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Yep everyone who claimed to be fans of the game when it first dropped quickly turned coat to cash in on the bad game hype and now everyone is starting to see that even for a flawed game with some bugs it’s still better than any other game that dropped this year by a landslide
@@indiexanna yup, my jaw dropped when I heard the total budget was 314 million but then the CEO said game had a budget of 120 million. *THEY SPENT 200 MILLION ON MARKETING ALONE* Other quality studios could've made an entire phenomenal game out of that 200 million & marketed successfully
To be fair, we know exactly why companies do this. Overwhelmingly marketed turds make BANK. Every single time. Lies and hype alone will sell your game and most people can't be bothered to refund. CDPR's bottom line, even despite this mess, is hugely positive. They made BANK by shipping a turd that they fooled us into thinking would be some next-gen RPG. Heck, half the player base even vehemently defends it as a masterpiece. So you can ship a turd and half the players will defend it. They almost can't lose. Just makes me sad that there are so many games out there that are good, but because they can't afford to spend millions marketing, they'll never really get the recognition they deserve. Meanwhile, CDPR is basically allowed to get away with... this... because they spent all their time weaving elaborate lies that people took at face value. I don't really blame people though, I fell for the fake 40 minute gameplay demo too.
I remember when yong was absolutely jizzing in his jocks when he saw the backstage private demo, how things have changed since then never give into the hype
I remember Yong hyping this game up so much when he got the early access code and then turned around and started talking it down after everybody started playing it
@@aestheticstorm4771 Yep, I remember that too. Only after ppl start showing how buggy and unplayable the game was on twitter that he started talking shit about the game. You can argue that as he said, he got the best version of the game, but still, most of the things he say is a design flaw now, were present there like the police behavior and many of the gamebreak bugs, so...
@@aestheticstorm4771 yeah, he was saying when he started playing that the game delivered :D this guy dont know what a good or bad game is, if his life depended on it...
Everyone was shilling for cd projekt. People thought that cyberpunk will be at least at par with witcher 3 so they will at the end of the day will get away with it but alas they were so wrong.
@@bas9348 I played the game on my high end pc. All settings on ultra with raytracing off. I also recently played Infamous Second Son on ps5. Infamous Second Son looks better.
@@bas9348 it looks worse than a lot of pc games over the past 2 years and runs worse as well. Especially when you consider how little interaction within the world you have.
@@bas9348 The aesthetic is cool. I love futuristic sci fi stuff. The graphical fidelity is lacking though. The game legitimately looks like a ps3 game at times.
@@Dragon9Nexus at least destiny played well and wasn’t an unplayable mess at launch. The primary critique of Destiny 1 at launch was the lack of content and not every promised being fulfilled upon launch.
Don't take companies at their word. Draft sound contracts and make 'em sign 'em. Even then, if they've any sense, they'll weigh the cost of the commitment, and if they can afford to renege then they just might. Human beings can sometimes be trusted. Companies cannot.
@@troin3925 No...the death threats from some random pricks had nothing to do with CD Releasing the game too early. That's the point. Now you all should know the real reason. The only people still defending CD would be blind loyalists.
@@ShadeHaxor being paid for having her voice / character model in the game is not being "paid off".. it's simply being paid for your work, and having an obvious bias because of that.. which to my knowledge Alannah was very open about
Keanu's model in the game is actually seemingly worse than most other characters' models. It's a shame that he doesn't have cranked poly counts for better hair and a beard and higher resolution textures but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@CJDcow To be fair, it does look like that at first, in fact it always _LOOKS_ like that. The problem is it's all surface appearance, there's very little _reactivity_ to the world, but you only really discover that after spending a bit of time with the game.
despite it the game being buggy and launched badly.. you can't just outright say Night City isn't detailed. Check out Morphologis breakdown on space, height and architecture for NC if you are interested. Even the tiniest alleyway or trashcan has links to CYBERPUNK lore
@Lord Megawin LOL. Yet Yong Gave endless praise for the game until it came out and there were bugs. Now all of a sudden they are worse than Bethesda who put MTX in an unplayable game that bricked your console.
@@Hc4697 4 years of actual development* Still a long time to come out with something this broken, but *slightly* less ridiculous amount of time they squandered.
@@kasper7203 yeah he's probably smart to do that. It's spineless but even on this very video he has 1500 likes and 1.5,000 dislikes as I'm writing this. Although all the top comments are critical... He needs his own s***** apology
I honestly dont think Yong was being intentionally dishonest as you guys seem to paint here. He's been careful not backtrack any of his positive remakes in his review and if he has anything negative to say within his recent coverage, it's usually comments only addressing/correlated to the poor technical state of the game. Which I do think is pretty frustrating myself given how blatantly unfinished most of the games major features are. But that is only addressing how we critically disagree. Not a criticism of the ethics of his journalism.
@@joshuataff4911 he falsely reported this game was "good" on PC just a few months ago.. Don't you think it is a bit suspicious that he is suddenly saying the game is "bad"? Yong doesn't get a free pass.. If he acts like EA or the big companies who try to make a quick buck at the consumers expense.. Then speaking up is the right thing to do. What Yong did is wrong, he should apologize
This basically sounds like a student who did great on all their assignments throughout the year then decided to procrastinate on the final one and ends up failing it
Not even that man... CDPR games before were good, but not groundbreaking. Witcher 3 was what really placed them in the map and launched their pre-Cyberpunk 2077 image. It's more like an average student that once did great on a math test and thus he thinks he can apply to Harvard, and fails.
More like a school kid who was making a school project and was happy doing it but teachers forced him to rush and work overtime so they can sell it Then when finding out that the product was not as good as it would be without rushing, the kid was expelled from school
You guys don't feel like youtubers and big reviewers have some responsibility in all this CP2077 mess? I mean, Yong himself said that the game "did live up to the hype" and a lot of people took his word for it...
Exactly, Yong is complicit in how disappointing this game was. He's been hyping it up to his audience for months and has had Cyberpunk merch on display for at least a year. Then tried to get on his high horse once the game is clearly a flop.
He hates the fact he needs to cover stuff like this, you can tell. He's been so biased its unbelievable, I knew not to trust a review from him but cmon man you are a self described journalist, you need to stop shilling for companies
It's not about graphics or fps. Those two has always been great in my pc. It's the cut content, dumb ai, lifeless city and cop spawning rubbish. Remember 3 lifepath?more like 3 prologue path.
“It delivers”- yongyea “I’m going to ‘hold CDPR accountable’ despite not mentioning the cut content and broken ai in my early review. To make everyone think I’m not bias”- yongyea
How did he know at the time what would be cut and what wouldn’t? The game he played wasn’t what shipped out, you can only give your thoughts on what you experienced
@@satan899 He played the review version a few weeks before launch. And he said that it had some bad bugs but overall it delivered. He is the definition of a shill.
@@jimcanterak7349 you are trying to reason with an edgelord with a user name satan. you think you was going to get any kind of sophistication from him?
Engineer here. It's not the managers. It's the salesman you have to worry about. The salesman will tell clients (gamers) whatever they want to hear to sell a product. Then got back to the devs and demand they make their promises work. This is a case of the salesman not being put on a leash and allowed to say whatever he wants. Also, yes, poor management as well.
i agree to some extent because yes you need to be interested by work of your employees however i think managment in inself is more psychological and maneger type of work you need to understand development and crew enough to guide them,basicaly yes you want them to be able to do it, but if they cant that dont mean they cant be managers of inefective atleast because you need other set of skills for that.
@@joaokiwi2543 He's not a shill because shills get paid by the corporations they gush over.....hes didn't even get paid for it, he was just gullible and bought into their BS. Skill Up and quite a few other influences fell for their BS too. That's what you get for putting your faith in a corporation....ANY corporation.
Why are so many gamers always this salty and negative? CP2077 IS a very fun game. Yeah, it was released with a lot of issues on most platforms, but if you're allowing the drama to prevent you from trying it out or from enjoying it, you're missing out. This is even before the major 1.1 and 1.2 updates that are releasing very soon. I'm not saying that the game has no issues, that there are no improvements to be made, or that the management at CDPR were right in their actions, but maybe you should try not to worry so much about the media outrage? His review was his honest opinion of the game when it is working properly (apart from a few dismissible bugs), and without the drama influencing how he felt. Of course if you're playing on console, I understand why you would think his review is misleading. Once the game is working better on console, or if you're on PC, I'd highly suggest that you check it out, and try not to let the negativity influence your experience.
Yongyea is complicit in how disappointing this game was. He's been hyping it up for months and has had Cyberpunk merch on display long before the game was ever released.
@Derek G people had ever right to be annoyed after multiple delays,it's all on cdpr,announcing release of the game when it clearly wasn't even close to be ready and then lying "it's done,were just polishing" not to mention hyping the game up to be what it clearly isn't,so yes,people got annoyed by being teased time and time again. Should have delayed the game to 2021or even2022 long time ago.
@@mikhaelgribkov4117 Ubisoft games are the same pig slop served over and over again. Just because another studio looks bad, doesn’t mean that Ubisoft suddenly gets a pass or looks better.
@@thumpdragfilms he's usually so damned critical of games, for him to praise the game and then have it turn out like this, with cut content, completely changed genre, and buggy as hell, and just be ok with that, came off as strange to me.
@animationeer The "build" they showed was hyper conceptualized footage, not a playable demo. Look up PC gameplay footage then that "demo" and you'll see it's nowhere near the same and that was the first nail in the coffin, it's what got people pissed in the first place and it's a controversy he covered, but sure 🤷🏿♂️
@animationeer he himself said he played a demo of the game. Then was blown back by finding out the gameplay trailer was a lie, meaning he lied about playing the demo. That's as simple as I'm gonna put it.
This is why I've only preordered once, Fallout 4, and that was the last time. Not worth buying until a year or two later when the game is finished, the bugs are fixed, and all the DLC is out.
i dont understand preordering mentality, in case of consoles or new PC HW or something when it can run out of stock then ok but games? people cant wait 1 more day? and after so many years of releasing unfinished games you would tell people learn but nope
preordered only witcher 3 cos i liked the first two and figured that even if its bad id given the dev some support, but yeah haven't preordered anything else and with a few exceptions, if some devs truly earn it, never will
Pre-ordering made sense when you had to pre-order a physical copy at your local store back in the days so you could be sure there is gonna be one for you left. But that was long time ago. Pre-ordering now makes zero sense, especially for AAA games. It doesn't even support the hundreds of devs themselves, since all the money go to executives / shareholders anyway.
As someone who has literally no fucking clue what goes into developing a game, I can say without a shred of doubt that the absolute last thing you should do in a management position is hear devs constantly tell you the game isn’t going to run properly and then just completely ignore it entirely. This seems like common fucking sense to me but apparently it’s standard for management in the gaming industry to ignore the concerns of the people who are directly creating the product? Bruh
It's common practice in pretty much every big business to stick their heads in the sand and kick the can down the road. They can be exceptionally stupid when it comes to prioritising short term profit over everything else, including long term profit.
@animationeer Stop copying and pasting excuses for these shills, Yong like every one else was given the same game as every one else and he shilled to the high heavens until the backlash got to much and had to save face by doing a 180. And if Yong was given a demo than shame on him for calling it a review on a final product and should of disclosed that it was just a demo, but it wasnt a demo it was the same game as the one they launched to everyone else and he was given a copy to review and called it a Masterpiece. In his own review he stated he had very much finished the main story and was stll doing side quests etc and went about him great this game is and how much coentent etc.
@@jcflores1774 If your slack is too much for others to pick up then you are a liability and you are let go. Telling them someone else is going to do it is like telling them "your coworkers will hate you and you'll get fired in a months time".
Based on his response, his earlier statements and how he basically handled direction of Cyberpunk 2077, I feel that Adam Badowski really ought to keep his mouth shut because I do not think his attempts to save face are going well.
Honestly. I don't like comparing them to Hello Games like a lot of people do cause I honestly think Sean Murray regretted what he did and went about doing whatever he could to try and make things right, where Adam comes off as annoyed at us for bothering to be mad at him lying. But if they should copy anything from what Hello Games did it should be all of them shutting the fuck up and just fixing the game. The only time we should hear from Adam (now that the apology and roadmap are out there) is when a patch or content drop happens. Adam's out here making bullshit excuses no one wants to hear or that anyone would even believe and being antagonistic to people rightly mad at him. Just say sorry and fix the damn game.
@@Ehh..... I agree, hello game actually seemed apologetic and kept their head down fixing the game instead of arguing trying to save face, not to mention they’re actually indie devs unlike CDPR where they have plenty of time and resources to make the game to match their vision
@@jaspercheng923 Also CDPR is self publishing while HG had pressure from outside. Really weak statement... the excuses are an insult, not to mention when he didn't even dare to say anything about half the points. Shows how goddamn awful the company (leadership) actually is... all show and fake hype.
@@Ehh..... Man I remember the joy he got after winning on going award 2020 just pure dedication very well deserve it so humble he even prepared to lose to fortnite dang
@@romcom5 It's funny that he didn't made a single video about how Death stranding was a massive failure in Sonys eyes, so much that they booted Kojima.
@@MisterZimbabwe to me, death stranding has the “fine art” vibe, like some bullshit you’d see in the Louvre or something. It’s an uninteresting blob of paint on canvas, but people trick themselves into thinking it’s deep.
@@WhoTookMyMirr the developers were consistently telling everyone how great this game would be. There was also tension between some of the developers, especially when it came to language barriers. To deny that the developers had no part of play in the quality of the game is laughable.
Nothing alike. They had disclaimers the game would change and the product did feature alot from that initial demo. Watchdogs posed their demo as if it were the final product.
@@LouSassol69er CDPR made a demo separate from the final game and even made the same mistake of showing a scripted set piece and claimed it would happen at random.
@@xBluegamerx subject to change covers the vehicle part too. Alot of that demo did make it into the game and looked superior to the demo too graphically. Does it play better than the demo? Not really, because of the bugs and glitches. But it's no Ubisoft 1-1.
@@LouSassol69er While putting a disclaimer like subject to change covers you from lawsuits it doesn't cover for bad pr, they cut over half the content they bragged about over the years, while not quite on the level of No Man's Sky cut content, unlike No Man's Sky they already said they only plan to fix the game, not finish it.
I can’t believe his response was “go back & look at the demo” & mentions 1 of the 3 car chases 😂 What do you think we’ve been doing since December. There are a ridiculous amount of lies in the first 10 minutes & plenty of comparative videos. I’ve lost so much respect for them smh. & they had the nerve to talk shit about EA.
Honestly, Badowski’s response to all this screams of someone trying to weasel their way out of potential lawsuits, so much so it hurts. When investors asked about whether or not the game was playable on last gen consoles after release, despite the fact that they ran like ass, fellow cdpr head Nowakowski responded with “Well, it’s not unplayable, it boots up.” Like, dude honestly go fuck yourself. If i put a dvd into a dvd player and the movie comes on but is constantly pixelated and the sound is buzzing or flat out not working, that dvd may be “playable” but odds are you’re not gonna fucking sit and experience something like that, let alone pay a premium for entry.
The whole reply is pathetic, he talks about how the features that we were shown weren't "missing" and that this is just how development works...except the 2018 demo clearly states that "the aim is to give you a glimpse of what WILL be possible in the final game" and how they still allowed people to pre-purchase the game based on features that they weren't even sure would end up working out anyway. How about being honest and ONLY showing off the features that you know are working and will be in the final game? But that would require an ounce of integrity. And then he goes on about how "we got some many 9s and 10s from prolific reviewers" with such a smug satisfaction, as if he thinks that their vision worked out in the end. This just confirms that they see this shitshow release as a partial success because they were given high marks by shill outlets that want to remain on good terms with them so they don't lose out on their benefits like being flown around the world to exclusive events. If only people didn't complain so much and refunded the game to the point where Sony refused to sell it anymore, they might have just gotten away with it.
@@orcho141 yes and no at the same time. If all the devs come out and say "this game is not ready and we are not going to work 24/7" then management will listen to them. When it's 20 out of hundreds then ye it's just 20 lazy people.after the fact just stfu. What more from what we got you can see that art team did a 10/10 job but the rest of the team are not that good.
They need to fix every bug and then start adding lots and lots of content to the game such as side activities (gwent-style minigame) for me to even respect them anymore and I was a fanboy and hyped this game for 5 years.
@@simplelife88393 me for 7 years. Whatever they do this point forward is never gonna capture the magic that they promised us. Our reactions will be “well this should’ve been in the game at launch” I’m never gonna trust them again.
How we all know how it went down: - Developers: "the games not ready" - Management: "yes it is. We'll release it" - Developers: "no DO NOT release it. It's NOT READY!!" - Management: "Its good enough. We're going to release it" - Management: *releases game* - Gamers: "WTf is this sht?" - Management: "oh I guess its not ready..sorry" 🤦♂️
when did the devs ever say it? if they so much cared for the thing they do some of them can openly say this so all people will see. then the Management be forced to not get it out.but its clear that the devs just wanted to have it easy some more time.
@The Moth not at all. I am 31 and know well what a job is and how time works. What I am sick of here is people say "if they just got more time" and "well the devs say after the fact how bad it was". Non of this make the dave's look good.
I have not played ghost of tsushima yet but just from the gameplay i have seen the game looks a hell of a lot better and i fully expected it to lag but no it does not
Being playing Miles Morales on OG PS4 today and Cyberpunk looks like a 360 launch game compared to it, ok sure Cyberpunk is more "complex" but then explain Red Dead 2 looking incredible on PS4 as well running fairly well and being fairly dense with NPC's having scripted lives if you decide to follow them around. Cyberpunk isn't too complex its just CDPR clearly gave zero shits about the consoles and put everything into the PC versions.
@@NaoyaYami Yeah, it's Fallout 76 all over again, among others. So many games where leadership wants one thing while the devs are telling them another.
@@Revan_7even in this case it hurts more than F76. We all know that bethesda lies and delivers broken clusterfucks 90% of the time since before skyrim. But CDPR were the "good ones", there was no way to see their image change so drastically like this
was it biased though? nobody knew the game was trash on consoles. cdproject red only allowed the pc version to be reviewed . we all thought the game was going to be amazing from the fake demos and trailers we where seen. nobody knew what was going on in behind the closed doors.
@@youngodonkor6595 the game on a super high end pc is better yes but the core issues with the game are on every platform, brain dead AI, cut content that they promissed, the lack of choice and consequence, the game NOT being a RPG, I could go on and on. The game even on PC is not a 9/10 and did not live up to the hype like he said on his review, not even by a mile. So yes, it was very bias and then when everybody started to crap on the game he fliped and did the same thing.
@Mo Ni The thing is, don't hype a game pre release. There is a great chance that you are gonna be dissapointed. I only watched a little bit of one of the gameplay trailers and thought "wow that looks amazing". I bought it on release thinking it's gonna be a good game but instead I got a bug ridden, half-assed, cut-content game compared to what I saw from the trailers. They promised us something grand, but greed got them by the balls. I really feel sorry for the devs. I hope they can finish the game they were meant to release.
How's that lying? You might not agree with him but for him it lived up to the hype on PC. I sort of get where he's coming from too, because I loved the vibe, story and characters. That's what I loved about Witcher 3 too.
@@theolddarksoul1129 New Vegas was done in 18 months yes, but had a plethora of bugs too. In the 4 digits actually if you look at the bug trackers in the Unofficial patches. They cut corners and copy pasted atrocious face gens and also relied upon and used a large number of Fallout 3 assets/systems not to mention the engine. You're making a false equivalence here, 2077 and New Vegas cannot be compared in terms of tech/time needed to make them. Not to mention how much was cut out of NV too to meet unrealistic schedules. Not trashing on NV btw, it's my fav Fallout game.
At the very least Yong did say that he wasn’t allowed to use his own footage in the beginning and has been rightfully bashing the game since it’s come out. But it was pretty damn embarrassing.
@@braxtonslife7779 they guy was blinded by the hype and cd pr giving him free stuff like chairs and custom xboxes or whatever. Lottta reviews were like that but they should have tried to stay unbiased as possible
@@thunderbug8640 Angry Joe probably has the best example. Especially considering how close he was with CDPR as a whole. Even going to dinner with the CEO while on a visit to the developer.
I don't get your point leadership's also the only thing that establishes and maintains law and order in society fools like you would rather spread mistrust in government then do anything useful
@@tyruswillier7358 my point is that leadership as a concept is extremely worthwhile in certain aspects of human activity, but like many other concepts once it enters the high-level business arena - which is primarily about money rather than human endeavor - it becomes a half-assed, fucked up, perverted version of itself because it is bestowed on individuals who do not possess the inate qualities required to be a leader. The qualities of a leader are inate which is why they emerge naturally from among us, but in business leadrship is instead given like a title to people who think that 'behaving like a leader' makes them one on the flawed assumption that 'leadership' is an acquired skill - as is the case here, that's all well and good until it all goes wrong when their *real* character shines through.
@@DeeZire I suspect things like honesty, organisation, communication and so on can actually successfully be taught, in a pragmatic fashion even, just as any other skillset can be. Sounds like you think these are things that are somehow inborn, but I don't really buy that. Perhaps some sociopathic qualities are necessary for leadership but the other stuff surely can be learned?
@@deang.5636 If you even watched his vid on the top secret demo you'd know that they were just pulling slight of hand with an engaging demo. And he even said in this one that he had the best experience possible since he has a high end gaming pc. Not very bright are you...
@@deang.5636 Well, usually you just don't expect the devs being THAT scummy to show you a demo which basically is nothing but a fake ass commercial and in no way represents the state of the final product - which it fuckin should! CDPR had so much trust put into them like no other company. Who could've guessed they'd deliberately abuse it for more profit? After all CDPR were the good guys, the super heroes of the game industry. "We leave greed to others" - remember? Welp, the higher they fly, the harder they fall...
I can't remember the video, but I recall seeing one that, ironically, Keanu was apparently a cheaper alternate to the original choice for Johnny Silverhand
I’m fine with people calling Yong a shill, but as a fan of puns, we NEED a better meme name for him, dammit! People call SkillUp “ShillUp” and that works very well. But YongYea is harder to work with. YongYea more like YongNope? Hmmm, needs work...
@@Half-Vampire I genuinely hope everyone brings this up in every Cyberpunk video he makes moving forward. The shill "influencers" and "reviewers" need to be held accountable for misrepresenting the game as much as CDPR did.
Did anyone else notice most of the side quest stories seemed unfinished like the Mayor one that stopped very suddenly and only gave you a small after credit scene
Absolutely! You just stumbled upon a huge conspiracy...and then it just ends. The same thing with Lizzy Wizzy side quest: it starts unfolding and then...it's over. I would argue that the romances are also unfinished. Once the romancing side quest is done, there is nothing to do with them apart from 1-2 extra dialogues. After I finished the Panam side quest, and exchanged some texts with her afterwards, she was just sitting there for another 30 hours until I started the last mission. Man, what a wasted opportunity!
Regina Jones' reporter friend. You save him and then nothing ever comes of it. And Ozob. WTF was the point of the Ozob sidequest. A 90 second driving segment followed by a fight with 3 Tyger Claw randos. With no payoff or explanation.
And to top it off, I'm constantly hearing on the news how Rhyne is set to be Mayor for another few years when I drive around town probably weeks after wrapping up that whole chain of nonsense as if the man isn't super dead. 🙄
i'd say it's more fun than farcry, but that's just me. farcry's story was fun the first time. had enough climbing towers, revealing the map, and attacking clubhouses full of badguys with little to no resistance.
@@apeapeape999 Excluding the bugs, The game has a never ending list of nonexistent promised features available anywhere on TH-cam or reddit along with references. The game's Faction design & RPG mechanics are a joke compared to Fallout New Vegas & STALKER, as in both games player choices effect or affect the OPEN WORLD I didn't even include the fundamentally broken physics & AI which got beaten by Gangster Vegas, yeah A 2014 mobile game(video available on TH-cam) The map is plagued by copy pasted eliminate 5 people ncpd jobs,gigs & a hundred Preston Garvey screaming at me It's baffling how they marketed this game as next generation open world, in a world where zelda botw & RDR 2 exist
He couldnt have said anything other than that because he would get sued to oblivion by admiting in a video that they knew the product sold wasnt the one advertised. The video was a publicity thing.
It feels like the strategy for game publishers now is "Hype, hype, hype!" then sell a bunch up front, then pocket as much money as they can and walk away. Then they start hyping the next game. They don't seem to care much for reputation, long term customer base, or quality of product. I don't know anything about how business strategy or anything but surely this isn't a good long term way of running things?
That is absolutely correct. It is in the CEO's interest to make quick profit and leave. Their salaries are not tried to the long-term outcomes of the company. Same as when someone calls themself a "serial entrepreneur". It's av big red flag that means they 'pump and dump'.
Well, it worked. At first. Then they got sued and had to start handing out refunds. What they did wasn't just immoral, it was stupid. What did they think was going to happen?
Well if they'd stop announcing games years before their even close to being done and hyping us all up with fake gameplay videos. These companies suck. Ps. Not throwing shade at the devs of course. I still really love the world they created in Cyberpunk. Just wish they were given the time they needed.
Maybe That is why rockstar knew its bad to hype up games so they never talked about GTA 6 or didn't even tease it, but it could be already in production.
@@MiorAkif You guys, generally speaking, literally were becoming cult like and the game didn't even release yet. It is DEFINITELY your fault as well. Still haven't forgotten about those hate replies months back, smh.
After learning about all of the many ways developers get abused by publishers, it's frankly amazing that this industry is able to attract new talent at all.
@@leeviheiskanen1271 Not at all lmao It attracts passionate people and creatives, the 2 categories of people most easily exploited on the market. They will suffer, and grit their teeth and sweat 7 hells for these abusive companies because they LOVE their jobs, not because "it pays well". A senior movie storyboard artist can make 3 times of any senior character designer, dev or writer on any game with 10 times less the stress\work, there are so many other jobs for junior devs that pay MUCH more than any shitty game company, but guess what, they love games and are passionate about them and want to work on them. Exploiting passionate people is the sole reasons why shitty, abusive industries like the movie, gaming, comics and animation industry are still doing great.
I never bought into the hype but I respected the reputation. Besides you can't really blame people for buying the hype when it's the company at fault for selling it. Hello games promised stuff that straight weren't there at launch like multiplayer being the big one that literally didn't exist. Cyberpunk claimed a lot of shit as well that wasn't in the final product like a police system that let you interact with police and bribe them. Doesn't exist, police only interact with you as a hostile entity outside of maybe one or two quests and the police system is the come to beat your ass by teleporting to you whenever do something bad. That's the only police "system." Luckily things CDPR promised weren't as numerous as what Hello Games promised, but the things they showed and demoed are nowhere to be found in the game. Only saving grace was things they demoed weren't all things they promised but they demoed them to do what?... to fucking sell the hype. Hard not to buy the hype when that's the only thing the company was selling for 2 years straight, and I do mean selling because they were taking preorders before the game was out, maybe not for the entire two years they hyped the game but still took preorders all the while feeding people hype with their whole night city wire BS which lasted at least a good solid few months.
Hype didn’t do a thing to this game; CDPR did by taking out everything that made the game interesting. You can’t blame people’s excitement on CDPR being evil
One of the things wrong was Yong Yea's intensive shilling as part of CDPR's marketing campaign. You are just as responsible for ripping consumers off as they are.
I completely agree. This game truly exposes the difference between actual journalism and TH-cam amateurs. The fact that no one, other that “Skill Up,” has taken any steps to take his or her own responsibility for this train wreck, is pathetic. Shame, I used to not be as cynical...
Idk sounds like he played the game on pc (the only review copies provided) and enjoyed it.. then the ps4/xbox1 shit hit the fan and he immediately switched gears. I mean a majority of hype was around a well rounded developer who were selling a false project. I dont see how this man is responsible for enjoying a game that was in good shape on the device he was playing on and enjoyed it. He was on the hype and excite train like most of us, instead of directing your anger at him why not focus on the company? I mean this man did point out how bad crunch at the compamy was and reported on it, he got massive fanboy backlash. Like idk what this is accomplishing the man is not CDPR and enjoyed a "well rounded" version of the game.
@@BeyondTheAverageFilm lol you’re either joking or shilling I can’t tell. The game isn’t well rounded in any sense. It’s a game full of false promises and cut content. The open world is unfinished and AI Is the worst of any modern game
It can still be a good game (albeit only on pc in this case) even if it's lacking things and it's made by a company more full of shit than a farmer's field. Feel like your point is very much moot
So far all this "owning up" has been a bunch of excuses and trying to pivot the screw ups of the leadership towards Covid restrictions or inability of QA to test the buggy mess the console versions were (which is blatantly not true on top of the disrespect and blame-shifting towards the QA devs). Not impressive is the slightest.
Cracks me up how Covid can be an excuse for a game in development for years. They were absolutely ready when they announced it had gone gold just to delay it immediately afterwards.
I think if any of us played that demo, we all would be hyped as he was at the time. He could have never know that there was cut content or braindead ai by playing a short demo that is specially made for reviewers and influencers running on a high-end pc. If you are gonna be mad about him hyping this game up then be mad at yourself for believing in the hype in the first place.
@@flyingturk100 I don't buy pre-orders. I don't buy EA games, i don't buy Early Access. I don't buy shit games. But this dude most definitely said how awesome it was.
I highly recommend you read/watch multiple reviews on products before buying things. If you focus on only one person, you’re much more likely to be let down. Nonetheless, sorry to hear that and I hope you got a refund. But I do hear that the refunds have been annoying to get.
@@JohnDoe-uf3lj watched several reviews all claiming the same shit. And by the time you realize the game is a lie (leaving watson) you have spent too much time playing the game for a refund.
@@huynhkhangninh1357 unlikely, a few devs and staff have already left, so who’s going to fix it? The new replacements will have to crunch to catch up with what’s left, and then improve on that, just to make the deadline.
As much as I think Schreier is a tool, I have to give the man his due - he’s one of the few games journalists who deserves the title. Jesus Christ, this game. I’ve never seen a studio burn through that much good will that quickly. Frankly, I’m still in shock the game made it past certification...
@@Anonymous07192 Technically it didn't. Sure, it crashed, but by breaking I literally mean damaging the console and bricking it. If they looked for quality, life of black tiger never should've made it.
The 48 minute trailer was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better, what the hell is that guy talking about? Even Dexter DeShawn and Dum Dum's voice acting is better.
The guy is in total denial. If what we've got, was even close to that trailer, we wouldn't been having this conversation. And that totally sucks, because that guy, is the one who stepped up with a "new overhaul" for game.
So true, I went back and watched that thing again, NOTHING similar about that, well technically it is, but come on Mr. Adam, who are you fooling? Weren't you guys CHAMPIONS of gamers or something, oh how tables turn....
@@DMasta718 In a year or two when Cyberpunk's completely fixed and its DLC is out, people will call it one of the best games ever created just like what happened with Witcher 3, and then CDPR will release another buggy mess while riding on their "GREAT reputation among gamers" (like they always do) It already happened with the buggy launch of Witcher 3, and it'll happen again
@@yaboijebus1418 Don't think so m8, I've played it for about 70hours now and aside from the bugs I am completely done with this game. Aside from the story and some exceptional side quests it's all of the same repetitive stuff. The Witcher 3 before the DLC I wasn't even done after 200 hours, the armor did not look like shit, the character progression felt good and new powers felt like they contributed something. Cyberpunk is just an empty husk of a game, and a buggy one at that...
@@yaboijebus1418 The difference is excluding bugs, the Witcher 3 was a great game. It wasn't perfect but it was still a very good game whilst with cyberpunk, even if you don't take it's bugs in account, is average at best.
he still wearing his cyberpunk font yong yea shirt lol.. still selling those merch.. My outlook of yong and skillup after this was somewhat damaged. I have a feeling they knew.. especially with skillup.. if you rmemeber what he been sprouting months before when he got invited to CDPR.. Im starting to take these guys with a grain of salt now.
@@pixytorres7117 i did not buy this game. But I did buy the Witcher 3. I loved that game. I was hesitant because of how much they were promising. Just don't attack people like that. It makes you look like a jerk.
@@revolverswitch I seriously don’t see what is fake about it. Can someone explain using actual facts instead of a lying journalist who works for a corporate news outlet that tries pours out just as many lies as the former president?
@@lordofdarkness4204 I have beaten all three life paths buddy. Besides wall running I haven’t spotted any differences that aren’t normal to be cut from a game. But hey keep trying
This adam badowski character seems to be acting very disingenuous here, whenever he's mentioned by members of the team there's never anything good said about him, the guy seems to have overstayed his welcome and should be replaced along with many other members of management as I see him as part of the problem at that place.
@@saldb Badowski isn't a cofounder. Those are Marcin Iwiński (who is in the latest apology/roadmap video) and Michał Kiciński (who is no longer at CD Projekt, but his brother Adam is one of the co-CEOs along side Marcin). Badowski was one of the first hires CD Projekt made when they started doing their own game development. That said, as director of Cyberpunk 2077 and head of the studio CD Project Red, Badowski is ultimately responsible for the failure and fallout happening now. I don't know how CD Projekt is going to be able to justify keeping him in the role he's in now, but I suppose we'll see.
as long as this dude Badowski is around, expect nothing but BS from CDPR. He is the well known type in corpo culture ...is the type that brings the toxicity to new level and push out the talented people
@@jgsource552 well he’s not wrong. Witcher 3 got good story but mediocre gameplay. CDPR is basically another Obsidian, great at creating story but mediocre at gameplay.
Major Anthem vibes in terms of development issues...
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you guys ever notice that there's no one else in nightcity that rides a motorbike
And here I thought I was the only one who noticed.
holy shit
I honestly wish there were people riding motorcycles, because we’re missing out on so many memes of them breaking
Jesus that gives me memories of Watch Dogs 1.
Tyger Claws are supposed to be a motorcycle gang too, like in an shard excerpt i swear i seen that. Supposed to be like Japan Yakuza Bike gangs
This game was so good when it was not released
🤣🤣
I still feel like I'm waiting for it to release..
So sad but true
@@johnblaze8092 well technically it's still in beta, so we still waiting for a finished product.
@@Ivight I'm sorry but no self-respecting company would allows this go to beta from alpha. This isn't even in beta yet.
"Few leave the corporate world with their lives - fewer still with their souls intact." - Cyberpunk 2077, Corpo life path description
Dank
Word
Thats true
I guess they have to point the finger at themselves.
Holy fuck
Line of the Day
You guys remember when yong yea gave cyber punk a glowing review
Yep
Yep everyone who claimed to be fans of the game when it first dropped quickly turned coat to cash in on the bad game hype and now everyone is starting to see that even for a flawed game with some bugs it’s still better than any other game that dropped this year by a landslide
Best game he's ever seen
Between this and supporting Joe Biden, he really came out as a total dumbass last year.
@@pedroaguiar6705 lmfao 💀
"There was a huge focus on marketing, but not so much on the game itself."
Nail on head. Marketing was top notch. Game is far from it.
Yup. All we heard was sex and celebrities.
What a fail.
@@JwhateverJ yes they marketed the game as if it's a sex simulator
You know something's wrong when you spend
121M USD for the development
209M USD for the marketing
@@indiexanna yup, my jaw dropped when I heard the total budget was 314 million but then the CEO said game had a budget of 120 million.
*THEY SPENT 200 MILLION ON MARKETING ALONE*
Other quality studios could've made an entire phenomenal game out of that 200 million & marketed successfully
To be fair, we know exactly why companies do this. Overwhelmingly marketed turds make BANK. Every single time. Lies and hype alone will sell your game and most people can't be bothered to refund. CDPR's bottom line, even despite this mess, is hugely positive. They made BANK by shipping a turd that they fooled us into thinking would be some next-gen RPG. Heck, half the player base even vehemently defends it as a masterpiece. So you can ship a turd and half the players will defend it. They almost can't lose.
Just makes me sad that there are so many games out there that are good, but because they can't afford to spend millions marketing, they'll never really get the recognition they deserve. Meanwhile, CDPR is basically allowed to get away with... this... because they spent all their time weaving elaborate lies that people took at face value.
I don't really blame people though, I fell for the fake 40 minute gameplay demo too.
I remember when yong was absolutely jizzing in his jocks when he saw the backstage private demo, how things have changed since then never give into the hype
Hahah shhhh we aren’t supposed to talk about that lol
I remember Yong hyping this game up so much when he got the early access code and then turned around and started talking it down after everybody started playing it
@@aestheticstorm4771 Yep, I remember that too. Only after ppl start showing how buggy and unplayable the game was on twitter that he started talking shit about the game. You can argue that as he said, he got the best version of the game, but still, most of the things he say is a design flaw now, were present there like the police behavior and many of the gamebreak bugs, so...
@@aestheticstorm4771 yeah, he was saying when he started playing that the game delivered :D
this guy dont know what a good or bad game is, if his life depended on it...
Everyone was shilling for cd projekt. People thought that cyberpunk will be at least at par with witcher 3 so they will at the end of the day will get away with it but alas they were so wrong.
Developers: Boss we dont have enough time to finish the game.
Management: Oh no. Anyway
Look at that guys, a finally good use of the meme, good on you poster, I got tired of seeing "Anyway" be spammed in such an unfunny manner.
@@jianer7972 Im pretty sure they were giving you props lol
"i forgot the part were this is my problem"
Well too bad those developers will be losing their jobs thanks to people like you
Literally just got recommended that video yesterday 😂
"This is the most detailed, most gorgeous, hand crafted open world I have ever seen in a video game" - Yong Yea
Tbf it looks really good on high end PC's :P To bad it's just an empty shell
@@bas9348 I played the game on my high end pc. All settings on ultra with raytracing off. I also recently played Infamous Second Son on ps5. Infamous Second Son looks better.
@@bas9348 it looks worse than a lot of pc games over the past 2 years and runs worse as well. Especially when you consider how little interaction within the world you have.
@@MikeHeldTheWorld Guess I just really love the aesthetic, that might also be a factor
@@bas9348 The aesthetic is cool. I love futuristic sci fi stuff. The graphical fidelity is lacking though. The game legitimately looks like a ps3 game at times.
So when they say "80% marketing, 20% development" it's true.
Even less on development, you know... destiny
@@Dragon9Nexus Wholesome Keanu is expensive.
@@sterlok2283 i think you mean expensive...
@@HeroOfTheDay16 autocorrect..
@@Dragon9Nexus at least destiny played well and wasn’t an unplayable mess at launch. The primary critique of Destiny 1 at launch was the lack of content and not every promised being fulfilled upon launch.
Moral of the story: Never trust any company and what they say before their products release, no matter how consumer friendly they may seem.
So true. This is why I never pre order games, nor buy them on their release dates.
Yeap, don't preorder anything unless you're able to play a demo before hand and actually experience the game
@@delphinium7713 agreed sir
Moral is don’t trust reviewers like Yong
Trust no one.
Trust only in the force.
Guess CDPR and Cyberpunk was the last straw for me, I’ll never take a company at their word again
Why you do it the first time?
I mean it's a large company, why believe anything unless proven?
I mean, we still got fromsoft, right?
Well that’s on you for being pathetic.
Don't take companies at their word. Draft sound contracts and make 'em sign 'em. Even then, if they've any sense, they'll weigh the cost of the commitment, and if they can afford to renege then they just might. Human beings can sometimes be trusted. Companies cannot.
I love how Badowski response is "Well, TECHNICALLY...."
lol so true, I think they are not particularly used to so much backlash
You noticed the "yeah, but, PC version is 9/10 and 10/10 ... so .. yeah .. there's that"
Might as well have been Todd Howard going "bugs?"
AngryJoe said it best “too much money into PR, not enough into CD”
Lmao
You guys are too easily amused! Lol
Angry Joe is a damn fool lmao
By cd you mean compact disc?
@@mysteriousman4966 No, the game itself, game on CD.
"we leave greed to others"
*Spends 200 million on marketing*
...
And the other 317 in development for an alpha beta test on sale, shame on you CD project red and shame on your cow.
@J. Jay Exactly
@J. Jay 😂 that shit so stupid
Probably 50M alone for Keanu Reeves.
@@jmcg85 Reports state he took a paycut......so 49 million
Investigation: They knew all along.
Everyone: We know.
Fanboys:YOU GUYS SENT DEATH THREATS THOOO!!!
@@troin3925 No...the death threats from some random pricks had nothing to do with CD Releasing the game too early. That's the point. Now you all should know the real reason.
The only people still defending CD would be blind loyalists.
@@troin3925 who is this "other side" you were talking about?
@@wahyurick968 I think he means "the other side" as in the people sending the death threats.
@@ShadowNova300 i am not talking about that side i am talking about the other one
remember when yongyea and alanah pearce said the game was good?
mmmmmmmmm
@@ShadeHaxor my god she sticks out like a sore thumb and I usually can't tell the difference between good or bad voice acting.
yep
@@ShadeHaxor being paid for having her voice / character model in the game is not being "paid off".. it's simply being paid for your work, and having an obvious bias because of that.. which to my knowledge Alannah was very open about
90% of the development was spent perfecting Keanu’s model.
*The other 10% was for the rest of the game.*
Or 90% of the time was spent convincing Keanu to allow them to add him to the game.
10% time spent actually developing the game.
Keanu's model in the game is actually seemingly worse than most other characters' models. It's a shame that he doesn't have cranked poly counts for better hair and a beard and higher resolution textures but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And it aint even that good. Look at Modern Warfares character models. They all look astounding.
Sorry, I have to correct a typo you made there...
90% of the development was spent perfecting dildo models.
100% agreed! Too much focus on Keanu and less focus on the rpg elements and features promised.
It's funny to think how all of this could've been easily avoided.
"This is the most detailed and most ambitious open world ever developed" - YongYea on Cyberpunk Review, still on youtube
@@CJDcow To be fair, it does look like that at first, in fact it always _LOOKS_ like that. The problem is it's all surface appearance, there's very little _reactivity_ to the world, but you only really discover that after spending a bit of time with the game.
despite it the game being buggy and launched badly.. you can't just outright say Night City isn't detailed. Check out Morphologis breakdown on space, height and architecture for NC if you are interested. Even the tiniest alleyway or trashcan has links to CYBERPUNK lore
@Lord Megawin LOL. Yet Yong Gave endless praise for the game until it came out and there were bugs. Now all of a sudden they are worse than Bethesda who put MTX in an unplayable game that bricked your console.
Yeah like fking people dont cry they want the game early
CDPR: smack talks EA.
Also CDPR: does exactly the same scummy shit.
Yet somehow gets more blame than them
@@Hc4697 This is what I want to know. Seriously what were they doing all this time? My theory is too many pizza parties.
@@Hc4697 4 years of actual development*
Still a long time to come out with something this broken, but *slightly* less ridiculous amount of time they squandered.
Yup that's what makes their transgressions EVEN WORSE!
@@leeviheiskanen1271 Nah, Anthem and Battlefront were hammered industry wide.
Yongyea: “It did not live up to the hype.”
*a month ago* Yongyea: “It has lived up to the hype.”
Which is it?
Whichever gets the views
He is just pretending like it never happened.. He is just like the people who are turning the gaming industry into a greedy cesspool
@@kasper7203 yeah he's probably smart to do that. It's spineless but even on this very video he has 1500 likes and 1.5,000 dislikes as I'm writing this.
Although all the top comments are critical... He needs his own s***** apology
I honestly dont think Yong was being intentionally dishonest as you guys seem to paint here. He's been careful not backtrack any of his positive remakes in his review and if he has anything negative to say within his recent coverage, it's usually comments only addressing/correlated to the poor technical state of the game. Which I do think is pretty frustrating myself given how blatantly unfinished most of the games major features are. But that is only addressing how we critically disagree. Not a criticism of the ethics of his journalism.
@@joshuataff4911 he falsely reported this game was "good" on PC just a few months ago.. Don't you think it is a bit suspicious that he is suddenly saying the game is "bad"? Yong doesn't get a free pass.. If he acts like EA or the big companies who try to make a quick buck at the consumers expense.. Then speaking up is the right thing to do.
What Yong did is wrong, he should apologize
Expectation: "We leave greed to others"
Reality: "Leave the greed to us"
What they said is opposite. Must be their translation
I don’t see any MTX or monetization in this broken ass game. But if a Game can Brick your Ps5 it’s okay
@@laos85 Yeah, every language has its idiosyncrasies. Maybe every day is Opposite Day in Poland?
@@jodieholmes8453 still.
@@jodieholmes8453 For the online, there will be. They're basically pullin a "gta online."
This basically sounds like a student who did great on all their assignments throughout the year then decided to procrastinate on the final one and ends up failing it
Not even that man... CDPR games before were good, but not groundbreaking. Witcher 3 was what really placed them in the map and launched their pre-Cyberpunk 2077 image. It's more like an average student that once did great on a math test and thus he thinks he can apply to Harvard, and fails.
This hits hard, as someone who is currently in this exact situation
@@rogehmarbi same , I'm on my final year and shit went downward spiral.
@@nezunish-898 Just blame covid , easy , jk lol
More like a school kid who was making a school project and was happy doing it but teachers forced him to rush and work overtime so they can sell it
Then when finding out that the product was not as good as it would be without rushing, the kid was expelled from school
"A lot of focus on marketing rather than the actual product" Yup that's bang on.
ROFL. Better game than anything out there. Funny how that’s his opinion after the game released when a few days before he sang nothing but praise
@Vidhal Bisaws how is this comment making the game look any better?
@Vidhal Bisaws learn to type dude. Reading your writing gives me a tumor
@@jodieholmes8453 play morrowind, way better than skyrim, and oblivion has better quests.
Now let the salt begin.
@Vidhal Bisaws Cyberpunk is trash. And yes, I've played it, and gladly got a refund on it. The only thing that game is, is a waste of time.
You guys don't feel like youtubers and big reviewers have some responsibility in all this CP2077 mess? I mean, Yong himself said that the game "did live up to the hype" and a lot of people took his word for it...
Exactly, Yong is complicit in how disappointing this game was. He's been hyping it up to his audience for months and has had Cyberpunk merch on display for at least a year. Then tried to get on his high horse once the game is clearly a flop.
He hates the fact he needs to cover stuff like this, you can tell. He's been so biased its unbelievable, I knew not to trust a review from him but cmon man you are a self described journalist, you need to stop shilling for companies
@Stül Rülz what lol? Who is leading Yong to take his responsibility?
No not really, he played on a high end PC incomparable experience to consol lol
An almost entirely fake gameplay trailer, huh? Anthem did something like that too...
Same as Killzone 2. But that game came out great. Nothing like the trailer which is at least a ps6 quality graphic and animation.
LOL. Yong is reporting more Bs. Don’t see how you guys trust him anymore.
It's not about graphics or fps. Those two has always been great in my pc. It's the cut content, dumb ai, lifeless city and cop spawning rubbish. Remember 3 lifepath?more like 3 prologue path.
@@rpgamezzz270 Exactly.
@@jodieholmes8453 You mean how you trust CDPR.
*"Runs surprisingly well on last gen consoles.."* Remember that? This is why I'll never trust them again. Talk is cheap.
Add that to the list of lies that were spit out by corporate of major gaming publishers
It runs at all, I'd call that rather surprising considering the scope of the game.
Don't forget the fact that Yong Yea said the game lived up to its hype.
runs well on mine
they should add "we surprised that it runs at all"
"we leave the greed to others"...
"because our forte is fraud"
Vou dar like só pelo "forte"
“It delivers”- yongyea
“I’m going to ‘hold CDPR accountable’ despite not mentioning the cut content and broken ai in my early review. To make everyone think I’m not bias”- yongyea
How did he know at the time what would be cut and what wouldn’t? The game he played wasn’t what shipped out, you can only give your thoughts on what you experienced
@@satan899 He played the review version a few weeks before launch. And he said that it had some bad bugs but overall it delivered. He is the definition of a shill.
@@jimcanterak7349 you are trying to reason with an edgelord with a user name satan. you think you was going to get any kind of sophistication from him?
@@KevTheGalaxybender lol
This is pervasive throughout software development industry in general: Never trust management who are not involved in writing a single line of code.
Engineer here. It's not the managers. It's the salesman you have to worry about. The salesman will tell clients (gamers) whatever they want to hear to sell a product. Then got back to the devs and demand they make their promises work.
This is a case of the salesman not being put on a leash and allowed to say whatever he wants. Also, yes, poor management as well.
i agree to some extent because yes you need to be interested by work of your employees however i think managment in inself is more psychological and maneger type of work you need to understand development and crew enough to guide them,basicaly yes you want them to be able to do it, but if they cant that dont mean they cant be managers of inefective atleast because you need other set of skills for that.
Your review of the game was misleading lol
@@joaokiwi2543 I am :(
Agreed
Thats putting it mildly.
@@joaokiwi2543 He's not a shill because shills get paid by the corporations they gush over.....hes didn't even get paid for it, he was just gullible and bought into their BS. Skill Up and quite a few other influences fell for their BS too. That's what you get for putting your faith in a corporation....ANY corporation.
Why are so many gamers always this salty and negative? CP2077 IS a very fun game. Yeah, it was released with a lot of issues on most platforms, but if you're allowing the drama to prevent you from trying it out or from enjoying it, you're missing out. This is even before the major 1.1 and 1.2 updates that are releasing very soon. I'm not saying that the game has no issues, that there are no improvements to be made, or that the management at CDPR were right in their actions, but maybe you should try not to worry so much about the media outrage? His review was his honest opinion of the game when it is working properly (apart from a few dismissible bugs), and without the drama influencing how he felt. Of course if you're playing on console, I understand why you would think his review is misleading. Once the game is working better on console, or if you're on PC, I'd highly suggest that you check it out, and try not to let the negativity influence your experience.
"Cyberpunk 2077 lives up to the hype," ~YongYea.
Yongyea is complicit in how disappointing this game was. He's been hyping it up for months and has had Cyberpunk merch on display long before the game was ever released.
He’s milking this cow til the very end
He was also one of the people who kept getting annoyed every time the game got delayed, and now he's annoyed that it isn't finished.
Logic = Potato
@Derek G people had ever right to be annoyed after multiple delays,it's all on cdpr,announcing release of the game when it clearly wasn't even close to be ready and then lying "it's done,were just polishing" not to mention hyping the game up to be what it clearly isn't,so yes,people got annoyed by being teased time and time again. Should have delayed the game to 2021or even2022 long time ago.
CDPR wanted to out-Rockstar Rockstar & ended up out-Bethesda-ing Bethesda.
And chased it with a shot of Ubisoft
Rockstar buy CDPR.
Underrated comment!
@@mikhaelgribkov4117 Ubisoft still looks bad.
@@mikhaelgribkov4117 Ubisoft games are the same pig slop served over and over again. Just because another studio looks bad, doesn’t mean that Ubisoft suddenly gets a pass or looks better.
Forget bugs and glitches, they straight up lied about ENTIRE features that were suppose to be in the game!
Like what kind? Sorry, just curious.
@@Streudles Mantis Blades climbing.
@@Streudles stop defending them dude fuckin hell
@@ahmadsyakirfaris482 I literally just said I was curious of what they removed, not defending them in any way. 💀
@@Streudles Carchases, option of choices, daily routines for npcs, do I continue or?...list has like tens of promised things.
Dude, you were literally wiping the CDPR dribble off your chin in your review, like what?
@@thumpdragfilms He failed to mention cut content and poor driver / cop AI in his review though? 🤔
@@thumpdragfilms he's usually so damned critical of games, for him to praise the game and then have it turn out like this, with cut content, completely changed genre, and buggy as hell, and just be ok with that, came off as strange to me.
@animationeer he PLAYED the game, not watched the trailer. He wasn't hoodwinked, he was given a fat check to say the game was good.
@animationeer The "build" they showed was hyper conceptualized footage, not a playable demo.
Look up PC gameplay footage then that "demo" and you'll see it's nowhere near the same and that was the first nail in the coffin, it's what got people pissed in the first place and it's a controversy he covered, but sure 🤷🏿♂️
@animationeer he himself said he played a demo of the game.
Then was blown back by finding out the gameplay trailer was a lie, meaning he lied about playing the demo. That's as simple as I'm gonna put it.
They say "We'll release it when it's ready",
I say "I'll play it when it's ready"
This is why I've only preordered once, Fallout 4, and that was the last time. Not worth buying until a year or two later when the game is finished, the bugs are fixed, and all the DLC is out.
@@Revan_7even Many of us learned that lesson after getting burned once (mine was X-Rebirth) sadly not many enough though.
Hear, hear!
Stop preordering games, people. TotalBiscuit is rolling in his grave.
i dont understand preordering mentality, in case of consoles or new PC HW or something when it can run out of stock then ok but games? people cant wait 1 more day? and after so many years of releasing unfinished games you would tell people learn but nope
preordered only witcher 3 cos i liked the first two and figured that even if its bad id given the dev some support, but yeah haven't preordered anything else and with a few exceptions, if some devs truly earn it, never will
Pre-ordering made sense when you had to pre-order a physical copy at your local store back in the days so you could be sure there is gonna be one for you left. But that was long time ago. Pre-ordering now makes zero sense, especially for AAA games. It doesn't even support the hundreds of devs themselves, since all the money go to executives / shareholders anyway.
I pre-ordered W3 as well but once I' ve read about the bugs i waited until version 1.08 to really play.
Worked fine for me.
Ive never read a comment that made me sad and happy at the same time lol :(
As someone who has literally no fucking clue what goes into developing a game, I can say without a shred of doubt that the absolute last thing you should do in a management position is hear devs constantly tell you the game isn’t going to run properly and then just completely ignore it entirely. This seems like common fucking sense to me but apparently it’s standard for management in the gaming industry to ignore the concerns of the people who are directly creating the product?
Bruh
It's common practice in pretty much every big business to stick their heads in the sand and kick the can down the road. They can be exceptionally stupid when it comes to prioritising short term profit over everything else, including long term profit.
Yup if they just waited until it was done this whole dumpster fire would be non existent.
Remember when you said it lives up to the hype in your review?
“Cyberpunk 2077 lives up to the hype”
~ YongYea 2020
At the time it did. But times change.
YongYea is a shill and sellout, so im not surprised about that statement...Just imagine what goodies he got for shilling for them...
@@TruculentSheep At what time??? Cause they NEVER released console gameplay footage anyway...
@@BrankoP85 Sounds a lot like you're just moving the (cyber-)goalposts now.
@@BrankoP85 And yet, here you are, ranting away BTL of his videos.
You got some explaining to do my guy
Why didn’t you tell everyone how bad Cyberpunk was in your review?
He's a shill, that's why. Also notice how his argument shift according to the opinion of the majority.
Because he played on PC and even then said that there were bugs. Some people here are really salty and bitter lol
@@bigocelot4002 For damn sure
@animationeer Stop copying and pasting excuses for these shills, Yong like every one else was given the same game as every one else and he shilled to the high heavens until the backlash got to much and had to save face by doing a 180.
And if Yong was given a demo than shame on him for calling it a review on a final product and should of disclosed that it was just a demo, but it wasnt a demo it was the same game as the one they launched to everyone else and he was given a copy to review and called it a Masterpiece.
In his own review he stated he had very much finished the main story and was stll doing side quests etc and went about him great this game is and how much coentent etc.
Threatening employees with replacement is coercion. This makes the crunch a de facto mandatory one.
Agreed
Nothing new, every job is like this. You think people want to do unpaid OT or be on call all the time? But it is what it is.
@@konigstiger3252 May be so. But can't hurt to anonymously remind employers that they're shitheads.
They said that someone would take over their slack, not that they would be fired.
@@jcflores1774 If your slack is too much for others to pick up then you are a liability and you are let go. Telling them someone else is going to do it is like telling them "your coworkers will hate you and you'll get fired in a months time".
Based on his response, his earlier statements and how he basically handled direction of Cyberpunk 2077, I feel that Adam Badowski really ought to keep his mouth shut because I do not think his attempts to save face are going well.
He should be fired
Honestly. I don't like comparing them to Hello Games like a lot of people do cause I honestly think Sean Murray regretted what he did and went about doing whatever he could to try and make things right, where Adam comes off as annoyed at us for bothering to be mad at him lying.
But if they should copy anything from what Hello Games did it should be all of them shutting the fuck up and just fixing the game. The only time we should hear from Adam (now that the apology and roadmap are out there) is when a patch or content drop happens.
Adam's out here making bullshit excuses no one wants to hear or that anyone would even believe and being antagonistic to people rightly mad at him.
Just say sorry and fix the damn game.
@@Ehh..... I agree, hello game actually seemed apologetic and kept their head down fixing the game instead of arguing trying to save face, not to mention they’re actually indie devs unlike CDPR where they have plenty of time and resources to make the game to match their vision
@@jaspercheng923 Also CDPR is self publishing while HG had pressure from outside.
Really weak statement... the excuses are an insult, not to mention when he didn't even dare to say anything about half the points. Shows how goddamn awful the company (leadership) actually is... all show and fake hype.
@@Ehh.....
Man I remember the joy he got after winning on going award 2020 just pure dedication very well deserve it so humble he even prepared to lose to fortnite dang
'Cyberpunk lives up to the hype'- YongYea 2020
He is so biased and he did the same exact thing with "Death Stranding" the most boring game ever!
@@romcom5 It's funny that he didn't made a single video about how Death stranding was a massive failure in Sonys eyes, so much that they booted Kojima.
@@jorgeloredo100 Wait, they booted Kojima? For real? HA! That'll learn 'em. Jesus Death Stranding was such a boring, up-it's-own-ass snoozefest.
@@MisterZimbabwe to me, death stranding has the “fine art” vibe, like some bullshit you’d see in the Louvre or something. It’s an uninteresting blob of paint on canvas, but people trick themselves into thinking it’s deep.
@@spoon7053 That's an apt description. Seems even the art world can weaponize the Sunk Cost Fallacy
Hmm... "Cyberpunk 2077 lived up to the hype" YongYea 2020.
did he really said that in his review lmao
@J. Jay both, actually
@J. Jay Not trying to be rude but what’s a shill?
@@khyllunbell4713 a person that encourages others to buy a product regardless of quality
@@mathieuosakue8449 Thank you for responding and yep that is exactly what he is.
its bad when the "work in progress" is better than the final result
It's bad when the "work in progress" doesn't really exist in the first place
LOL. That’s a funny joke
This is always the case in some ways. Final optimization will always cut down graphics in order to provide actual playable frame-rates for instance.
Cubeworld be like
Unsure how you can compare 3 minutes of footage against tens of hours of gameplay.
Didn't you hype up the game prior to launch tho? 🤔 🤔 🤔
@Jim Jones what are your people's problem?
In his review he called it a masterpiece once the bugs are ironed out, yet without the bugs its a shallow game with non of the RPG elements promised.
So not surprisingly, this is management issues.
No shit
The devs were also an issue, they produced one of the shittiest games ever
@@samwalsh8299 *unfinished games ever. CD Projekt management are the ones who insisted it be released this year instead of being patient.
Developers were just as active in deception as management. So many developer interviews that prove this.
@@WhoTookMyMirr the developers were consistently telling everyone how great this game would be. There was also tension between some of the developers, especially when it came to language barriers. To deny that the developers had no part of play in the quality of the game is laughable.
I feel like they aren't upset about the fact that they've let people down. They're just upset that they're being called out for it.
Just like Activision
Oh, so they saw the disaster that was the Watch Dogs demo and was like "Yes, that!".
Nothing alike. They had disclaimers the game would change and the product did feature alot from that initial demo. Watchdogs posed their demo as if it were the final product.
@@LouSassol69er CDPR made a demo separate from the final game and even made the same mistake of showing a scripted set piece and claimed it would happen at random.
@@xBluegamerx subject to change covers the vehicle part too. Alot of that demo did make it into the game and looked superior to the demo too graphically.
Does it play better than the demo? Not really, because of the bugs and glitches. But it's no Ubisoft 1-1.
@@LouSassol69er While putting a disclaimer like subject to change covers you from lawsuits it doesn't cover for bad pr, they cut over half the content they bragged about over the years, while not quite on the level of No Man's Sky cut content, unlike No Man's Sky they already said they only plan to fix the game, not finish it.
@@LouSassol69er yeah nothing alike. Watch dogs on launch was still better than cyberpunk on launch date.
I can’t believe his response was “go back & look at the demo” & mentions 1 of the 3 car chases 😂
What do you think we’ve been doing since December. There are a ridiculous amount of lies in the first 10 minutes & plenty of comparative videos. I’ve lost so much respect for them smh. & they had the nerve to talk shit about EA.
Also those chases are jokes - i literally killed everyone in cars via quickhacks and cars just kept chasing me without anyone being alive in them
Honestly, Badowski’s response to all this screams of someone trying to weasel their way out of potential lawsuits, so much so it hurts. When investors asked about whether or not the game was playable on last gen consoles after release, despite the fact that they ran like ass, fellow cdpr head Nowakowski responded with “Well, it’s not unplayable, it boots up.” Like, dude honestly go fuck yourself. If i put a dvd into a dvd player and the movie comes on but is constantly pixelated and the sound is buzzing or flat out not working, that dvd may be “playable” but odds are you’re not gonna fucking sit and experience something like that, let alone pay a premium for entry.
The whole reply is pathetic, he talks about how the features that we were shown weren't "missing" and that this is just how development works...except the 2018 demo clearly states that "the aim is to give you a glimpse of what WILL be possible in the final game" and how they still allowed people to pre-purchase the game based on features that they weren't even sure would end up working out anyway. How about being honest and ONLY showing off the features that you know are working and will be in the final game? But that would require an ounce of integrity.
And then he goes on about how "we got some many 9s and 10s from prolific reviewers" with such a smug satisfaction, as if he thinks that their vision worked out in the end. This just confirms that they see this shitshow release as a partial success because they were given high marks by shill outlets that want to remain on good terms with them so they don't lose out on their benefits like being flown around the world to exclusive events. If only people didn't complain so much and refunded the game to the point where Sony refused to sell it anymore, they might have just gotten away with it.
@@martinpedal2422 omg lmaooo I sat & let them chase me & eventually the car just crashed on its own. Mission complete.
Yong merch in jeopardy after reading some of these negative comments.
Indeed
"Devs thought the release date was a joke" aaaaand there we have it, we're at Anthem levels
100% Anthem levels. Even down to the “faked trailer” shown off.
Devs thought the release date was a joke more like the devs are a joke.
Well, not there, close but..., at least they knew what the game was 😅
@@anatoli1234567890 the management and corporates were the joke, the hard working devs are the victims here
@@orcho141 yes and no at the same time. If all the devs come out and say "this game is not ready and we are not going to work 24/7" then management will listen to them. When it's 20 out of hundreds then ye it's just 20 lazy people.after the fact just stfu. What more from what we got you can see that art team did a 10/10 job but the rest of the team are not that good.
They just didn't leave greed to others, that's what went wrong.
They left greed to their own higher ups
Lol. Keep crying
@Malachai Carter Okay hate train loser.
@@jodieholmes8453 u salty af
Cope
Definitely getting Anthem vibes in terms of marketing and accountability.
People wanted this game unlike Anthem
LOL. You are a fool if you think that.
@@jodieholmes8453 Mind elaborating?
@@hanhong2267 he's a CDPR fanboy. Game is perfect, and did no wrong in his misguided eyes
To be fair Anthem was on a whole other level of fucked up compare to this.
I think it’s best for CDPR to stop talking for a while.
An just get to work fixing the game and adding back the cut content.
They need to fix every bug and then start adding lots and lots of content to the game such as side activities (gwent-style minigame) for me to even respect them anymore and I was a fanboy and hyped this game for 5 years.
@@simplelife88393 me for 7 years. Whatever they do this point forward is never gonna capture the magic that they promised us. Our reactions will be “well this should’ve been in the game at launch” I’m never gonna trust them again.
@@EZM7 fucking same. Trust is so easily lost
As Hello Games did
How we all know how it went down:
- Developers: "the games not ready"
- Management: "yes it is. We'll release it"
- Developers: "no DO NOT release it. It's NOT READY!!"
- Management: "Its good enough. We're going to release it"
- Management: *releases game*
- Gamers: "WTf is this sht?"
- Management: "oh I guess its not ready..sorry"
🤦♂️
when did the devs ever say it? if they so much cared for the thing they do some of them can openly say this so all people will see. then the Management be forced to not get it out.but its clear that the devs just wanted to have it easy some more time.
Ever heard of NDA's?
@@carlosrv1301 ever heard of it not being for the devs?
If they cared as the say the will do the correct act. They just cared for 5he job.
@The Moth not at all. I am 31 and know well what a job is and how time works.
What I am sick of here is people say "if they just got more time" and "well the devs say after the fact how bad it was". Non of this make the dave's look good.
Investors: Wheres my money?!
the whole "game is too complex thing" sounds like such bs to me, ghost of tsushima battles get wildly complex and run perfectly on ps4
I have not played ghost of tsushima yet but just from the gameplay i have seen the game looks a hell of a lot better and i fully expected it to lag but no it does not
Being playing Miles Morales on OG PS4 today and Cyberpunk looks like a 360 launch game compared to it, ok sure Cyberpunk is more "complex" but then explain Red Dead 2 looking incredible on PS4 as well running fairly well and being fairly dense with NPC's having scripted lives if you decide to follow them around. Cyberpunk isn't too complex its just CDPR clearly gave zero shits about the consoles and put everything into the PC versions.
@@wallywest4727 you're playing on shitty hardware, honestly idk why you didn't get a refund
Despite that, they're the ones who made the games too complexed, they shouldn't of let it get that way if they couldn't handle it.
Ghosts of Tsushima mostly renders a dead environment. Game is great but let’s not pretend it’s rendering all that much at any given time
"Coming....When it's ready"
I'm sad
Yeah, it came too early. Prematurely even.
@@NaoyaYami Yeah, it's Fallout 76 all over again, among others. So many games where leadership wants one thing while the devs are telling them another.
@@Revan_7even in this case it hurts more than F76. We all know that bethesda lies and delivers broken clusterfucks 90% of the time since before skyrim. But CDPR were the "good ones", there was no way to see their image change so drastically like this
Are you going to respond about your bias review of this game ?
Not likely.
was it biased though? nobody knew the game was trash on consoles. cdproject red only allowed the pc version to be reviewed . we all thought the game was going to be amazing from the fake demos and trailers we where seen. nobody knew what was going on in behind the closed doors.
@@youngodonkor6595 the game on a super high end pc is better yes but the core issues with the game are on every platform, brain dead AI, cut content that they promissed, the lack of choice and consequence, the game NOT being a RPG, I could go on and on. The game even on PC is not a 9/10 and did not live up to the hype like he said on his review, not even by a mile. So yes, it was very bias and then when everybody started to crap on the game he fliped and did the same thing.
@@BoardWalkToke I played 8 hours on PC and had zero bugs of crashes. I just thought it was boring.
@Mo Ni The thing is, don't hype a game pre release. There is a great chance that you are gonna be dissapointed.
I only watched a little bit of one of the gameplay trailers and thought "wow that looks amazing". I bought it on release thinking it's gonna be a good game but instead I got a bug ridden, half-assed, cut-content game compared to what I saw from the trailers.
They promised us something grand, but greed got them by the balls. I really feel sorry for the devs. I hope they can finish the game they were meant to release.
Let’s not forget that this guy told us that CP2077 lived up to the hype, directly lying to us. Dont forget.
How's that lying? You might not agree with him but for him it lived up to the hype on PC. I sort of get where he's coming from too, because I loved the vibe, story and characters. That's what I loved about Witcher 3 too.
He enjoyed it so what
Played the game on stadia and it's amazing, definitely recommend buying it if you have a good pc or good internet connection (stadia).
@@chaser1254 good point
@@LouSassol69er the story was mostly cliche...
“The game delivered”
dissatisfaction, disappointment, DISASTER.
Cyberdisaster 2069
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
In short DDD which translates back to Dick Dick Dick
So the developers knew that it needed at least another 7-12 months.
4 years in production is consider rushing than 7 years done by ghost of tsutshima
@@gion1988 New Vegas was done in less than 2 years & its still more compelling than Anthem 2077
@@theolddarksoul1129 KOTOR II was done in one.
@@theolddarksoul1129 New Vegas was done in 18 months yes, but had a plethora of bugs too. In the 4 digits actually if you look at the bug trackers in the Unofficial patches. They cut corners and copy pasted atrocious face gens and also relied upon and used a large number of Fallout 3 assets/systems not to mention the engine. You're making a false equivalence here, 2077 and New Vegas cannot be compared in terms of tech/time needed to make them. Not to mention how much was cut out of NV too to meet unrealistic schedules.
Not trashing on NV btw, it's my fav Fallout game.
Developers always know, publishing with bugs is always a management decision.
Dude so are you going to address you’re clearly biased review for this game. It’s kinda embarrassing looking back now
At the very least Yong did say that he wasn’t allowed to use his own footage in the beginning and has been rightfully bashing the game since it’s come out.
But it was pretty damn embarrassing.
Shill Yea
@@braxtonslife7779 they guy was blinded by the hype and cd pr giving him free stuff like chairs and custom xboxes or whatever. Lottta reviews were like that but they should have tried to stay unbiased as possible
@@cianfarrell9992 Hahaah good luck finding unbiased in regards to CP77, ive not seen it yet.
@@thunderbug8640 Angry Joe probably has the best example. Especially considering how close he was with CDPR as a whole. Even going to dinner with the CEO while on a visit to the developer.
"Leadership" - a term increasingly synonymous with failure yet incapable of saying it did anything wrong.
Jocko Willink's books on leadership do a good job of what leadership consists of. If you don't mind the jarhead bravado.
I don't get your point leadership's also the only thing that establishes and maintains law and order in society fools like you would rather spread mistrust in government then do anything useful
@@tyruswillier7358 my point is that leadership as a concept is extremely worthwhile in certain aspects of human activity, but like many other concepts once it enters the high-level business arena - which is primarily about money rather than human endeavor - it becomes a half-assed, fucked up, perverted version of itself because it is bestowed on individuals who do not possess the inate qualities required to be a leader. The qualities of a leader are inate which is why they emerge naturally from among us, but in business leadrship is instead given like a title to people who think that 'behaving like a leader' makes them one on the flawed assumption that 'leadership' is an acquired skill - as is the case here, that's all well and good until it all goes wrong when their *real* character shines through.
@@DeeZire I can agree with that i couldn't agree with a simple leadership bad statement thanks for expanding it
@@DeeZire I suspect things like honesty, organisation, communication and so on can actually successfully be taught, in a pragmatic fashion even, just as any other skillset can be.
Sounds like you think these are things that are somehow inborn, but I don't really buy that. Perhaps some sociopathic qualities are necessary for leadership but the other stuff surely can be learned?
Yong made his feelings clear when he put his cyberpunk statue back in the box.
When I noticed he’d done that after it came out I knew shit was serious
Holy shit I never noticed
@@deang.5636 If you even watched his vid on the top secret demo you'd know that they were just pulling slight of hand with an engaging demo. And he even said in this one that he had the best experience possible since he has a high end gaming pc. Not very bright are you...
@@deang.5636
Well, usually you just don't expect the devs being THAT scummy to show you a demo which basically is nothing but a fake ass commercial and in no way represents the state of the final product - which it fuckin should! CDPR had so much trust put into them like no other company. Who could've guessed they'd deliberately abuse it for more profit? After all CDPR were the good guys, the super heroes of the game industry. "We leave greed to others" - remember? Welp, the higher they fly, the harder they fall...
It hilarious seeing him like this, cause he was shilling for this game so hard
50% of the budget went on marketing, 49% in Keanu Reeves, and 1% on the actual game
Keanu has taken less money in the past aka devil advocate to make the project better. So its not his fault
I can't remember the video, but I recall seeing one that, ironically, Keanu was apparently a cheaper alternate to the original choice for Johnny Silverhand
@@TheGreatThicc what was the original choice?
“Cyberpunk lived up to the hype”
Yong “shill” yea, 2020
I’m fine with people calling Yong a shill, but as a fan of puns, we NEED a better meme name for him, dammit! People call SkillUp “ShillUp” and that works very well. But YongYea is harder to work with. YongYea more like YongNope?
Hmmm, needs work...
@@JohnDoe-uf3lj that's pretty good haha
"Cyberpunk lives up to the hype"
-YongYea, 2020
😬😬😬
🤢🤢🤢
He couldn’t get off the hype train. I was on the hype train for a while, too. Even 40 hours in. But after 80, I felt like I wasted my gosh darn time.
Oof. This game feels so lifeless. I would not call it open world. It feels very linear. The main story is hardly enough.
@@Half-Vampire I genuinely hope everyone brings this up in every Cyberpunk video he makes moving forward. The shill "influencers" and "reviewers" need to be held accountable for misrepresenting the game as much as CDPR did.
Werent you one of those guys that told us how great the game is half a year ago?
Cyberpunk 2077 lived up to the hype.
-yongyea
5 months before launch "Everyone agrees Cyberpunk is living up to the hype" -2020 how much did they pay you to say that?
Did anyone else notice most of the side quest stories seemed unfinished like the Mayor one that stopped very suddenly and only gave you a small after credit scene
There are a handful of actually interesting side missions and most of them have no payoff at all.
Absolutely! You just stumbled upon a huge conspiracy...and then it just ends. The same thing with Lizzy Wizzy side quest: it starts unfolding and then...it's over.
I would argue that the romances are also unfinished. Once the romancing side quest is done, there is nothing to do with them apart from 1-2 extra dialogues. After I finished the Panam side quest, and exchanged some texts with her afterwards, she was just sitting there for another 30 hours until I started the last mission. Man, what a wasted opportunity!
Regina Jones' reporter friend. You save him and then nothing ever comes of it.
And Ozob. WTF was the point of the Ozob sidequest. A 90 second driving segment followed by a fight with 3 Tyger Claw randos. With no payoff or explanation.
@Elli In Korea Something something, no time, have to push this thing out, is it playable? Yes, ok that's good enough...
And to top it off, I'm constantly hearing on the news how Rhyne is set to be Mayor for another few years when I drive around town probably weeks after wrapping up that whole chain of nonsense as if the man isn't super dead. 🙄
The fact that review companies had given this a 9/10 is the reason why I don’t watch reviews, because after playing on pc it’s a buggy far cry wannabe
i'd say it's more fun than farcry, but that's just me. farcry's story was fun the first time. had enough climbing towers, revealing the map, and attacking clubhouses full of badguys with little to no resistance.
@@apeapeape999 You just described C77, but Far Cry has better gunplay and map design.
@@apeapeape999 Excluding the bugs,
The game has a never ending list of nonexistent promised features available anywhere on TH-cam or reddit along with references.
The game's Faction design & RPG mechanics are a joke compared to Fallout New Vegas & STALKER, as in both games player choices effect or affect the OPEN WORLD
I didn't even include the fundamentally broken physics & AI which got beaten by Gangster Vegas, yeah A 2014 mobile game(video available on TH-cam)
The map is plagued by copy pasted eliminate 5 people ncpd jobs,gigs & a hundred Preston Garvey screaming at me
It's baffling how they marketed this game as next generation open world, in a world where zelda botw & RDR 2 exist
Moral of the story: Don't trust anyone, not even yourself
Deep
I can't trust this moral of the story
I can Trust myself not to buy games from Scammy companies
😐👈😐
@@StainSocial i can’t trust myself as well, unfortunately i don’t get my refund. 😔
they literally developed trailers instead of a game, I love it
delveloped a slice of the game just to show on the demo actually , about 30 people lol
This was 2020's last Eff you to all of us.
MF Dooms passing was a swift kick in the 🥜 as well
@@thhhhms come on mate it’s MF DOOM. All caps, especially now
Not really. It’s only bad if you don’t actually play the game. But hey just keep buying into the click bait
Nope. That was CDPRs last fuck you to all of us. 2020 didn't have anything to do with it.
2021 is going yo be equal or worse
Dude straight up lied in the apology video, absolutely pathetic
They only lie. We know the truth. We have their product. It's a pos.
He couldnt have said anything other than that because he would get sued to oblivion by admiting in a video that they knew the product sold wasnt the one advertised. The video was a publicity thing.
@@josuepviana you know what he could've done? Not make the video in the first place and instead focus on fixing the game.
@@mrc2176 You don’t get it. Lawyers made him read that letter. He doesn’t have a choice at this point.
The fact it was done a MONTH after the game was on sale says a lot about their "sincerity"...
It feels like the strategy for game publishers now is "Hype, hype, hype!" then sell a bunch up front, then pocket as much money as they can and walk away. Then they start hyping the next game. They don't seem to care much for reputation, long term customer base, or quality of product. I don't know anything about how business strategy or anything but surely this isn't a good long term way of running things?
That is absolutely correct. It is in the CEO's interest to make quick profit and leave. Their salaries are not tried to the long-term outcomes of the company. Same as when someone calls themself a "serial entrepreneur". It's av big red flag that means they 'pump and dump'.
This is the new strategy when they know it’s gonna fail might as well whip up a frenzy
Well, it worked. At first. Then they got sued and had to start handing out refunds. What they did wasn't just immoral, it was stupid. What did they think was going to happen?
It’s what is called short termism. Focusing on quarterly reports and investor returns rather than timely development and better long term decisions.
They wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work. The vast majority of consumers are total morons.
Crowbcat roasted you boy!!! LOL
Yea I love that video lol! This boy needs to stop producing content.
@@wumingkkk crowbat needs to stop disappearing for months and learn produce content consistently.
@@munchmill14 no he is like the final boss of exposure to hugely bad games.
Well if they'd stop announcing games years before their even close to being done and hyping us all up with fake gameplay videos. These companies suck.
Ps. Not throwing shade at the devs of course. I still really love the world they created in Cyberpunk. Just wish they were given the time they needed.
Maybe That is why rockstar knew its bad to hype up games so they never talked about GTA 6 or didn't even tease it, but it could be already in production.
@@bearabletable7527 yeah rockstar always wait a long time before making it public.
Exactly, I especially hate when people claim that WE overhyped the game. CDPR did that themselves with their marketing.
@@MiorAkif It's partly our fault for buying into the hype
@@MiorAkif
You guys, generally speaking, literally were becoming cult like and the game didn't even release yet. It is DEFINITELY your fault as well. Still haven't forgotten about those hate replies months back, smh.
After learning about all of the many ways developers get abused by publishers, it's frankly amazing that this industry is able to attract new talent at all.
@@leeviheiskanen1271 Not at all lmao
It attracts passionate people and creatives, the 2 categories of people most easily exploited on the market.
They will suffer, and grit their teeth and sweat 7 hells for these abusive companies because they LOVE their jobs, not because "it pays well".
A senior movie storyboard artist can make 3 times of any senior character designer, dev or writer on any game with 10 times less the stress\work, there are so many other jobs for junior devs that pay MUCH more than any shitty game company, but guess what, they love games and are passionate about them and want to work on them.
Exploiting passionate people is the sole reasons why shitty, abusive industries like the movie, gaming, comics and animation industry are still doing great.
I learned this from Hello Games: don’t buy into the hype.
Sadly I learned this the first time from Wither 3 developer.
Well let's just hope they continue off of Hello Games' example and fix the darn thing.
I never bought into the hype but I respected the reputation. Besides you can't really blame people for buying the hype when it's the company at fault for selling it. Hello games promised stuff that straight weren't there at launch like multiplayer being the big one that literally didn't exist. Cyberpunk claimed a lot of shit as well that wasn't in the final product like a police system that let you interact with police and bribe them. Doesn't exist, police only interact with you as a hostile entity outside of maybe one or two quests and the police system is the come to beat your ass by teleporting to you whenever do something bad. That's the only police "system." Luckily things CDPR promised weren't as numerous as what Hello Games promised, but the things they showed and demoed are nowhere to be found in the game. Only saving grace was things they demoed weren't all things they promised but they demoed them to do what?... to fucking sell the hype. Hard not to buy the hype when that's the only thing the company was selling for 2 years straight, and I do mean selling because they were taking preorders before the game was out, maybe not for the entire two years they hyped the game but still took preorders all the while feeding people hype with their whole night city wire BS which lasted at least a good solid few months.
Hype didn’t do a thing to this game; CDPR did by taking out everything that made the game interesting. You can’t blame people’s excitement on CDPR being evil
LOL. I brought into all the hype and beat it three times. I seriously can’t get enough. Try actually playing it.
One of the things wrong was Yong Yea's intensive shilling as part of CDPR's marketing campaign.
You are just as responsible for ripping consumers off as they are.
He really is. Now he’s turning around and saying “SEE IM TRASHING THEM LIKE I DO UBISOFT AND EA!” and his fanboys are gobbling it up
I completely agree. This game truly exposes the difference between actual journalism and TH-cam amateurs.
The fact that no one, other that “Skill Up,” has taken any steps to take his or her own responsibility for this train wreck, is pathetic.
Shame, I used to not be as cynical...
@@erice1621 reality is often disappointing
Idk sounds like he played the game on pc (the only review copies provided) and enjoyed it.. then the ps4/xbox1 shit hit the fan and he immediately switched gears. I mean a majority of hype was around a well rounded developer who were selling a false project. I dont see how this man is responsible for enjoying a game that was in good shape on the device he was playing on and enjoyed it. He was on the hype and excite train like most of us, instead of directing your anger at him why not focus on the company? I mean this man did point out how bad crunch at the compamy was and reported on it, he got massive fanboy backlash. Like idk what this is accomplishing the man is not CDPR and enjoyed a "well rounded" version of the game.
@@BeyondTheAverageFilm lol you’re either joking or shilling I can’t tell. The game isn’t well rounded in any sense. It’s a game full of false promises and cut content. The open world is unfinished and AI Is the worst of any modern game
Don't forget that YongYea praised this game in his review:)
"Cyberpunk lives up to the hype"
- YongYea 2020
you can like the game and still criticize the company, the two arent mutually exclusive
@@chaos4living676 the game is fire the cover ups are not
Exactly and hyped it up beyond belief before it released. Yong was really full of shit when it came to this game and hasn’t addressed it too.
It can still be a good game (albeit only on pc in this case) even if it's lacking things and it's made by a company more full of shit than a farmer's field. Feel like your point is very much moot
So far all this "owning up" has been a bunch of excuses and trying to pivot the screw ups of the leadership towards Covid restrictions or inability of QA to test the buggy mess the console versions were (which is blatantly not true on top of the disrespect and blame-shifting towards the QA devs). Not impressive is the slightest.
Cracks me up how Covid can be an excuse for a game in development for years. They were absolutely ready when they announced it had gone gold just to delay it immediately afterwards.
Aren't you the one who praised this game when you demo'd it?
Yes he absolutely did
@Mo Ni bad AI and “Only 5 percent of your choices actually matter” isn’t a bug
Demo’s aren’t release versions.
I think if any of us played that demo, we all would be hyped as he was at the time. He could have never know that there was cut content or braindead ai by playing a short demo that is specially made for reviewers and influencers running on a high-end pc. If you are gonna be mad about him hyping this game up then be mad at yourself for believing in the hype in the first place.
@@flyingturk100 I don't buy pre-orders. I don't buy EA games, i don't buy Early Access. I don't buy shit games. But this dude most definitely said how awesome it was.
I wasted money on this 'cause your review said it met the hype.
I highly recommend you read/watch multiple reviews on products before buying things. If you focus on only one person, you’re much more likely to be let down.
Nonetheless, sorry to hear that and I hope you got a refund. But I do hear that the refunds have been annoying to get.
@@JohnDoe-uf3lj watched several reviews all claiming the same shit. And by the time you realize the game is a lie (leaving watson) you have spent too much time playing the game for a refund.
It kills me knowing that this game will never be as good as it could have been.
That's why it'll never be fun. Only realize what's missing every second.
It might pull a no man sky
@@huynhkhangninh1357 If it does, I'll buy a gun and blow my brains out because I know it's not gonna happen.
@@huynhkhangninh1357 unlikely, a few devs and staff have already left, so who’s going to fix it? The new replacements will have to crunch to catch up with what’s left, and then improve on that, just to make the deadline.
@@misterbin00 Please don't, your brains are better in your head than out.
As much as I think Schreier is a tool, I have to give the man his due - he’s one of the few games journalists who deserves the title.
Jesus Christ, this game. I’ve never seen a studio burn through that much good will that quickly. Frankly, I’m still in shock the game made it past certification...
The certification checks if the game will break the console, not if it's good.
@@biozelink6086 I think he means CDPR’s own certification.
@@biozelink6086 didn't the game kind of break the PS4 though? Honestly I'm surprised Sony even allowed the thing on the PSN in the first place lol.
Yes
@@Anonymous07192 Technically it didn't. Sure, it crashed, but by breaking I literally mean damaging the console and bricking it.
If they looked for quality, life of black tiger never should've made it.
The 48 minute trailer was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better, what the hell is that guy talking about? Even Dexter DeShawn and Dum Dum's voice acting is better.
And male V's in the trailer :(
The guy is in total denial. If what we've got, was even close to that trailer, we wouldn't been having this conversation.
And that totally sucks, because that guy, is the one who stepped up with a "new overhaul" for game.
I smell a hard copium intake coming from his twitter this shit was a mess and sounded like a desperate attempt to save face after being exposed
So true, I went back and watched that thing again, NOTHING similar about that, well technically it is, but come on Mr. Adam, who are you fooling? Weren't you guys CHAMPIONS of gamers or something, oh how tables turn....
when's Yong gonna admit he rode the hype train, lied to his audience and pulled a 180 on CDPR?
Who knows, but people will move on to the next outrage controversy soon, nothing really lasts long and people forget.
@@AvelierPlays a game that was praised as gods creation and failed to delivers on promises is not going to just up and go away.
@@DMasta718 In a year or two when Cyberpunk's completely fixed and its DLC is out, people will call it one of the best games ever created just like what happened with Witcher 3, and then CDPR will release another buggy mess while riding on their "GREAT reputation among gamers" (like they always do)
It already happened with the buggy launch of Witcher 3, and it'll happen again
@@yaboijebus1418 Don't think so m8, I've played it for about 70hours now and aside from the bugs I am completely done with this game. Aside from the story and some exceptional side quests it's all of the same repetitive stuff. The Witcher 3 before the DLC I wasn't even done after 200 hours, the armor did not look like shit, the character progression felt good and new powers felt like they contributed something. Cyberpunk is just an empty husk of a game, and a buggy one at that...
@@yaboijebus1418 The difference is excluding bugs, the Witcher 3 was a great game. It wasn't perfect but it was still a very good game whilst with cyberpunk, even if you don't take it's bugs in account, is average at best.
It's so funny that the more management people like Adam say stuff in public, the more apparent their lack of leadership skill is.
The saddest part of this is Yong and many other will never look at the company the same way again.
That's a good thing they need a wake up call 📞
They got paid..so stop being sad you naive puppet...
@@lorenzovonmatterhorn7402 or stop being so very nihilistic. We all succumbed to hype. We must applaud the good and call out the bad.
he still wearing his cyberpunk font yong yea shirt lol.. still selling those merch.. My outlook of yong and skillup after this was somewhat damaged. I have a feeling they knew.. especially with skillup.. if you rmemeber what he been sprouting months before when he got invited to CDPR..
Im starting to take these guys with a grain of salt now.
@@pixytorres7117 i did not buy this game. But I did buy the Witcher 3. I loved that game. I was hesitant because of how much they were promising. Just don't attack people like that. It makes you look like a jerk.
the “fake” 2018 demo makes me so sad, everyone was so excited :(
It wasn’t fake. It’s just another lie
@@revolverswitch I seriously don’t see what is fake about it. Can someone explain using actual facts instead of a lying journalist who works for a corporate news outlet that tries pours out just as many lies as the former president?
@@jodieholmes8453 have you played the game? If you have, watch the gameplay demo. You should be able to see al the lies immediately
@@jodieholmes8453 you know you can like the game but also see that there are huge problems with it as well you don't have to bootlick & kiss ass 24/7
@@lordofdarkness4204 I have beaten all three life paths buddy. Besides wall running I haven’t spotted any differences that aren’t normal to be cut from a game.
But hey keep trying
I’m guessing it was true was when they said they only wanted to hangout with Keanu Reeves.
Really seems like it doesnt it
"Dont be sorry, Be better" - Kratos
Robux
Kratos ain’t never said bullshit like dat cuh
@@SkitterMcBoo You play the newest god of war homie?
@@SkitterMcBoo Actually, he did. Near the beginning of the latest game
@@SkitterMcBoo he literally said that ⁉️💯
This adam badowski character seems to be acting very disingenuous here, whenever he's mentioned by members of the team there's never anything good said about him, the guy seems to have overstayed his welcome and should be replaced along with many other members of management as I see him as part of the problem at that place.
He’s a cofounder dude. Company is him
@@saldb Badowski isn't a cofounder. Those are Marcin Iwiński (who is in the latest apology/roadmap video) and Michał Kiciński (who is no longer at CD Projekt, but his brother Adam is one of the co-CEOs along side Marcin). Badowski was one of the first hires CD Projekt made when they started doing their own game development.
That said, as director of Cyberpunk 2077 and head of the studio CD Project Red, Badowski is ultimately responsible for the failure and fallout happening now. I don't know how CD Projekt is going to be able to justify keeping him in the role he's in now, but I suppose we'll see.
as long as this dude Badowski is around, expect nothing but BS from CDPR. He is the well known type in corpo culture ...is the type that brings the toxicity to new level and push out the talented people
@@antiapatic couldn’t agree more
CDPR flew too close to the sun with Witcher 3...
Now look at them.
Witcher 3 is a pointless boring slog.
@@nikolaast stick with fortnite buddy. You must also call rdr2 boring...
They got cocky just cuz of 1 successful game.
@@jgsource552 well he’s not wrong. Witcher 3 got good story but mediocre gameplay. CDPR is basically another Obsidian, great at creating story but mediocre at gameplay.
And this is the same guy who criticised battlefront updates for shilling... what a hypocrite.