Cyberpunk 2077 Grieving Thread

So basically exactly what I expected. They're dropping support because they have no idea how to fix this game.
That and I’d bet money that they planned to do a Witcher 3 and release free “Totally Not Cut Content” DLCs, only those broke what fixes they’ve managed to do:

This game just needs to be Ol Yeller’d, its well past the saving point. I’m still wondering how the lolsuits’ll turn out - if this game kills CDPR I’m going to laugh my ass off...
 
So basically exactly what I expected. They're dropping support because they have no idea how to fix this game.
trying to optimize the engine enough base console versions don't look and run like shit, fix the bugs; anything besides technical issues were never going to be "fixed" anyway. but even if they know how, who's gonna pay for that?

the problem is the game is too much of a trainwreck in too many aspects that properly "fixing" this game is just not feasible, not after launch. you can do that before launch when you postpone and hammer out the kinks because there will still be a payday coming, but at this point who would buy a fixed version?
it's one of the reason modern videogames suck, "we'll fix it in post" is a fucking lie if the game bombs (which is most of AAA these days) and you can't fix it yourself either. congratulations, you just bought a $60 $70 digital paperweight.
 
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How are plebbit consoomers still playing this game? It has like a ten hour main quest. There are no mini games or side quests outside of go and kill ten baddies type stuff either.
I'm half convinced they're just bootlicking out of habit - I actively hate myself for even trying to force one complete playthrough on console, and it's not even because of the (many) technical issues, its because the game world is just that dead. When Watch Dogs Legion, a fucking UBISOFT game, has more open world content, you know you fucked up.

I'd rather go play Payday 2 - that games held together by just as much duct tape, but at least its actually got a fun gameplay loop (and a Keanu Reeves who sounds like he gives a shit, considering it’s a stand in)...
 
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CDPR was banking off of The Witcher 3, Keanu, marketing and hype to sell Cyberpunk. I doubt whoever owns the Cyberpunk license will trust CDPR or anybody to make another Cyberpunk game.

I predict that once they get Cyberpunk 2077 in a relatively playable state, they will abandon it after a few cosmetic DLCs. I do not see them doing a No Man's Sky with all the backlash and limiting state of PS4/Xbox One.
 
Back in the day, CDPR used to be the kind of company, where people would tell you to just buy their stuff if the genre appealed to you, since it was so well-made and company politics so fair, supporting them was a total no-brainer.

Well, I guess the company took over the shoddy business practices of their competition, hired utterly incompetent and visionless asshats (with no personal ties to videogaming as a hobby), who did the ridiculous "We'll be the next WoW/GTA/Fortnite"-shtick as if that hadn't been a recipe for failure for more than a decade by now.
Now they made a shoddy mainstream-targeted cash-in title, that pissed away all the good reputation CDPR had amongst a very, very dedicated niche of fans. This is the kind of thing that can sink a company like this and I almost hope it does happen, given how much of a fuckup this game has turned out to be.

It kinda reminds me of the space-game X4. The company behind that franchise made a really weird title that did away with so many of the core mechanics of the games before it and it appeared seriously dumbed down. At some point, people started digging into the game's code and found out that everything in there suggests that the game was originally planned to be a console title, that got scrapped halfway through, retooled into being a PC game and then released to milk some of the sunk developement costs back out of the fans.
The fans were none too pleased about it.

But one thing that kinda gets me about Cyberpunk is how bad the art direction is. There's a lot of decent stuff, but the cars, houses etc. just look so terrible. Like, it's way too cluttered and doesn't look cyberpunk at all.
It should have gone for a retro-futurism look based on how 80s cyberpunk depicted such settings.
There should have been way more dark, rainy nights and neon lights.
 
Back in the day, CDPR used to be the kind of company, where people would tell you to just buy their stuff if the genre appealed to you, since it was so well-made and company politics so fair, supporting them was a total no-brainer.
So basically, a niche developer that made The Witcher. That's practically their resume right there.

Bethesda had Fallout. The gameplay was solid enough to put up with the aging engine and laundry list of bugs. PC players could tinker with the code and fix to their heart's content.

Cyberpunk doesn't even have that. It's broken to its core. It's haphazardly put together.
 
So basically, a niche developer that made The Witcher. That's practically their resume right there.

Bethesda had Fallout. The gameplay was solid enough to put up with the aging engine and laundry list of bugs. PC players could tinker with the code and fix to their heart's content.

Cyberpunk doesn't even have that. It's broken to its core. It's haphazardly put together.
Yeah. I'm just sad that the game will never live up to the potential of the setting and that it never will - not even with fans fixing what issues they can.

The very core of the game is bad...
 
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