What bugs me too is that the mal-treatment is all for nothing but a paycheck; We know about crunch on games like RDR2 which is a pinnacle of game design but Cold War is going to be mostly forgotten about when the next COD comes out, or the next one, or the one after that.

It's sad; I listen to Dax Shepard's podcast and he brings up sometimes that even if a TV show or movie is bad or forgettable, it took *a lot * of effort to bring it into the world and that is something everyone can be proud of. The machine behind production is insane, but the life can balance out, guilds & unions protect workers. At the end of the day, the art is worth producing.

I used to be a die-hard "videogames can be art" type but I'm on the fence now when it comes to stuff coming out of AAA studios. If the machine can't respect its workers, I can't respect its product as "art."

More to the point- what is Cold War competing against that it needed to come out right now to gain an edge? Quarterly profit reports.