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The video game crunch that broke EA employees

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The magic of video game development is mostly just sleep deprivation and destroyed marriages. In the 2000s, the 'EA Spouse' blog exposed the company for mandating unpaid crunch time, treating software engineers like indentured servants just to push out the next minor iteration of Madden. Nothing says 'fun' like eighty hours of mandatory code debugging.

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