Cyberpunk 2077 Developer Denounces Death Threats After Delay

[Deleted member 3812]

It's been reported that after the most recent announcement of Cyberpunk 2077 being delayed until December, the development team has been receiving death threats:

Cyberpunk 2077 Developer Denounces Death Threats After Delay

"We are people, just like you"

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[Imitatio]

Wtf is wrong with those people?

 

[Mung]

Pathetic.

 

[Punished Dan]

Sad and pathetic individuals.

 

[Deleted member 13077]

Amazing how Gamers(tm) will mobilise when it's something they give a shit about.

Devastating crunch? Fine

Multiple instances of transphobia? Fine

Three week delay? FUCKING DIE YOU ASSHOLES!

On topic: sending death threats is fucking stupid and unacceptable, even if it's to the people at fault for all of the above (the upper management, not the dev team).

 

[Tecnniqe]

The sad part about this it's so common I'm not even surprised it's happening and that's terrible.

They get fucked from all angles, there is no winning for the dev team.

 

[SJRB]

I can only wish all the best to the devs at CDPR crunching away at this game and now having an additional 3-week stretch, going online and having to deal with stupid shit like this.

Please stay healthy.

 

[Fiksi]

It feels like there's people going out sending death threats for so many silly things nowadays, it's really sad that people gotta go so far. :(

 

[Roytheone]

Death threads have to be the crime that is least punished. You barely hear about people actually getting arrested over them even though they are so common on the internet.

 

[Khaos Kontrol]

Absolutely pathetic.

 

[nsilvias]

Gamers are miserable

 

[Deleted member 5491]

Gamers TM are such a selfish bunch of assholes.
They only care that their unreleased game, that they already love more than anything comes out on time.
Crunch, abuse? Nah, who cares.

Fuck off you fuckfaces. As if deaththreads make any product better.
And thanks to your behaviour it is even harder to seriously discuss everything that is going wrong at such studios

 

[Supoman]

Developers are crunching their asses off, and by the end of the day all you get is a death threat huh.

 

[Deleted member 50232]

Amazing how Gamers(tm) will mobilise when it's something they give a shit about.

Devastating crunch? Fine

Multiple instances of transphobia? Fine

Three week delay? FUCKING DIE YOU ASSHOLES!

On topic: sending death threats is fucking stupid and unacceptable, even if it's to the people at fault for all of the above (the upper management, not the dev team).

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I don't think that's true that gamers think crunch and transphobia are "fine".

Have you seen the outrage on this forum about it?

 

[halcali]

miserable nerds...

 

[unicornKnight]

Can they announce the cancellation of the game just to witness those pathetic morons whine?

 

[Deleted member 5491]

I don't think that's true that gamers think crunch and transphobia are "fine".

Have you seen the outrage on this forum about it?

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This forum doesn't represent the majority of those involved in the ongoing gamer discord at all.
Would be nice, but no

 

[Patitoloco]

I don't think that's true that gamers think crunch and transphobia are "fine".

Have you seen the outrage on this forum about it?

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The moment people understand that ResetEra is a really really small subset of the gaming community, the better.

Just go on Twitter. It's the jungle out there.

 

[Deleted member 50232]

Fair enough, I don't really read much outside this forum tbh. Certainly not on twitter.

 

[Deleted member 13077]

I don't think that's true that gamers think crunch and transphobia are "fine".

Have you seen the outrage on this forum about it?

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Oh yeah, but these aren't the type of gamers I'm referring to.

Gamers (tm) means a specific type of gamer who are a relic of gamergate, the loud, obnoxious and entitled type.

 

[Tokyo_Funk]

Man, I remember back in the day working for a game store and someone threatened to kill everyone in the store if they did not get Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. They literally thought we were hiding it from them out the back, when we had not even received the delivery yet.

Death threats to anyone over anything is not on.

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

With so many things going on in the world that you could understand people getting genuinely irate at, how the fuck is it something like this that makes people so angry?

Sad little bastards.

 

[Joni]

I don't think that's true that gamers think crunch and transphobia are "fine".

Have you seen the outrage on this forum about it?

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I think that only concerns a loud part of this forum, but not necessarily a majority of Era.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Imagine working for 100 hours s week only to be dealing with death threats.

I've seen people complaining they are taking vacation weeks because of this game and they just delayed the game like this lmao.

There's a pandemic going on...

 

[Greywaren]

As awful as everything is inside CDPR, death threats aren't okay. They're never okay. They're even less okay if you're threatening someone because your stupid game got delayed.

 

[Crumpo]

I honestly don't know why someone would want to be a game developer now. Imagine if camera operators, lighting or sound engineers or other production staff for films and TV got the same level of harassment? At the moment it seems to be limited to actors, directors, producers and writers.

Increasing the reach of the public to individuals at these companies is a mistake. I'm so glad I have the protection of anonymity at my job.

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

I knew that this was going to piss people off more than the crunch.

These psychopath would want the developers to work till literal death for this game.

 

[Strings]

Yeaaaah, fuck death threats in general obviously.

 

[cowbanana]

Wtf is wrong with these man-babies? Just play something else until the game comes out.

 

[Skade]

Oh for fucks sake... Of course some morons would do that...

I hate people.

 

[Hikari]

That's just disgusting. I'm glad CDPR addressed it because fuck those people who think they're entitled to the game enough to send literal threats.

 

[The Bookerman]

Three weeks of wait is worth going to jail over?

 

[Metalmucil]

At the risk of drive-by posting - gamers. Ugh.

 

[Kazuma Kiryu]

People are pathetic.

 

[Roytheone]

Three weeks of wait is worth going to jail over?

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If online death threads would actually result in jail time, we would have to build a lot of extra prisons. It's very rare people actually get jail time for it.

 

[19thCenturyFox]

Gamers rise up. I won't be oppressed by shifting release dates for my entertainment products any longer.

 

[ara]

Gamers™: lol who cares if the lady has a dick, fucking snowflakes, is there anything you're not outraged by???

Also Gamers™: the FUCK?? THE GAME WAS DELAYED A FEW WEEKS??? i hope all of you, every single one of you working on the game, LITERALLY DIE PAINFUL DEATHS

 

[The Bookerman]

If online death threads would actually result in jail time, we would have to build a lot of extra prisons. It's very rare people actually get jail time for it.

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Question is, are these death threats reported to the police?
Regardless, this should NOT happen.

 

[SirNinja]

Imagine working ~100-hour weeks feverishly optimizing/bugfixing/certifying/etc. a massively complex, GTA-sized game for a simultaneous worldwide launch on PC, Stadia, PS4/Pro, PS5, XB1[S/X], and XBS[S/X]...and then getting fucking death threats because a bunch of manbabies didn't get the thing you're working on quickly enough.

Death threats are never okay. They're super never okay when it's over a damn videogame, especially in a time when most people have endless backlogs of great stuff to go through.

 

[WildWayz]

Love the logic of these people sending death threats "We are going to kill you, but killing you means no game released" :D

Dumb, stupid kids. I don't think i've ever threatened any company other than to leave them lol

 

[NightShift]

This shit makes me so fucking pissed. These developers deserve a year long vacation after the game's actually done. I would go fucking insane if I was working 100 hour work weeks on top of getting death threats for not working fast enough.

 

[Mivey]

Getting fucked over by both your employer and your """fans"""".
No idea why anyone wants to do game dev for a living. Maybe if you had proper unions, and an audience that wasn't full of juvenile shit heels, but here and now, this industry is so fucked up, on so many levels.

 

[PhotogDoug]

This is ridiculous and as mentioned previously in this thread shows the hypocrisy of "gamers" as clear as day.

Gamers are the worst - change my mind.

 

[Akai]

So fucking sad...

 

[Mechaplum]

They should delay it till like Feb next year.

 

[fwoibles]

Sad and pathetic individuals.

 

[Dark Cloud]

It's so funny man. It's the same trash Gamers who won't denounce the transphobia, but send death threats over delay of a game. Just trash humans.

 

[Kyuuji]

Disgusting people. Why would you ever feel compelled to send such shit to others, especially over a video game.

 

[Deleted member 5596]

Imagine doing 100 hour-week in your work and after dealing with crunching hell and trying to get some rest some angry gamers sends death threats to you.

 

[Varth]

Well, it's probably the same people defending them* in the cis cosplayer affair, so it kinda evens out. They are the shitstains you're cuddling with. Enjoy.

EDIT:
*them as in "the company", not the actual devs.