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Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of Star Citizen, is getting ready for Citizencon on October 19, and the preparations are more hardcore than you might expect. Developers can forget about resting on the weekends in the following weeks, but they'll get food and extra free days in the future as compensation.
The company required its employees to "double down over the next 18 days to make sure that once again we create an amazing experience for our community." This means they'll have to work 7 days a week until the event. Cloud Imperium Games will provide breakfast and lunch every working weekend for those in the office (where the workers are "encouraged" to be) and TOIL (time off in lieu), "which can be stored and used for time off at a later date" (via Insider Gaming.)
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It seems like these and other "ridiculous requirements imposed on its developers due to mismanagement" led to some people leaving the company. Insider Gaming also shared that Cloud Imperium Games pre-approved 12 hours of ‘SQ42 TOIL’ per week back in July, but the TOIL will be available after the Squadron 42 campaign ships, and workers must still be employed by the time the game launches, or the TOIL "will be forfeited."
The employees "need to be mindful of the hours they work and are asked to have 11 hours outside of work in each 24-hour period," the email sent by the company says. After Insider Gaming contacted the developer, Cloud Imperium Games sent another message thanking its workers:
"To show our appreciation, all those who will in the trenches with us over the next couple of weekends, can have Monday 21st October on the company as a free holiday," it said. "This hopefully will give a little break for everyone to rest after our long Citizencon weekend and the drive towards it."
We'll see if these extreme measures will help Citizencon and aid in raising more money for Star Citizen, which had already received $700 million in crowdfunding back in May.
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