- Joined
- Aug 14, 2018
Yeah they got rid of their game director a few years in and basically threw everything out. This whole project reminds me of Bioware. Looking forward to the Schreier deep dive sourced from pissed devs.
Cyberpunk 2077 Grieving Thread
- Thread starter c-no
- Start date
- Joined
- Jan 23, 2019
He also sounds like he has a gun pointed at him. I'm guessing the investors demanded he publicly 'apologize' to the consumers.
- Joined
- May 18, 2014
That would have been cool. I would have bought that game instead of the Borderlands/GTA hybrid abortion we got.
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2018
I'm really kicking myself for playing this trainwreck on release. With such an overwhelming backlash, they almost have no choice but to add a ridiculous amount of shit to the game just to save face. They already did a similar treatment with Witcher 3 and they weren't on the backfoot like they are now.
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2016
I'll believe it when I see it. Him not mentioning the management responsible for this mess being fired does not inspire optimism in me. I'm still willing to give this game a second chance and still think that them pulling a No Man's Sky redemption arc is theoretically possible, but with the same management around I'm going to press X to doubt for now.
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2019
The only reason anyone would apologize in a corporate environment is because shareholders and investors are pointing a gun at them. They don't give a shit about the consumer. They care about money and only money. They made that very clear with the review copies and the absolute state of the game when it launched lmao. "We knew how fucked the game was but kept it hidden from you and milked the market for everything it was worth, we didnt mean to we're sorry *rubs nipples*" The funny part is CDPR white knights will suck them off for their response.
- Joined
- May 18, 2014
Why the fuck would you not fire the upper management? That's PR101 when projects of this magnitude flop this hard. Even EA did that.
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2016
Maybe they did and we don't know it (yet). But if they didn't, they'll only have themselves to blame if things go tits up even more...
Edit:
I might be wrong, but it is my understanding that the investors and shareholders were lied to by the management, hence the lolsuits.
Last edited:
JohnLenin
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2016
If all the rumors surrounding Cyberpunk being scrapped/reworked are true I hope we get more leaks or whatever actually confirming them, game must've gone through absolute developmental hell. Stuff like that is always fun to look at.
Speaking of rumors one of the most popular ones is that the game was partly reworked for Keanu or at least the character Johnny Silverhand. In 2018 gameplay reveal with female V in their apartment you can over hear the guy on the radio saying Johnny Silverhand died around a year or 2 ago, that and the concept art looks nothing Keanu but that's stretching it. (This was also implied in the supposed dev leak)
Back me up!
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2017
Pretty much. You can lie and fuck over consumers as much as you like but the second you fuck with investors money your ass is grass.
- Joined
- May 18, 2014
I think the PC version will eventually go from a 6/10 game to an 8/10 or so but I don't believe they can fix the console version. Of course it's entirely possible they fuck up the PC version too. I could see them doing one bugfixing patch and then put all their efforts into multiplayer because "that's what gamers want."
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2020
I'm still don't understand why they stick to First-Person RPG where they can get away with Third-Person.
if Bethesda can do it, they messed up big time.
if Bethesda can do it, they messed up big time.
- Joined
- May 18, 2014
On PC using camera hacks reveals that they didn't bother to create third person animations/rigging at all. If you use a mod to force third person your character just glides around in a T pose.
I'm like 95% sure the reason they didn't do third person is because they were too lazy to create the assets and models for it. Then again with how poorly the rest of the game turned out maybe that's a good thing.
We know from the 2018 demo that third person cutscenes at least existed but much like 75% of the game's content was cut for unknown reasons.
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2013
And you could at least hedge with Kojima and his people being physically removed from their offices at various points during development, and the fact that Konami may or may not be a front for the fucking yakuza. CD Projekt is, er... was, the pride of Poland as far as entertainment media goes. Is anyone else more leery of GOG now in light of all this?
DumDum Did Nothing Wrong
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2021
There's a mod for 3rd person that is worth the download for the memes and nightmares. It's fine when your toon isn't moving but once you go running around with a weapon all hell breaks outs lmao.
jje100010001
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jan 28, 2020
Better yet you can get some Commander Sheppard-tier dancing:
"If you really knew how bad it was..."
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2019
He also looks like he hasn't slept in forever.
Credit where credit's due, he did say that is was ultimately the higher-ups' fault. Although, we all knew that even before he made the video.
It reminds he of what Mirror's Edge looked like when someone modded the game intro to make it third-person.
DumDum Did Nothing Wrong
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2021
Better yet you can get some Commander Sheppard-tier dancing:
View attachment 1846501
View attachment 1846487
"If you really knew how bad it was..."
Oddly enough Marcin looks healthier here than he did during Witcher 3's production.
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2019
and who's gonna pay for that? even if we assume they started at 0 at release (doubtful because that's not how it works), and even if they spend all that extra money they made in fixing the game, who's gonna pay 60 bucks for it in a couple of years? or even 30? and if they spend all their money in fixing this game, where does that leave the next one? devs don't work for free till launch day.
companies get a lot of shit for dropping a game and moving on, but it's simply the most feasible thing to do, especially with singleplayer games (with multi you could at least foster a grass-roots community and that could pay off at some point in the future, but most companies are too shortsighted/impatient/retarded for that). there's simply not much money in it, and that's before you even look how you could fix it and what it entails.
not because cyperpunk, but the whole devotion shitshow. I can objectively understand why they did it from a business perspective (selling a taiwanese indie game that makes at best a few thousands bucks is not worth getting banned in china + adherents), but then crapping out some bullshit excuse "gamers" asked for it is just offending my intelligence. they can take their business where they want, so can I. so much for "worth".
and it saved me around 40 bucks this winter sale, so there's that too.
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2018
I am dissapointed in the lack of shazamposting in the comments section.