CD Projekt Announces "Ambitious" Game Coming From Newly Acquired Studio

@stickemup: No they don't. They deserve harsh criticism. Not the harshest.

The PC version is and was perfectly playable and very well balanced and had few bugs aside from animation bugs, which was perfectly understandable. The Witcher 3, Skyrim, and many other open world were not any better when they were released.

The console version was trash though. That is true. And they deserve criticism for that. But not the kind they are getting now.

@molinars@stickemup: the PC version was fine and was tested by many people outside of Cdprojekt, the game was complete and working as intended minus minor animation bugs that could be understood in a release of a sandbox game like this one. The console version was trash yes.

But this is not about harsh treatment. Please re-read my post... The one you answered to.

This is about treating Cdprojekt much more harshly than other devs for similar releases. There is a fine line between being really disapointed and criticizing, to treating the dev as ennemies, or even going full hormonal "I am not going to buy a game from them ever again".

Companies like EA, Ubisoft, Acti and so many more, have released catastrophic games over the years. Their attitudes have been unacceptable for a very long time and for many releases and yet they are mostly treated with indifference. Why? Because this is expected of them. While Cdprojekt is getting a much harsher treatment... Because they were good previously. Is this fair?

I am sorry but this botch release is not a justification for the hate and reaction they are getting. I get it, if someone bad does someone bad, it's per the course, but if someone good does a bad thing it seems amplified. And yes they deserve their fair share of criticism for the console versions of the game. But here is a pretty important message.

Cdprojekt was good not because they were a "good" company. But because it knew the advantages of being good to the consumers in the current climate. That's why they released big expansions that added dozens of hours of gameplay that cost the price of a fortnite skin (that ads 0 hours of gameplay might I say) . That's why they released many free DLCs, that's why they want to make sure upgrading their games from last to next gen is free, that's why they released their brand new games on their own plateform drm free, that's why GOTY versions are free for everyone that owns their games already, that's why they do not charge you for buying in different currencies. (It's not 39.99$ and 39.99€. It's 39.99$ and whatever the current exchange rate is in euro) and the list of those we now consider "pro-consumer actions" is very long.

So by being hormonal and a dumb f*ck you are over punishing a company for a big mistake they did (which is fine), but you are also pushing it beyond the point of "making them understand that this better not happen again", into "you are unforgivable, nothing you do will change this". Because then, why would they bother trying to keep up a pro consummer attitude in the future if it's worthless? Why make the effort, why spend the ressources, if they get nothing in return anymore?

That's why I posted this above. There is punishement, and there is over punishement. And this is clearly what is happening here. And if you do as the post I answered to does, you'll push it beyond the line and you'll loose everything I mentioned previously insteado f just making sure "they get the message" which should be the point no? Do we want them to continue as they did before Cyberpunk? Or do we want them to disappear or turn into an EA because the console version was trash?

This is not about being afraid to criticise. You SHOULD criticize as it was not acceptable. But you should still be fair.