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CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by himinlomax »

astrange wrote: post #567
maybeOneDay wrote: post #543

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe tsss is referring to things such as terrible AI on PC, and other complaints about the game such as a lack of interactability with the world outside of quests. Not bugs necessarily (although the AI certainly is in a grey area) but issues with the game, certainly. Whether they'll be fixed remains to be seen

It could be like a Bethesda game where there’s more bugs than actual game content, it’s never fixed, but nobody actually cares because everyone plays with a hundred mods.

Witcher 3 was very buggy on launch, the bugs were fixed over time and it runs flawlessly nowadays.

Skyrim still has plenty of content-related bugs (i.e. not graphical or performance related); Bethesda never fixed them but oddly enough, modders did and you can download a bugfix mod from Nexus or Steam.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by anonunivgrad »

gambiting wrote: post #577
anonunivgrad wrote: post #576

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is typically some out of pocket component to prevent moral hazard. A good plan will still be covering something like 90% of your costs until you hit the max out of pocket, then it becomes 100%. It’s so you are at least a little conscientious in choosing doctors and pharmacies and such.

I'm sorry, but $7000/year is not about "preventing moral hazard". NHS charging a flat £9/per prescription is preventing moral hazard so you don't request medicine nilly willy. The out of pocket expenses that people quote in this thread are insane - having to suddenly pay few thousand dollars for treatment would cripple my finances, and I'm a software engineer.

You’re very unlikely to spend that much. If you have multiple serious medical emergencies in the span of one year, $7000 is nothing for having your life saved and getting treatment. Also, the cap is usually much lower than $7000. Also, remember, they’re still covering ~90% of every individual expense. By the time you’ve spent $7000, the insurance company has put down many times that.

Our medical providers are competing private businesses. There are really good doctors, really bad doctors, and everything in between. Everyone wants to go to the better doctor, but there’s just not enough of them. Price differentiation is important.

There are $0 deductible and $0 copay plans and $0 coinsurance plans. They are also exorbitantly expensive because of the absurd moral hazard they create.

It’s a strange mindset to think that something should just be free. We pay for our cars, our housing, our food. Medicine is not free to provide. The America system is broken in many ways, but not because people have to pay for medical care. The problem is that it’s too expensive because of artificial constraints on the supply of doctors and other medical resources.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by ineedasername »

dawnerd wrote: post #148
syndoch wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The game has an overwhelming amount of very detailed content in the main job and side jobs, and also provides plenty of flexibility in combat if you explore the various upgrade systems. It's an evolution of the Witcher 3, not Grand Theft Auto. Better driver AI and haircuts would be cool, but they're not central to what the game is.

> Better driver AI and haircuts would be cool, but they're not central to what the game is. The problem though is the AI is outright stupid right now, and that does affect the game. It doesn't have to be groundbreaking, it just has to not break. Enemies that can see you through a door or try to shoot through the floors is a problem - and probably why performance is so bad.

Seeing through doors is fine in this game. The player can do it to using things like "ping" or taking control of cameras, so I don't mind if enemies can too. Trying to attack through doors isn't very smart though. However I also very much enjoy when AI has an enemy hiding away in some corner trying to hack my brain while I fight off a few others directly. Or when an enemy I'd tagged but lost track of visually has taken a path around me & come up from behind. So there's some problems, but in general it seems okay to me.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by zero_deg_kevin »

tolbish wrote: post #86
mikenew wrote: post #50

> we’ve actually shown console footage, but never on the last-gen consoles. The reason is that we were updating the game on last-gen consoles until the very last minute, and we thought we’d make it in time. [...] That was not intended; we were just fixing the game until the very last moment. This is absurd. They didn't hide console footage because they were sure they'd miraculously turn around the entire game at the…

It's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. There is also the lesser known axiom: it's better to pretend a problem doesn't exist than to admit wrongdoing and ask for forgiveness.

It’s better to not be caught committing fraud than to be caught.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by ineedasername »

Pfhreak wrote: post #324
zemo wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I completed it twice ... There is no emergent gameplay which is simply unacceptable getting some really mixed signals here

People can play games for reasons other than fun or enjoyment. Spec Ops: The Line isn't a 'fun' game, but holy shit I couldn't stop playing it.

Factorio wasn't particularly fun for me and I couldn't stop playing that. That game really stressed me out and I was very relieved when I could set it aside.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by Darmody »

errantspark wrote: post #40
CamelCaseName wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't sound much different than getting paid in equity at a startup.

I thought that was PascalCase and this is camelCase? Have I been wrong all these years?

I've always seen it like camel case when it's not important if you capitalize the first letter or not and lower camel case or upper camel case if it's important.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by ineedasername »

theSIRius wrote: post #22

The whole project feels terribly mismanaged. Even from the character editor it is obvious the game had to be scaled down in the last year to even ship. Considering the amount of crunch, it is heartbreaking it ended like this for every interested party. I find it hard to believe that the launch of the new consoles did not have an effect on the launch date. CD Projekt could have taken the Rockstar approach, release the…

release the game on the last gen or PC and Stadia first

It is only released on last gen consoles. There's no native PS5 or Xbox series X/S version you can buy. You buy the PS4/Xbox One version and play it via backwards compatibility. Apart from video resolution or low FPS, have there been significant problems on the last gen consoles in terms of bugs that aren't on the new gen?

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by gambiting »

anonunivgrad wrote: post #582
gambiting wrote: post #577

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry, but $7000/year is not about "preventing moral hazard". NHS charging a flat £9/per prescription is preventing moral hazard so you don't request medicine nilly willy. The out of pocket expenses that people quote in this thread are insane - having to suddenly pay few thousand dollars for treatment would cripple my finances, and I'm a software engineer.

You’re very unlikely to spend that much. If you have multiple serious medical emergencies in the span of one year, $7000 is nothing for having your life saved and getting treatment. Also, the cap is usually much lower than $7000. Also, remember, they’re still covering ~90% of every individual expense. By the time you’ve spent $7000, the insurance company has put down many times that. Our medical providers are competi…

>>It’s a strange mindset to think that something should just be free.

When it comes to healthcare? Yes, it should absolutely be free to the recepient.

I don't know why it's such a strange concept to you - afer all, Americans are also used to receiving certain services for free - you don't have to pay the police for coming to help you, or the fire brigade for that matter. To me it's the same thing - if your house on fire, the fire brigade will come and help, free of charge - that's what taxes are for. So if I'm ill, I will be given any and all help needed - also free of charge, after all, that's what taxes are for.

>>They are also exorbitantly expensive because of the absurd moral hazard they create.

Like, sometimes I think Americans live literally on a different planet. Do you think that in countries where healthcare is free to use people have medical procedures without any reason and simply because they don't have to pay for it?

In general, it's simple - if a country wants to have healthy, productive citizens, it should pay for their healthcare, I don't understand why it's such a divisive concept. The crown example of how crazy the US system is, is the fact that you have to pay to give birth. Like.....so US cares so little for its citizens that literally the very act of giving birth to new ones is not covered by the government? That's....beyond mind boggling.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by jonpurdy »

gambiting wrote: post #577
anonunivgrad wrote: post #576

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is typically some out of pocket component to prevent moral hazard. A good plan will still be covering something like 90% of your costs until you hit the max out of pocket, then it becomes 100%. It’s so you are at least a little conscientious in choosing doctors and pharmacies and such.

I'm sorry, but $7000/year is not about "preventing moral hazard". NHS charging a flat £9/per prescription is preventing moral hazard so you don't request medicine nilly willy. The out of pocket expenses that people quote in this thread are insane - having to suddenly pay few thousand dollars for treatment would cripple my finances, and I'm a software engineer.

Canadian living in USA. My brain is regularly fried by healthcare here, it ends up being a simple high level equation.

My out of pocket max per year is around $6000 USD, and my salary is double what I was (under)paid in Toronto, and taxes are a bit lower here (CA).

So the take home pay is mid-5-figures more, and worst-case scenario healthcare is mid-4-figures, so it balances out very favourably for my situation (anyone in tech with a full-time job, basically).

(Of course, those who aren't well-paid in tech have a much worse situation and I can't imagine how difficult that must be.)

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by calibas »

Ygg2 wrote: post #532
calibas wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's because of Christmas, that's pretty much the whole reasoning for why they released when they did.

Well, yes and no. The more you delay, the more it costs and you have to restart the marketing machine to drum up the hype.

Of course it's marketing, but that's what Christmas is all about, right?
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