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Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

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Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

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Post by throwaway3699 »

s9w wrote: post #3

This 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…

People are working from home, which I imagine gets harder the more creative a project is.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

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Post by speeder »

The delay doesn't annoy me that much but the Day 0 patch trend does.

Seriously why people can't just release 1.0 software that is 1.0 anymore?

Although broadband now is widespread, in many situations people might not have it.

Situations where day-0 patch is bad:

1. Countries or places with poor infrastructure

2. Rural areas

3. People using the software after many years when the server with the patch might be gone.

Also there is the fact many companies abuse patches to add features they shouldn't or remove features (rootkits, DRM, or Paradox habit of removing features in a way to "encourage" people to buy DLC, or PS3 suddenly not supporting Linux anymore, and then there is Epic "hotfix")

The possibility of having patches is good. The habit of patching is bad. Or course adding features and content over time is fine, but releasing software you know it is buggy intending to patch is later is not.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

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Post by elorant »

s9w wrote: post #3

This 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…

How is this expensive? Almost all of the trailers I watched had in-game action, and only one featured Keanu and his bike company, which was obviously shot months ago.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

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Post by minimaxir »

danjac wrote: post #15
reciprocity wrote: post #9

Pushing to release a "minimum viable product" over polishing games prior to launch is something more game development companies should do.

Didn't No Man's Sky go down that route?

It was speculated that No Man's Sky launched in a minimal state due to meddling from Sony.

The fact that the devs improved it significantly afterward for years is unusual, especially since that game in particular does not rely on microtransactions which would benefit from a strong base game.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

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Post by throwaway3699 »

leetcrew wrote: post #19
capableweb wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what people asked for before and also what we got, "Early Access" games. But instead of getting games that steadily improve radically over a long period of time, you get unfinished games that get a bit of polish before "1.0" is released as a marketing update almost. Of couse, there are a few exceptions to this rule, like HNs favorite; Factorio, and Kerbal Space Program, Prison Architect, Rimworld are a few oth…

> Factorio, and Kerbal Space Program the mvp model works well for games like this that aren't really story based. I'm always happy to start a new map in factorio to see what got added in the latest version. I'm not gonna go back and replay a 40+ hour rpg just to see what it's like with a few less bugs or a couple new cutscenes.

I suppose the closest thing for story games is an episodic model.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

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Post by black_puppydog »

gojomo wrote: post #27

Those 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."

I've been wondering for a while now how the cyberpunk setting holds any more water as fiction these days.

It seems to mostly have grown into "this is simply our reality now."

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

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Post by carlosrg »

aphextron wrote: post #6

>"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…

They explicitly mention the delay is about the Day 0 patch, though, literally the sentence after the one you posted.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10

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Post by zamalek »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #11
wmf wrote: post #4

At 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.

There is at least one 3rd-party benchmark available at this point. AMD is slightly, possibly margin of error, ahead of NVIDIA.

Assuming that the benchmarks are good, that AMD will undercut NVIDIA (as they tend to do) and that you don't want to do ML, Radeon is probably going to be the one for those who have been waiting.

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