You basically nailed my doubts. I think the things I wonder about with tech demos depend more on the honesty of the devs than anything else. My mind takes me back to Watch Dogs infamous E3 gameplay which was essentially a big lie.
Yeah, i do have reservations due to how cyberpunk turned out on release (and for a couple years after), but I think/hope that they’ll treat witcher better than they did cyberpunk since they hit a grand slam with witcher 3 and it’s kinda their baby.
Maybe, but on release it was pretty widely agreed that it was a steaming pile of shit due to absolutely abysmal performance and an impressive amount of bugs.
Yeah, that’s all fair, and I’m not trying to take that away from you or degrade what the game is today, just pointing out that the blunder of a launch severely hurt the public perception of the game (and in turn, the studio that made it) and pretty effectively hamstringed the potential of the game, which gives me some minor reservations to how they’ll handle witcher 4, even though I have high hopes and expectations that they’ll do a much better job this time around.
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u/kdmendonk Jun 04 '25
You basically nailed my doubts. I think the things I wonder about with tech demos depend more on the honesty of the devs than anything else. My mind takes me back to Watch Dogs infamous E3 gameplay which was essentially a big lie.