I even dare say that he is also right about the apology vid throwing the QA tester team under the bus by proxy.
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Watch it again please.
"WORK IN PROGRESS, DOES NOT REPRESENT THE FINAL LOOK OF THE GAME"
Can we get over that lazy excuse please? That line still indicates that this is a slice from the already existing game. The fact that this was a seperate project entirely makes it "fake".
Start by the fact that "anonymous sources" provides a wide berth to conflate cause and effect without the burden of proof.
What is damning without providing names is to gain internal documentation proving a very provocative and unproven statement, that the 2018 demo was entirely fake.
Otherwise, it's simply hearsay.
What is damning without providing names is to gain internal documentation proving a very provocative and unproven statement, that the 2018 demo was entirely fake.
Otherwise, it's simply hearsay.
Separate project? What are you talking about? Do you know what a reusable prototype is in software development? You are being misled by a journalist that jumps to easy conclusion without any understanding of how software development works.
Not really.
He calls it a vertical slide. Meaning it was something playable, but simply not finished.
E.g. instead of having a general AI that will have a car chase you down, they'll script up a scene in which a specific car will chase you - which is exactly (and saddly) what is in the game itself.
It also means people are writing code and designing levels (wallclimbing + specific walls to use that on), which are thrown away afterwards, as they need to implement it in the right way (if at all).
And seeing how similar what was shown is to the actual game map and sotryline - it's very likely a copy, paste + patching holes from the actual development at the time.
Perhaps project wasn't the right word to use. I am not in any way informed in game development practices. I am just trying to explain what the article is saying.
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Thanks for explaining better than I ever could.
So they have built a prototype of the game. And this is a bad thing because?
I mean anon sources is not really unheard of, especially if they wanna keep their carrier in the gaming industry. The matter of the fact is that this guy has ben proven to be trustworthy so far.
His comme
three things that are a red flags for me
1. Publication article 1 month After release about something that should be well known for him for months.
2. Publication shortly after Marcin Iwinski video with apology and roadmap.
3. Rather laughable info about salaries in QA tasting in Poland. Srlsy with those numbers that he wrote CDPR wouldn’t find testers even even in high schools.
i learned not to expect any meaningful informations from free to read “articles”. They are mostly clickbaits with shallow informations.
if you don't pay for the product you are the product
is it? For me this is just Reddit rumors wrapped up in the Bloomberg article.
three things that are a red flags for me
1. Publication article 1 month After release about something that should be well known for him for months.
2. Publication shortly after Marcin Iwinski video with apology and roadmap.
3. Rather laughable info about salaries in QA tasting in Poland. Srlsy with those numbers that he wrote CDPR wouldn’t find testers even even in high schools.
i learned not to expect any meaningful informations from free to read “articles”. They are mostly clickbaits with shallow informations.
if you don't pay for the product you are the product
Because it's a demo with made up gameplay elements that were not in the game already? I mean I don't understand your confusion here.
But you say it yourself, it all ended up in the final game, the demo itself was just propped up with elbow grease and duct tape though, so calling it deceptive? sure, but fake?
You really understimate worker explotations in eastern europe lol And I don't see the issue with the publication dates. Care to explain?
Didn't say it was a bad thing. But it's something different than a mere CGI video.
Because gameplay demo and prototype footage are entirely different things.
because is it better to admit your faults before someone else makes them public?
So... basically what many of us figured out just by playing the game and comparing it to the marketing materials.
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