Software estimations are hard.
Not only software. I can only imagine the amount of artists involved in this thing.
Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
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Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
#22Don't get me wrong, I do love games and cyperpunk culture. But is this REALLY HN frontpage worthy?
The delays of Cyberpunk have been one of the most high profile stories regarding developer crunch I can think of in years. The video game itself isn't necessarily HN relevant, but the delay very much is.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
#23>"Some of you might also be wondering what these words mean in light of us saying we achieved gold master some time ago. Passing certification, or 'going gold', means the game is ready, can be completed, and has all content in it. But it doesn't mean we stop working on it and raising the quality bar." No... that's actually exactly what it means. Going gold means the branch is cut, it's in the can, and discs are being…
I'm always fascinated by people who insist on applying their own interpretation of something to other people's lives/businesses/processes.
Games have been getting "post-gold" updates and day-one patches for like a decade or more.. This is nothing new.
I don't understand the fixation of catching people in an alleged lie.. What's the difference whether they genuinely underestimated the time required to do something _they've never done before_ (testing on so many platforms) or whether they actually, completely unreasonably, decided to lie to everyone about having gone gold?
Not to mention that if they hadn't actually gone gold, there are tons of outside parties who would probably have realized it pretty quickly (given the production work that happens), and we'd all have found out anyways.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
#24Don't get me wrong, I do love games and cyperpunk culture. But is this REALLY HN frontpage worthy?
I’ll happily take this type of hacker news over the constant stream of politics.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
#25Pushing to release a "minimum viable product" over polishing games prior to launch is something more game development companies should do.
If properly managed, sure. The problem here is that its been reported that the studio has been crunching and working 6 day weeks under the assumption that it was the final push for nearly a year now, but release keeps getting pushed back, for the third time now.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
#26At least it will give people more time to get new hardware in place.
This game is the only reason I want to upgrade my GPU. Maybe there will be enough new Geforces or Radeons in stock by then.
It might be an important marketing consideration: necessary hardware upgrades might be delaying Cyberpunk 2077 sales.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
#27Those people angry that a software corporation lied to them about the certainty of a product release should just consider the game to have started early.
"Welcome to Cyberpunk 2020! All public statements are bottom-line-boosting propaganda, and if you want the real truth, or our software, so bad, break into our systems and take it."
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
#28Don't get me wrong, I do love games and cyperpunk culture. But is this REALLY HN frontpage worthy?
This is arguably THE most anticipated game of 2020, so yes, it's worth been in first page.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
#29This is its third delay I think. And AFTER announcing its gold status. This is so bizarre. And it's not even an amateur studio or a monumental project like Star Citizen. They delivered multiple projects that were at least of comparable size. They released so many trailers in the last weeks and even days. This must be so expensive purely from a marketing perspective. Also none of the reasons are news. Corona has been…
Well sure they've delivered projects of this size before but as they said themselves, they've never had to test on this many platforms simultaneously, or do it all while working remotely..
So in fact this isn't something they've done before, so it's not _that_ surprising that they underestimated..
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
#30>"Some of you might also be wondering what these words mean in light of us saying we achieved gold master some time ago. Passing certification, or 'going gold', means the game is ready, can be completed, and has all content in it. But it doesn't mean we stop working on it and raising the quality bar." No... that's actually exactly what it means. Going gold means the branch is cut, it's in the can, and discs are being…
Gold just means you have a MVP that will pass certification on all platforms. It's content complete and it would, in theory, be fine to play all the way through without a patch. It allows manufacturing and distribution to begin.
There are frequently many tweaks one should do to that product that companies will work on after reaching that point.