They can't, not anymore. Shareholders don't care if the game doesn't meet CDPR standards, they only care about money so they pushed for deadlines to make a profit and then vanished into oblivion, leaving CDPR alone to handle the backlash
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I seriously don't get why people are comparing this to GTA when you should be comparing it to Deus Ex because they were never doing GTA from the start. They have always been doing Deus Ex.
I won't excuse the ton of missing features but you really need to check again what you're comparing it to cause criticizing it for not being something it's not is like complaining that your pizza isn't a burger.
If you complain about the pizza. Then complain about the pizza.
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No. They said it worked "surprisingly well" on base consoles, which we've all seen by now was a complete lie.
I still don't understand how this game slipped through submission. Sure they promised to fix the game, and they "took their word for it," but that still doesn't explain how it still slipped through with the day 0/day 1 patch. Patches also have to go through submission, so they should have seen that even with the patch the game couldn't pass.
Submission should have been failed, which would have forced a delay. The game wouldn't have launched on the 10th, they would have had a lot more time (would have probably been pushed until late 2021 at the least), and all this would have been avoided.
They straight said, ignore everything whatsoever. Since, if you seem to FORGET there WAS NO FOOTAGE BUT THE DEMO ALLOWED IN THE REVIEWS BEFORE LAUNCH.
I don't care about the genre, period, I care about what was promised, one delivers their promises, one does not.
I was talking about cut content but yes you are right about that. It would have been another story if CDPR wasn't in the stock market, we can only hope and wait for now
Thank you for putting down this list, man. While I think it's important to see and enjoy the game for what it is, rather than for what it didn't turn out to be, I seriously hope they integrate at least some of these features. To me, the most striking thing is not being able to customise beard/hair/skin at any point after you've created your character. NPCs patterns could use some refining too.
P.S.: why can't I drink my jackie wells at the afterlife?
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Problem is the game doesn't meet a lot of standards. There's no way this game should have gotten through Microsoft and Sony submission in the state the game is on those consoles.
If the game failed submission like it should have, then it would have forced a delay on consoles. CDPR could still do a PC only launch for now, but I kinda doubt they would have done that.
Failing submission like it should have, would have forced a delay on all platforms, which would have given the devs a lot more time, and possibly avoided this whole situation.
Microsoft and Sony dropped the ball, and they are partly to blame. Also Microsoft and Sony don't care what CDPR shareholders say. CDPR shareholders want the game to launch, Microsoft and Sony say no. CDPR Shareholders have nothing to say. They can't make Microsoft and Sony do anything.
Microsoft and Sony are still multi billions corporations at the end of the day, they knew how many people preordered the game and probably didn't want to lose any money
COD however is linear and linear only. This opens up endless possibilities for detail. 7-8 hours of phenominal gameplay is absolutely possible if it is linear. Open world leaves so many areas doors to go through to fix and polish the game to perfection. TW3 is not perfect but mighty damn close, we know CDPR can do it, they did it before. How can the shot be so far off this time?
Shifting development focus, my best guess... from open world RPG to semi-linear action adventure.
How is it not lying. If they would adress the cuts I wouldnt say they are lying, but they really went balls to the wall with those features. And the balls didnt surpass the wall and we were left waiting.
I agree but what could they say ?
Uh, so yeah we cut many features from the game because we need a lot more time to implement them and we can't delay the game anymore because of shareholders, have fun !
From the inverstors call 14th december:
"I wouldn’t say that we felt any external or internal pressure to launch on the date – other than the normal pressure, which is typical for any release. So that was not the cause."
The worst thing for me is metro. I really like transport in open world games and this missing is so sad for me. Hope they'll give metro for us later. And I like how Night City looks but I don't feel that it's real. And sometimes when I'm parkouring I see stairs that I can't use(
Shareholders pushing a release is shooting themselves in the foot. They know what was expected in the game, had a releaseplan, followed up on the plan and saw what existed. If CDPR warns them saying "This is impossible, we need more time and the game that was promised will be released." Shareholders know the company most likely better then themselves because they Invest shit ton of money in them. They would know money will flow when full version release arrives.
Their stockmarket went down by 40% in a few days, they are obviously not gonna blame the shareholders ahah. If the game is like this today it's also because of poor management, but them saying this would be like shooting yourself in the foot
this game is unrecoverable unfortunately ..
it would take another 2 years of development ..
Currently any game (similar to CP2077) released in previous years (even early 2000s) is better than Cyberpunk, where even casual gamers may notice that something is wrong.
Too many are the promised and never developed functions, too many are the shortcomings of this game by current standards ..
Marketing campaign that announced features and game complexity just to lure as many people into the trap as possible.
Over the years there have been several games that have had problems (triple A), but honestly, a crap like Cyberprank 2077 I've never seen. Half game is missing practically and no, I will not start the list of missing things as it has already been done (here and on reddit).
What I want to say to CD Projekt Red is this:
in the current situation in which you have entered there is no way out,
you deserve a class action of gigantic proportions for all the misrepresentations you have made. This must be an example for you and for all those SH who do marketing over the conditions of the game.
Personally, I feel scammed, many have named this game as CyberScam 2077 for very good reasons.
You have two options (CDPR):
1) continue the development (I mean development .. not bugs fixes) of cyberpunk 2077 without an expiration date and make CP2077 what it should have been and recover (in part) the reputation you have lost.
2) announce The Witcher 4 and abandon CP 2077 to its fate and not regain the reputation you have lost.
In both cases you have lost my (unconditional) trust regardless of your choices.
so good luck in the future ... you will need a lot.
it would take another 2 years of development ..
Currently any game (similar to CP2077) released in previous years (even early 2000s) is better than Cyberpunk, where even casual gamers may notice that something is wrong.
Too many are the promised and never developed functions, too many are the shortcomings of this game by current standards ..
Marketing campaign that announced features and game complexity just to lure as many people into the trap as possible.
Over the years there have been several games that have had problems (triple A), but honestly, a crap like Cyberprank 2077 I've never seen. Half game is missing practically and no, I will not start the list of missing things as it has already been done (here and on reddit).
What I want to say to CD Projekt Red is this:
in the current situation in which you have entered there is no way out,
you deserve a class action of gigantic proportions for all the misrepresentations you have made. This must be an example for you and for all those SH who do marketing over the conditions of the game.
Personally, I feel scammed, many have named this game as CyberScam 2077 for very good reasons.
You have two options (CDPR):
1) continue the development (I mean development .. not bugs fixes) of cyberpunk 2077 without an expiration date and make CP2077 what it should have been and recover (in part) the reputation you have lost.
2) announce The Witcher 4 and abandon CP 2077 to its fate and not regain the reputation you have lost.
In both cases you have lost my (unconditional) trust regardless of your choices.
so good luck in the future ... you will need a lot.
I don't think it's true, many shareholders probably don't even know a thing or care about video games. They saw how successful TW3 was so they bought some stocks. It's the same thing with movies, music and so on (it's different but you understand what I mean)
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