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I highly doubt it. The gaming industry today is very different from what it was even ten years ago. It used to be that games made a healthy chunk of their inc

I highly doubt it. The gaming industry today is very different from what it was even ten years ago. It used to be that games made a healthy chunk of their income in the first month of launch. Back then it made total sense to rush a crappy game out before the holiday season. However, today, the best selling games do so at steady rates over the span of years. The first month or so of sales may only represent 10-20% of total sales over five years. The Witcher 3 looks like it sold around 1.5 million preorders, but almost 30 million units in total. All the bad publicity around this game is going to reduce gross sales of CP2077 and ensure that the public is leery of pre-ordering a CDPR in the future.

keiferski 6y ago
The average customer of Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t know or care what the video game media is saying, nor do they know or care who CDPR is. The game will be fixed with some patches in a month or three and it will continue to be exceptionally popular.
- mywittyname 6y ago
  Why do you say that? All of my friends who are playing/taking about the game are discussing the reviews more than the game itself.
  - keiferski 6y ago
    I mean that’s kind of my point: you and your friends are more familiar with games. Cyberpunk 2077 is pretty mainstream and probably one of the most advertised and hyped games of all time. Most people buying it will not be “gamers”.
  - Notorious_BLT 6y ago
    As a counter-example, all of my friends who are playing/talking about the game spent the first several days after its release playing the game in all of their offtime (including some taking the day of release off) and haven't really talked about the reviews at all. We have occasionally talked about funny bugs or thing we wish were a little different (wish it would zoom out the minimap while driving, for example), but most discussion has been positive
  - baumandm 6y ago
    Anecdotally, I don't personally remember the launch of The Witcher III, but I read a comment that indicated it was also initially buggy. I picked up the GOTY Edition some 3 years later during a frequent sale, played it, and enjoyed it. It's still a frequent top-seller on Steam according to SteamDB, and it's a 5-year old game. Unless CDPR drops the ball in a major way, I'd expect Cyberpunk 2077 to have a similarly long-tail of popularity, meaning most people who will eventually play Cyberpunk 2077 have yet to do so. There are also a lot of video game players who don't follow video game news.

keiferski 6y ago

The average customer of Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t know or care what the video game media is saying, nor do they know or care who CDPR is. The game will be fixed with some patches in a month or three and it will continue to be exceptionally popular.

mywittyname 6y ago
Why do you say that? All of my friends who are playing/taking about the game are discussing the reviews more than the game itself.
- keiferski 6y ago
  I mean that’s kind of my point: you and your friends are more familiar with games. Cyberpunk 2077 is pretty mainstream and probably one of the most advertised and hyped games of all time. Most people buying it will not be “gamers”.
- Notorious_BLT 6y ago
  As a counter-example, all of my friends who are playing/talking about the game spent the first several days after its release playing the game in all of their offtime (including some taking the day of release off) and haven't really talked about the reviews at all. We have occasionally talked about funny bugs or thing we wish were a little different (wish it would zoom out the minimap while driving, for example), but most discussion has been positive
- baumandm 6y ago
  Anecdotally, I don't personally remember the launch of The Witcher III, but I read a comment that indicated it was also initially buggy. I picked up the GOTY Edition some 3 years later during a frequent sale, played it, and enjoyed it. It's still a frequent top-seller on Steam according to SteamDB, and it's a 5-year old game. Unless CDPR drops the ball in a major way, I'd expect Cyberpunk 2077 to have a similarly long-tail of popularity, meaning most people who will eventually play Cyberpunk 2077 have yet to do so. There are also a lot of video game players who don't follow video game news.