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Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises

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Re: Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises

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Post by nightski »

What is even more baffling to me is the sheer rage and lack of humanity of fans towards the developers when they delayed it several times. There was a lot of hate including death threats to the developers. I understand the internet brings out the worst in people but I can't imagine anyone desiring to be a game developer at this point.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises

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Post by Aeolun »

That’s dissapointing. Especially after they ‘promised’ they wouldn’t do it.

I wonder what the solution is here. Boycotting the game is hardly going to help the employees there.

I guess this is just one of those things that the law should mandate, but does not for some reason.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises

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Post by defen »

Aeolun wrote: post #3

That’s dissapointing. Especially after they ‘promised’ they wouldn’t do it. I wonder what the solution is here. Boycotting the game is hardly going to help the employees there. I guess this is just one of those things that the law should mandate, but does not for some reason.

Maybe a software developers’ union. Big projects like this use a lot of third party tooling; imagine if a decent percentage of those said “we won’t license this to you unless you’re a union shop” or something like that. And said union would enforce humane working conditions.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises

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Post by dx87 »

nightski wrote: post #2

What is even more baffling to me is the sheer rage and lack of humanity of fans towards the developers when they delayed it several times. There was a lot of hate including death threats to the developers. I understand the internet brings out the worst in people but I can't imagine anyone desiring to be a game developer at this point.

It's not like every fan was acting like that. "We've received death threats" has become a tool to try and change the topic from whatever made people upset.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises

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Post by 0xy »

nightski wrote: post #2

What is even more baffling to me is the sheer rage and lack of humanity of fans towards the developers when they delayed it several times. There was a lot of hate including death threats to the developers. I understand the internet brings out the worst in people but I can't imagine anyone desiring to be a game developer at this point.

The delays were sheer incompetence and are far from normal in the gaming industry. You don't guarantee to fans personally that the game will definitely come out at a date (which is less than a month away) then delay it the next day.

This indicates that nobody even knew how bad it was. There's also rumors developers found out about the delays from social media.

CDPR execs are just incompetent and unable to set realistic timelines. When big AAA releases are delayed, they're usually delayed once and it's done 6+ months from release (because it's obvious then you won't make it).

Delaying when it's less than a month out? Absolute incompetence. You lose millions and millions of dollars doing this, by burning marketing dollars and screwing over your retail partners.

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