Tuesday, October 27th 2020
Wait for It: Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed to December 10th
Developer CD Projekt Red has announced that Cyberpunk 2077 is now facing another delay - this one of just 21 days. The game is now slated for release on December 10th, which gives the developer more time to work on the launch-day patch so that everything runs as smoothly as possible when the game is out in the wild and in the hands of millions of expectant gamers.
The developer clarified that the reason for the game's delay is the need to launch it concurrently on all platforms they've committed to - current-gen, next-gen, PC, and Stadia. In total, the developer is working on polishing and testing nine different versions of the game (PS4, PS4 Pro, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PC, and Stadia). This is just mind-bogglingly complex, as you might expect. We also have to take into account that CD Projekt Red has its own shoes to fill when it comes to final quality, and we must remember that first impressions make or break a videogame's reception in the current climate (remember Mass Effect: Andromeda or any other number of games). It seems that the cautious, methodical approach may be the best one for such a high-stakes release. I, for one, would much rather enjoy a game with less chances of game-breaking bugs than a rushed release - especially considering the amount of platforms the game is shipping for.
Source:
CD Projekt Red @ Twitter
The developer clarified that the reason for the game's delay is the need to launch it concurrently on all platforms they've committed to - current-gen, next-gen, PC, and Stadia. In total, the developer is working on polishing and testing nine different versions of the game (PS4, PS4 Pro, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PC, and Stadia). This is just mind-bogglingly complex, as you might expect. We also have to take into account that CD Projekt Red has its own shoes to fill when it comes to final quality, and we must remember that first impressions make or break a videogame's reception in the current climate (remember Mass Effect: Andromeda or any other number of games). It seems that the cautious, methodical approach may be the best one for such a high-stakes release. I, for one, would much rather enjoy a game with less chances of game-breaking bugs than a rushed release - especially considering the amount of platforms the game is shipping for.
124 Comments on Wait for It: Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed to December 10th
How many times have we as the gamer crowd demanded we get finished products, not half finished monstrosities that only got released because a publisher said so?! We’re indeed lucky that CDPR don’t answer to a publisher, so they get to do like demand: give us a finished product.
I feel like CDPR is sucking up to MS and SONY to be precise since consoles are much harder to implement day 1 patch. TW3 ran terribly on consoles at launch so they tried to avoid that.
Like I said if CDPR is just treating PC gamers as business then why should we treat them any better ? might as well pirate it first then buy it when it is discounted on Steam.
And 21 days delay is not "nothing" since people have plans you know.
When it's Gold it's a minimum state of a stable game. But since they don't have millions of player already playing they won't find those necessary bugs until they release and we search for them.
Are you willing to wait till December 2021 to get Cyberpunk 2077 version 1.9?
There is not such thing as a perfect game or any type of software.
BTW, why did you ever think they weren’t in this as a business? They aren’t a charity. They have shareholders and run the company...get ready for it...like a business.
Part of their business model is to give you the gamer something that is as close to error-free as they can foresee without releasing it. Who else does that?! I appreciate their dedication to getting it right as much as they can.One, I never said there wouldn’t be patches. They as a company though, have the luxury of trying to eliminate as many bugs as possible. Most studios don’t have that. It’s why people like you are apparently so willing to accept a game released in whatever fashion it comes out. The gaming world is littered with those wrecks. So yeah, I wait for whenever it’s finished. It’s what adults do. The world doesn’t revolve around game releases.
The rest of what you wrote is directed I don’t know where, because if they weren’t dedicated to extra bug-trouble tracing, there would be many more patches than we will get.
Screw them anyways, just a video game. I have like 100+ AAA games that I bought and never played just to support the PC gaming industry.
Ghostrunner just came out and it's pretty solid, and it releases on time too.
People have work you know, can't be free all the time, a 21 days delay is just as shitty as 6 months delay.
Seems like CDPR has successfully pissed off 50% of PC gamer base, let hope MS and SONY paid them enough money to cover the losses, oh wait there is Google Stadia also.
This launch schedule is the one that makes no sense, why should the PC crowd have to wait for the game to be ready for the consoles ? and for Stadia too ? CDPR was originally a PC game only company
and now they just spit on the PC gaming community to earn a few more corpo bucks (well maybe not a few).
Anyways I don't feel like supporting a company that treat loyal customers like this, it feels like when your GF always late to your dates because she has 9 other BF :shadedshu: (who need gf anyways, right ?) .
So many petulent children here, if you're that mad just cancel your preorder and play something else. Neither you nor CDPR owe one another anything. If you can't deal with another delay, don't buy the game, vote with your dollar.
I haven't owned AMD/ATI in over a decade.
I can shit on companies and own their products, there's no confusion in my mind.
CDPR took the "leather jacket" money to implement his crap, instead of just focusing on their game and how it will look and perform across all those very different platforms.
CDPR is beholden to its customers, and that includes whether you like it or not AMD gamers.
9 version of the game, RTX on Geforce but no RTRT on Radeon or the consoles for which RTRT is big marketing buz.
History is rich of evidence that the primiry mission of GameWrecks is to hurt the "leather jacket" competition.
Companies that take his money does disservice to their costumers especially to those that does not use the "leather jacket" products.
Bottom line is this.
GameWrecks™. It's On.
I hope that helps.
Good day.
:rolleyes:Dafuq are you even talking about - yes I'll bite...
Its AMD that is late to the party with its RTRT implementation. Nvidia has its time to market in good order and benefits, nothing new here and unrelated to GameWorks, its just a different company approach towards the game industry from front to back. AMD takes the lazy cheap approach, doing as little as humanly possible to support devs and still sell GPUs (most of them using yesterdays' feature sets).
Even today we haven't seen the tiniest spark of a Navi GPU doing realtime RT. Nvidia had it two years ago. Additionally, CBP2077's release has zero relation to the new console gen, they just happen to launch shortly after one another. You can see this in the overall specs... they're pretty low, yesterdays' performance level really.
So your assumptions are completely baseless at best, you can pick your scapegoat of choice here really. Maybe... just maybe... CDPR as a publisher made a commercial choice to extract more money out of their product? Its their product after all. And so far, CDPR has managed to funnel those profits into new projects that seem even more promising than what we've got today. Like Cyberpunk. See how that works?Entitlement generation much? Wow. Sad, but the stench surrounded you already.
Seriously... the gist of this topic is of an even lower level than the 'oh noes they scalped "my" 3080' episode... Can't we do better?
Yes people are entitled to promised release date, and I have no clue scalping 3080 has got anything related to this, perhaps you are as confused as always.
3080/3090 stocks in my country is aplenty btw, nothing to salty about.