CD Projekt Red is under investigation

Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by hcnews on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:36PM (#25736278)

Active steam users for this game dropped much faster than that of Witcher 3 (which was similarly/less flawed at launch) based on public steam data. So, there's lot of evidence behind the message.

Anecdotally, the players I knew have stopped playing it altogether due to a variety of issues.

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Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by mywittyname on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:37PM (#25737606)

Probably because most of the pre-orders had enough time to beat the game.

The main story lines are not crazy long, maybe 30hrs or so. The side quests aren't nearly the quality of Witcher 3. Most are just, "run into this building and kill this guy / steal data from the terminal, then run out." They only serve as something to do while you're exploring the city.

With no multiplayer or generated content, I can't imagine why anyone would spend more than 60-80 hours playing the game. It makes sense that fewer people would be playing it by now.

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Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by jjoonathan on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:47PM (#25736542)

W3 was released in May of a non-pandemic year. CP2077 was released in December in a pandemic year.

The game-hours-to-calendar-days translation won't be 1:1.

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Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by krzyk on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:35PM (#25737567)

Well, it was quite obvious becasue of two reasons: 1. W3 players count was in few thousands (maybe 10 thousands) - so it had mostly hard core fans of the franchise 2. W3 main campain is ~51 hours, and CP2077 has campaing for 25 hours.

And also note, the massive amount of players of CP2077, 3x less is still few orders of magnitude more than W3 had.

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