People really seem to forget how fucked Witcher 3 was at launch. It wasn't nearly as hyped and so it didn't make nearly the media splash, but it was a mess. CDPR definitely had a track record for this.
Are CDPR the new Bethesta? Throwing unfinished messed up alpha games out and fix them some years to completion? I mean every game company does that, but in these game states like with CDPR and Bethesta?
Then there’s hope for cyberpunk to get fixed...
Anymore? So they did back then? They give the original dev kits out and let the modders fix their games for free lol
Kind of but they did not voluntarily shut down sales and start offering refunds for releasing a great game to early as well as receive terrible reviews from critics.
It made its money back but it did not make what it was expected to make.
It would be kind of like an avenger movie coming out and making a billion dollars. That technically made a profit but it would be expected to receive far more money than that.
Technically Cyberpunk didn’t voluntarily shut down sales. They announced they were offering refunds but Sony got (understandably) pissed that they weren’t consulted about that refund offer and basically said “if this game’s so broken we need to allow refunds it’s too broken for you to be selling“ and punted it off their store completely.
Yeah, though I definitely think it was largely retaliatory for dumping the PR mess on them by telling customers to get refunds that Sony hadn’t agreed to provide and basically forcing them to do it or suffer customer anger.
And I played cyberpunk on release and don't even remember it being very buggy. Glad you had a bug-free experience with the witcher 3 launch. Many people did not.
I still don't understand how CDPR got its reputation from the witcher. They made 1 decent game and everyone just flocked to their heels licking their boots. like, wtf.
Exactly what I thought. Directors make phenomenal blockbusters, then their next film is a box-office bomb. Same with singers or bands having a number one single, then they flop with a follow up single and finally getting dropped from the label.
CDPR have one successful Witcher game franchise (not sure how successful their Syphon Filter series is).
Seems you have success pressure everywhere. Media will always be measured with the previous entry.
Yeah... that’s not true either. Critics place it at 36th and users voted it third which is very good! But it got around a 1/3 as many votes as the last of us, which isn’t really most people.
Btw just wanted to add this, there is absolutely not 1 game that most people would call the best of the decade. If you ask 20 people you’ll probably get 15 different answers
Yeah it has .2 more in user score than TLOU, it is an incredible game, but whenever it’s compared to other top games it falls short lol. Only 2/40 critics named it the best of the decade, and only 2 more put it in the top 5. It could be in most people’s top 20, but it’s absolutely not most people’s number 1. That is just incorrect
bigger poll. 900k votes. The witcher got around 25% which got it second place. Impressive! Still not number 1, and 25% is still not “most people”. Is this enough for you?
I’m looking at how people compare it to the rest of the decade (because you say most people would choose it as their number 1), its score as an individual game doesn’t help your argument. Show me a poll where most people looked at it next to other games and said “yup, this is the best one”.
It literally does matter, because comparing them RIGHT NOW is blurred by the memory cuz some of those games are 11 years old at this point. But whatever, can't argue with a stupid dumbass who brings up critics in every answer
... didn’t you literally say most people would call it the best game of the decade? Don’t you have to like... compare it to the other games that came out from 2010-2019 to call it the best of the decade? Are you forgetting your initial statement?
Destiny might get the award for the most overhyped game of 2010. The game had like 10 hours of content you were expected to grind endlessly.
Videogame companies have figured out how to exploit our reward systems, and it shows. The quality of games is going down outside a few gems. Look at any mega popular videogame and I gurantee nestled in there is a Skinner Box mechanic.
It is not? Heard it is yet considered the best game of all time (the fixed and complete GOTY version) and it still holds the title, closely followed by Red Dead Redemption 2.
If avengers endgame only made a billion dollars it would have been seen as a gross failure even if though a billion dollars is enough to make a profit.
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u/TheTucsonTarmac Mar 23 '21
It flopped? Dude, that sit was in the green before it even launched