A post has been deleted. Keep the discussion free of personal insults, please.
It wasn't directed at him, but at the action he proposed. Hence the royal "you" I used in conjunction with his usage of it. Still it came off sounding way more heated than I intended it to. So allow my to rephrase it here.
I don't know if there has been a downgrade or not. However, lets assume that there was a downgrade, which means that it can be one of two conclusions:
1. CDPR is being deliberately malicious and anti-consumer. For me, this is very hard to believe when the company has worked very hard over the last decade to build trust and goodwill with consumers. And that is still very much apart of the W3 marketing, no other major studio is anywhere close to them in that regard. It also seems strange that they would show off an allegedly "downgraded" version of the game over a year in advance. If the intent was to mislead us, then I imagine they'd do a much better job of hiding it.
OR
2. CDPR's vision was a little too ambitious and certain things had to be scaled back to meet performance goals. I don't see anything wrong with a situation like this. Its an honest regression that makes the game more enjoyable to play. This is a young studio working on the largest project in its history, its their first open world game, and their first multiplatform release. So its absolutely feasible that they were a little high in the clouds and overshot what could be pulled off in an open world. Which is fine, its great that developers have that level of ambition.
If you really believe its conclusion number 1 then you should continue creating awareness and letting folks know how slimely they are. If you think its conclusion number 2, then it really isn't a big deal and you should cut them some slack. In fact, number 2 doesn't even mean that the game has been downgraded, it just means that some of the more intensive effects probably won't receive the same optimization and are reserved for super high end PCs that can brute force them, similar to Uber Sampling in W2.
No a person should provide adequate evidence, and than intent on their part. After seriously considering the enormity of the claim. Otherwise they will come off sounding less than intelligent to others who are in disagreement with them over there assertion, or mindlessly whining with unrealistic ill defined standards.