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> After the fiasco that was the release of Cyberpunk 2077 — a game estimated to cost more than 300 million dollars, including the performance of actor Keanu Ree
by emodendroket 4y ago
> After the fiasco that was the release of Cyberpunk 2077 — a game estimated to cost more than 300 million dollars, including the performance of actor Keanu Reeves —, many people began to question how far the so-called late stage capitalism can go.
Really? Releasing a multi-year software project worked on by many, many people that was buggy but still more or less served its purpose is someone's idea of capitalism teetering on the precipice? If we truly believe "bad results for consumers" means capitalism itself is reaching its end stages, an earlier stage of capitalism featured people just brazenly selling pills with tapeworm eggs as a weight loss supplement and no real regulatory apparatus equipped to stop that, so what was that? "Late-stage capitalism" is becoming one of those buzzwords that doesn't mean much of anything.
- maerF0x0 4y agoI had to start over from the beginning 3 times due to completely main plot breaking bugs, and this was on 1.4+ versions . Still had a side quest broken. That is not a "more or less" serving it's purpose.
- emodendroket 4y agoI played the game from beginning to end without any major incidents on launch. But even then it was eventually fixed and I still don't think this is a harbinger of the collapse of global capitalism.
- maerF0x0 4y agoI agree "collapse of global capitalism" would be a stretch. That being said I also think platform mattered a lot. I played on PS4Pro fwiw
- emodendroket 4y agoYeah, I think that is true as well. I had just upgraded my PC for the first time in many years and was looking for something to showcase what the hardware could do when I picked it up. All the bugs I encountered were pretty minor.
- maerF0x0 4y agoAlso, more for future readers, I've heard the PC version has community mods that fix most of the worst bugs! Shame they couldn't have contributed it back to CDPR's main branch .
- willywanker 4y agoContributed it back how? On CDPR's Github? This isn't an open source project.