honestly i don't know what people want from cdpr at this point.
if you don't like it they offered refunds to everyone. no questions asked (on console of course). they agreed with sony the removal of the game from the store because that was the only way to offer refunds. many people actually beat the game and refunded it and then joked about that. cdpr didn't care. the game has no drm on pc you can literally download it and play it for free if you hate the "greedy" cdpr and they don't care.
they admitted the launch was a disaster and said they were going to fix the game. on top of that they'll release free dlc like the witcher 3.
you are all acting as if cdpr was your SO and they cheated on you with your best friend. what are you so angry about?
they lied! they deceived! they betrayed us! i don't think they really did. but so what? what did you lose? $60 bucks at most? you can get them back. here...
what now? what more do you want? for them get fucked in court? for developers to get fired? for management to step down from their own company that they founded decades ago? the work of their life? what would make you happy? you want to see someone suffer? trust me everyone in cdpr is suffering.
if you want to know why i defend them. I defend cdpr because they are good for the gaming industry and i want them to keep making games. and I defend them because you may hate how horrible the launch was. but their respones has been as good as it gets and you should reward that. especially in the gaming industry we have today.
but most of all. it's because of the developers. i'm a developer too. they spent years creating this amazing game and the reward they get is people shitting on them 24/7 and saying that the game is worse than than a piece of shit wrapped in aluminium foil because i can't talk about the weather with random npcs (also they are bigots racists. transphobes and sexists). they're getting sieged from every side. now that the hate train is rolling people at looking are every single thing in the game to see what they can criticize. things they never even thought about in other games. uploading videos with the sole purpose of shitting on the game because it's the new trend. making ridiculous comparisons.
keep punishing innovation but then don't cry when you get the same game every year and you don't understand why. Cdpr made 4 main games. all of them different. bethesda has been making the same game for 15 years. nobody cares.
thank god hello games kept working on the game and stopped reading online comments because they are cancer. i hope cdpr does the same thing.
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Are you okay? You don't sound okay. Maybe it's time you step away from the keyboard for a while and, I don't know, take a walk maybe?
Corporations are not your friends, they are entities that exist to sell you products in order to make a profit. Nobody at Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo or even CDPR gives a shit about you or your well-being, so please stop being so overly dramatic like people are attacking your girlfriend. They already made back their money, the developers got paid for their work, and they'll continue to make games for the foreseeable future, so relax.
You can make excuses all you like, at the end of the day CDPR released a game that was so fundamentally broken that Sony refuses to sell it, and other stores are actively warning people about its current state. That is not a normal situation and not comparable to the vast majority of games released each year. Doing so has consequences and those consequences solely lie with CDPR and its management. If you want to bitch to people about how unfair it is that the developers are being mocked and laughed at, go write CDPR's board of executives an angry letter or something.
Broken games get mocked and laughed at. It happened to Mass Effect Andromeda, it happened to Anthem, and it's happening to Cyberpunk. Nobody is saying that they want the developers and their mothers to die, people are just laughing at a broken game and pointing out all of the promises that were broken, which again, is on CDPR, not consumers. There is nothing wrong with people expressing how they hope all of these cut features, that were advertised and remnants of which can still be found in the game, are put back in.
Besides, mismanaging your development team for years, forcing them to crunch, releasing a fundamentally broken game and pissing away your company's good reputation is not "good for the industry" and not "innovative". Falsely advertising your game and hiding the broken console versions from reviewers is not a simple matter of "oh no you lost $60, who cares", it's downright criminal behavior and nobody should tolerate that shit.
Look, I have enough confidence in CDPR to assume that a year from now, Cyberpunk will be in a much better state and will have many of the cut features put back in through the free DLC, and I agree with you that the months long harassment campaign about supposed transphobia was way out of line and undeserved, but the only way CDPR can remain the gamer-friendly company that it was is if people call them out on their bullshit when they deserve it and make sure they don't do it again. So let's hope they (and other developers) learn from this and don't do it again.
