Cyberpunk 2077

Remember exactly 8 years ago when CD Projekt Red took an idea from Mike Pondsmith, a experienced board game designer, and choose to do their own creation based in a future where there were no rules, no limitations and no boundaries? Their first trailer at the time, consisted on a scantily clad young woman so perfect that her skin didn't get scraped by speedy bullets. All along a small group of policemen were aiming their most deadly weapons at her because of what she's done which was committing murder. In a future so colorful, yet dark and somber, it was a small prelude of what CD Projekt Red was planning after the success of The Witcher series including their latest hit Witch Hunt was a worldwide phenomenon. Their future was set in motion.

CD Project Red kept this project under wraps. With intense caution they didn't divulge any additional information except this game was going to revolutionize the whole world about how videogames were made. Their focus of their fans waiting for this game were detoured to other AAA videogames like Call of Duty, Borderlands, Assassin's Creed, Fallcry among others. But still their long wait paid off after hundreds of trailers, teasers and countless hours of how the videogame is going to be. Even Keanu Reeves jump up the bandwagon to support and participate in this game. Fans were hyped even thought this game were delayed three times.

So, finally the game launched and it seems...

Bland. Incomplete. Messy.

How can they get away with murder? Specially when millions of players reserve their copies in advance to then giving them a faulty product? During the first day of playing the game on my PS4, I didn't have any problems, even though their graphics pulled up to the point of GTA IV feel, and their world seems kinda empty and non-interactive. Where everything you see on every videogame is there to see. Every side quest, every nook and cranny of this futuristic world except we didn't expected to be that much of glitches. We didn't expected to be so incomplete.

So, that means that after all the bells and whistles of how this game will be, at the launch day, they should do a lot of fixin' before giving to everyone else a incomplete piece of a game? But reality is they didn't. And it doesn't surprised me, at all! There's Bethesda infamous Fallout 76, The Elder Scrolls Online, Square Enix online version of Final Fantasy and No Man's Sky. In some of these games, these developers and publishers spend long hours to fix the difficult problems on these games, to the point they're even better. But in some cases like Fallout 76, the damage was already done.

So where do Projekt Red stands right now?

They have two choices, either accept their snafu of a game and fix it, or they will continued to be radio silent ignoring every gamer who purchased the game who complains about how buggy, glitched and incomplete Cyberpunk 2077 really is. Because unfortunately, how they can review a game that it isn't 80% complete? Specially the day before launch, which CDPR prohibited these critics to draw an honest review of their game and have to deal with the PC version of it, because it was the "best" polished part of the game.

But they choose to secret point number three: Cash their earnings to the bank, keep it hush, hush and pretend nothing happened. This is in fact one of the main fraud practices, videogame companies along with publishers and developers to do this type of crap to gamers, specially waiting 8 years for a game like this. 8 long years! They should do better than 15% of what they did to this game!

As a streamer, I did promote this game in the beginning, and have a few incidents where the characters in the game were blocky like you're playing a Nintendo 64 game. Didn't have vehicle glitches and while doing the main quest the best that I could. Then when Jackie, the NCP character passed away in the game, I got my first crash during the broadcast. I got furious! I couldn't even get passed that until the next day when I received the "Hot Fix" for the game and at least I got passed that. But choose not to stream the content until the next day. Well, after broadcasting for more than 50 minutes of gameplay, it got crashed again! I just said, "Fuck it!" I won't be broadcasting and promoting this shell of a game until they actually have the decency to fix it, or give the money back at least! It seems oxymoron to keep promoting it with all these irregularities amounted in this game. It doesn't make sense to keep promoting it, when there are better games that work flawlessly with no issues or if it has, they were able to fix it. Those I can stream on my channel, while Cyberpunk 2077, I have to let it go.

Meanwhile CDPR issued an "apology" and "vowed" to fix these bugs and crashes to have the game more stable in terms of play ability, graphics and other issues. But the damage is too late for the whole amount of issues that are constantly listed and still are cashing their earning in. This is a mess, folks! Plain and constant whole of a mess to end up this chaotic year 2020.