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Mummelmann on 15 December 2020
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What everyone needs to take into consideration when viewing the whole situation is what role CDProjekt has taken and been given in the industry today. They have made a whole, huge thing out of taking the crown as the one AAA developer that doesn't end up in the many pitfalls of the industry at large, such as unfinished games, forced wokeness, tacked-on gimmicks, and unethical business models paired with other anti-consumer practices. This is part of what has propelled their popularity, and they've played along really well with it and ran with it for some time, heads held high (by rights at that).

For them to release a fairly broken game on 8th gen consoles, terribly optimized for PC, and even refuse reviewers to show their own gameplay until patches were in place, and even go so far as to hide console issues up to and into release date is unacceptable. I love them to bits, especially since they've been something of an antidote to many toxic features and issues that arose in the 7th gen, as well as their incredible technical and artistic prowess coming from what was a small team and company, to begin with. I also love GOG and its approach to consumers, with no DRM, decent pricing, and great overall integration of features and tech. This is precisely what my disappointment stems from; their active role as the paragon of healthy practices in the industry has now come to an end, even if it could be only temporary. TW 3 was a well-placed and well-deserved kick to the collective nuts of the industry at large, but now they've gone and kicked their own nuts and in part legitimized what they previously spoke fervently against, and this has to be addressed (in a reasonable manner though).

I will point out when my darlings make mistakes; many circumstances revolving around the release of Cyberpunk 2077 are dire and easily deserving of criticism. I still love CDProjekt; but I don't love how they've handled this for now. I think many are in the same boat, let's not pretend that their critics are simply "haters" without grounds for their opinions.