CDPR Shill Reflects on Cyberpunk 2077 and CDPR Future

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35 thoughts on “CDPR Shill Reflects on Cyberpunk 2077 and CDPR Future”

  3. I guaranteed if people didn't hype as much as they were for cyberpunk the game will still probably be in production or possibly have come out this year completely okay but the more people wanted the game the more people wanted to see more and more of the game the more the company was showing and giving no one wants to show bad stuff but if the mass of people want to see something show them what you have completed which that's what they did

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  4. I don't get how people still think cyberpunk will be anything more than the PC version. They already said that it's the version they are working towards on all systems, meaning the game will be nothing more than that. Couple bugfixes here and there won't make it a fleshed out RPG like they said it would be up until they changed genre two weeks before release.

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  5. So I do believe it's not only CD project red's fault but it's everybody from the fans of the game to the reviewers of the game to even the company themselves everyone is to blame Don't be so much in a rush for your future stuff

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  7. I DO hope their next game is not going to be… short and flat. I really do not like it is so short and disjointed. You have main story and side quests which in my opinion are there but not connected to each other. Witcher 3 was a masterpiece in that regard. Cyberpunk 2077 was rushed, and it seems they have re-designed the story to fit Keanu / Johnny in the game. I do like that but because of it I think they did not have the time to make everything connected. This in my opinion is the real reason why the story is overly short. I don't buy this excuse about gamers complaining that W3 was too long. I can argue W3 was too short because it was so immersive. CP20077 isn't, and I fear nothing can be fixed in here except the bugs. It's far too late for that. I do hope I am wrong…

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  8. I think the people who've been following you for a while now, know that you are anything but a shill. You're always trying to adress the good and the bad and your core audience knows that. My advice would be to try and pay less attention to those little keyboard edgelords out there, because they rarly have anyhing positive to contribute to a discussion. They mostly try to provoke, and get off if they succeed in getting your attention.

    Having said that, I think no one can argue against the fact that Cyberpunk has a lot of issues and especially the mistakes the CDPR leadership has made in regards to its launch, but I still believe that they can return from this, and maybe a wake up call like this was necessary in order for things to change internally. I don't know if they grew to fast as a company but one thing that definitely grew a lot more than it was good for them was their ambition. RDR2 took about 2000 developers to make, and Cyberpunk only had about 500. For a game of this scope and complexity, they were clearly understaffed. And who knows how big of a role other issues, like upgrading the red engine alongside the game, and changing the creative director mid development, played here as well. Like I said in a previous comment, I still have the utmost faith in the talents and passion of the developers at CDPR, but their leadership will have to work real hard for me believe anything that comes out of their mouths.

    One last question: Are you planning on doing hangout streams again? I really miss them.

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  9. I think your coverage has been balanced and level-headed. You definitely aren't a shill.

    Like you, I enjoyed the game a lot. Even so, I watched the Crowbcat video out of morbid curiosity. It really did not represent my experience with the game (on Series X). It was kinda funny but I do feel it was a little bit in bad faith and I couldn't finish it.

    The game obviously was not as done as it should have been, especially on last gen consoles, but people like me who enjoyed the game still want the best for it and maintain faith that CDPR can recover. Plenty of other big developers have had blunders they've recovered from.

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  10. It's a good game, nothing revolutionary , just a good game at this state, when u put every good side of it and all the problems on other. If there wasn't cut outs and these problems it would be amazing game ofc, at least for me. The one thing that could save game is if we get any new content in this 2021. If not, if there isn't anything to refresh this game and our expirience with it, I'm affraid it will remain forgoten for most of player base. So only time will tell….. Sadly this year is very poor with RPG-s at least till now. There isn't much to play

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  11. I really like this game but it could have been so much better. I was hyped for this game, but what I'm really looking forward to is the Witcher 3 next gen update.

    And I honestly don't understand how anyone call call LKM a shill.

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  14. As I recall it, you carried a rather positive vibe into your review, a "I had loads of fun" vibe, which was not exactly unfair, but it ignores the context of the release. It doesn't really give a fully rounded answer to the question of whether CDPR actually delivered what they promised.

    And that's where I think a lot of the grief you get is coming from, because most people haven't just seen your review, they've also seen a lot of marketing stuff from the company, and if you're all happy and enjoying the game then clearly you're not pissed off that CDPR are full of shit. CDPR promised a ground-breaking RPG, with a living city full of realistic NPCs and giant megabuildings and so much exploration, and highly detailed gangs that won't take any shit, and an incredibly complex quest system that responds to your choices. Oh, this is going to be amazing, right?

    And then people play the game. And they find that it is a story-driven action-adventure with the nicest digital city around, except the city is complete dead, populated by humanoid zombies driven by an AI that could have been pulled from Doom 1. The few "living" people are hand-placed static people that just occupy the exact same spot, all day, every day. Most quests have two states, completed or not completed, and once completed there's no fucks given how it was completed. NPCs can't drive worth a damn. Cops spawn behind you and you can simply sprint two blocks off and unspawn them. The city can hardly be interacted with.

    And it gets worse. The awesome megabuildings are in fact two-floor illusions with an entrance and a slow elevator ride to mission floor. Exploration is made unfun in the extreme by a bizarre looter-shooter item system that punishes the player for finding cool stuff early. And the physics. My gawd, the physics. Half-Life 2 had a physics engine freaking eons ago, so how can CDPR's new special engine be this awful at it?

    I could mention quite a lot more, but you get the point. Lots of problems are fairly quickly observed. The game is still "fun", if you go into it with the right mindset, but it's probably not what a reasonable person would have expected after having seen all that marketing noise. And so people get disappointed, and since you didn't warn them that the marketing was absolute horseshit, but instead just had that positive vibe then they take that disappointment out on you.

    As far as CDPR being "good guys", the thing that really gets to me, the thing I'm having a hard time forgiving, is that they knew this all along. They knew the game wouldn't be what they were advertising months before launch, and they kept doing that marketing. They lied. There can be no two words about that.They lied right to our faces. And the top brass still has not apologized unequivocally and without reservations about doing that.

    Will they get around to polishing the game? A little bit, probably, but the delays at this point has dropped the active player base way down. Skyrim has more active players on Steam. Even Witcher 3 has about the same active players on Steam. Those numbers will drop even further by the time the PS4 is sorted out properly, and it's anyone's guess when we're getting any actual gameplay overhauls or DLC of any reasonable size that might hope to reverse the trend. Which leads to the question, does it even make sense for CDPR to try?

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  16. so i just beat the game. and honestly. i reallh like the game. its gr8. it has aspects of what i loved about witcher 3 just not as fleshed out but i understood bc of how different this game is from witcher 3 so i expected some kinks. it has issues for sure. but despite the technical issues the game was really special 2 me. there is alot of stuff that impressed me. im reserving full judgmenet bc comparin it 2 witcher 3 right now is unfair. witcher 3 has all its expansions and free dlc. cyberpunk doesnt yet. once it does ill do a full comparison. also i play on pc and my biggesy tech issues with my new pc were frame drops in certain areas like city center. id give it an 8/10 in its current state for me

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  17. I enjoy the objectivity in your content overall. You knew more than i or other people did. Your review/opinion on CP2077 is more positive than mine, I respect that and respect you, as we see the same things, in a different light at times, it s just our feel we took out of the experience is different : i can t look past the negative and aknowledge the positive.
    Anyhow. You seem like a good guy to have a beer or three with. Cheers to you LKM.

    Edit : so this video comes as most welcome. And the fact that you have to say out loud and spend time writing the script and recording this actually makes me sad because your opinion on the game is perfectly understood in your previous videos buy people are still being infantile jackasses.

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  18. You were talking about professionalism and staying professional as a youtuber and videogame journalist and that is exactly the words I was looking for to describe your channel. Keep up making content!
    However regarding the future of CDPR I have rather dark thoughts and predictions. I think the game needs Huge Improvments AND Additions for the community to forgive, and the scale of these might fall on the impossible side of the sepctrum for the short run. While the community's No.1 priority is speed.
    My best scenario for Cyberpunk 2077 is until the end of spring the technical aspect of the game will be patched up however we will receive no additions at all until autumn. The worst case scenario is that CDPR will rush this just as the release of CP 2077 and (as its nearly like a law in programing 1 addition to an existing code fix 2 things and creates 6 more bugs) things will go wrong a 2nd time. This might lead to the community loösing even more trust and CDPR to start to slowly abandon the project, swallow the losses and start making an other game within thair comfortzone next time.

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  21. The game was a joyride fueled by its illusion of choice. I dont fault people for saying they enjoyed it but as the game progresses more cracks(that arent bug related) begin to show and when you replay the game or reload save points the cracks turn into gaping holes.

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  22. While I am on the same boat as LKM in giving CDPR the benefit of the doubt, I've been in the industry long enough to see that they are heading the same path I've (and many colleagues) been.

    Small company with an amazing team makes a hugely successful game (or series). Money comes in. A lot. The company starts growing but grows too fast and those who were in the original teams either climb higher in the latter or move on to other companies. With said money, comes also more investors with higher expectations. Leadership's focus shifts from making good games to appeasing investors. In order to comply, they start cutting corners. Morale drops and leadership's attempt to build it is by saying "we made X! We can do this!".

    Anyway, I'm ranting but this is ultimately a test to the founders of the company. They have to bake a choice now: will they steer CDPR into the same path as all major publishers where money/investors dictate design choices or will they go back and bring what made CDPR grow in the first place: games made with passion.

    Unfortunately, more often than not, money/investors win. I wish them best of luck though.

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  25. CDPR had a target on their back with not doing the greedy AAA video game producers eg. EA, Ubisoft, etc. for microtransactions (or doing the least amount of work to create a game (rehashing same old ideas, cut & pasting, over using graphics engine where new games look old & washed out etc.) & then as expanded like you said to put a rush on development.

    I am still playing 709hrs in PC version (like so many layers have changed from when 1st rushed thru e.g. Max Tac officer Zara Hugh is Cyberpsycho from the Melstrom ritual out of the freezer, love Brendon the Vending machine story (as another story of endings but I enjoyed & saying goodbye to the girl for the SCSM nice touch).

    Love single player games (especially RPG's Elex 2 lol). I pre-order CP2077 & no regrets; though every ones digital data is a worry for all companies & a target for hackers nothing new.

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  26. Dude I don’t care about the bugs, they can fix those easily, my problem with the games is all of the cut content,(if there ever existed) the story is like 20 something hours long and you can’t say that the game is meant to be replay able bc it doesn’t matter which start you picked, it doesn’t change anything except the beginning

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  28. They apparently seem to think that you are working on the game on top of being a content creator covering the game. Therefore you must’ve known that the base consoles did have issues and therefore labeling you the term “shill”. It’s crazy the stories That people create in their minds to justify their actions and their words

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  29. These days, especially with the internet, people are too quick to take to extremes: absolute and blind praise and crushing over-the-top criticism when the truth is somewhere in the middle. From a PC perspective I can see that the game does have issues, but it is still a good game that I am having lots of fun with AND at the same time I can also be a bit disappointed knowing that the game isn't all I was hoping it would be (from listening to too much hype). I'm hoping CDPR fixes much of that and think that they will. Ultimately I don't believe it will be as good as I thought The Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt is, but I am still happy with my purchase.

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  30. They need to remember what got them to who they are today. what we all loved about witcher2/3 Long and deep story, lots of quests and that type stuff. I feel like with cyberpunk they thought about certain parts of the game too much and forgot to do what they did before. You hear them talk about in interviews how they are bad to estimate the game size and how long its gonna be etc etc but with cyberpunk they listened wrong people and ended up making at least the main story so short. If they just go with the gut and dont overthink about X or Y they might come back from this fiasco.

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  31. I don't know if it's the lack of interest in the genre, but I couldn't play Witcher 3 more than 4 hours before I was bored with it and promptly uninstalled it.
    In CP2K77, I have over 500 hours in the game and I'm slowly losing interest in it as well, (500 hours in ANY game gets tedious for just about everyone).

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  32. great video, brother! my thoughts exactly. btw what mods are using to get so many enemies to attack u out in the street? (u had maelstrom, a mox and another cyberpsycho attacking u)

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  34. I wont ever think you're a shill, actually you've been quite sincere and earnest about your opinions on everything. Alot of people since the launch of the game have been burned and have beening trying to put the blame on everyone or anyone..Ohh it's the gamer who put pressure to rush the game…the was anocunced years ago of course there was hype..ohh its the youtuber influiceners that didnt warn me about anything..no one could have know because only the ones that got retail versions for Best Buy Amazon had the game…and the hype was so big, anything negative being Said was being attacked by fanboys though some reveiws werent well thought out…the epolpsy situation has no excuse and was downright deplorable.. All of CDPR's Marketing didnt help at all but that's their Job but there was a huge disconnect between the devs and the rest of the company…they were promising the moon and would have crunched everyone to get there and then Covid happened, threw a wrench at a already messy devolpement…and all of the omisions, lies and hiding console game codes until launch…anyway the whole shitshow since December.. it has ALL, ALL been a learning experience for the game comunity and industry as a whole…about Games, companys, fans, marketing…maybe everyone wont be fooled again but who knows..

    I rambled on too much but I like your vídeos and opinions, keep up the good work

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