Exactly, thank you!!!
The same people will complain later by saying "the industry is dead, they dont produce anything inovative or creative".
Exactly.
They should have maybe milked the Witcher just after the Witcher 3 with a Witcher 4 featuring Ciri, with a brand new cash shop full of skins (because given how nudity is apparently a huge topic here I guess it would have selled VERY well with that character) with the exact same mechanics, a basic story (don't care, the Witcher was cool anyway), and the exact same animations and assets from The Witcher 3.
The game would have sold like hot cakes in 2018 thanks to how well Blood and Wine was received.
By now, they would be releasing The Witcher 5, where you play as a young Vesemir walking into a slightly different Novigrad (yeah, we updated a couple skins and animations here and there). Oh, but hey, that's new, you can travel to Zerrikania for one quest, it's a whole new world !
Oh, and next year, there would be a Witcher Online coming out, with the same maps already milked to the death, but now, you have to pay for more features ! The cool thing is, you could make your very own Witcher, a feature requested so many times !
Nah, CDPR chose the
very easy way by making the switch from a 3rd person medieval RPG to a 1st person futuristic urban RPG... They were so
lazy developing it, they forgot to put a cash shop in it !
(and
that was sarcasm, cause I'm sure somebody will ask).
CP isn't perfect folks, but at least they went for something different and they took a shot and they have laid strong fondations and didn't go for the easy road most of the companies you compare them to would have taken. Cry about the studio all you want, about the free DLCs they could sell you with a side cash shop, but don't complain later if you end up with only FIFA , Madden, GTA 5 Online 2150 year special remake edition for the brand new playstation 57 and Destiny 6513413. Oh, and Assassin's Creed Origins of the Odyssey to Valhalla.