Cyberpunk 2077 Grieving Thread

The game doesn't look THAT graphically intensive, maybe for PS4 sure but I think PC we'll be fine with a 2-3year old card playing on Medium. The city is very dense so you will probably not need Far distance rendered most of the time.

It's annoying how they were like "Sep 19 for REAL guys!! No more delays! We're just obsessive about POLISH hehe"
Should have factored it in at the start with such a complex game.
 
Ruin said:
My hype is basically gone. I'm sure it will still be good but at three major delays my patience for nonsense is just not there.
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It's still on my list of games to get, but man it does bum me out. I think currently I have that, Tsushima and remake of Destroy All Humans.
 
I've been hearing Razorfist (lolcow, I know) going on about how some former employees of CD Projekt Red had stated that Cyberpunk 2077's development was a mess before they left with no real direction or idea of what to do. Is there any truth to this or is it just bullshit from bitter former employees regurgitated by a contrarian hipster metal head?
 
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FunPosting101 said:
I've been hearing Razorfist (lolcow, I know) going on about how some former employees of CD Projekt Red had stated that Cyberpunk 2077's development was a mess before they left with no real direction or idea of what to do. Is there any truth to this or is it just bullshit from bitter former employees regurgitated by a contrarian hipster metal head?
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The testimonies of the bitter former employees are visible to read (though you do have to set up a bogus glassdoor account to expand the full text). Pretty much the only useful thing about reflexively contrarian pricks like Razor is they'll mention things like these reviews that people invested in the situation (like fans eagerly anticipating the game) might otherwise rationalize away or never hear about.
As far as the content of the reviews, a pretty toxic corporate atmosphere, inconsistent management, and various teams empire building does seem to be a recurring theme of their critiques. One of the most recent was more entertaining, as it was clearly a fellow tabletop sperg ranting about normies in management casualizing the game mechanics away from tabletop ones.
 
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I'm honestly not too upset by the delay.

September to November isn't that big of a gap, and I suspect it's probably some minor updates or additional testing that needs to be done since Corona was one of those unexpected black swan events that more or less fucked over everyone across the board.

Now if they delayed the game into a 2021 release date, then I'd start getting worried.

Plus November is a good time to cash in on the holiday rush that happens every year and I think the November game release schedule is lighter due to the COVID-19 delays, so this might also be a clever marketing move on CD Projekt Red's part.
 
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Syaoran Li said:
I'm honestly not too upset by the delay.

September to November isn't that big of a gap, and I suspect it's probably some minor updates or additional testing that needs to be done since Corona was one of those unexpected black swan events that more or less fucked over everyone across the board.

Now if they delayed the game into a 2021 release date, then I'd start getting worried.

Plus November is a good time to cash in on the holiday rush that happens every year and I think the November game release schedule is lighter due to the COVID-19 delays, so this might also be a clever marketing move on CD Projekt Red's part.
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Possible, I suppose. At this point, I am not going to believe any release dates until the game is on my PC.
 
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Witcher 3 was delayed at least 2 times. I'll start getting worried when there's a fourth delay.
 
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Witcher 3 was delayed at least 2 times. I'll start getting worried when there's a fourth delay.
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Looked through this, has reinvigorated my expectations a little bit. Witcher 3 was meant to drop in Q3 2014, then was delayed to Feb 2015. They had about 5000 bugs in December 2014 so they delayed it again till May 2015 where it properly dropped. They had to cut some things out to streamline the game.

Let's go through Cyberpunk - First time a release date drops is April 2020. This is then delayed to September and then November of the same year. It's the same pattern and assuming they are telling the truth, they are fixing a fuckload of bugs. Possibly cut or downgrade it a bit (they already have with 3rd person mode). It is literally on the same delay track as Witcher 3. If it gets delayed again to 2021, then it's time to worry.

The other thing with CDPR is they know there are high, HIGH expectations of a quality product. If it ends up being subpar, that's their reputation down the toilet. A delay of 2 months will be worth it if they hit the same levels of purchases and glowing reviews.
 
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*puts tinfoil hat on* My guess - they don’t want to devalue a game by releasing it in September because EGS have a sale tickets in that month.
 
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Next Gen version in 2021

So CDPR is still getting it to run good on current gen systems.
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Do we have a release date for the Xboxx and PS5 yet?

I still think that the bugfixes story is true. W3 was delayed twice and one of the bugs they admitted to for the second delay was problems making all 2,000 doors in Novigrad behave properly. Given that Night City is denser and more vertical than Novigrad, and given that CP77 is supposedly more cross-linked, quests-wise, than W3, it's probably the difference between building a five-story house of cards that's twenty cards wide versus building a house of cards that's only ten stories wide, but fifteen stories high.

I also don't give much credence to the claims that CDPR is a total mess internally. There were claims like that on old!NeoGAF that W3 was going to be a shitpile because they'd bitten off more than they could chew trying to make a game so big and detailed with an engine that they'd cobbled together in-house. That turned out not to be true at all. I probably believe that there is crunch, and I question whether their working conditions are all that nice, but I do think that they probably would have been on course for it to be released, properly polished and bug-free, by September 17 but for the Chinese Batclap.
 
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I got to play it first.

So the statement they made about the delay to November where they said that they can't wait for the public to play it is BS. They giving the press swag that runs it in people's faces.
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Lol the anger on that board is so fun to read. Pretty big difference between the first delay and this one. That sweater is pretty awful given the circumstances of the game currently, but I get that its just PR promo merch that was probably waiting to ship back before the first delay even came down the pipe. Like so much ancillary promotional merch most likely still is, like the comic, world of cyberpunk book, some figurines, etc.

Still pretty funny though. The ass-sucking people were giving CDPR was getting old, the salt has made things a bit more entertaining while we wait the next 5 months, at least (until the next delay).
 
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anti SJW said:
I got to play it first.

So the statement they made about the delay to November where they said that they can't wait for the public to play it is BS. They giving the press swag that runs it in people's faces.
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Yeah, that's pretty obnoxious. Real misstep there. I wouldn't mind if they kept the "advance screenings" for GARME JURNALIZTS, because getting some feedback is always good, but encouraging them to brag about it is kinda a bad idea.
 
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I wish CDPR (or companies in general) was open to give a reason(s) of why the delays. Bringing up W3 again, they admitted it was bugs, but Cyperpunk was all silence with "it'll be ready, just wait". Just do it like Bloodlines attempted to do, release it with Troika admitting it being buggy, but Troika went and applied post-patches to fix them before it went down.
why does it hurt to think of saying "Corona messed up our final development at the last minute" or something like that from them? Because it just stings from CDPR saying "we are at our last step, no more delays" to "Here's another delay, it will come when its ready".
 
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