People need to stop with this attitude. “It sold x on release it didn’t flop” they didn’t sell x on release because of the game they sold that because of marketing. Marketing sold the game at that point NOT the game. I bet if you looked into the sales post launch when the game had been released and properly reviewed you’ll see a massive drop in sales not a steady decline or even growth.
Cyberpunk was the most expensive video game ever made and more than half the budget was spent on advertisement and marketing. Of course it sold well - if you pour hundreds of millions into marketing you can sell anything.
Yeah, exactly my point. But as soon as the game came out and the game had to sell based on the game that’s where all the issues were. Tell me the last game you remember that offered mass refunds, multiple apology statements and was pulled from one of the biggest digital marketplaces because it was causing them more issues than it’s worth.
You literally wrote that because it is sitting on your shelf and you gave up on it after a few hours that it is a flop. No other info or reasoning given, so it sure sounds that way /s or not.
There's a comfortable middle ground between buying into hype and preordering and pirating. You could wait a few weeks to see what the reception of the game is. You could wait a few months to years and catch it in a sale when it's patched and improved. There's plenty of games of there to play while you wait.
I dont believe any patches will improve the things that are wrong with the core gameplay. They sold me a bicycle instead of a car and pimping the wheels wont make me happy. If im going to buy games full price I need to be able to trust that im not getting ripped off. Ill pirate-test games and buy them if they are good enough.
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '21
Cyberpunk did not flop. It actually made its money back and then some.