An official statement is still and official statement regardless if they're speaking out of one side of their mouth.
Everything else is just as I said speculation and hearsay.
Everything else is just as I said speculation and hearsay.
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The story of CP77? Wish I would have known beforehand.. wouldn't have bothered to roleplay V.
I think the game was always going to be about Johnny in your head. It was just having Keanu added to sidequest to be the Greek Chorus that changed things and that's not even much of a change.
Well, the CEO and the company leadership have been excusing themselves because the game has been delayed multiple times, even taking responsability for crunching. And those two things didn't seem to hinder the selling numbers to much.
The same goes to PS4 and Xbox One release disaster, but that one doesn't sticked so well in the community, because the game was unplayable when released (and might be unplayable until today, IDK).
When your product is not as good as announced, assuming blame are always better than pretending that the problem doesn't exist when it's impossible to hide it - thinking about it in a business perspective.
That's why the "corpos" are doing it, because it's the best thing they can do to look reasonable to the consumer, while keeping the "We made a mistake, released the game without hearing the developers, but we're on gamer's side, we'll make it right this time".
Now imagine that they stated the truth to the consumer: "We want to release the game to get the huge sales boost of christmas, it doesn't matter the state of it, because, as we have a good relation with the community, we think we'll be given a second chance, fix what need fixing. We can talk to them, they'll understand, and we can win these people back".
The "win these people back" manouver was used when they delayed the game to december 10th.
Source: https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/10/trancript_en.pdf (Page 6 - Answer to Q8 - final part)
But this time it's not the "Pre-orders will be canceled, but we can win these people back". This time is more "We messed up the release, didn't delivered what was expected, we'll assume the blame, fix the game, and win these people back and sell our game to more people".
It was a calculated risk. They knew the game had issues, so they calculated that the "PR strenght X Refund policies" would be profitable after all, and released the game as we saw.
To be fair, they've already said they plan to spare no object of money to fix the game and make it the game it was meant to be.
It's just no one believes them.
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See ya out the door.
I'm not sure what we are discussing at this point. I agree that the release was a calculated risk. Which in a way payed off short term. But the long term consequence is more serious.
I was simply saying that these "leaks" were meant to be a PR stunt for damage control, then in my eyes they do the opposite of damage controlling. It tarnishes the company's name even further.
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Don't worry lol. I'll be waiting outside until I get what was promised inside.
Edit: But I'll make sure as hell to be as loud as possible until then.
What? Where?
No such statement exists. The only statements they've made so far are:
- Acknowledged the state of the game to investors and committed to making it playable on last gen.
- Committed to refunding out of their own pockets if need be, if the refund request is submitted before December 21st.
He is refering to the investors call where the guy who's name I cannot memorise for the life of mine, said, and I paraphrase here: "Cost of repairing the company's reputation doesn't matter". Now what he consideres to be enough repairing is a whole another question. Maybe once the game has 9/10 rating, it will be enough for him regardless features.
Here's what they said:
The cost of fixing Cyberpunk 2077 is "irrelevant" compared to restoring company reputation, says CDPR
CD Projekt Red discuss the future of the company in new emergency board call
www.gamesradar.com
Yeah, I figured this might be what he was referring to but it doesn't, in any way, implies they'll fix the game and make it what it was supposed to be.
Here's what they said:
The cost of fixing Cyberpunk 2077 is "irrelevant" compared to restoring company reputation, says CDPR
CD Projekt Red discuss the future of the company in new emergency board call
Yeah, exactly, but that doesn't say in any way that they'll deliver the game they originally advertised.
Realistically it only acknowledges how bad things are on last gen consoles and commits to fixing that. To say it implies they'll "fix the game and make it was meant to be" is a huge stretch.
Well eventually they would have to realise that bugs and performance are literally only the tip of the iceberg. In fact those issues are kind of a blessing in disguise for the company.
It bought them time before people started realising the real issues of the game.
So if they do want to repair their reputation, then they will have to think about the long run.
Here's what they said:
The cost of fixing Cyberpunk 2077 is "irrelevant" compared to restoring company reputation, says CDPR
CD Projekt Red discuss the future of the company in new emergency board call
Even with them having "reputation" in mind, we will never see the full potential of this game, as it should have been.
They will never bring back all the cut content.
As it stands here now, i will never trust this company again until im proven wrong. And by proven wrong i mean not with a new game where they ask for money again or paid dlcs. No im talking about the fix and comeback of the cut features of this game for no additional cost. I will not pay for something i should have received.
With that said, its up to CDPR what road they choose. Whatever road they choose, they already shot themselves in the knee. The question now is, is it enough for them to be crippled and redeem themselves or do they want to put the gun to the head and end it for good.
Normally I'd agree but they redid the entirety of the Witcher 1's dialogue.
Anyone remember THE WITCHER: ENHANCED EDITION?
Not arguing against that.
There simply isn't any statement from them committing to it. Interpreting what was said during that investors' call as a commitment to fixing the game and making it what it was meant to be is just wrong.
Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of faith in CDPR's ability to do just that but until such a statement is made it's all just speculation and wishful thinking.
In the source material you can get all kinds of vision modes for cyberoptics: night vision, infrared, ultraviolet, thermal...
Nevertheless, given the backlash, they do have incentive to try and remedy the situation.
Will they do enough? Unlikely. But I find it hard to believe they wouldn't try.
I've been hunting round , more YouTube vids showing article , but no links ,
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