as game development are mostly young, passionate and gullible, they will be taken advantage of by the higher ups. At least until they get pissed of and replaced by a bunch of new young and gullible grad students... and that is how you end up delivering nothing for the last 9 years.Eclipse Dragon said:My theory would be upper management has been stalling. "Oh you'll get paid next month, I promise" and because these people are "doing what they love", they deal with it just a month longer (and then another month and another), holding onto that sliver of hope until eventually they can't deny it any longer.Silentpony said:Who would continue to come into work for six months without getting paid?
Game development is a passionate business, I wouldn't be surprised if the company is taking advantage of that. There's also the uncertainty of having no job at all vs sticking around, hoping beyond hope that things will get better. It can be hard to give up that "safety" even when it's a total illusion and they're just denying the inevitable.
Agreed! Especially the Timesplitters part, I hope a decent company buys the IP off of them at least when they finally kick the bucket and actually put it to some use, its been too long since we got a new Timesplitters game and it would be perfect nowadays especially with how we've gotten a lot of "return to form" FPS games like Doom, Wolfenstein and Shadow Warrior and so.RaikuFA said:I have no sympathy for the higher ups of this company. They make cookie cutter shooters with its only claim to fame was if your computer could run it it was considered a badge of honor, keep wanting single player games to die off and get the rights to timesplitters and refuse to do anything with it.