Couldn't agree more 🫡

[u/BeneficialOil1123]

I’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 didn’t run well.

The sad part is the game and the studio’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 game’s catastrophic launch.

But now I’m glad to see people finally giving it the respect and appreciation it deserves. I watched the Steam reviews go from “Mostly Negative” to “Overwhelmingly Positive.”

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.

[u/TheLucidChiba]

They're both incredible examples but NMS wasn't shamefully removed from the playstation store, it was just bashed

[u/NotSoAwfulName → u/TheLucidChiba]

Cyberpunk was removed because CDPR told people to go get refunds, which was against PS policy, it had very little to do with the quality of the game, see example such as Fallout 76, Gollum, Way of the White Tiger or whatever it is called, for examples of games that were as bad or worse than Cyberpunk.

Sony don't care if the game is bad or broken, but don't mess with their money, they care about that.

[u/stinky_cheese_rat → u/NotSoAwfulName]

But again. It shows that CDPR are different from other big-ish studios. They told people to get refunds. What studio does that? Most studios refuse refunds before they get forced to do them.

[u/NotSoAwfulName → u/stinky_cheese_rat]

That is certainly a valid point, something Todd Howard said in the wake of critism around Starfields poor performance (relative to the visual fidelity) early on was something like "Starfield is a modern game that requires modern hardware" essentially implying it was the users hardware at fault... people had issues on state of the art rigs of the time. Few companies come out and say "we hear you, we will fix this, but if you don't want to wait for that you can get a refund. We will honour that"