Your Fears For the Game - Combined Thread
So this is one of the games i've been watching since its inception and the first news releases on the internet. I have great respect for CD Projekt Red and the games they have made. I applaud their GOG system and continually direct friends and people in my everyday life to go to them for games due to their respect for their customers by Not adding useless and potentially harmful DRM systems to their games.
But if I see loot boxes and a real-money micro-transaction system set up for buying them in Cyberpunk, I will not buy it.
Now I realize that i'm akin to the proverbial Canary in the Coal Mine when it comes to this stuff. And very likely the game will do fine even if these things are added in. But it will cause me to lose a significant amount of respect for CD Projekt Red as a publisher/developer, and cause me to seriously consider not doing business with them in the future.
EA has already lost my business due to their activities in this regard. I didn't buy the latest Deus Ex title because of the included Micro-Transactions, and I love that series and have purchased and played all the rest of them when they came out. This has also caused me to not purchase many games lately for the same reason, I did not and will not buy, Shadow of MoreDollars, Destiny 2, Star Wars Battlefront 2. And likely EA's upcoming Anthem title i'll avoid for the same reason.
I suspect eventually the rest of the market will catch up with me on this and EA will see a large falloff because of the way they are mistreating their customers. Much in the same way the Mobile Gaming market is no longer talked about as being 'the next big thing' because they milked the public dry by turning the platform into a micro-transaction laden hell-hole.
Please continue to treat your customers with respect by not including these potentially abusive systems into your games. If not, i'll be sad, and you'll probably still be successful. But I won't be playing your games.
So this is one of the games i've been watching since its inception and the first news releases on the internet. I have great respect for CD Projekt Red and the games they have made. I applaud their GOG system and continually direct friends and people in my everyday life to go to them for games due to their respect for their customers by Not adding useless and potentially harmful DRM systems to their games.
But if I see loot boxes and a real-money micro-transaction system set up for buying them in Cyberpunk, I will not buy it.
Now I realize that i'm akin to the proverbial Canary in the Coal Mine when it comes to this stuff. And very likely the game will do fine even if these things are added in. But it will cause me to lose a significant amount of respect for CD Projekt Red as a publisher/developer, and cause me to seriously consider not doing business with them in the future.
EA has already lost my business due to their activities in this regard. I didn't buy the latest Deus Ex title because of the included Micro-Transactions, and I love that series and have purchased and played all the rest of them when they came out. This has also caused me to not purchase many games lately for the same reason, I did not and will not buy, Shadow of MoreDollars, Destiny 2, Star Wars Battlefront 2. And likely EA's upcoming Anthem title i'll avoid for the same reason.
I suspect eventually the rest of the market will catch up with me on this and EA will see a large falloff because of the way they are mistreating their customers. Much in the same way the Mobile Gaming market is no longer talked about as being 'the next big thing' because they milked the public dry by turning the platform into a micro-transaction laden hell-hole.
Please continue to treat your customers with respect by not including these potentially abusive systems into your games. If not, i'll be sad, and you'll probably still be successful. But I won't be playing your games.