Cyberpunk 2077 Grieving Thread

moocow said:
There's something seriously fucky going on with GPUs right now. You'd think it was just a typical "paper launch," but there are reports that Nvidia shipped a fuckton of their new 3xxx GPUs to miners. No idea if AMD did the same thing, but I can't find any stock of their new cards either. Do the scalper shitheads even have any to scalp or have they come up dry as well?

The way things have been this year with GPUs, I'm not even remotely confident there will be an adequate supply of them next year at all either.
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A person in my life works in nvidia R&D, They only made 7,000 3080s for the initial WORLDWIDE launch, they couldn't ramp supply to the point they needed because of covid but after the launch because demand stayed so high and it generated so much media they decided to lean into it because it was driving their stock up to record numbers without ever needing to invest in hyper costly manufacturing due to covid. No proof but my summation is sony and xbox just copied the strategy because the tech industry is stupid incsetual
 
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moocow said:
There's something seriously fucky going on with GPUs right now. You'd think it was just a typical "paper launch," but there are reports that Nvidia shipped a fuckton of their new 3xxx GPUs to miners. No idea if AMD did the same thing, but I can't find any stock of their new cards either. Do the scalper shitheads even have any to scalp or have they come up dry as well?

The way things have been this year with GPUs, I'm not even remotely confident there will be an adequate supply of them next year at all either.
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The problem isn't just with the new cards. I was waiting for this month to get a gtx 1660 super and I can't find one anywhere.
 
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I played the GOG version for about two hours today and haven't had any problems. Also seemed fairly well optimized for my hardware combination, running it on ultra settings at 1080p.
 
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I will say that the visual style is very good, despite the memes. If you hate how the city appears during the day, during the first mission it deliberately puts you in a car ride with Jackie at night, while it's raining, and it feels cyberpunk as fuck. Only wish it wasn't playing a fucking rap song during the drive.
 
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Played the game, finished the game, uninstalled the game.

Let's assume there's no glitches/crashes, no politically-motivated controversies and that there'll be future additions to enhance the gaming experience (DLCs etc.) With that out of the way, would this game be good?

No.

The game's fundamental problem is that it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. It pays homage to all kinds of classics and motifs from the Cyberpunk genre, but it falls flat on its face in their implementation 'cause at its core it's just a cheap nostalgia lane that doesn't offer anything new to said genre (For an in-depth look at this, see John Semley's Cyberpunk Is Dead.) On that note, the game's gameplay is equally sub-par and offers nothing innovative in graphics (or game mechanics.) Half of the time you'll feel like you're watching GTA V and Borderlands adopting a Far Cry and Tumblr drug baby. The other is looking at a story and lore as bland as Keanu Reeve's voice acting. I rate it a The Last of Us II out of Life is Strange.
 
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StudMccool said:
A person in my life works in nvidia R&D, They only made 7,000 3080s for the initial WORLDWIDE launch, they couldn't ramp supply to the point they needed because of covid but after the launch because demand stayed so high and it generated so much media they decided to lean into it because it was driving their stock up to record numbers without ever needing to invest in hyper costly manufacturing due to covid. No proof but my summation is sony and xbox just copied the strategy because the tech industry is stupid incsetual
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They didnt think "we should have 100k of these minimum, lets wait a month or two"

Imagine the wind that would have been taken from AMDs sails if they decided to launch a week before and had enough of a supply that when they paper launched people just said "fuck that ill just take a 3080, at least its in stock"

It probably wouldnt have worked out that way but two more months of manufacturing would have given them at least enough units to make it not seem like such a paper launch. I know some locations that dont sell out within the hour of stock being available and it taking half a day now. At least there would be plausible deniability if they had an hour or twos worth of stock
 
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