Seeing all the issues with the game, i ask myself: why didn't they do a big public-beta launch? Thus they could have circumvented the corona-imposed testing problems, they would have released the game and bought themselves time to work on the game. Sure, some people wouldn't have liked this, but the shitshow right now is more damaging, i'm sure.
Whilst I have played circa 250 hours, and have most certainly had my monies worth if I never set foot in NIght City again, in fact I have thoroughly enjoyed it, but, looking back, I think my desire to enjoy the game, to play it to its full capacity, to explore, to collect everything, to try and immerse myself in NC, to read everything etc etc allowed me to miss the glaring holes in it.
I have never crashed yet and my game plays on high graphics, on a 3 year old gaming laptop, i get the occassional floating car, but really that's it, so performance wise, for me personally, I cannot fault it.
However, the all conquering 1.1 patch has done nothing but move the game backwards in terms of "can we trust CDPR to get anything right with this game?" Forget multiplayer down the line, clearly they do not have the experience to pull that off in a competent fashion.
There are so many glaring holes in the game:
The police/bounty/crime mechanic is a joke. Needs a total overhaul.
RPG fashion, needs a total overhaul. There is no reason whatsoever to wear the majority of the clothing in the game, as there are/were plenty of legendary items we could farm and we were set for the duration of the game. Obviously 1.1 has spoiled that bit of fun for now, but it shows a bigger hole in the mechanic.
Crafting and items needs to be worked on and fixed, and not in the haphazard way they managed 1.1. Take their time and develop a proper item leveling experience. Of course they could just add in cosmetic clothing, which would solve most of the problem. Wear what you please stat wise, does not matter, you look like your cosmetics.
There is a distinct lack of time sink side activities. This is clearly not a MMO, so do we really need time sinks? No, but it is very clear that a considerable number of players are treating it that way, and immersing themselves in the world. Give them appropriate things to do, be that gambling, sitting down for meals/drinks with NPCs, hunting, literally anything to add more depth to it.
Again, I have more than had good value out of it, but i want to want to play the game more, but the latest patch has indicated to me that they do not know what they are doing with this game, and frankly, the future is bleak.
Don't get me wrong, why should they care, they have my money and they are welcome to it, it was worth the price, however, do they truly expect people to buy any future hype regarding DLCs they might want us to pay for, nevermind future games.
The mystical CDPR rose tinted bubble has well and truly burst.