Honestly, they should have pushed it a year the moment they determined a year of crunch would be needed to meet the deadline.

It’s also fully possible that they negotiated with CDPR to be refunded part of their commissions for refunds.

Idk, I see PLENTY of talk about Witcher 3's launch.

The problem I have is that Night City is densely full of nothing.

I love (hate) that Blizz now claims ownership over all WC3 custom games because of DOTA

I think the important piece is that MMO doesn’t have to mean WoW clone.

Ultimately, that’s the problem.

Since I only started reading on what went down in the past couple weeks, I can’t totally speak to it, but the things that I note off the top of my head:

Yeah, I don’t mean to infer that it was what was the situation overall.

Yeah, same. I ignored most of the news about the game for a long time. I preordered it because of the trans-affirmative buzz, and then somehow missed all the transmisogynistic scandals in my otherwise avoiding-cp77-news ways.

This isn’t an article on Cyberpunk hate, tho...

PR teams don’t monitor day-to-day social media interactions and posts. They handle crisis management, company statements, and media interactions.

Exactly. You have no REASON to remember the boring sketches.

Wait, does Japan have a gift giving tradition in December? Is this a native tradition? Have they adopted it from the West?

This is the thing.

Any claim about ignorance is lying through their teeth. Nothing launches this far below expectations without it being a willful choice by the people at the top.

There’s an in-game shard that’s a propaganda article talking about how great different corps are to work for, noting one for having amazing work-life balance of ONLY 80 mandatory hours a week, great for family oriented individuals.

This is why you don’t over promise. They announced a release date when they had ABSOLUTELY no business announcing one.

When they’ve admitted to intentionally not letting on about the state of the console versions, they lose all benefit of the doubt about wording. This is not your next door neighbor writing this message, this is a multimillion dollar company who pays dedicated PR people and who almost DEFINITELY has external PR…

I mean, the other thing I own that is as portable as my switch is my phone, which has a much smaller screen, and it doesn’t come with a little stand.