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tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The problem is that they advertise it a certain way and sell preorders, and then the game doesn’t live up to what they advertised. Worse, they didn’t allow anyone to review the console versions which were so unplayable that Sony removed it from the store. It would have been fine if people knew exactly what they were paying for.

Sure, it was unmet expectations but even if the expectation was just 'it works", they still didn’t meet it. And that’s kind of the minimum to even be legal when you’re charging money for it. I disagree that the console versions were 7/10 on release - more like 1/10.

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Stillhart@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t know what to tell you, I played it on Xbox just fine. Played the whole game through from start to finish and had fun. I believe the issue was with last gen consoles specifically.

And again, I think a lot of the criticism was reasonable. But my point is that the game itself was and is fun, but suffers because of the bad reputation it got at launch thanks to some ill-advised (intentional understatement alert!) decisions by CDPR.

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- tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes, the issue was with last gen consoles. I don’t think that matters to the point I am making.
  
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  - Stillhart@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Seemed to me you called the console version unplayable. You said they didn’t work. I was just correcting that statement for anyone who wasn’t aware that your were bending the truth to make a point.
    
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    tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They literally pulled the game from the PlayStation Store because of the low quality. At that point it’s not just a subjective opinion but fact, so I resent the claim that I’m bending the truth.
    
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hamburglar26@wilbo.tech ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I recall it being hyped up as a Cyberpunk GTA, which is very much wasn’t and by the time I bought it and played it I knew that. I also waited until the first major patch and played on PC so overall my experience was pretty solid. I beat the game and enjoyed it, and I rarely make it all the way through a game these days.

I think for anyone who was expecting it to be a sci-fi open world sandbox it was probably a huge disappointment, but after that the only thing I felt let down by was just not enough interactivity with the world, which is something a lot of games don’t do well anyways.

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