Som bekendt lukkede Telltale Games deres døre for ikke så lang tid siden, og adskillige hundrede ansatte måtte pakke sammen efter at firmaets ledelse fejlede i at sikre dets økonomiske fremtid. Angiveligvis er det gået ned ad bakke i årevis, og firmaet måtte se sig nødsaget til at skabe flere og flere spil for at kunne overleve.
Åbenbart havde Telltale aldrig en buffer i budgettet, til hvis man eksempelvis ønskede at forsinke et spil for at polere det yderligere. I et interview med Game Informer fortæller tidligere CEO Kevin Bruner, at de var nødt til at udføre såkaldt "crunch".
"For other studios, it happens all the time in games where, 'Our release date is this fall' and then the studio will announce that fall, 'Oh you know what, the game wasn't ready, we pushed it out until next spring.' And that really wasn't something that Telltale could do. We didn't have the budgets to delay production that long; we didn't have the cushion."
Spørger man dog tidligere Narrative Designer Emily Grace Buck, så var det netop Bruner der var med til at faciltiere en crunch-kultur:
"Being in a creative room with Kevin [Bruner] could, in a lot of instances, be very difficult. He was known for asking for extremely large changes very close to ship date that would mandate crunch for a huge percentage of the studio, which is obviously not ideal. Yet at the same time, he was under a lot of pressure from the board that wanted certain types of products to come out."
