Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises

Re:Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite pas... by 0xy on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:01PM (#25328314)

Reread the OP. It's not exclusively about threats. This is also a giant billion dollar corporation that deliberately misled customers (who in many cases have already paid them for the product).

How did they deliberately mislead them? By saying things like only a natural disaster would stop the latest release date, only for it to slip with less than a month left.

That's an actual lie and false advertising. As someone with project management experience, the people making those claims are either incompetent or lying.

So yeah, customers who paid them money and were lied to have an absolute right to be furious. Death threats is an excuse. 99.99% of the criticism was justified and without intimidation or threats.

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Re:Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite pas... by jakelazaroff on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:26PM (#25328472)

Estimates are hard, software gets delayed. It’s not fun for the customer but it happens all the time and life goes on. Ask for your money back, or try for a class action lawsuit if you really think it’s fraudulent.

Obviously people can feel however they want, but we’re talking about $5–60 and like eight months delay; you’ll forgive me for being a little dismissive of people who are “furious” about this.

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