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CDPR's Pawel Sasko Calls Cyberpunk 2077 Launch A "Tragedy"

Only righteously.

thorstein269d ago

Well, it was. There is plenty of video evidence to prove that.

Can they redeem themselves with one paid DLC expansion? And with Starfield, Balder's Gate 3, and Sea of Stars crushing it right now, it's a tough time to launch.

anast269d ago

I don't think they can fix what they did with the launch of CP, but I will be playing this anyway.

0hMyGandhi269d ago

I'd like to think that we are hopefully moving past the days where AAA games no longer require massive day 1 patches to make them even remotely playable, and that developers/publishers understand just how imperative to launch as polished a game as possible on the very first day of release.

Just a few generations ago, games went gold and that was that. Shipped in a box, and what you got is what you got. The buggiest of titles couldn't redeem themselves, and the most polished experiences were heralded for showing basic respect for the paying customer, and not belaboring the point with a "fix it in post" mindset.

But time and time again, we see people across all platforms happily celebrated a contrived underdog story, providing unilateral praise to experiences that took months, if not years *AFTER* release to be the vision they set out to craft.

Hopefully that changes, but I doubt it.

anast269d ago (Edited 269d ago )

Reward, punish, or ignore are the choices the customer has. In gaming customers reward broken games and microtransactions at launch with massive amount of money. Unfortunately, this is what most customers actually want it to be like.

Markdn269d ago

It's nice to see Starfield launch in a complete state and relatively bug free in comparison. Cyberpunk launched u finished and in a very poor state. Although if I'm being honest so did witcher 3. Still you can give a game as much time as you want and it can still fail at launch I. E. Infinite and redfall

yeahokwhatever267d ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAA "Starfield launch in a complete state and relatively bug free" *takes deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

I have been playing starfield since early access began, its one of the buggiest Bethesda titles ive played, and I've played literally all of them. It might even be the buggiest, id have to think for a bit.

Abear21268d ago

Selling $30 DLC to make up for losses is a tragedy and slap in the face to gamers. Oh, it’s actually good now but I have to pay again? No thanks.

neomahi267d ago

Well, yeah, he'll say that now that the marketing won't effect his sales, welcome to today's world, but it would be been nice to hear an honest response then. The same thing will happen with Starfield. They know they screwed up, but they don't want to admit it because they have to make their sales goal first, then they can talk about regret. EVERYONE wants to talk about being transparent, but it's all just politics, its marketing

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Frostpunk 2 Director Łukasz Juszczyk Discusses Game Balance, Politics, and Beta Feedback

TechRaptor writes, "After getting our hands on the Frostpunk 2 story, we got to sit down with Łukasz Juszczyk to talk about how the game evolved from the original."

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XDefiant dev promises fix to frustrating hit reg issues, though players remain skeptical

Mark Rubin, XDefiant’s executive producer, responded to an X/Twitter post that fixes to hit reg “are something [they] are working on.” Unfortunately, it’s unclear when it will arrive, as neither Rubin nor the development team have yet to provide an actual time frame.

just_looken3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Ha man what is this the 8th time they are working on this issue?

SO the game is using division one maps/assets with some divison 2 thrown in with that we can say they never really made the maps so what have they been doing for there 6 to perhaps 8 years of dev time? must be alot of hookers/blow/parties.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Notellin2d ago

It's astounding how much money they blow and this is the results. Gaming development is out of control.

just_looken2d ago

Right even when ubisoft cancelled division heartland as a beta player that game was a far better state then they push with this trash of a game that is still in a beta state after 3 years of delay's.

we are so starved of any decent fps/3rd person shooters out there it seems we will take anything even though some ps2 fps games were more fun then this game in my old opinion.

FPS_D3TH2d ago

Skeptical because it was an issue with ALL the betas and still hasn’t been fixed

just_looken2d ago

Its like they are using division one servers but they caught fire then were put together with barry/carols help from the janitors wing or some shit. Three years they still can not make it so the gun goes boom the guy gets hit then damage is applied.

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The Alters Q&A - Creating a Game About the Roads Not Taken

Wccftech interviewed The Alters Lead Designer Rafał Włosek to learn more about the making of The Alters and its feature set.

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