Weren’t they pushed into releasing the game early?
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echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I might actually bother getting it now. It’s kind of ridiculous nowadays that games are released, and then developed afterwards.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Chozo@fedia.io 5 months ago
Yeah, upper management at CDPR ignored the devs who told them the game wasn't ready to ship yet, but they really wanted to take advantage of the new market of players staying home and playing video games after covid first hit.
That short-sighted money grab cost them so much in the long run. It's actually insane to see CDPR's redemption arc play out after how badly they handled the launch.
Weslee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cyberpunk was in development for atleast 12 years, I agree that corporate needs to be hands off when it comes to things like that, but at what point is there a line drawn and you just have to publish what you have got.
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Could be 20 years, for all I care. Let them cook. It’s done when it’s done.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I’ve never heard this claim. Googling it I see one thing that says 8, and that likely includes pre-production and all that stuff, before you move a full team into development. The Witcher 3 came out in 2015, so the team could not have moved to CP2077 before then, and some of them stayed to make the DLC and patches. That leaves 5 years of full time development, which is not odd for a modern AAA game.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Its worth mentioning that the 12 years was not at all productive. The first 6 years was basically just two guys with rough concepts, only 6 years of actual dev time. Then about 3 years in they got a new creative lead on the project who decided to scrap essentially everything and start from scratch on a whim. Then the devs get the release date the same time we do which is 2 years earlier than they expected having assumed that they’d get around 5 years of actual dev time since being made to start over.
So yeh there was a lot of screwing around by management.
lemmyaccount01@lemm.ee 5 months ago
they were coz cdproject red is still a company with multiple investors-buiness ppl but it still wasn’t an excuse the state game was in. it was really at a no excuse territory it wasn’t just outside pressure they did fuck up royally . but despite shit bugs (some very hilarious) at its core was a really good game and it showed even back then. so good on them ( despite the launch issues which are still inexcusable
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, I think games just take longer to develop nowadays than anyone is prepared for, especially the managers. Both companies and gamers have yet to realize that there is only so much you can accomplish in a certain span of time.
FuCensorship@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Honestly you gotta have that mentality now when buying games.
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yep, only buying games after they go on discount couple months after release. By that time, the game is usually also finished