Cyberpunk 2077 - Progressing as Planned
 

@PCGamesN CD Projekt RED have responded to rumours generated when some staff members left Cyberpunk 2077. They say things are progressing as planned and individual departures have no great effect on the project.
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you beat me to it Silver :)

Means we get the game in year 2077 as planned? :D

"…as it turns out, most things are perfectly possible, they just require a lot of faith, commitment and spirit."

Faith = Loyalty (stop whistle-blowing)
Commitment = Overtime (your job is your life)
Spirit = Morale (you are replaceable- if you don't like it, leave)

This was as much a message to their employees as it was to the fans.
;)

I like how one can take a piece of text, assign any kind of meaning to it, and pretend they are a great sage discerning "the truth" by "reading between the lines".

It's called bullshit PR. Every company does it. Plus, reading between the lines (discerning actual meanings from statements people make) is literally my job. So yeah. *shrugs*

Of course, you great sage you.

You must be bedazzled by politicians. All the wonderful things they say… I must use witchcraft to see through it.

He most likely isn't. He simply doesn't take every uttering as a God's given truth…

In my view this is a good interpretation of what is clearly corporate speak. Well done.

In that case, I would suggest he start with something like: "That's one way of interpreting CDPR's press release, but here's why I disagree…" Instead, he chose to patronize. And so I followed him down the rabbit hole like any mature adult on an anonymous forum would.

Listen, I'm a fan of CDPR, I really am. But they could have simply said, "Hey, we're aware of the recent rumors of employee beatings, but it's not true. People leave. It's a business, and yes sometimes we have to push our folks hard to make deadlines. I'm sure our dedication to making Cyberpunk 2077 the best game we can will only make our fans happy." But instead, he went on and on with sometimes odd word choice, which (**IN MY OPINION**) suggests there's probably something to it.

The end.

IMO there are prolly a couple other things going on…

CDPR management is really really focused on their games and experiencing tone deafness as a result. They believe they are (and indeed they are) contributing to economy and industry of Poland. They are proud of their employee's enthusiasm and commitment. And making great games.

They are creating jobs in Poland that didn't exist -- and an industry that didn't exist. And they really really aren't seeing teh potential problem of workers being burned out…

Management is probably really really dedicated and working average of 12+ hrs/day. Proud of themselves and programmers/developers. Difference is that management gets more salary and stock bonus…

Solution is give employees stock bonus and/or matching stock purchase plan. Employees reap rewards from gtrowth of company in addition to salary.

I think they're good ppl. Hope thy get it figured out.

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I dont think that is what is meant by those words in that context.

Faith = Believe reaching the goal is possible even though it looks unlikely or impossible.
Commitment = Overtime(I agree with this)
Spirit = Work as fast as possible and as well with others as possible.

You have taken that line out of that paragraph and made it as dubious as possible. You should be ashamed if that is actually your job.

The full paragraph is this:
The context is clear as day. Now, I am not saying what you described doesnt happen in the company, but that sentence in context clearly is something different to what you have said about it.

Welllll… if you put it like this how can I disagree? :)

Got to give some credit to them for addressing it. There's no real evidence that they are trying to cover anything up except these don't appear to be your average employees. But really, everyone is replaceable and as far as we know them being good might be a good thing. Anything else is just cynicism.

The company would release the exact same statement regardless of the work environment or people's reasons for leaving.

They could have a policy where anyone working fewer than 80 hours in a week is sent into an underground maze full of hungry mutant wolves. Their PR would pump out the the same thing.

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Yea. Today, silence has fallen:

https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/st…91371200466944

I can't wait to see how mainstream they can make it ;)

What makes you think that they'll try?

The past and especially Witcher 3.

It's only ok when certain companies are mainstream. :)

Nothing wrong with mainstream as long as you know what not to expect.

Yeah. For example, actually good games.

I don’t think it’s about good or bad, but about accessibility and challenge. Mainstream games can be great or crap like any other, they just tend to be rather straightforward which is more about personal preference.

For instance, PB games are the opposite of mainstream and fans seem to enjoy that aspect of them.

Some of my favorite games are mainstream, but I tend to not like that aspect of them.

Well it is progress it was after all a BEEP.

He did say that, you're apparently just not very good at reading between the lines.;)

As for the game progressing, I don't care. Just call me when it's done.

Yes, but it's taking a long time :( I'm getting
impatient.

Straightforward like TW3? Too simple for your refined tastes? What a load of bollocks my dear DArt

Exactly, too straightforward. Extremely straightforward, in fact.

I'm sure it was a big challenge for you, though. I mean, following those red marks using witcher senses must have pushed your capacity to the limit ;)

You are a straightforward guy DArt so let me try to explain as simply as I'm able: choices and consequences. Can't recall a game (maybe with the exception of Project Andromeda) with such an amount of choices and meaningful consequences of those choices.

I think TW2 was on par as well. What's this Project Andromeda you speak of?

Temporary brain seizure JDR, I meant Alpha Protocol. And I agree about TW2.

Choices and consequence only really matter if you replay it. I played the game once and have no idea what consequences my choices had.

unfortunately for me, the game wasn't fun enough for a replay.

Yeah, I think TW2 must have the single most consequential example of choice and consequence, basically splitting the rest of the game in two. Or are there other games like that?

C&C absolutely matters whether you replay it or not. It could mean the death of one NPC vs another, for example, or having to face a particular enemy later on vs someone else.

Whether or not you know what the other choice would have brought is irrelevant.

Not to me it doesn’t.

If an Npc’s lives and I never know there was an option for them to die then it doesn’t matter to me.

If I play through again and that Npc’s dies, I’d think, Wow that’s pretty cool but if I never know that can happen that experience is lost on me and carries no weight.

You certainly have an interesting take on it. That's like saying the sky isn't blue because you're not looking at it, but ok.

I almost always replay a game at least once if I know it has significant C&C, and even if I don't replay it, it's inevitable to hear about the other choices through forums, etc, thus finding out exactly what the consequences of your choices were.

Not at that scale, but I think some games have tried in some way. For example might and magic 7 has a good and an evil path.
Age of decadence is 4 games into one but based mostly on your start.
Gothic 3 had the choice of siding with orcs or humans which affected the game play somewhat.

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I've only played through it once, so can't say for certain, but Tyranny felt like it had good C&C. I usually felt like my decisions had impact in terms of areas I could explore and factions and genuine consequences for the overall story path etc.

errrrr… yes… except TW3 have a cut-scene at the end of every chapter where players choices and consequences of those choices are listed.