DazBoots: What game dev's company's are left that don't sell us beta's for full price, are there any? CDPR was one of the last wasn't it?

DazBoots: What game dev's company's are left that don't sell us beta's for full price, are there any? CDPR was one of the last wasn't it?

Crosmando: I think it's pretty clear most of the budget went to celebrities, music licensing and marketting.

LiquidOxygen80: I honestly have a couple hours in game thus far, and aside from some graphical glitching, I haven't experienced anything of the sort that people are complaining about on PC. I'm running in 3840 x 2160, not Ultra everything, mind, but pretty close, on a 2070 Super, and it's pretty smooth.

That said, the game's beginning and hyped up origin starts are massively underwhelming and not at all in depth thus far, but Night City is pretty cool, and the hand to hand and gunplay stuff is pretty entertaining. Is it a run out and buy, now, now, now? No. But for me, it's been fairly solid, compared to a lot of day one launch stuff I've experienced in the past.

Now, the massive day one patch and getting stuck for hours waiting for it, then another NVidia patch was annoying.

JinKazaragi: Considering those cards (at least the higher ones of the 900 series) are well above base PS4 specs and there are even people enjoying it to that platform, it should at least be playable.
I could try installing it on my backup system (i7 4790k, gtx980) but I don't think I could give an unbiased report as I'm already used to the performance on my current system with a RTX 3090 and a 3900x.

timppu: Yeah that really worked for e.g. Duke Nukem Forever.

If you start postponing the game, you might start postponing if forever as the goalposts are moving too (e.g. at some point you should consider moving to another game engine etc., which is what DNF apparently did several times during its development cycle).

Crosmando: I think it's pretty clear most of the budget went to celebrities, music licensing and marketting.

Mori_Yuki: Or the very long time it has taken to develop this game. During the years of development new graphics cards, processors, motherboards became available and some of the consoles then current are now outdated. Along come PS 5 and XBOX X and they started working on ports for those.

EcoSeis: Greetings;

I fell the need to vent my absolute frustration with the launch of Cyberpunk 2077, it is a complete mess, it has one if not the worst state at launch on any game that comes to my memory. Bugs and glitches everywhere, poor performance for anything that isn't top tier PC, the GOG Galaxy app is a cancer that won't be installed on my PC ever again, it just crashes over and over again doing the updates for the game, the save sync gave an error every single time.

I paid for the Collector's edition on Xbox and the GOG version for the PC, plus artbooks and stuff, I did put a lot of money trusting blindly in my absolute favourite game developer, I have a lot of games on GOG, a lot, just because, just to pay for them on PC, specifically on GOG, that I play on other platforms, including all The Witcher games, and as of right now I'm done with CDPR, I'm sorry, but I lost all my respect for the company.

Like I said Cyberpunk 2077 is a complete mess, apart from the updates issues this game isn't ready at all, but the absolute crime is the console versions, they are an absolute atrocity, and I tried it on One X, in my PC when it run, it did decently with a lot of sacrifices, but the bugs are just constant, everything they said about them not being there more that just the usual stuff for an open world, was a complete lie. But the console, damn, it just doesn't run well at all, and I saw the base consoles, those version running at 15 fps at many points with worst visuals that 5 year old games shouldn't have been greenlit ever, and the Pro/X versions just manage to look ok, but they don's run well enough, nearly enough.

The game is as of right now a complete disaster, and the thought that at some point in the development they actually thought on launching this on April 2020, is outrageous. This game was clearly a 2021 launch for only next gen, they should have keep their promise "When its ready" above anything else, and for the people that were promised a version for their console, would have been better with an apology for not launching the game on that platform even when they said it would than charging them for this product.

I'm honestly disappointed and heart broken, I personally wish for the team the best, but they lost my respect. The console versions can´t be drastically fixed no matter how much they work on patches, if they do, it will be a miracle.

CDPR, goodbye.

rtcvb32: The development speed did seem a bit faster than i'd think it would take...

Although if they reused the engine they used for TW3 then likely they just did world building, textures and quests.rtcvb32: Hmmm... From what i understood it was not in active development until TW3 was completely done.

Although that doesn't mean they don't have aritsts who can draw characters and get non-technical stuff done when they aren't busy, as well as just making things that they would find places for later...