They are basically lesser versions of the Witcher now. Better games then they use to be imo, but also not all that Assassin's Creedy. Which is a plus imo.
That's good to know actually. I loved The Witcher 3, so I'd welcome it.
Same. You can see the transition starting with Origins, and it is complete in Odyssey. Valhalla looks like the Witcher 3, re-skinned and it's hilarious.
I'm sure the game is more polished than Avengers. The game has gone gold and it's in a playable state, gameplay/features and all.
I wonder if it's optimization issues with PS4/XB1. After all, we haven't seen any console footage yet...
So the game is definitely buggy as hell, and is suffering performance issues on the "current gen" machines most likely. IMO they are trying to get it running and patched well enough to send out to review in mid November.
This is from yesterday:
Yeah, never assume these companies are telling the truth. I love CDPR's games. But they are as monstrous as EA, Rockstar, or Ubisoft are to their employees.
I'm not taking it at face value. I'm more frustrated that it becomes a hot topic only when a new game is getting ready for a release. Nobody is grilling Rockstar while they're in the middle of development despite alleged permanent crunch in big studios. But as soon as some major game is getting closer to release, hype riders like Shreier is here to serve truth, justice and American way.
Then you simply didn't follow those situation. Crunch has been a hot topic for years now, and the attention it gets has only been growing. Red Dead Redemption 2 was talked about a lot by Jason Schreier throughout it's development when he was at Kotaku. That came off the back of the reporting of GTAV being a killer to the workforce at Rockstar. Last of Us 2's crunch was brought up multiple times. In each case, fans of the studio cry about being singled out or that it only comes up at release. It's not true, at all. Witcher 3's crunch and the attention paid to it was a big topic in the community once former employees started talking about it.
CDPR also wanted to release the game half a year ago. And?
What action will you take against CDPR?
Your whataboutisms show a huge lack of good faith in these conversations. Your stance is to defend the company, and thus you ignore all facts and try to point the conversation in a different way to avoid the points being made. There is a name for posting like that.
You're right. I don't have any faith in these conversations. I read about crunch in the games industry for past 20 years or so. And? It became a constant element to game development since the dawn of time. What should we do about it? Stop buying games to punish these evil studios? I'm not gonna do that. I didn't do it 20 years ago and I'm not gonna do it now. Will you?
The more attention paid to it, which means the more people know about it, which results in pressure on game companies, and thus unionization or at the very least forced better working considerations in general. Look at Uber and Lyft freaking out about California and it's attempts to actually force them to do something about how they treat their drivers. This is literally how change happens.
I believe it's less about working conditions, alleged slave driving, and more about the nature of game development. Which I don't think can be changed. People know about crunch for decades. It doesn't help the situation. And people throw around false promises like there won't be any crunch because they don't want bad PR. But the thing is - they don't know how to avoid crunch. Good example is Naughty Dog. After crunch on all of their previous games (and especially on their more recent and bigger projects), they've decided to improve things on TLOU2. Planned everything and initially it went fine for some time. But then, surprise, they had to rework large parts of the game, the project changed and there you go. Another catch up game. And it got so bad that people began to leave the company. Rare projects can afford unlimited deadlines. When even companies like Naughty Dog with Sony's money can't. Game development is bloody chaos. Especially on ambitious projects, that try to push things. They have my sympathy, I'm aware of it, but my awareness won't change anything.
You're basically asking me "are you for people's suffering or against it?" What can I answer to that? I wish I knew how to fix this issue. Planning doesn't solve it. Because plans constantly change due to the nature of the industry. It's highly volatile.
Why tech is so special in this case? Exactly because it's evolving quickly, it has to adapt quickly, it's costly and on top of that there's element of artistry and self expression that drives creatives. I don't know any way around that. It's more complex than shareholders.
You have changed your argument on this at least 3 times, all in defense of inhuman treatment of human beings. Let's not forget that you are sitting here arguing that crunch is necessary after acting like it wasn't happening because they said it wasn't.
Cyberpunk has been in development for 7 years. Doesn't sound fast to me.
And that's just it. I might enjoy games that come out of it, but if the ability to make them is hinged on horrible treatment of workers... well, maybe then the AAA gaming industry doesn't deserve to survive. A fun video game really isn't worth the human toll. And certainly the bonuses of the filthy rich aren't worth that either. But I guess that's capitalism for you. A broken system in need of stricter regulation.
