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CD Projekt Red: "Everyone is feeling the pressure on Cyberpunk 2077"
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This game has a lot to live up to in the eyes of most gamers. I don't envy having to make and release this thing, but it feels like they've got the chops to pull it off.
I'm confident they will.
I'm confident they will.
This particular quote doesn't concern me. Anyone would feel a lot of pressure when their upcoming piece of art is going to be debuted to huge expectations. This points more to problems with the hype cycles than it does management practices.
Yeah, definitely. But for me personally, whatever they pull off, I'm expecting a The Witcher 3 scope game but set in Cyberpunk, so I'll probably be sated regardless.
The hype machine is working; they held behind doors demo that people are clammering to see. Though some critics argue that the newly shared demo made the game feel more understandable in scope.
This is the game that will make them do it or break it. It's their god of war moment. They really need to stay focused here.
With the daily drama surrounding this game pre-release, I'm building a bomb shelter for the impending complete collapse of civilization upon release when it doesn't meet the most obscure minutiae of expectations.
That gif is a thing of beauty.
That gif is a thing of beauty.
I felt that the way they announce the game was handle pretty well given it not news of the game 24/7. But cyberpunk the series has always had interest from pretty much every community and this will be one of the biggest that has queer and gender coating in many places. I was always going to get attention regardless of how much they put out.
It has to follow up Witcher 3, one of the most celebrated titles of all time. If not even still the one with most goty awards. And not to mention how one of its expansions was even winning rpg of the year titles.
If you've ever worked on a collaborative creative work, you will get this feeling. That you have to do more, not only to meet the expectations of your bosses and your audience but those of your co-workers and your own expectations as well. That's why it's especially important for management to support the people "in the trenches".
Jeeesus. making something good while collaborating with 100s of people worth 100s of millions of dollars in man hours alone is totally their fault.
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Yeah i fairly believe this game has the potential to be the most dissapointing game ever!
That's what my gut is telling me too. April feels like an ambitious release date for this massive game. Although I feel like they'll try to release it a little before the new consoles come out like August or September.
The thread seems to have already taken their interpretation and run with it but I agree, it's more political/fan pressure from hype than inter-office work pressure.
There are new articles of any given direction nearly daily on this game and it isn't even near release, it's wild. Scandals, joy, pain, it's like a Greek video game tragedy so I can't imagine how dramatic it'll get when it turns out to not deliver on some small details fans have gotten in their heads.
I read an interview with the quest design lead who sounded super happy:
Care to post any? Outside of like 2 rps articles all I've seen was people excited,talking about Keanu, or talking about how it was the most loved game of e3.
There was a guy in the E3 thread who went off on a rant about what he wanted the game to be and how the game he had in his mind was his dream game so the direction cdpr was going was getting him less excited. All because the first video they used to first bring in people to work on this title differed to what we're getting now style wise.
Someone needs to tell those devs that because you're passionate about you're work and want to put in extra hours, you're fucking up the system for everyone else because of peer pressure. Screw this 'non-obligatory' crunch. Set a nice fixed schedule or hours per week and let that be the end of it.
Uh, no. I don't have time/nor care to fact check my flippant video game forum posts.
Anytime you have a deadline people are gonna be stressed out. Not just with crunch.
Hell they can delay that bad boy till fall so i can play it on the PS5 and I'd be ok with that.
Hell they can delay that bad boy till fall so i can play it on the PS5 and I'd be ok with that.
It's good, gamer persecution complex annoys me sometimes. Just wanted to know if that's what it was or where people actually shiting on the game, because I'm been hearing some really great stuff(from previews/interviews) that has made me even more excited for the game.
The usual issue with non-obligatory crunch is that it still sets an expectation for doing crunch if other people in your team are doing it. The FOMO of promotions or bonus's.... so I guess it depends on how they handle that... I've never been a big fan of some staff are "Passionate", suggests that others are not just on the basis of people doing overtime.
Game looks great and cannot wait for it though.
Game looks great and cannot wait for it though.
It was a fancy pants way of saying "This game is getting coverage like crazy which means serious fan investment and no matter what these poor fuckers over at CDPR end up doing, there's going to be some nuclear-sized fallout from some segment of the fan base because XYZ minute factor". In short, I feel kinda bad for the teams working on these types of projects.
I don't have a particular opinion on the game at all outside of looking cool and interesting and I'll check out reviews when they hit honestly.
See I weirdly have too much faith in them lol, Witcher 3 is sooo fucking good.My only fear is that they could be pushing hard for the 2020 pre-next gen date. I just hope they really give this game the time it needs, I really wanna see how "branching" the story is.
I was skeptical that CDPR could release a top-quality open world game before TW3 released.
I am not skeptical this time.
I am not skeptical this time.
Have you seen the documentary? You should before laughing. You may have no idea how this industry is cruel.
It probably doesn't help that the staff have to live up to Witcher 3, which is honestly the greatest WRPG I have ever played.
Personally, everything I've seen of the game indicates that I'm going to looooooove this game. It's like the Witcher mixed with immersive sims like Deus Ex and Prey. April can't come soon enough.
Personally, everything I've seen of the game indicates that I'm going to looooooove this game. It's like the Witcher mixed with immersive sims like Deus Ex and Prey. April can't come soon enough.
well after witcher 2 and 3 being more than disappointing for me they still have to prove they can get back to what made Witcher special in the first place. Hold right click + investigate stuff with most of quests being beyond boring outside of the more than well known ones and a couple of really dream like / extra worldly stuff in skellige (which was easily the best part of the game) didn't do enough to renew my faith, especially after that they ditched everything that made 1 great to take the safest, most boring route with 2
Better have good shit this time around CDPR. Blood & Wine was amazing but that doesn't excuse the rest
Better have good shit this time around CDPR. Blood & Wine was amazing but that doesn't excuse the rest
I'm not an open-world fan and the comments on the combat always turned me off, so I've never played Witcher 3. Cyberpunk though looks more up my alley and I'm definitely interested. I'll certainly check it out when it hits, it looks very promising.
Pretty clear crunch is still part of their culture, that they'd try to defend the concept as people simply being passionate about the project.
Ohhh boy, the salt mines from FromSoft fans was a thing of beauty when Blood & Wine snagged RPG of the Year.
Yep, they should've taken the route of what they took with Witcher 3 and hype it up a bit but not too much where they feel the pressure that they feel now. That's my biggest concern here. I feel like now they claim they feel the pressure they are possibly going to do something they are going to regret. Hopefully they overcome it.
Co-founder of company said stern "Yes" multiple times to Jason when Jason gave him example of developer wanting to work only 10AM to 6PM, asking if that is possible now in CDPR and would said worker be safe (read: no retaliations, firing...).
I think no matter what CDPR does about their work environment and culture ERA will never believe them. At least they seem to be regretful of crunch that happened for TW3 and not take price in cracking whip like some other dev houses.
They were a relative unknown then. This is amuch different situation
