A CD Projekt Purple exec has come out and mentioned that the controversy round Cyberpunk 2077’s launch was blown up by followers.
On launch Cyberpunk 2077 had a couple of impediment to over come. Followers have been met with large AI points, bugs, and game-breaking crashes, it received so unhealthy that PlayStation even needed to pull the title from the PlayStation retailer in December 2020.
Nevertheless, Michal Platkow-Gilewski, VP of PR and communication commented on this perceived failure to GamesIndustry.biz whereas reflecting on the sport’s launch. Apparently it was “manner higher that it was obtained”, and we’re all simply remembering it improper.
“I really consider Cyberpunk on launch was manner higher than it was obtained, and even the primary evaluations have been optimistic,” Platkow-Gilewski mentioned. “Then it grew to become a cool factor to not prefer it. We went from hero to zero actually quick. That was the powerful second. We did not know what was occurring. We knew that the sport is nice, sure we will enhance it, sure we have to take time to do it, and we have to rebuild some stuff.”
Nevertheless, it is vital to notice that the optimistic evaluations that Platkow-Gilewski is speaking about have been principally carried out on PC. Whereas there have been nonetheless points with optimization they have been nowhere close to as unhealthy as all the issues discovered on consoles.
Platkow-Gilewski goes on to handle rumors that the corporate is overstretched because of quite a few titles and spin-offs scheduled for the following few years, together with Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty.
“Initially, all these tasks are at completely different levels,” Platkow-Gilewski informed GI.biz. “It is not that we’re doing all that in the identical second on the identical stage, as a result of that may be numerous work. We’re eager about the technique for the years to return. We actually care about our IPs, we wish to develop them, we wish to create video games inside them. But in addition, we wish to be certain we’re targeted on a regular basis.
Here is hoping CD Projekt Purple has discovered from its errors with speeding the Cyberpunk 2077 launch and can take on a regular basis wanted for its upcoming titles to make sure higher preliminary high quality.
To date every little thing introduced for Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty appears unimaginable, with extra element and grunge than ever with a superb new model of Night time Metropolis that followers have by no means seen earlier than.