Man, lots of CD Projekt RED news today, right? A few days ago, in an interview with Polish investment site Strefa Inwestorow, Kicinski revealed that Cyberpunk 2077 will feature a certain online element. Naturally, and given what is currently going on with all triple-A games, a lot of fans got worried. And it appears that this controversy forced CD Projekt RED to respond via its Twitter account.
As CD Projekt RED claimed, Cyberpunk 2077 will be a huge single player, open world, story-driven RPG. This obviously does not mean that the game won’t feature any online mode. However, CDPR insisted that it won’t feature any microtransactions and that there won’t be any hidden catches or any bullshit. Players will get what they pay for, and they can expect an experience similar to the one in The Witcher 3.
.@PrettyBadTweets Worry not. When thinking CP2077, think nothing less than TW3 — huge single player, open world, story-driven RPG. No hidden catch, you get what you pay for — no bullshit, just honest gaming like with Wild Hunt. We leave greed to others.
— CD PROJEKT RED (@CDPROJEKTRED) November 19, 2017
Earlier today, we reported about some new information regarding Cyberpunk 2077. According to the company’s CEO, its game engine is up and running. Moreover, the game has closed an important stage of production.
It’s worth noting that last month, the company was, once again, forced to issue a public statement about the game’s progress. After some rumours suggesting that the game was under development hell, CD Projekt RED stated that the game was progressing as planned. CD Projekt RED admitted that there have been some departures, however those departures were not endangering its projects.
CD Projekt RED will not announce the release date of Cyberpunk 2077. We also don’t know whether it will appear at next month’s “The Video Games Awards” event. From the looks of it, the game won’t be coming out any time soon. Still, CD Projekt RED appears to be happy with its development, so here is hoping that the Polish company will deliver on its promises.
Stay tuned for more!
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nordic games fired shots at ea the other day.
“Games as a service” has existed since forever and only in 2017 it has become a dirty term to use when marketing your game. People don’t realize that The Witcher 3 was also a “Games as a service” game. The only difference is that the service provided was the good amount of Free DLC, lots of comprehensive patches and lengthy meaningful Expansions.
it’s not a service when you can literally burn the game to a disk and install it offline
Best course of action is wait and see, as always. CDPR is mostly very good, especially with their business practices, but they did sell us a false bill of goods with the original graphics showcased in TW3 (regardless of how great it looks in the final build). Companies are not your friends, so show them zero loyalty as soon as they’re not giving you what you expect for your money. I’m more optimistic than not, but we’ll see what happens.
Also the Mod Tool promises which never came through.
And let’s not forget the consolification of Witcher 2.
This should settle everyone down. The amount of extrapolation going is ludicrous.
And quite honestly, scary. These click bait youtube videos really got me concerned. Glad to see this reply from them.
But…but….. That big mech in the picture has a loot crate on it’s back!
CDPR are clearly lying.
It’s clearly a mech controlled by EA CEO’s that are being kept alive in 2077 by the machine forcing people to hand over their wallets. The protagonists mission is most likely going to be taking out these greedy CEO’s from EA Activision and Ubisoft.
I never doubted them for a minute, it is really good they made an official statement like this.
Cyberpunk 2077 is going to own!
So CDPR are obfuscating once more. The weasel words of their Twitter statement directly contradicts previous statements and has done nothing to address the specifics of what what they’ve previously stated. Still, such PR tactics should do enough to placate their legion of fanboys (who, as always, are desperate to unquestionably believe anything CDPR tells them) and the more gullible elements of the media.
“no bullsh1t”
A startling lack of self-awareness given CDPR’s very own history of ‘bullsh1tting’ the consumer in relation to TW3 on multiple past occasions.
“We leave greed to others”
Another holier than thou and gratingly smug PR statement from CDPR that stinks of hypocrisy on at least two counts.
Yes, CDPR is ethically superior to the worst of the so-called triple-A games industry (not exactly a difficult feat or something that should be a proud boast, if we’re being honest) but their obsession with placing themselves on a pedestal as though they’re modern-day saints became tedious a long time ago. They’re actively inviting greater scrutiny and criticism by consistently acting so aloof and smugly superior when own their track record is far from clean.
Is there anything they could say that would make you happy?
Obviously there is. That much should be abundantly clear from my comment albeit seemingly not so in your case.
Oh yeah, I forgot I was speaking to a MENSA member. I’ll hold my tongue next time.
As you should sir, now it back down and drink your tea.
Forgive my insolence.
Lets be honest here, CDPR is an angel compared to EA and Ubisuck
and their platform (GOG) is the greatest alternative against both Origin, steam and Ucrash
weather they will betray their “sainthood” that is but a question of time…
Indeed. I’ve already said as much in the final paragraph of my above comment to which you’ve replied.
“We leave greed to others”
People are morons, they forget everything so quickly. Like for example when CDPR sent, through legal firms, outrageous fines to people’s homes who were torrenting Witcher 2.
I thought that was with the first Witcher but yeah probably most gamers don’t even know that side of CDPR and now with GOG they have done a 180 degree turn on DRM and they know that they can’t stop piracy anyway but that’s not how they were 10 years ago. iirc The Witcher 1 was the most pirated game back then.
well fact is cd projekt red are bunch of lying sacks of shets but they’ll either stop growing or get in a really tight spot financially, they will start doing microtransactions and all sorts of DLCs, no one says no to more money.
I’d fully trust them if they didn’t release that bullsh*t E3 gameplay that ended up being downgraded by the game’s release. CDPR have proven to follow the AAA industry in that regard so I’m not 100% convinced.
first fulfill these promises then we believe
I bet Activision Lizard and Ubish#t are secretly fuming at EA for so publicly and blatantly pulling their pants down and spraying their diarrhoea into the well, those 2 would have much preferred the stealthy method of shaking it out down the trousers featured in The Great Escape
Fulfill your end of the bargain, and we’ll see how it turns out.
Although I liked W3, I wasn’t at all happy with the downgrades, and then the following statement on consoles making the game a reality, rather than the PC sales that made the first two games possible, as well as the 3rd title.
You want to give gamers no bull?, give us a version that isn’t downgraded in any way shape or form and I’ll believe you.
“You want to give gamers no bull?, give us a version that isn’t downgraded in any way shape or form and I’ll believe you.”
Well that’s not going to happen. Console gamers must be appeased. If they look at their XBox One and PS4 with their FXAA blur-filter anti-aliasing and look at the PC version then they will have an emotionall shit-fit.
Money talks always.
People cried when it released that it did not run well unless on a 970 maxwell gpu at least,which were the newest cards from nvidia when the game released.
It ran badly on kepler and actually to this day kepler are performing mediocrely on this game and all amd gpu had problem because the game used a lot of tesselation.
Im against downgrades but in this case imagine how many would had cried if they could not run the game on at least high settings?
Already many cried it did not run well at launch.
The only graphical features im disappointed with witcher 3 is that i prefer the athmosphere of the first few trailers they were dark and fit the world of witcher perfectly…witcher 3 was too…colorfull i daresay
That’s rather odd, considering that the 980 was released a year prior to W3’s release, as well as the 980ti, a month later after the game released.
I just find it irksome to show off a game, running on a PC (like most showings are presented as), running at higher detail, only for them to dial it back a lot, just so current gen systems can maybe handle it with sacrifices being made left and right.
I honestly don’t like this seemingly endless cycle, where we, as humans, can advance in all kinds of technologies and understanding them within the present and the future, yet we have to constantly downgrade time and time again, never ever reaching that perfect vision as it was shown to us within the present time.
Yes, games to advance with time, but they advance and then dial things back, because a few smaller boxes and a few poor people cannot be bothered to upgrade to hw that should handle the game as is.
What really gets me, is that I’ll die, not seeing an end to that horrible cycle. The one solution to the issue, is simply designing it for higher end, then telling lower end folk to upgrade or die, but then we bring the sales data and all that garbage with it.
We have very high quality and expensive luxuries in all kinds of industries out there in the world, gaming shouldn’t be shackled to “for the poor people”. Expensive cars are still bought, said companies that make them are still around today. People buy very expensive hw, so it’s not like those sides of the industry have or will die out.
“then the following statement on consoles making the game a reality, rather than the PC sales that made the first two games possible, as well as the 3rd title”
You serious ? Console sales give them more money. Releasing for consoles allows them to budget much higher. This is common sense. I really don’t get why people are bashing them for that statement. It’s like some PC gamers want to be salty for no reason. That statement is an accurate representation of reality, whether you like it or not.
They give them a burst of money, while PC gives them long tail sales.
Long tail sales of Skyrim have beaten PS3/360 over the years, and there are other games that have sold more on PC as well. (PuB being one of them).
Like it or not, there are plenty of games that sell well on PC, same with mobile gaming, which reigns supreme over consoles in terms of profits and revenue, but I guess that black sheep is excluded to make things “fair”.
If you look at total revenue the PC is number 1 followed by MS consoles and then Sony consoles but many of those billions of dollars are spent on microtransactions in games like League of Legends. The last I saw of AAA games sales consoles way outsold PC. That’s why you have Publishers like Ubisoft and Rockstar catering to the console crowd. Ubisoft, in their last financial statement only had around 18% of their revenue from PC games and the lion’s share went to consoles.
Mobile revenue is king but I don’t consider it in the same league as PC or console gaming but who doesn’t have a cell phone these days? Even most kids have one.
In my city the government even provides a free cell phone and service for poor people. The reason is that if their is an emergency and people need to be notified then everyone should have cell phone service.
AAA sector is but only one space within the games industry, but it’s certainly not an end all to be all one either (because if it were, there would only be just AAA games and no A or AA titles).
I don’t consider mobile gaming in the same league either, but I see it drawing in far more money than the AAA industry makes, which is exactly why AAA studios are trying to emulate what money the mobile sector makes.
Also, while PC has MT’s in some of their games, consoles are more or less getting those in their games as well, so it’s not really some achievement to be lauded or anything.
Well, in this day and age, everyone I know has a phone, a PC, some have a handheld and a console.
It still doesn’t topple what the other two platforms make though.
But how many people are buying those A and AA games? There is the occasional Minecraft that comes along but I don’t see a lot of talk about those types of games on websites. The only game that outsold Minecraft is Tetris.
Another thing that doesn’t make sense to me is why gamers will pay $10 for an Indie game but won’t pay $5 for a game from the late 90s or early 2000s. Some of those games are way better than the Indie games and gamers thumb their nose at those classics because the graphics are dated. Well, they look better than most Indie games imo.
That’s because you’re only viewing a fraction of websites. You do know there are billions of websites out there in cyberspace right?, not just a few.
What information you know, is but a fraction of what else is out there to see.
Also thinking in EA’s “where’s your Fifa game” type mindset, in looking at games sales, isn’t the best one to have.
Some old games have aged badly, and even older games that are priced higher, should have had their prices reduced long ago.
Imo, I’ve seen indie games that put AAA games to shame, sure they don’t sell billions or trillions, but they do a good job of pointing out the flaws of the AAA side. AAA games are far, far from perfect.
“That’s because you’re only viewing a fraction of websites. You do know there are billions of websites out there in cyberspace right?, not just a few.”
That’s true. I only visit this website and a tech site daily. I used to visit PC Gamer daily but now only about once a week. I could easily be wrong about the interest in A and AA games.
All I ever play is AAA games and I have a huge backlog of those as it is because I still enjoy playing old games. I consider myself something of a graphics wh*re because I buy high end video cards but like I said I still like old games too even if they are dated graphically.
I used to visit PCG myself for a time (but now they just end up doing casual lists and talks).
There are also sites built for businesses, to view on total sales and earnings that exist out there (but I never bother with, since they are designed for the business and not us).
I used to be the type that just played AAA games, but over the years, I’ve been noticing AAA games slipping up here and there, whether it be from bad ports, to lesser quality and eventually to what we see today, with them tossing in MT’s and loot boxes. I’ve since then moved more towards indie games, as well as older titles. I still buy the odd AAA game, but nowhere near the number I used to buy 5-10 years ago.
I to love me some eye candy (it’s why I went with a 6700k and 1080ti, with a 1440p 144hz monitor), but it’s used on some AAA titles, but also pushing older games via modding or higher resolutions, that and rendering.
I don’t mind older games, I still play WoW to this day and that’s pretty dated lol (even if their new render distance and shadows cripple most builds)
The problem with your statement is in the statement itself; “U-BE-SOFT.”
It’s no surprise that U-BE-SOFT games are a lot more popular on consoles than they are on PC, honestly, so applying them as a universal standard is a little absurd.
Good. Happy to see that.
“huge”
ahhh
“open world”
ahhhhh
“Story driven”
oh yeah
“rpg”
YEEEESS
“with cyberpunk setting”
AHHHGGGGGGHAAAAAAAAA……am done.
Rumors also say you can play it from fps perspective.
After the last video from YongYea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AynvqY4cN8M&t=4s) I find it even harder to believe anything that comes out of Badowski’s mouth.
I believe him because people on the Internet don’t lie.
We’ll see if CP2077 will feature multiple classes, third person and first person camera options and other features that were promised or they would be those “departures” that CDPR PR department is talking about, just like The Witcher 3 downgrade with using different renderers was and the lack of proper Redkit.
dont think for a second they wont do games as a servise for other games.they did say cyberpunk wouldnt be a games as a service but that doesnt mean that their other wont.