The real reason Cyberpunk 2077 was delayed

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5 years ago

That Miyamoto quote is so badly used. He said that in the N64 days when you couldn't patch or update games, it shipped and played AS IS. This day and age that phrase should not be a blanket statement for all delays. Am I disappointed it was delayed, no. I'm disappointed it was done for the dumbest reason. Its even confirmed that it runs great on PC and Next-Gen, just release it!

Operative80

5 years ago

@IrishNord The quote may be from post launch fixes were not a thing but it still does hold true. No Mans Sky was released as a nearly empty game but had massive sales because of what was promised by developers. Reviews were not kind with average scores at best and the player base dropped to nearly nothing very quickly. Today NMS is an amazing game but the damage is done. It is remembered as a joke of a launch, the player base has grown again but not even close to that it would have been if the launch game had half of what it does now. Considering that the majority of people who will play Cyberpunk will be playing it on Current Gen consoles it would be quite foolish to "just release it" if that is the problem versions. It would just piss off players. I for one don't want to get the game on the 19th and play a janky version for 3 week and then get a patch to make it all nice and run smooth. I wand the smooth version to begin with.

Rendr44

5 years ago

If you polish something for too long eventually you'll be left with nothing.

nikonope

5 years ago

Conor’s spooky voice is always so good

willhelm_55

5 years ago

Crunch is terrible if its super exhaustive. THAT said, on the flip side the crunchers get a nice paycheck that week! Lets hope they are hourly and not salaried!

Bhraal

5 years ago

To play devil's advocate for a moment, I think there's an angle here that's being missed. Kiciński needs to have an excuse for the delay that investors will accept and they don't really care directly about the quality of the game, they care about sales numbers. They don't care about the crunching, they care about the bad press it's resulted in. Review scores is something quantifiable they can they can relate to expected sales (even though it's been proven to not matter that much), which would be a byproduct of better quality. When they hear about extended crunching they're thinking "how many people are going to get paid for a massive amount of overtime?", hence the downplaying of the number of people and extent of crunch. It's adapting the message for the intended receiver and not necessarily any more honest or straight forward than what they told the employees prior. That said it was done in a clumsy enough way that I can't help imagining Kiciński making the statement while wearing blinders.

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