Oof.
Lord knows the shithead bosses of that company more than deserve this, but it sucks to know that, as always, they'll take the least damage from the fallout while the workers they make slave away will take the brunt of it.
One employee asked the board why it had said in January that the game was “complete and playable” when that wasn’t true, to which the board answered that it would take responsibility. Another developer asked whether CD Projekt’s directors felt it was hypocritical to make a game about corporate exploitation while expecting that their employees work overtime. The response was vague and noncommital.
the employees are repordly really pissed at management https://archive.is/WoRFt
It would be delicious poetic justice/irony if CDPR became the first unionized video game developer because of this.
I'm increasingly convinced that this will be another Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines situation with the studio collapsing and the community having to do the patches.
They're doing another one lol, it comes out in a month or so. I'm ready for another massive flop.
Edit: delayed until 3rd quarter 2021, it's definitely gonna be Cyberpunk level
It would be on brand if the game was buggy as shit and the community had to fix it
I'll be honest, the fact it's animations look like G-Mod films add to the charm.
I don't know, CD Projekt is worth like $8 billion and own one of the major game distribution companies (GOG). They're the largest game dev in Europe.
I see a No Mans Sky situation as more likely. They'll fix the game in a year or two and then no one will care about the studio lying about the console ports and all the terrible crunch shit with the developers because g*mers have the memory of a goldfish.
I do think this will have more of a memory impact than No Mans Sky because Cyberpunk was way more hyped and much higher profile. I actually heard somewhere that GOG was in financial trouble. Idk if true anymore.
I mean the first thing management has done is set targets for "major patches", one in January and one in February, for a version of the game that some game devs and journalists are saying probably needed at least 6-8months.
They'll probably get their scheduled Christmas week off and then be crunched and abused worse than ever to try and do the impossible.
Yup. CDPR basically promised everyone their bonus regardless of review scores, partly as good PR but also because you have to continue working for them for at least three months in order to get it. So basically they can hold devs hostage with their bonus - which probably isn't insubstantial given CDPRs low wages - and crunch the hell out of them for three more months before there's an exodus of people leaving the company. In that context the newly unrealistic Jan/Feb deadlines make a lot of sense. They know they'll be hemorrhaging staff after that.
yeah like tomorrow is going be another dip as xbox has officially declared they will refund any request on cyberpunk and so did some phisical retailers
Woohoo my xbox refund got denied on Thursday and accepted on Friday.
