I've been reading
"Tripple A" quite often lately and I must say that this isn't the term that I like. It's a very misleading term and even though in some cases when it might be justified, the majority of "AAA" is not, since big publisher's favor what is described as quantity not quality games.
What I don't like to see at this point is not actually the fact that CP2077 indeed is considered and described as what "AAA" stands for originally, but more of that the term being used as being put into the damaged boot with the other, major, bad titles that call themselves "Tripple A".
I am a little bit sceptical about this...
If one of these projects is indeed CP2077 multiplayer and they're already working on it, then the first thought that comes to my mind is that they might have purposely cut out features from the main game to be featured only in MP.
This might explain the single apartment issue.
Imagine if this thing happens to all the other aspects of the game....
We might end up with less weapons, less cars, less cyberware, less mini games, less activities for the "story" mode...
To be fair, most developers start off with good intentions and then somewhere down the line, they stray. I'm not saying this will happen with CDPR, but I'm also not discounting it out of the realm of possibility. [...]
I think the main problem here is "monetization".
It's not been that long (Actually E3 2019) when it was stated, not just once but several times even from CDPR's CEO, that the focus will be on the main game for now and any additional content such as Add-Ons/DLC or even Multiplayer is something to be considered earliest after they've finished the game.
This is the impression that the statements gave us and a lot of people support this ideal and idea, me included.
However, it seems that this plan has changed suddenly, not just one game, but several more projects on the works already.
I am not saying this is something bad or to be criticized, I too like it to some extend and I am excited to hear more about these in the future, but considering from the problems we've seen such as monetization, poor quality etc. happening in the gaming industry lately, I do absolutely understand the skepticism this issue connects with.
At the other hand though, CDPR is somewhat a monopoly itself, being basically the only game company that connects deeply with the community and delivering the best possible experience to please what gamers truly like, and once they change the gap to fall into what we've seen from other "Tripple A" companies that care only for greed, CDPR would immediately lose everything that they've built up so hard in the last decades which I don't believe that this is something they'd give up nor even want to give up.
So I still keep track of it with excitement, but also with a grain of salt to cast an eye on specific issues, which is why we discuss about it here and that's a really good thing.
I'm happy that CDPR didn't dumbed down single player experience in sake of putting multi-player in CP2077 and it will be separated. Kudos to them for that.
On the other hand, I really don't like MP games. PvP ones are too competitive for me and co-op requires you to schedule with your friends to play with you, if you don't want to be frustrated with random people doing some stupid stuff constantly. Best example of how moronic and un-immersive m-p games can be - Fallout 76.
I hope that this will be a successful project from the financial perspective, but I will skip it, most probably.
The third project - I still hope that CDPR will reuse the assets created for the CP2077 when TPP was still a thing and make some sort of "Syndicate"-like game out of it. This would be awesome.
A few aspects that have been shared already, such as the limitation of having only one apartment is actually a really good point that speaks kind of against it.
But yeah, time will tell probably and I hope CDPR is knowing what they're doing. At least the feedback is continuing and opinions shared about decisions made, that also includes the issue with the apartment.
Two budget games and one multiplayer with a mention of mobile bullshit. Bethesda much?
I think a mobile game could be for GWENT. Currently it's not available for mobile yet, and perhaps this is the "secret" mobile game that people are talking about.
However, I strongly recommend to not put CDPR together with companies such as Bethesda. In my opinion this is actually offensive towards CDPR.
Even if you're not happy with the announcement, that most likely will have its justification somewhere, CDPR is far far far away from being like the common "Tripple A" business (yet) and hopefully will never fall to that level.
