Former Capcom Dev Says “Extreme Crunch” Kept Women Out of Director Roles in Japan
Former Capcom developer Masakazu Sugimori believes Japan’s historically extreme crunch culture may help explain why relatively few women rose to become prominent game directors (save for the more obvious reason), arguing that the industry’s old working conditions disproportionately favored people willing and able to…
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