It's definitely warranted.
All of it?
Even people playing the game for 70 hours, finishing it, asking for a refund, getting the refund, bragging about it as they incentivize others to do the same? Even the people rooting for the downfall of CDPR? Even people saying unpleasant things to devs on Twitter?
Thanks for your lucid opinion.
I think gamers of late have made it clear they are done with the overly buggy games.
So 2,700,000,000 gamers worldwide have one consensual opinion, which by sheer coincidence is your own?
Sure, a few bugs here or there with a patch Day 1, or within a week or two, that irons it out mostly is acceptable.
"A week or two"? So they still have 4 more days to live up to your standards, right? So if a hotfix by Thursday fixes most bugs, they're off the hook?
For the record, the game released in an unacceptable state on past-gen consoles. I think games that routinely CTD at launch are a no-no. But I'm just following your logic to see where it leads.
But, this game is close to unplayable.
On all platforms?
The sad part is, I think the devs wanted more time to polish the game because they knew the backlash they would get for the state it was in. Unfortunately, the heads of the studio wanted that holiday cash.
Sure.
You know the finances of the company, You know he possible contractual obligations. You know the marketing deals. It's based on all of this critical info you are making this informed assessment, no doubt.
Developers don't own CDPR. Therefore they don't run CDPR. They work for CDPR, which is something distinctly different. Developers have neither the mandate not the legitimacy to manage CDPR. All of this is true no matter how bad and how frequently CDPR's upper management screws-up.
As a side note, my default assumption is not that, say, great skills as a concept artist translate to great skills at managing a billionaire company.
But maybe I've been wrong all along.
I'm glad they are getting this backlash, otherwise they wouldn't learn their lesson.
Maybe, who knows.
Ah, you know.
And I can't believe anyone would say someone is an entitled gamer just because they bought a $60+ highly hyped game and want that highly hyped game, that was said to run fine on last gen systems, while CDPR hid the actual last gen results before launch, to actually run.
I agree.
CD Projekt RED advertised the game as running on past-gen, released it on past-gen, so they absolutely are under the obligation to deliver a functioning game on past-gen. No ifs and buts about it.
A full refund goes a long way.
That's not being entitled. That's being intelligent.
The problem is that under the umbrella term "Backlash" different gamers are having very different reactions. Some are legitimate and intelligent, whereas others are dishonest and not terribly bright.
We have too many corporate dick suckers in the community.
So this is your view of a "community"? People thinking alike, and especially thinking like you?
Then I'm happy to report I'm not part of your community! And thank goodness for that!
I'll think for myself, thank you. That, for example, means criticising companies whenever I feel they should be criticised and defending them whenever I feel they should be defended. That means being as rigorous, as truthful and as honest as possible, even when it's not particularly popular.
It's very straightforward.
It cannot be a sign of great intelligence or reasonability to pigeonhole opinions you don't agree with as those of "dick suckers". I would be able to play that petty game myself. I would be able dismiss your concerns as those of a "hater".
Would you like that?
And if, even after all that, you were to insist on the "cock sucker" metaphor , I might possibly think, gosh, someone definitely caught their father having oral sex with the male neighbour and now they can't get the image out of their mind and have to get it out of the system by using it frequently, on a gaming forum, of all places.
Would you find that appropriate?
Believe me, If that's how some people want to play it, I will reluctantly oblige. I will turn the insult back at the insulter.
If anything is going to ruin gaming, it'll be those types of people.
No, but silly takes just might help.