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Has CDPR run out of ideas, but still had a bag of promises to make? They promised CP77 extensions and multiplayer, The Witcher 3 in 4k, now remaking Witcher 1?

• JohnJamesRambo 4y ago
  On the other hand Geralt waves his sword above his head like an idiot in Witcher 1. I hate remakes but if I had to have one this would be one. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/rkdbnv/started_playing_witcher_for_the_first_time_whats/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/rkdbnv/started_play... But yeah I want new stories more.
  • sylens 4y ago
    Yes, this is actually a game that would be well served by a remake that makes it more accessible.
  • hbn 4y ago
    The top comment in that thread you linked explains that sword movement is something from the books. No one's to say that'll be removed in a remake.
    • JohnJamesRambo 4y ago
      I don't remember him doing that in the books haha. He was a beautiful swordsman not a goofball.
• tester756 4y ago
  If you're interested in their strategy check out this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EJmgTQ0O8k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EJmgTQ0O8k
  • nomel 4y ago
    And, it seems like a fantastic way to learn a new engine.
• enragedcacti 4y ago
  Its a third party studio doing the remake, CDPR probably won't be diverting many internal resources away from their existing in-house projects for this. also this is just follow-up to a previous announcement where they announced 5 projects in various stages of development on top of info about the CP2077 expansion: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/10/cd-projekt-red-witcher-cyberpunk https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/10/cd-projekt-red-witcher-cybe...
  • agilob 4y ago
    They couldn't deliver 1 good project CP77, but now committing to 5 at around the same time? You said: >Its a third party studio doing the remake, CDPR probably won't be diverting many internal resources away from their existing in-house projects for this. but the link claims: >On Tuesday, CD Projekt Red announced five all-new games currently in development at the studio Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it?
    • 988747 4y ago
      > Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it? Stock price has nothing to do with how much money CDPR has in their bank accounts. Stock trading is basically a public opinion poll on the future of the company, but not a penny from those trades actually goes to company accounts.
      • coredog64 4y ago
        Not entirely true. An equity price in the toilet means you might have to borrow money if you need a big chunk. It also weakens your ability to use stocks to pay employees which in turn requires additional cash outlays. TL;DR: Companies still depend on equities as a funding mechanism.
      • agilob 4y ago
        and if a company is trading low, their trust is also low, am I wrong? They would will need to trick people into giving them money upfront (preorders?) or borrow from 3rd party to cover a product that will sell and bring cash. nevertheless, I didn't mean they can't fund it because of low stock price, they got lots of free money from Polish government development fund, but CDPR delivered only 4 big games and only 2 were big hits, The Witcher and The Witcher 3. CP77 sold in many copies, I have one too, but I'm not buying them unless they prove it's worth the price. They completely lost my trust and employees with internal knowledge, who were committed to make Witchers a success story. Previously delivering 2 (or 3) good games, having stock prices high during that time, getting free money from development fund vs now stock price low, trust in company and their quality dropped, 5 projects in progress? Aren't they shooting too high?
• bravetraveler 4y ago
  While it's surely a constant, I think the entertainment industries at large have really started to milk the nostalgia cow hard I could say a bunch of soft science things like, go with a sure thing in an uncertain market, blah blah. I think it's simply easier
  • conductr 4y ago
    The start was about 20 years ago, but I do agree
    • ska 4y ago
      It seems the start is always ~20 years ago from when you talk about, regardless of when you talk about this sort of thing.
      • conductr 4y ago
        It’s when it’s ready for a reboot! I strongly associate it with the movie industry running out of new ideas after the 90s. Episode 1 was 1999 for example, before that most people thought Star Wars was over. Then the marvel stuff. But maybe that’s just me being nostalgic since that’s also around the time I began being an adult. It does seem convenient how it’s usually timed out so that parents can geek out with their kids; so the industry inherits a new generation of fans. My recent example of that is how apparently Pokémon is very popular again. I was too old to care in the 90s but those kids now have kids of similar age as they were at the time. The phenomenon as a whole didn’t seem to exist so strongly prior to that. In the 80s if my dad showed me something he liked as a kid I just laughed it off as some old toy that had no relevance to me. My 4 yo loves Spider-Man and has no clue he’s older than me. They made a new show specifically targeting this age group (Spidey and his Amazing Friends).
• the_duke 4y ago
  Not at all, they have lots of new games coming. Sibling comment has a link.
• zepppotemkin 4y ago
  GAMERS RISE UP!
• imbnwa 4y ago
  There's no way multiplayer would've made sense in CP77 with how OP the netrunner build was, nevermind how the Sandevistan is supposed to work across the wire. The game is completely unbalanced in the player's favor by early mid-game, another artifact of their hastened release process, I can't imagine what they'd have to do to push out a multiplayer mode.