There is no denying that despite the rave reviews it’s been getting, CD Projekt Red’s ambitious sci-fi action RPG Cyberpunk 2077 has had something of a disastrous launch, with players reporting game-breaking bugs and overall performance issues. Patches and updates have been released since, with more on the way, but there are still those who feel the game is due some post-release TLC before it feels like a finished game.
In a recent piece by Jason Schreier, it appears that the Cyberpunk 2077 trouble began a few years ago prior to E3 2018 as anonymous employees have stated that the first demo for Cyberpunk 2077 was not entirely genuine. Before the game was released, journalists and fans were treated to a demonstration of the game ahead of time. While impressed, they were unaware that the footage and gameplay elements were almost entirely fake.
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According to the post, the company had yet to finalize some gameplay elements, so some features, such as car ambushes, were missing from the final product. Some of the developers for CD Projekt Red have even said that time spent on the demo was a waste and could have been better used working on the overall game. Others have also said they were pressured by managers into working overtime to complete Cyberpunk 2077 despite Iwiński stating that this wouldn’t be mandatory.
Despite his words, some staff members have reported working more than thirteen hours a day, with one member quitting. Despite this, the crunch time put in by the developers has arguably not paid off, with Cyberpunk being delayed a number of times which lead to people sending death threats to the company. The game was originally due to come out in April 2020, but was met with a degree of mockery from internal developers who began creating memes about the short amount of time they were given to complete it.
All that being said, Cyberpunk 2077 is still considered a huge success, ranking just below Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on the NPD’s list of top-selling games of December 2020. It was an ambitious project with the game being set in a massive city, with Keanu Reeves in a prominent role, and all done in first-person view where in the past, CDPR have gone with a third-person view for games like The Witcher 3. It’s also worth mentioning that the team will be supporting the game throughout, with additional patches starting this month and going right through until, hopefully, gamers will be satisfied that it will be a finished product.
After all, this isn’t the first time a massively hyped, open world game has been the subject of controversy at launch. Many will remember the release version of Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky, which was fraught with issues of low content and visuals that didn’t match E3 demos. Now, it enjoys success among the community after a series of huge updates from the team, a path that many fans hope that Cyberpunk follows going forward.
Cyberpunk 2077 is available now for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions in development for a late 2021 release.
Source: Bloomberg
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