Lol. Yeah CDPR’s current fiasco is business as usual for Blechthesduh.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to be excited for ES6. I'm just saying that the claim of CDPR's CP77 fiasco is the "straw that broke the AAA back" for him, but then to also be excited for a game who's developer last released a utterly soul-less, broken, disaster, just seems like a contradictory.
Unless Samtemdo is being hyperbolic, in which case the comment doesn't come across as such and should be clarified.
I think one thing people tend to forget with AAA-video gaming is that just because the publisher and the higher ups are dogshit, doesn't mean that the people who invest all the time and all the work into making a game are that way. Employee's often have no choice in how a game ultimately comes out because at the end of the day it's business and there are deadlines. You can only postpone any deadline so far and in the end you will get to a point where the company will force it out the door regardless of it being ready.
In a perfect world, cases like Cyberpunk 2077 and Fallout 76, probably should have been cancelled projects years ago, before the game ever got to a point in which it couldn't be made into a workable product within a reasonable amount of time. 8 years is an incredibly long developmental cycle for any game. And it's even longer for a game that does nothing new whatsoever. Cyberpunk is not an ambitious game, it doesn't attempt anything new that hasn't been done in countless other titles before. So it shouldn't really have been that much of a struggle to get right when there are dozens of games in which they could copy systems right out of. For whatever reason though, CDPR could not pull this thing together and they've known for years that it wasn't working, so why continue to invest in it and force your way through it? I couldn't tell you. Games are cancelled all the time, some announced and some we never know about, either way it doesn't really matter.
The real question is, if the game came out and was just a little buggy like it is for the vast majority of PC players, would we be having this conversation at all? As far as I can tell, many many people are playing through the game and completing it just fine, and people in my situation (in which the fucking game can't run for more than 10 minutes without crashing) on PC are few and far between.
Meanwhile obviously the Ps4-Xbox crowd are in a whole different level of mess. Maybe CDPR should have pulled the same shit they did with The Witcher 2 and simply done a PC only release, and waited 6 months to release the PS5-Series X versions and left it at that.
Doesn't really matter, saying what they should'a done isn't important because what happened has happened. The good news is that CDPR is still a company that seems to want to do right by people, doing what refunds they can, and ultimately will end up fixing this game into a state that will make the game worthy of what they wanted it to be. Whether or not that makes up for the state they thought it was okay to release the game in depends on the person. I'm am personally annoyed, but this is far from the worst thing a AAA-publisher has done, so I'm just kinda whatever about it.
