'Devs are getting ground up as collateral damage': Fallout: New Vegas lead says burnout has replaced crunch as 'the primary hazard of the game industry'

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'Devs are getting ground up as collateral damage': Fallout: New Vegas lead says burnout has replaced crunch as 'the primary hazard of the game industry'
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Those two things seem like they'd be connected...

Um...yeah this is a weird way to state it. Pretty sure crunch causes burnout.

Crunch (imposing long periods of major overtime to meet a deadline)

Burnout—sometimes called "occupational burnout"—is a state of full-body exhaustion brought on by prolonged exposure to stress.

Yeah...

I personally experience them differently.

Crunch is a sprint, burnout is a marathon.

You can sprint a sprint... Once or twice in a while.

You can't run a marathon of sprints