Forgivable mistake? Who cares.
I don't confuse this kind of thing with some sort of morality trial.
Note I'm talking about managment here, not the actual developers who did the actual work.
I'm sure the suits are nice guys and I have no problem forgiving people no matter what they did. Well, almost.
They lied and very deliberately deceived consumers, and that's something they're going to have to deal with on their own - I'm not a judge.
However, if managment is incompetent on this level - and they overtly and willfully pushed out this game in this state, then they're simply not competent to do their jobs. Meaning, I will never - ever - trust their ability to deliver a great game again.
They utterly destroyed what Cyberpunk should have been - regardless of whether or not they fix and improve it. There's no escaping what this launch will cost them - and that's a bad reputation they will never entirely recover from.
It also means years of work from hundreds of talented developers will never get the positive response it deserves, because no one will go out of their way to thank them for fixing what's broken. Also, this isn't at all about consoles exclusively.
Sure, it runs much better on high-end PC hardware - but it has a huge amount of issues - even after the first couple of patches (day 1 patch and 1.04 hotfix). Balance is utterly atrocious with all playstyles (I know, because I have tried 3 separate builds and there's zero challenge on Very Hard if you build your character even remotely informed) - and NPCs can't respond effectively to the player when being hacked, shot through walls or any kind of distant stealth attack.
Same goes for the Police and the Pedestrain "AI" systems (no pun intended) - both of which are so far behind the times, I can barely understand how it's even possible in 2020. It's almost as if they tried to make it as bad as possible for kicks.
They hyped this game for years - and have entirely failed to deliver what they promised. You can find several articles, some of which are fairly recent - full of overt lies and exaggerations as to what this game will have at release.
Morally reprehensible? Sure, I guess. I don't care.
But in very pragmatic terms, it means they're liars and they're not competent when it comes to delivering upon a promise. As such, I have zero faith in them from now on. I have no tolerance for this level of incompetence and deception - and there is no excuse.
I don't confuse this kind of thing with some sort of morality trial.
Note I'm talking about managment here, not the actual developers who did the actual work.
I'm sure the suits are nice guys and I have no problem forgiving people no matter what they did. Well, almost.
They lied and very deliberately deceived consumers, and that's something they're going to have to deal with on their own - I'm not a judge.
However, if managment is incompetent on this level - and they overtly and willfully pushed out this game in this state, then they're simply not competent to do their jobs. Meaning, I will never - ever - trust their ability to deliver a great game again.
They utterly destroyed what Cyberpunk should have been - regardless of whether or not they fix and improve it. There's no escaping what this launch will cost them - and that's a bad reputation they will never entirely recover from.
It also means years of work from hundreds of talented developers will never get the positive response it deserves, because no one will go out of their way to thank them for fixing what's broken. Also, this isn't at all about consoles exclusively.
Sure, it runs much better on high-end PC hardware - but it has a huge amount of issues - even after the first couple of patches (day 1 patch and 1.04 hotfix). Balance is utterly atrocious with all playstyles (I know, because I have tried 3 separate builds and there's zero challenge on Very Hard if you build your character even remotely informed) - and NPCs can't respond effectively to the player when being hacked, shot through walls or any kind of distant stealth attack.
Same goes for the Police and the Pedestrain "AI" systems (no pun intended) - both of which are so far behind the times, I can barely understand how it's even possible in 2020. It's almost as if they tried to make it as bad as possible for kicks.
They hyped this game for years - and have entirely failed to deliver what they promised. You can find several articles, some of which are fairly recent - full of overt lies and exaggerations as to what this game will have at release.
Morally reprehensible? Sure, I guess. I don't care.
But in very pragmatic terms, it means they're liars and they're not competent when it comes to delivering upon a promise. As such, I have zero faith in them from now on. I have no tolerance for this level of incompetence and deception - and there is no excuse.