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    Here's my $0.02 on the Cyberpunk fiasco.

    First, all new software has bugs. Especially a game of this size and complexity. You can test and test internally, but until the majority of users get their hands on it, many of those bugs won't surface.

    I ran into a bug in this game where I took a mission item after I could actually use it. That caused me to not be able to pull out any weapons. Had to backtrack saves until I figured it out. Why did that happen? Who knows? But doing something outside of it's intended design was an edge case that the game couldn't deal with. Bugs are mostly edge cases (in my experience).

    Second, these guys are a public company. People at the top, and big investors, pushed this game out before it was ready. They put on the pressure to announce it prematurely. And, made the decision to not release PS4 play. All of which was most certainly protested by developers and people actually working on the game.

    I feel bad for PS4 and older Xbox players. But, AAA games that launched on console first (and worked great) are almost always a shit show on PC. GTA V, RDR2, both were fucked on launch. I returned Horizon Zero Dawn it was so buggy.

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    • Reminds me of that time Hello Games released No Man's Sky and everybody got pissed off. All CD Projekt has to do is follow their example ...Bluejam
    • ... heads down, ignore the hate, fix, improve
      and release ...      Bluejam
    • People have memories like dead goldfish - Witcher 3 was polluted with bugs and optimisation issues.face_melter
    • Difference is Hello Games were/is a small company (26), CDPR is not (1.111). Their game also relied on procedural generation, so you change maths and add moreNutter
    • animals and subsystems. CP2077 is a handcrafted world thats been in development for at least 5-8 years where individual bugs can be due to deprecated code.Nutter
    • So fixing one bug may spawn 3 new ones.Nutter
    • So i should buy this for PC, not PS4?scarabin
    • yeah avoid PS4 like the plaque. If your PC ain't beefy then look into Stadia.Nutter
    • the game is also a mess on PCernexbcn
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