Mozzarella
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In my opinion the main reason behind this backlash is the hype around the game, you have people waiting since 2015 for this game, every year it gets close and so their hype goes higher, now if you go so high and fall down the damage will be massive.
Lets add to the waiting hype another factors. 1) The first factor im going to add is that CDPR themselves hyped the game more than they should, they are amateurs at business and it shows, they interact on Twitter with the fans saying "Oh my god just did this quest in Cyberpunk and it was the best thing ever!!" Another one was saying "The side quests in Witcher 3 was just beginning to us and in Cyberpunk its much more complex". When interviews CDPR devs would claim that you can choose a lifepath and it will impact your game quite a lot, this didnt age well. Sure they give a flavor but they are not as impactful. Anyway to keep things short, the devs and the PR team hyped the game more than they should.
2) The second factor are the gamers, they expected too much, they wanted RDR2 and GTA5 open world NPC and A.I, wanted Forza driving, wanted Doom shooting, wanted Neuromancer writing, wanted Deus Ex RPG, etc..etc. They asked for too much and they really expected it, you cant have this amount of hyped and be satisfied, like ever. There is no fucking way a game lives up to that amount of hype, and i fear Elden Ring may have similar fate if things go the same way with hype, the good thing is Elden Ring PR team doesnt give a fuck to interact with people, so no Night Wire episodes or Twitter Bullshit.
3) The third factor is the constant delays, each release date given by the management (stupid mistake) was wrong, which resulted in a delay, and that delay makes people angry and furious, those amount of anger increase the frustration levels if it didnt meet the expectations right? and we already know it won't meet them based on factor 2. So each delay made them more angry, like blowing a balloon, each delay you exhale into it more and more air, until it reached the third delay it started to look serious trouble, then they released it and with all that delay, missed features, bugs and issues, performance..etc it all blows up.
Fallout 76 was a game nobody cared about except few fans, Anthem also the same, those games people didnt care about, thats why you dont see this amount of backlash against them.
Now im against this overblown backlash, I said CDPR did many mistakes here and they deserve to pay consequences, but what is currently happening is too much imo. And things should slow down a bit. This is getting way too serious for a video game.
Lets add to the waiting hype another factors. 1) The first factor im going to add is that CDPR themselves hyped the game more than they should, they are amateurs at business and it shows, they interact on Twitter with the fans saying "Oh my god just did this quest in Cyberpunk and it was the best thing ever!!" Another one was saying "The side quests in Witcher 3 was just beginning to us and in Cyberpunk its much more complex". When interviews CDPR devs would claim that you can choose a lifepath and it will impact your game quite a lot, this didnt age well. Sure they give a flavor but they are not as impactful. Anyway to keep things short, the devs and the PR team hyped the game more than they should.
2) The second factor are the gamers, they expected too much, they wanted RDR2 and GTA5 open world NPC and A.I, wanted Forza driving, wanted Doom shooting, wanted Neuromancer writing, wanted Deus Ex RPG, etc..etc. They asked for too much and they really expected it, you cant have this amount of hyped and be satisfied, like ever. There is no fucking way a game lives up to that amount of hype, and i fear Elden Ring may have similar fate if things go the same way with hype, the good thing is Elden Ring PR team doesnt give a fuck to interact with people, so no Night Wire episodes or Twitter Bullshit.
3) The third factor is the constant delays, each release date given by the management (stupid mistake) was wrong, which resulted in a delay, and that delay makes people angry and furious, those amount of anger increase the frustration levels if it didnt meet the expectations right? and we already know it won't meet them based on factor 2. So each delay made them more angry, like blowing a balloon, each delay you exhale into it more and more air, until it reached the third delay it started to look serious trouble, then they released it and with all that delay, missed features, bugs and issues, performance..etc it all blows up.
Fallout 76 was a game nobody cared about except few fans, Anthem also the same, those games people didnt care about, thats why you dont see this amount of backlash against them.
Now im against this overblown backlash, I said CDPR did many mistakes here and they deserve to pay consequences, but what is currently happening is too much imo. And things should slow down a bit. This is getting way too serious for a video game.
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