Does Red Dead Redemption 2 contain a hidden reference to developers’ crunch?

Does Red Dead Redemption 2 contain a hidden reference to developers’ crunch?

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https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/29/18039824/red-dead-redemption-2-crunch-overtime-rockstar-games

Thanks to a flurry of recent media reports, Red Dead Redemption 2 maker Rockstar Games has gained notoriety in a very unflattering light: the company’s culture of crunch during the development of its biggest games, including the massive new open-world Western and its 2010 predecessor. Now it appears that the developers who labored to produce Red Dead Redemption 2 may have snuck a reference to their working conditions into the game.

Arthur Morgan, the game’s protagonist, starts out with a six-shooter known as the Cattleman Revolver. He later gains the ability to dual-wield sidearms such as revolvers and sawed-off shotguns. At that point, the player can visit a gunsmith and buy a second Cattleman Revolver to give Arthur twice the stopping power. While browsing the gunsmith’s catalog — which is a literal book that Arthur flips through — Reddit user obZenDF noticed that the page advertising the Cattleman Revolver had some interesting wording, considering the stories we’ve been reading about Rockstar.

Does Red Dead Redemption 2 contain a hidden reference to developers’ crunch?

Oct 29, 2018, 10:33pm UTC
https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/29/18039824/red-dead-redemption-2-crunch-overtime-rockstar-games > Thanks to a flurry of recent media reports, Red Dead Redemption 2 maker Rockstar Games has gained notoriety in a very unflattering light: the company’s culture of crunch during the development of its biggest games, including the massive new open-world Western and its 2010 predecessor. Now it appears that the developers who labored to produce Red Dead Redemption 2 may have snuck a reference to their working conditions into the game. > Arthur Morgan, the game’s protagonist, starts out with a six-shooter known as the Cattleman Revolver. He later gains the ability to dual-wield sidearms such as revolvers and sawed-off shotguns. At that point, the player can visit a gunsmith and buy a second Cattleman Revolver to give Arthur twice the stopping power. While browsing the gunsmith’s catalog — which is a literal book that Arthur flips through — Reddit user obZenDF noticed that the page advertising the Cattleman Revolver had some interesting wording, considering the stories we’ve been reading about Rockstar.