So just found this on reddit. Sorry if late didn't see it posted.
Reddit post revealing save files cannot surpass 8MB without corrupting.
Official CDPR Post
TLDR: If your save file goes beyond 8MB, your save goes kaput. The solution given so far is "don't loot too much, don't craft too much, replay the game when you beat it instead of trying to do everything. You literally can't right now."
Also basically confirms the New Game Plus promise was bunk from the start and probably isn't coming. Easy fix is to just use a trainer on PC I guess, but for console players you're (once again) fucked.
I get nostalgia and kinda wanting to be bethesda where people buy the same game for 10 years, but replicating their ps3 "features" is a bit much...
The problem is their world-building is trash. A lot of the writers who were on 'The Witcher 3' were clearly let go. They don't have a good writing or world-building staff, even if they have these sourcebooks in front of them. Every single time these people go off the reservation its trash. Just open up a source book, take what's in it and put it in the game. D&D has been doing this practically forever, you've got First Person Shooter RPGS out the ass to build from. Yet every step of the way this is fucked. Every fight I'm noticing glitches now.
dnd and most games of that type have decades of official material they can just plunder for stories. fuck they could basically plagiarize shadowrun at this point, it's not like cyberpunk as a genre is something novel.
turns out you still need some talent for writing, maybe they should learn to code. thinking about it, maybe they tried, it would explain so much...
lol at anyone acting like CDPR is going to go bankrupt after a terrible launch or get successfully sued for features not being in a game. Ubisoft and EA would be dead ages ago if that were true.
ah yes, those notorious guys who constantly get their games kicked off the biggest console storefront during christmas season, leaving the only option to either buy a copy retail (during corona no less) or get it send to you in a few days, because nothing drives impulse purchases like that. it's not like they need those sales anyway with their broad portfolio and all those different games they're cooking up right now...
so, how much stock do you own? apparently investors and shareholders are all gullible idiots who give companies free money without asking for anything in return, so you're right they probably don't care about the current PR shitshow. the game will keep selling millions like they always do (breaking 20 million next month, just wait!) and making all the money back and then some in the future, no need to worry, CD projekt will easily find money all the money they need if they have to in the future because we all know money grows on trees.
here's a nice little smootbrain bedtime story for you, it's about a struggling company that is also publicly traded, but never gets bought out or taken over, since they're all friends! nono you see, they only go bankrupt and their games stop getting made, no one would want to pick up the assets that still hold value or, you know, an established store front in case you want to compete with steam, because that's another thing their friends never want to do.
hope you like your next witcher and gog run by microsoft, ea or tencent. lol, right?