Will Cyberpunk 2077's third release delay really be okay?

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Night City will change you

This is what Cyberpunk 2077 says.

Currently, there is a game that is receiving the attention of all gamers all over the world. It's Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk2077 is a game that has been under development for a long time since it unveiled its first trailer in 2013, about seven years ago. It began releasing full-fledged information in 2018 and announced its release schedule in 2020.

Cyberpunk2077 was like rain in a drought in a game market full of cliche games. It was a game of CDPR that produced Witcher3, so I had to look forward to it even more. But here's where the problem. Cyberpunk 2077 continues to postpone its release. Gamers are worried because games that have been delayed for a long time have received a lot of reviews. In this post, we will talk about Cyberpunk2077's postponement of the release.

What's Cyberpunk 2077?

Cyberpunk 2077 is a game set in the future 57 years after "Cyberpunk 2020" a TRPG game created by MikePondsmith. Giant companies control all parts of civilized life, and the rest of the lower classes' lives take the gangster-dominated dystopia as a worldview. The player becomes V, a mercenary who lives in Night City, the worst city in the United States, and plays games.

Cyberpunk 2077 that many game-related bloggers, journalists and streamers played in June 2020 was more than expected. The main purpose of the game is to proceed with the prologue main quest, but everyone says that everything you see while playing the game was interesting. One blogger said, "I had an amazing experience where I felt like less than half an hour of a four-hour demonstration time that is less than half an hour."

Many of AAA-class games have been released as of 2020, but not all of them are well received. Especially in the case of Open World games, Cyberpunk 2077 plays a very important role in the game market because the number of games is so low that it is not worth playing at the moment.

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Existing release schedule for Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077, which was scheduled to be released in April 2020, has been postponed for about five months. The reason was because of bug fixes. Many gamers agreed with this decision. Because it's better to wait a little longer and enjoy a high-quality game than to enjoy a buggy game. But this was not the only problem.

The release date of Cyberpunk2077 in June 2020 was further postponed until November 19. Gamers reacted against this. This is because delaying the release of the album while pre-orders have already been made seems to be an act of consumers. But it was okay. This is because the Master CD of Cyberpunk 2077 was released. For this reason, many gamers are only waiting for the release of Cyberpunk 2077. But no one would have known this was not the last.

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The delay was not the end.

Contrary to CDPR's statement that there is no longer any delay in the release, the newly announced release date has been postponed again to Dec. 10. Even in this case, complaints from gamers waiting for the game are skyrocketing due to the unprecedented decision to postpone the release of the Master CD while it was announced. 

One might wonder why this is a problem, but so far, no game has been postponed since the release of the master CD. It is a big problem because it is the first situation in history. For this reason, there are also concerns that a really serious bug or a fatal flaw has been found in the game.

However, many expect it to be related to Google Stadia, and there must have been some kind of deal with Google. If the release is delayed due to this, I will be really disappointed with Google.

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Excess of developer's work

The delay of the game creates considerable problems. But among the problems caused by this delay, developers' tasks are the biggest problem. In the development process of "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" serious overwork and unpaid labor phenomena inside the CDPR have been exposed several times.  Cyberpunk 2077 also reveals that these problems have not been improved in the development process.

Even after announcing the postponement of the release, the CDPR officially acknowledged that it was necessary to work on the project, causing controversy again over the poor conditions and serious treatment of the developers. Overwork is a problem that is widespread across all game makers. However, the main reason why gamers are disappointed was that even the CDPR, which is well received by gamers for being friendly to users, has not been able to eliminate the controversy.

There is a separate reason why this fact is a problem. Currently, the official task is in the second half of 2020. In other words, CDPR seems to be promoting overtime just before the release of the game, but in fact, there were many people working overtime from 2018 to 2019. One employee said he worked so much overtime that his total overtime hours exceeded 1,600 hours. It is said that there is also a simple bed in the office for employees who cannot go home due to overwork and stay up all night. The completeness of the game is important, but I think we should give proper compensation to the team members who worked hard.

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How will you improve the problem?

CDPR is aware of these problems and has come up with many improvements. The CDPR acknowledged that there was actually such a task after the revelation. But in the meantime, the teams insisted that they wanted it. This argument is not without persuasion. If you are a game maker, you may want to invest more time to make a more complete game.

There are the most effective ways to improve these problems. It's money. The CDPR promised to directly allocate 10% of its annual profits to the Cyberpunk 2077 team. The amount will be significant as the current pre-orders alone for the game alone have recorded far more sales than the previous work, Witcher 3.

Conclusion

After the release delay announcement, CDPR once again said it was "confident" about the new release date. He expressed confidence, saying such a decision would benefit the company in the long run. I think there must be a reason for showing this confidence.

Additional reasons for the postponement were revealed, and PC versions and next-generation consoles were prepared and work on the current generation consoles was underway. He also said he expected no refunds for pre-orders and praised the game as a game he had never experienced before.

Cyberpunk 2077 is an innovative game. It is similar to the shock of meeting 카지노사이트 for the first time. I hope these games will be released properly without further delay.

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