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Hadn't realized it, but with a budget of 331M, Cyberpunk 2077 almost doubled it's investment already. From the game's Wikipedia page: "It had the biggest digita

Hadn't realized it, but with a budget of 331M, Cyberpunk 2077 almost doubled it's investment already. From the game's Wikipedia page: "It had the biggest digital game launch of all time, selling 10.2 million digital units, and grossing $609 million in digital sales as of 31 December 2020".

nagyf 4y ago
> It had the biggest digital game launch of all time Not hard to do when you lie to people. They simply lied in their marketing about the game in so many aspects. Many features missing that were "promised". A lot of people pre-ordered the game (including me) because we believed their marketing. Then we got a buggy, unplayable game at launch which was missing half the things they lied about. Thank god I was able to get a refund from Sony.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
  I'm not sure what they lied about (I've noticed that people took the online hype as promises and then were unhappy when it was released without the speculated items), but it was one of my favourite games when it came out on PC and it has only gotten better. It's a shame you had such a bad initial impression.
  - petersellers 4y ago
    The person you replied to mentioned a refund from Sony, so we can assume then that they got the PS4 version. Unfortunately, the last-gen console versions of the game were horrendously broken and had major performance problems. I don't blame people for being mad at CDPR for releasing the game on those platforms - the game was clearly not designed for the older platforms and the company took a lot of flak for releasing it on them. I say all this as someone who has enjoyed the game immensely on PC - it's one of my favorite single player games of all time. It's just a shame that CDPR got greedy and tried to sell it on platforms that couldn't handle it.
    - SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
      I agree, and you're right, they shouldn't have released them on the old consoles - they just weren't build for what the game does - which is incredibly fast loading and data streaming. I wasn't 100% sure because I think you could get a refund on a PS5 as well (though at the time those were few and far between), and 'Many features missing that were "promised"' doesn't sound like a PS4 problem.
paxys 4y ago
CDPR was so high on the success of their previous games that they would have recouped their investment had they released a literal potato. The money came at the cost of the studio's reputation, however.
- scott_w 4y ago
  Which is funny because that’s exactly what they did, by all accounts!
  - coldacid 4y ago
    No they didn't. They released a figurative potato. A real potato you could at least eat.
perryizgr8 4y ago
If you take the pre release hype with some salt, and play on a reasonably modern PC, CP2077 is one of the best games I've played. It does have more than the usual amount of bugs, but they have patched it up so that you can play and enjoy without too much frustration. Almost everything that's important in a game is well done. The combat, gameplay, story, characters, progression, music, everything is enjoyable. I think the huge backslash had a lot to do with them lying about it running great on PS4, when it clearly didn't. It barely ran, and often bugged out.

nagyf 4y ago

> It had the biggest digital game launch of all time Not hard to do when you lie to people. They simply lied in their marketing about the game in so many aspects. Many features missing that were "promised". A lot of people pre-ordered the game (including me) because we believed their marketing. Then we got a buggy, unplayable game at launch which was missing half the things they lied about. Thank god I was able to get a refund from Sony.

SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
I'm not sure what they lied about (I've noticed that people took the online hype as promises and then were unhappy when it was released without the speculated items), but it was one of my favourite games when it came out on PC and it has only gotten better. It's a shame you had such a bad initial impression.
- petersellers 4y ago
  The person you replied to mentioned a refund from Sony, so we can assume then that they got the PS4 version. Unfortunately, the last-gen console versions of the game were horrendously broken and had major performance problems. I don't blame people for being mad at CDPR for releasing the game on those platforms - the game was clearly not designed for the older platforms and the company took a lot of flak for releasing it on them. I say all this as someone who has enjoyed the game immensely on PC - it's one of my favorite single player games of all time. It's just a shame that CDPR got greedy and tried to sell it on platforms that couldn't handle it.
  - SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
    I agree, and you're right, they shouldn't have released them on the old consoles - they just weren't build for what the game does - which is incredibly fast loading and data streaming. I wasn't 100% sure because I think you could get a refund on a PS5 as well (though at the time those were few and far between), and 'Many features missing that were "promised"' doesn't sound like a PS4 problem.

paxys 4y ago

CDPR was so high on the success of their previous games that they would have recouped their investment had they released a literal potato. The money came at the cost of the studio's reputation, however.

scott_w 4y ago
Which is funny because that’s exactly what they did, by all accounts!
- coldacid 4y ago
  No they didn't. They released a figurative potato. A real potato you could at least eat.

perryizgr8 4y ago

If you take the pre release hype with some salt, and play on a reasonably modern PC, CP2077 is one of the best games I've played. It does have more than the usual amount of bugs, but they have patched it up so that you can play and enjoy without too much frustration. Almost everything that's important in a game is well done. The combat, gameplay, story, characters, progression, music, everything is enjoyable. I think the huge backslash had a lot to do with them lying about it running great on PS4, when it clearly didn't. It barely ran, and often bugged out.