They certainly can't with the team they have. It astounds me that they thought hiring from failed studios would make sense, but then again they're Polacks. I wonder if they felt pressure from the government since apparently they were looking to CDPR to be their answer to the AI question that every other major country is pursuing. Man, what a blowback, they loaded that sabotaged shell into the shotgun and lost half their face.
He completely glossed over the review controversy. He also didn't bother to bring up how he straight up lied about the current gen versions of the game. I think they'll eventually make good on getting 2077 stable, even "great" in a couple of years, but the first playthrough will always be the most memorable. As uncommon as it is to see a CEO apologize like this, they also are in an incredibly dire situation in terms of grievous brand damage, furious shareholders, lawsuits from customers, and now looming oversight from Poland itself. With that said this will probably be enough to satiate the mildly perturbed normie consoomer and of course the reddit corpo-fellators still white knighting the CDPR brand.
The first comment is literally "Honestly heart broken for the developers tbh." We're already at cope and white knight defense mode after all this.
Yeah they got rid of their game director a few years in and basically threw everything out. This whole project reminds me of Bioware. Looking forward to the Schreier deep dive sourced from pissed devs.
He also sounds like he has a gun pointed at him. I'm guessing the investors demanded he publicly 'apologize' to the consumers.
I'll believe it when I see it. Him not mentioning the management responsible for this mess being fired does not inspire optimism in me. I'm still willing to give this game a second chance and still think that them pulling a No Man's Sky redemption arc is theoretically possible, but with the same management around I'm going to press X to doubt for now.
The only reason anyone would apologize in a corporate environment is because shareholders and investors are pointing a gun at them. They don't give a shit about the consumer. They care about money and only money. They made that very clear with the review copies and the absolute state of the game when it launched lmao. "We knew how fucked the game was but kept it hidden from you and milked the market for everything it was worth, we didnt mean to we're sorry *rubs nipples*" The funny part is CDPR white knights will suck them off for their response.
Maybe they did and we don't know it (yet). But if they didn't, they'll only have themselves to blame if things go tits up even more...
I might be wrong, but it is my understanding that the investors and shareholders were lied to by the management, hence the lolsuits.
If all the rumors surrounding Cyberpunk being scrapped/reworked are true I hope we get more leaks or whatever actually confirming them, game must've gone through absolute developmental hell. Stuff like that is always fun to look at.
On PC using camera hacks reveals that they didn't bother to create third person animations/rigging at all. If you use a mod to force third person your character just glides around in a T pose.
