Makes sense, it's pretty shocking watching all the promotional material previous to the game release and what was told at events about the game compared with the final product, a shame really but nobody forced them to overhype the game or make unplayable versions of it.
Agreed.
They easily could have removed those videos from their official YouTube page and make a video simply statingt those elements are no longer in the game and its no longer an RPG, instead of quietly removing "RPG" from their site and other listings.
They basically allowed marketing material basically marketing a game that doesn't even exist in that form. They knew exactly what they where doing. For god sakes videos leading up to the launch have shit in them not even in the final game,
my god..THE GAME ITSELF HAS MENUS AND TEXT ABOUT SHIT THAT DOENS"T EXITS IN THE GAME. So they cut content 1 month before release or did that shit ever exist at all? I understand things get cut, nothing but greed stopped them from making a video simply detailing that the game has changed.
This simply doesn't sound like a mistake or accident, it sounds like it was deliberate to fool people to pre-ordering based on trailers that they likely had zero plans to really put in the game.
I usually share your same sentiments, in this case though i feel like good faith has been thrown out of the window.
To clarify, the PS4/XONE versions being so problematic and underperforming is not the problem.
The problem is in the extent CDProjekt have gone out of its way (using embargoes, takedowns, preventing media from showing their own footage and, yes, releasing false statements) to prevent anyone from knowing the actual state of the project up until the release day.
Making games is hard, making big games is even harder. This is understandable.
Showing false footage and releasing an "oops, actually..." statement after being caught, it's not understandable. That's where the good faith ends, honestly.
Completely agreed. That is how I see this. I get things get removed from games, is there a reason why they told us about trains being removed but simply "forgot" to make a video or official statement that it was no longer a "rpg" and now a "action adventure"? Where are those cops that you can "bribe"? It seems like they made a choice to omit a fuck ton of information to keep people buying a game that didn't exist. The lawsuits are deserving and I feel they will continue as they are going to likely deal with the Polish Government on top of Sony or MS or both suing.
So they accidently told reviewers not to use their own footage too or?
When people look back and talk about downgrades and scams, lets remember Watchdogs 1 has a demo, Anthem for fucks sakes had a beta, The Division 1 and 2 had betas where you fully could play and see what the fuck the game was before release.... if they wanted to fucking scam and hide shit soooooooo badly, they would do like what CDPR do.
Lie now, apologize later and be like "oops" and or "ZOMG we didn't know it was downgraded until we took your money.....our badz free stickers for all, here is some cut con....I mean dlc that is free".