• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I hope this doesn’t make them think they can do this again though. This should make them realise they should’ve always gave the Devs more time to cook or been more realistic with scope from the get go

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      7 months ago

      A publicly traded company prioritizing consumer satisfaction over short term profits? Learning from their “mistakes” after they still got a shit ton of money for it anyways and probably will if they do it again? I’m not banking on it.

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        7 months ago

        People already seem to forget this isn’t the first time, the release of Witcher 3 was horrendous as well.

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            It being released in a essentially a beta state with a terrible UI? half the loot being a bitch to access because you always cast igni? Game breaking bugs and glitch’s? Hard crashes?

            I don’t think they have released one game that was actually release ready yet.

            CP2077 was far worse, but that doesn’t mean the Witcher 3 was okay, it was still absolutely botched.

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              CP2077 was far worse, but that doesn’t mean the Witcher 3 was okay, it was still absolutely botched.

              This is literally a rewording of what I just said.

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                  7 months ago

                  I’m not downplaying anything, but comparing a dumpster to a dumpster fire and saying they are the same thing is, at best, a little misleading.

                  The release of Witcher 3 was bad, but it was industry standard bad. Cyberpunk shipped straight up broken and incomplete. It has been fundamentally reworked at least twice since launch.

                  I don’t think anyone is apologizing for The Witcher 3 at launch, but let’s not pretend they are the same thing. There are more shades than black and white.

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                    7 months ago

                    It’s more like both are tornados and one is an F3 and the other being an F5. You’re being disingenuous in defending CDPR for continually inexcusable work.

                    An industry standard bad? What’s that even mean? At that point in time games were shipping complete still and not in a beta state.

                    Its always hilarious the excuses people come up with, neither are excusable, yet here you are justifying one… yeesh, give your head a shake.

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          7 months ago

          Strangely enough, I didn’t have any game-breaking bugs or crashes and I played it at launch. I guess I was lucky.

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            7 months ago

            I had the quest glitch where you could no longer progress the story. It was also in the later 25% of the game, so 80ish hours in.

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      7 months ago

      But they can, because it seems like most gamers have goldfish memory, and they forgot/forgave the shitty launch and first years

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        7 months ago

        My thought coming into this thread. Plenty of people here sucking their dick and forgetting the terrible launch. They earn what they deserve.

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          7 months ago

          i bought into it and hate that its getting so much praise.

          fixing the garbage they released is bare minimum.

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        7 months ago

        I still think this game is shit since I was subjected to the release version and haven’t picked it back up ever since.

        Fuck this game and the management that fucked it all up.

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        What I think is astonishing to some people lately about Cyberpunk, is that they got most of their information from the popular channels on the internet. Despite its name, these channels (reddit r/all, Twitter, etc) are a (loud) minority of the actual opinions.

        Pretty much every one I talked to IRL about Cyberpunk was aware of the controversy, but had a much more nuanced opinion than I was seeing online. Many of them enjoyed it and weren’t really experiencing that many bugs (myself included). But this wasn’t an “allowed” opinion online. Anyone who said the game was enjoyable or they didn’t personally experience many bugs were attacked for being a CDPR fanboy (myself included) and down voted.

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      7 months ago

      There’s no chance this won’t happen again IMO (though since they abandoned their own engine maybe it won’t be as buggy this time).