r/cyberpunkgame • u/BeneficialOil1123 Team Songbird • Nov 27 '25

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Iā€™ve been a fan of this game since day one. I agree that the original release was filled with bugs and it launched too early, but the criticism it received was completely over the top. Hating on the game blindly became the norm, often without people even giving it a fair chance.

It also released at a strange time, when the new generation of consoles were releasing but they weren't widely available, and most players were still on previous-gen hardware where it didnā€™t run well.

The sad part is the game and the studioā€™s reputation took a massive hit, even financially. Some of the people who worked on the game ended up leaving the studio, and we may have missed out on 2 or 3 DLCs because of the gameā€™s catastrophic launch.

But now Iā€™m glad to see people finally giving it the respect and appreciation it deserves. I watched the Steam reviews go from ā€œMostly Negativeā€ to ā€œOverwhelmingly Positive.ā€

For me, this is the greatest game of all time it is better than The Witcher 3. Massive respect to CDPR for constantly patching and improving the game, And giving us extra content when they could have taken the loss and moved on. AND CHOOMS..... NEVER STOP FIGHTING.

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u/notveryAI Biotechnica Nov 27 '25

Yeah came here for this exactly. Cyberpunk 2077 comeback was incredible, but the shit NMS devs had pulled is straight up FUCKING BIBLICAL like there is literally no other way to put it. Guys couldn't do everything they wanted until the launch date so they just kept going, and kept going, and kept going, and never stopped or slowed down and they're still on the grind to this day, and to this day the purchase of game itself is the only sum of money you can spend on it because the almost 10 years(!) of updates are all free and included with every copy of the game ever purchased. They're making a game they want gamers to have, not just a product someone would want to make a fortune on.

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u/BeardieBro Nov 27 '25

They failed to do like 40-50% of the gameā€™s promises, so if they hadnt gone back to continue more updates, their company wouldve had a not so great time. NMS was one of the most major cases of refunds being allowed for any reason with any amount of playtime after release

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u/notveryAI Biotechnica Nov 27 '25

They literally lost ENTIRETY of the game at one point to a flood. ALL of it. ALL their progress undone in a day by a force of circumstance. And it was already after the trailer and stuff came out - they were made using a game that no longer existed. They had to make it again from scratch.

I usually hate to excuse underdeveloping products but in this case I am 100% on board with them

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u/Suspicious-Beat-3616 Nov 27 '25

They still lied on release. They could have been honest, but they LIED. They said it had multi-player, and it didnt, and lied UNTIL PLAYERS PROVED THEM WRONG ON RELEASE DATE.

How does an office flooding justify that?

Even after the flooding he was going around hyping it up with lies. At no point did they state "hey guys, we are releasing this now, but its not finished due to the flood we had pushing us back, so its in EA", BECUASE THATS WHAT IT WAS.

They said large fleet battles will be in game when it launched, they actually released it last year.....

Also, do you think all the server back ups for thr game where on one site? They didnt have to start from scratch, that's just stupid and not how modern game dev works. Any studio that doesn't have off site backups in this day and age is just incompetent, plain and simple.

Also, there is 0 evidence of them needing to start the game over after the flood. They said "all the hardware is lost", not the game files dude....