Back in June, we informed you about Cyberpunk 2077 being present at Gamescom 2018. Naturally, a lot of gamers were hoping that CD Projekt RED would showcase this highly anticipated cyberpunk game to the public. However, that won’t be the case as – similarly to E3 2018 – there won’t be a public booth for this title.
No public booth, sorry.
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) August 2, 2018
What ultimately this means is that CD Projekt RED will showcase Cyberpunk 2077 privately, behind closed doors. This also means that the 50-minute gameplay walkthrough of the game will not be released to the public.
When asked about it, CD Projekt RED claimed that it will show the game to the public when they feel ready for that.
We will show you the gameplay when we feel ready for that.
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) August 6, 2018
So yeah, expect some new impressions from the Gamescom 2018 build of Cyberpunk 2077 from various gaming websites but do not expect to actually see the game. Unless of course we are misinterpreting this and CD Projekt RED releases a gameplay trailer despite its previous claims (or someone leaks its Gamescom 2018 demo).
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What exactly is the purpose of doing these private showings?
Generating hype and buzz about the game.
They higher strippers and hookers to get higher reviews from the critics. Or because they know everyone on the planet will only be at their booth and they want to give there competition at least a fighting chance.
Nope.
They are just careful. Its a big project from a company who dont make millions with microtransactions.. So they just want the game to be perfect at release and make gamers happy
You went kinda fanboy there.
Well. Yeah. The witcher 3 was awesome so i hope it will be also good
they show pretty demos running on high end PC to build hype then they dumb the PC version down to look like console versions so that console peasants won’t cry, exactly same thing they did with witcher 3, they could have at least provided the PC version of witcher 3 with something like maximum setting but they decided to completely remove and downgrade PC version as well. basically they’re trying to be Ubisoft and keep their reputation at the same time.
Any evidence that this is the case?
Are you asking Dagoat for evidence? Good luck.
if you need evidence for witcher 3 downgrades you’re living under a rock boi.
also it sounds like you’re a converted peasant, i grew up with witcher 3 so stfu patrick (and yes it was a reference to patrick from spongebob living under a rock)
if you watch first gameplay trailer it’s vastly superior to even the gamescom and E3 version.
You know when the game finally releases it’s not the journalist who say “downgraded! Pathetic! This doesn’t look at all like E3 lol” or something along those lines, it is the general public. So they are avoiding that by not showing it to the public. Clearly the game is in the state where a lot of things might end up getting altered. They learned their lesson from witcher 3 it seems.
Though as a part of this general public myself I do feel a bit of disappointment. And the hyped up articles/previews from these journalist does not make it any easy either.
CDPR are trying to avoid click bait drama by ad traffic salivating
journalists and gaming sites/channels if there is any public showing of a major bug or other big problem that will quickly garner attention by click bait journalists who instigate public hype/backlash if any little problem can be shown to the public.
Watch social media when something happens. People comment on what is originally posted by knee jerking journalists and how those writers post – the crux of the problem. Ad traffic sites know they are in competition with other journalists to “gather those outraged” to their sites/channels and look like the good guys who brought the information. Any public backlash instigated by the parties that put the information out to the public is due to the nature of how that information was posted – normally overly sensationalized for more ad traffic. When everyone is outraged, fighting, defending, etc etc etc with everyone else and the companies involved, the journalists and gaming sites in the middle make lots and lots of money – or click bait would not exist.
The “journalists” in this case are forced to sign agreements prior to entry and it is crystal clear those gaining entry will not be permitted in the future should they violate the agreements or attempt to slander due to bugs and other issues because the game is not ready for a public showing in its current state.
CDPR is just trying to protect the game and I support this.
LOL, just for a moment lets pretend that every game company does what you said CD Projekt is doing?
Every company has the right to hide details about their products, but when they show the product to a bunch of members of the gaming media and makes them to write as agreement to not tell anyone, that has a name and is CENSORSHIP.
Is this good or bad?
Maybe for those who doesnt give a crap about CD projekt as devs is not that bad, but for those who have been following the company since TW1, this is kind of a middle finger, HEY WE ARE GONNA SHOW THIS TO THEM BUT NOT YOU, YEAH THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN BUYING OUR GAMES!!
But please scream “Freedom” everytime our western countries bomb some middle east country.
Exactly. Knowing what they did with TW3, all that false advertising, false promises of Modding tools, flatout denying visual fidely downgrade, also dumbing down the game for Western public which practically erased all its Eastern Salvic flavor in favor of generic Western RPG open world, copy-pasted quests (question marks, smuggler’s caches etc.) it’s hard to keep an interest going when they company is showing their current progress only to select few people who depend on these gaming studios directly in terms of earning their bread.
So they hype up the game in order to get future access to their future IPs. But the actual consumers are ultimately left in the dust when the final product fails to meet the previously stated specifications.
Which lesson? that one when despite early exhibitions of the game they still sold like ten millions of copies of TW3. The downgrading claims didnt stop people from buying the game. So stop justifying this bu115h1t.
They don’t want bad publicity…is it really that hard a pill to swallow for people like you? Yes they are not being fair to their fans, I’m one of those fans but what are you going to do about it? Beat them into submission for not releasing the trailers?
Whats the point of these news or announcements ? hey we are going to show our game, but not to you. so you can read a re*arded and unrelated IGN article about it.
Totally agree, where is the news? They are gonna show it to some people on the media but they can tell us. Whats the point!!
SJWs at Polygon, etc, are already calling on CD Projekt Red to make Cyberpunk 2077 reflect their poisonous world view. Here’s hoping CDPR ignore them.
It kinda does actually. You see cyberpunk is what happens if sjws get their way. Government is authoritarian and steps on you and your rights, corporations have more power than the government and have all your information and can erase you from existence. Diversity isnt an issue because of globalism and open borders, everyone is a wage slave and is suffering, everyone has to become some gangster, or prostitute or an assassin and no one trusts the media of corporations. Nothing good can come out of a dystopian cyberpunk future. Its horrible, kinda like a post apocalyptic future and not the joke that the fallout series have become.
Their poisonous world view leads to a cyberpunk dystopian future, naturally all their views are irrelevant because everyone is suffering is everyone is out for themselves, no heroes no “changing the world” by the end you just might manage to save your hide from one of those corporations that got you in this mess because you saw something your werent suppose to see and you are expendable.
This is becoming annoying. I know they show to journalist only because they don’t want to build hype to the public and avoid the downgrade thing but this is worse, building hype showing to few people who hype you for a year minimum, keeping gameplay in secret for so long, is better if they show the almost finished product few months before the release, and not years before in every conference and for a limited public.
This is quite a disrespect to gamers from CD Project, if they are too worry about being accused of downgrading, just show how the game will look on consoles.
I cant care less about the graphics, hiding the gameplay is just dumb and showing stuff only to a bunch of members of the press is quite elitist.
We are the ones who are gonna buy the game.
Honestly F this sh*t. Its getting really old really fast. We got this really great footage but F you to all our fans. Starting to lose interest actually.
I think it’s safe to forget about this game till late 2019-early 2020. CDPR, give me a call when you have something tangible to show instead of your promises. “Words are weightless here on Earth, because they’re free”.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHH shut up
Probably CDPR is trying to avoid disappointment from gamers if they show something they have right now to the public and later have to downgrade that in the final version of the game but at some point soon it would be a good idea to show some footage to the public because they are p*ssing some people off unnecessarily.
They could show a video with a warning at the start that this may not be the final version or they could downgrade the graphics even to the point that they know it will run on current consoles and say that the final version most likely will look better. I expect the game will release sometime in 2020 and there are supposed to be next gen consoles released then as well.
Just a new 2 minute teaser trailer with a few gameplay snippets would send me over the moon.
If they are going to keep the game private from the public then stop announcing that you’re going to be at these PUBLIC game shows where u wont be showing your game to the public. Just do it privately by letting only the people who u are showing it too know and thats it….FFS…
a new trailer and probably a leaked gameplay.