Yeah, the Witcher 3 release should have taught the game publishers this. CDPR delayed the launch by several months because the game wasn’t ready to ship yet. And the game was phenomenal, and received rave reviews pretty much across the board. Gamers were disappointed about the launch, but basically went “this game will be worth the wait.”

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago

Funny how CDPR themselves then had a major fuck up with Cyberpunk

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

...and they followed it with Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch but ultimate success. So I wouldn't hold CDPR as a high standard.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’d argue that is just another example of why delaying games isn’t a bad thing. 2077 clearly wasn’t ready at launch, and would have benefitted from a delayed launch.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I feel like that one was also due to awful development practices, they had the whole scrapping the entire first 2 years of work thing due to a control freak lead dev who was ultimately releaved of his position (though not until after release iirc)

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t call it a success yet. I just started playing it for the first time yesterday and I have already fallen through the floor twice and the camera was broken causing seizure inducing visuals in one of the cutscenes.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's right there in the link. It sold more than Witcher 3, even though it did the wrong thing by releasing early and buggy.

[–] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You realize that rockstar basically invented this strategy right? Almost every release since vice city or San Andreas has been delayed by 6 months to a year to be the best game possible.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just assumed game companies had been doing that since the 1800's.

[–] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sure you can argue standard practice has been and should be to deliver a finished game first and foremost. But in the context of modern gaming and setting release dates, Rockstar has historically been unafraid to change a release date to make a better game. But yes before the internet and the ability to patch a game it was standard to make sure your game didn’t suck before letting it loose.

And my comment was more to point out that using CDPR as a shining beacon of consistently solid game releases is laughable, especially when comparing them to Rockstar.