So, Was That Infamously Debunked Cyberpunk 2077 Insider Right After All? – Forbes

Cyberpunk 2077

Three weeks ago, something rather weird happened. A reddit post claiming to be documenting the thoughts of an anonymous CDPR developer about Cyberpunk 2077s launch started to go viral, spawning a number of YouTube videos that apparently required a response from CDPR itself. During a time when we were receiving pretty much no updates about the game itself, they posted the following:

Hell, theyve only posted seven tweets since then, so clearly it ruffled some feathers.

But now in the wake of a true insider report based on Jason Schreiers reporting at Bloomberg, plus whats happened with the actual game and patches, I keep hearing from people who are telling me See, that reddit post was right after all!

So I decided to go back and give it another look. And with all the new information we know now I can conclude that

No, sorry, I still dont think its real. And if anything, it seems even less real now, if you really go back and look at it.

Ill go through a few of the points specifically, but in general, let me say that the entire concept of we had to cut a bunch of stuff and management was bad is not exactly a huge stretch to imagine, even if you were inventing all of the other details from scratch. Often insiders just play on the obvious and act like its some grand revelation. But the details dont really add up.

"CDPR hurt themselves to keep investors safe and sound.

So uh, how did that work out, exactly? CDPR stock price has fallen sharply and theyre now facing multiple lawsuits on behalf of their investors for misleading the public about the state of the game which ultimately led to the stock slide. Whatever decisions management made they certainly did not make investors happy.

Cyberpunk Roadmap

Now devs are hearing plans of a "No Man's Sky" style comeback due in late June

We have since gotten an actual roadmap about whats coming to the game in the next year, and all thats listed are a few patches, some generalized talk of fixes, free DLC which was already promised (now delayed) and the next gen update (also delayed). Nothing about CDPRs tone through all this has suggested plans for some grand No Mans Sky turnaround, and the only thing we will see by June are probably some more fix patches and the free DLC, which will be on the level of The Witcher 3s small free DLC offerings, nothing like a big No Mans Sky expansion.

The first two patches should come out mid-March, despite what's been said by top execs.

This has already been proven false. Not that this weeks 1.1 patch was good mind you, but it did make it out by Januarys end and the second is scheduled for February.

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The directors and senior devs are taking the flak for the team in what I'd call "an honourable move"

While CDPR management did take responsibility in their apology video, they were also criticized for what appeared to be throwing QA under the bus a bit for not catching some of the largest issues on older consoles.

Most apartments with "Closed (locked)" indications used to be lootable

This was something that never made sense at the time, as locked doors are not uncommon in games like this and its hard to imagine that the game was ever meant to have like 30x the interior space. This seems entirely made up.

I don't want to hate on Keanu, but f***ing hell, our original Johnny was way cooler and sounded like a maniac.

Theres a whole section here trash talking Keanus performance which doesnt really ring true. We have seen concept art for a non-Keanu Johnny Silverhand, and yet obviously I dont think that character was conceived from day one with him in mind, so that makes sense.

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The game was jumbled together for 2019's E3.

This does not line up with Schreiers reporting that the E3 demo was actually completely detached from the main game, mostly faked to illustrate the concepts, and actual CDPR devs were worried about too much being invested in the E3 demo as opposed to the actual game.

Police pathfinding script worked wonderfully until somebody screwed the pooch. All I know it is already being fixed. It was a major oversight, of course.

Again, this contrasts with reporting that the police system was actually just thrown into the game last minute with no indication that there was ever a good version of it. Also I have a hard time believing a Polish dev would use the phrase screwed the pooch.

You get it. There are some details that are so hyper specific they really cant be proven or disproven yet, but this never felt real at the time, and no, it still doesnt feel real now, even knowing all the problems behind the scenes, with some of it flat-out disproven at this point. So yeah, you can stop saying this post turned out to be true.

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