Re:Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds
by martin_bech on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:08PM
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The only reason the public was impatient, is they promissed the game back im April, and have been taking preorders for ages..
Then don't preoder. Making such a fuss about wanting the game right now, then making a fuss that the game is rushed and incomplete, that just makes people sound like a petulant child.
Don't take peoples money if you don't know when you are going to release a product. It's not a hard concept.
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds
by tsimionescu on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:28PM
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There is no reason to pre-order a digital product, so I agree - never pre-order.
Still, since they are taking pre-orders, and since they had an announced date at the time they sold those pre-orders, delaying by more than half a year your part of a contract is not normally acceptable conduct. It's understandable and not at all abnormal that people who did pre-order were asking for their money's worth.
Don't pre-order is quickly becoming don't buy titles until they get patched.
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds
by sumtechguy on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:11PM
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Pre-order, I used to do that all the time. After awhile I got tired of having to go back and get a refund when the game/movie would not come out for at least 1-2 years after the pre-order. Now I just wait, and usually wait for a sale. By the time the price falls the big crazy bugs are usually worked out. The only time it made sense to pre-order is if there was some sort of merch to go with and even then it better be some nice swag. Now I have a box full of useless junk that no one really cares about (even me) and a set of games I forgot about a long time ago.
I think December was more about Christmas sales than appeasement. They didn't want to miss the holiday season and have to wait months more for people to pay off their debts.
The problem is you only get to make a an impression once (as Sovietwomble on Twitch often points out)
They have to fix the game, in 3 months they have to discount the game already, and if they are really unlucky the game is forgotten this time next year.
If they had nailed it, they would be sitting on literal gold, also for their next launch.
Did anyone think it would come out polished? The repeated delays were already hinting that the CDPR was in trouble and couldn't cope with the workload. When they finally committed to a deadline to release in December, it seemed more out of desperation to appease the impatient public than an indication that they were nearly done with finishing the game.
So they released it in, as you said, its buggy alpha state. At least I trust CDPR to do right by its players and see the game to completion.