Again what is a done game? because in reality contnet gets cut all the time for not being finished for for sucking. Movies trialers shows clips of movies that get cut last minute.
I massively disagree I think the difference between single player multiplayer needs to be taken into consideration on how we define "done" although I understand that someone could use movies as an example, such an analogy simply could not apply here with CP2077.
The items missing from cyberpunk was not simply content alone we're talkin about core features like basic artificial intelligence like police officers being unable to drive cars the same with gang member or the fact that the game didn't even have the AI program to ride motorcycles or features literally in the menu like telling you you could put stuff in the car to store when you literally cannot do this there's multiple elements missing in the game to the point of even options in the menu being hollowed-out or them showing you trailers talkin about "customization" that literally does not exist like with vehicles.
So let's take the analogy of Television something clearly episodic that is incomplete when it arrives generally, to even apply to cyberpunk I'm sorry but you're not fucking getting a show where no subtitles exist because the shows "not done", o yeah the second episode has no sound because the shows "not done" o yeah I forgot instead of 40 minutes this next episodes going to be 20 minutes compared to the rest of the show because the rest of it's "not done" and you're going to see a green screen for the next 40 minutes because the show was "not done" what fucking show do you know that's coming out that's doing that as if that's normal?
So before we actually try to use those as analogies please understand what we're talking about
With multiplayer game I believe it's completely different I have nothing against a multiplayer game having the standard basic features and simply adding additional Maps as well as different modes or weapons or something like that post-launch that's no different than a show adding more episodes. ie (The fucking show plays, has subtitles, you see people, you hear sound lol)
But clearly there is a difference like you see with Battlefield 2042 where they game is launching without voice chat or a scoreboard and missing elements in the U I like the player profile and other basic standard features that existed in other Battlefield games or most of them at launch.
But clearly there's also a difference with single player games like cyberpunk 2077 where the things missing from the game or omitted or stripped from the game are just two basic to pretend any other medium is doing something like this
Those two examples are simply too unacceptable and there's no damn analogy you could make with any other medium that whatever makes sense because it's not like you're fucking buying a book and then the other half of the pages are completely blank or jumbled up or characters are named character one or two because the fucking book is unfinished that's not how we Define a multi book series like Harry Potter or Game of Thrones none of them are just coming out with the function of the book halfway like you're getting wet paper in the mail because they're not done pressing it lol
This is not how I feel about all DLC, this is now how I feel about expansions or add ons or any post launch content...this is how I feel when this system is abused to add elements post launch that are too standard to have even been missing at all.
AI (can't stress that shit enough, who the fuck launches a game where bad guys can't drive fucking cars, but hey its a game that has fucking cars you can drive in a city with humans with crime)
Standard modes
basic UI
Voice chat if a MP game
None of that shit sounds like just "content" those are day 1 elements.
This is also why companies are afraid to announce things early because things are tentative I can't speak for every cyberpunk media ever released but I'm sure every thing has a disclaimer that everything was subject to change or not represnative of final product.
I even agree with you that companies clearly are afraid to announce things early and they showed if something subjected change were they game is too early in development there's no point to promise something that's clearly subject to change but I don't even believe cyberpunk 2077 has such a fucking excuse you're talkin about a game that up until the week of its release was showing us trailers talking about features that literally did not exist that's not a concept of subject to change that basically a scam there literally telling you about functions that do not exist to have you buy the game...
They are literally withholding footage from the game with an embargo to scam people into purchasing the game
When you get to this point I don't really buy that excuse of not representative of the final product disclaimer on the corner or anything like that because that's an excuse for a company who puts out a beta who's transparent about their information in really actually mean that not a company who slapping that word around to get away with lying to people
Such a disclaimer should be used with discretion, it shouldn't be abused to balantly scam and lie to people about a series of features.
If they knew those things changed, why didn't they tell the public about all of those changes prior? For fuck sakes, we saw what was missing when the game came out and after the fact to the point of it basically being a different fucking genre....
whiny bitches I'm talking about the people who complain when there's a delay and then complain when they don't delay it.
Trust me. Gamers will complain about any delay, that doesn't mean they want broken games and thats no excuse. They want the game they are seeing in the trailers and are being told its either "ahead of schedule" or runs "surprising smooth" , thus they want what they are being told those games to be.
Upon finding out that was a lie, of course they will complain that it wasn't delayed further, they are only wanting the game BASED ON A LIE, thus it invalidates any of this, if they are telling us some false shit, we still want the FINSIHED game working, only delayed if it needs to be, but shit how would we know based on what was said by both EA and CDPR regarding those situations?
So as someone that bought both CP2077 and BF 2042 day 1, I'm telling you that if we knew those games were truly in that condition, we'd all demand a delay. We still want to play, working games sir. So we are not complaining so much that they didn't delay, but that they were not transparent that it needed on in the first place...
Think about it.
We are "ahead of schedule"
"Runs surprising well and smooth" non of that sounds like they are worried or that anything is wrong with the game, thus our feedback is wanting a release vs a delay, in the defense of 2042 players, that was asked after the beta by many, we got no demo of CP2077 and the hid footage to keep the scam alive. So how can we know its in such shape to even demand a delay on something they are blatantly hiding and lying about?
I even agree with you that issues in development happen, my issue is when that is withheld from the public to sell a series of lies.
