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Cyberpunk 2077, Supposed to Be Biggest Video Game of the Year: What Happened?

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What happened? Its THE Fastest-Selling PC Game Of All Time.

https://www.vg247.com/2020/12/11/cyberpunk-2077-fastest-sell...

https://www.vg247.com/2020/12/23/cyberpunk-2077-13-million-s...

4.72 million copies on day one, 13 million copies in 10 days.

You’re not wrong, but the amount of bugs caused mass returns/refunds. How are the numbers after being adjusted?

The game is great I love it. The graphics are amazing, never enjoyed pixels so much. There is an amazing depth in the storytelling and in the universe conveyed. The occasional bugs only make the game more fun. I consider myself lucky to have witness a few I'm sure many people won't be able to see them when in a few weeks most bugs will be already fixed.

I’m enjoying it anyway. Honestly it feels like a totally new experience playing it and despite occasional issues, it’s been pretty fun and engaging.

Same. Playing on PC. Few bugs. I didn't buy into the hype (ignored the game's marketing) and am enjoying it very much as a result.

In the past I've been bitten by my own unrealistic expectations of certain games prior to release. I'm sure there's a little bit of that at play here, both the developers and gamers/new media's fault.

Same, about 3 hours into it, no bugs other than a floating car on the sidewalk.

I am in the same boat, I am loving it. Granted I bought a new PC recently so I can play the game at Ultra settings, but I find visual and narrative design are outstanding.

I'm playing on an older PC: i5-2500k (from 2011!); 12gb RAM, Geforce 1070; 1920x1080. It works well on Ultra settings, but I have occasional tree glitches. Story and gameplay are excellent.

Hah, I'm also still rocking an i5-2500k. Didn't even think it is worth trying this game but seeing your comment gives me some hope.

This is an excellent game, I think what's most interesting is how the media seems to affect the public opinion about it.

I don't know if it's the media.

I was reading one thread just after launch on reddit where people were ready to put someone's head on a pike over the most minor details.

One person was heavily complaining about the lack of trains in the game because of an early intro screen that showed a train.

This person was raging mad about something they only thought might exist within the game.

There was just too much hype and those crazy fanatics let themselves down, and took the general public with them.

The subreddit for this game is a textbook case of cult behavior. Extreme anticipation of event, extreme hatred reaction when event didn't live up to impossible expectations.

And people think Facebook breeds extremism...

I loved the game. I expected more but I still loved it, despite bugs and all. I’m pumped for the DLC.

I mean, rarely if ever does an over-hyped game live up to its insane hype.

Look at Destiny and No Man's Sky. They basically followed the same cycle. Game is hyped up and an incredible amount of time and money is put into development. Game releases and is good at its core. But it's still very buggy, and the expectations were so high, that people are disappointed.

Fortunately, this means you can expect Cyberpunk's bugs will be ironed out, new content will be added, and over the next few years it will evolve into a nice game.

More content? The game is already >30h if you plow thru, 50h normal gameplay and easily >100h if you actually read every piece of lore and complete every quest.

I mean, the prologue is ~6 hours! ;)

I remember several games that had were promised to have amazing new gameplay features, were hyped based on those features, and then failed to deliver. A few from my memory: Fable, Spore, and No Man's Sky.

That isn't to stay those games were bad, just that they weren't what was promised.

Looks like Cyberpunk 2077 is in the same category.

I just find it sad that anyone ever believes any of the hype.

Have you played it? Did you read Sprawl trilogy?

Oh well. Sounds like the bugs have ruined the game. At least the developers are able to fix them in updates. Could have been a lot worse if consoles were still in the age of physical copies with no way to update them.

Imagine if such games were on read-only cartridges, CDs with no update mechanisms like the PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, etc then we're looking at a complete and irreversible disaster.

Better wait until the developers fix these bugs before playing this game.

I mean the ability to patch is why they ship broken. Games now are published to rely on Day-1 patching to fix key issues.

In the era of zero-patch gameplay the PS2 and Gamecube versions wouldn't have shipped.

The Xbox offered downloadable content in some games so I believe if it were released on this consoled it could have been patched in theory.

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