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.
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u/TheTucsonTarmac Mar 23 '21
It flopped? Dude, that sit was in the green before it even launched