Vayra86I think the lesson learned here, once again, for the umpteenth time should be.... DON'T PRE ORDER. DON'T BUY AT LAUNCH. I can look in the mirror on that last one too and I think I'm gonna get religious about the one year wait for each release :p

rtwjunkieRead again. I didn’t say W3. I said The Witcher. If you don’t know, then ask. That is where they made their reputation. Did you ever wonder why the only version available is “The Enhanced Edition” or in some locales “The Director’s Cut”? It’s not because they wanted to do extra things to it.

authorizedIf it's about the first Witcher then I don't even know what you're talking about.
First, there was never any "egg on the face". It was a somewhat niche but well received game, won many awards. The first, non-enhanced edition did.
The enhanced edition being the only one available for purchase is completely normal, there's nothing to wonder about, it's common practice and happens with pretty much all games.

rtwjunkieLOL. The game upon release was a horrid, horrible bug-filled mess, praised for it’s story. CDPR apologized and said they would fix it with a new, revamped release. Patches weren’t going to do it. They offered either refunds or a free replacement game for those that bought the original.

PowerPCAll these broken expectations from past games somehow only lead to more preorders next time. Maybe people love expecting too much? But first it was all about not coming out soon enough. Can't really have both. I really believe this backlash is even less bad than if they had delayed it again. If you think it's easy to make such a game under this kind of pressure from both sides, maybe you should give it a go.

nguyenMicrosoft is now issuing blanket refund for CP2077.
CDPR never should have aimed for simultaneous launch on all platforms, that was the greediest and most irresponsible decision any corpo could make.

ChomiqRTX has nothing to do with it.

sutyiIt does indirectly. It still diverts resources and development time that could have otherwise be spent on other stuff... be it other graphics, optimization etc.

Not complaining about RTX being in the game as it improves the the looks quite a bit in a lot of places, just stating the obvious.

tiggerImplementing RTX for release should have depended on the % of games which use it, rather than the small % of games/users that do.

Nephilim666I play this on PC, and so far it's fantastic, looks unbelievable and just needs a little tweaking to get good framerates, too many people set it to "high" or "ultra" and put no thought into the performance hit vs aesthetics. I used a mod to get better memory/Ryzen utilisation but no doubt CDPR will optimise and correct these bugs eventually.
EDIT: I played witcher, witcher 2 and witcher 3 at launch. Witcher 2 was an absolute dog to run and I had bleeding edge hardware at the time, Witcher 3 was super buggy at launch.

Personally, I was really hyped for the game, but I'm old enough to know not to expect something impossible.

For those playing on PC experiencing bad performance, come on, you're on a hardware tweaking website, learn to tweak settings to suit your hardware.

thesmokingmanThat's way off base. You're putting this on consumer's expectations? You mean the ones shaped by none other than CDPR? Seriously!

www.wired.com/story/cyberpunk-2077-bugs-reviews-nda/
venturebeat.com/2020/12/16/cd-projekt-red-risked-the-reputations-of-others-to-insulate-cyberpunk-2077/
screenrant.com/cyberpunk-2077-cd-projekt-red-lie-reviews-opencritic/

tiggerImplementing RTX for release should have depended on the % of games which use it, rather than the small % of games/users that do.

ratirtIt is NV sponsored game what did you expect? We have all seen the resent Hardware Unboxed email from NV and what they have said in that email.
Although I agree, CDPR should have not put so much emphasis on RT which is barely playable on a $2k cards

PowerPCCmon, the most they 'lied' about was the last-gen consoles. And they just withheld the last-gen console copies for reviewers. I wouldn't really call that lying. That's withholding information at most. And they are even saying that patches for those versions are coming. But let me ask you a far more important question:

Since when did we start giving a fuck about last-gen consoles?

It actually couldn't be more of a CDPR thing to do, honestly. Remember all the jokes about them hating consoles? Maybe those weren't just joked. The thing is, how can you even be mad at them for doing what we always kinda knew CDPR for?

Vayra86This is what really happened and I already drew the line to No Mans Sky which went down in exactly the same way. Good chance devs also said, "fine, you want to release this? Do it, we are done then" Not realizing the backlash would harm them too, or even taking it for granted. That speaks of a team under too much pressure.