Sorry, CDPR but you lost my trust...
I'm a long time lurker. I've been reading news and seeing every trailer of this game since it was announced.
But I really need to voice my dissapointment as a consumer:
I've played TW1 and TW2 countless times, showed it to everyone I knew and I was proud to say: "Man the company that makes those game are easily the best in the market".
Everytime I showed your games to someone I told them: " They are the best, not just because they care about the gameplay as much as they care about the graphics, but because they actually care for their fanbase."
I 've played games for 20+ years. I can see a downgrade from miles away.
Is the downgrade itself a problem?
No.
I know that games like this are Very Hard to accomplish.
I would understand if the game came out a bit unoptimized and patched later.
I would understand if they came and said: "Guys, we will need to tone down some things because of deadlines/performance/whatever"
But lying to your community is inexcusable. It's simply false advertisement.
This would've been a day one purchase for me. Then a few months ago I saw a gameplay trailer and I noticed something waas a bit "odd".
But then I thought, no this is CDPR they have earned the benefit of the doubt.
Then the downgrade thread came out. I saw when they said that nothing was changed.
As I am used to the way things work, I decided to wait and see...
I am sincerely dissapointed and I won't recommend your games to my friends anymore. I'll show them the prank you played on this one.
Not out of anger, but because I like the truth.
The right thing to do would be to release a patch that improved graphics to the level you guys said we would get(lighting, particles,lod distance).
Even if you did so, it would not make me trust you again.
You guys lost a huge fan, and if t doesn't matter to you, well... Let's just say i'm not surprised.