-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
CD Projekt: Worth $1 billion, 100 devs on Gwent, GOG Galaxy as uPlay?, more
- Thread starter boskee
- Start date
Sword Of Doom
Member
Lol is that what the poster was saying?
swazzyswess
Member
I'm genuinely happy for their success. Thanks to Blood and Wine, W3 might end up being my GOTY again this year... 200+ hours in, and I'm still in awe of what they accomplished with this game. can't wait to see what they do next.
Maintenance
Member
The moment they stop making games and start living solely from GOG, Gwent and insert another F2P game here.
They said 2077 would dwarf the size of Witcher 3. I fear for their safety.
What has CDP finished?
Outrun
Member
Wait until the game is released, the we shall know.
Well deserved news for The Witcher Dev.
johnnydrama
Banned
No, they said it'd be more complex, as in a massive city with a lot of verticality as well. But yes, they're easily the most ambitious dev in the industry right now.
Indeed. Night City isn't a low sprawl, but a looming mass stacked on top of itself. I am actually really looking forward to how they deal with the density if they try to realize it somewhat faithfully. Granted, they will have to presumably make some allowances for gameplay and player agency, but otherwise this is probably going to be a pretty tightly-packed affair. I can't really think of an example of that (on this supposed scale) right now.
johnnydrama
Banned
They've had multiple offers from big publishers and have declined all of them. Iwinski made it clear they are very successful and wish to remain independent. Don't think we need to worry about that.
johnnydrama
Banned
Marcin Iwinski talks about piracy and DRM here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhTLvNEYbQ
Around the 14 minute mark.
Around the 14 minute mark.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Gwent is going to be far better than it has any right to be.
And I fear for my social life once Cyberpunk drops. Unless it's fucking terrible and sinks the company. You never know.
And I fear for my social life once Cyberpunk drops. Unless it's fucking terrible and sinks the company. You never know.
krameriffic
Member
The million concurrent Dota 2 players and 500k concurrent CSGO players every day probably think they are doing just fine.
Not everyone plays games like you do this day and age.
That's great news, hopefully other publishes/devs will learn a thing or two from these guys, they are the company with the right vision on how things should be. Keep it up, CDPR!
As for Gwent, I did like the game on W3, I'll try the game on PC, but I do not see myself playing it for a long time (played hearthstone for about 10 hours), hopefully it'll do well though!
And Cyberpunk... might be a scorpio/ps4+ game if not a newer gen console
As for Gwent, I did like the game on W3, I'll try the game on PC, but I do not see myself playing it for a long time (played hearthstone for about 10 hours), hopefully it'll do well though!
And Cyberpunk... might be a scorpio/ps4+ game if not a newer gen console
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
To the executives.
johnnydrama
Banned
It's 100 employees. That includes marketing people and everyone.
LectureMaster
Member
This, and yes！
I finished the B&W story last week and I'm now doing the Gwent quest. It's really fun so far but it's way to easy. I hope the actual tournament quest will be harder.
The ending of Witcher 3 felt really satisfying to me imho.
Valve does a really bad job with updating CS:GO. Can't speak for Dota 2 though.
The ending of Witcher 3 felt really satisfying to me imho.
Valve does a really bad job with updating CS:GO. Can't speak for Dota 2 though.
Rexatality
Member
The Witcher series had a pretty satisfying conclusion, especially with Blood and Wine expansion.
In any case, big congratulations to CD Projekt RED. It shows how much successful you can be in the gaming industry without fleecing customers of their money with microtransactions and shit.
GreatestHits
Member
CDPR is on fire right now. Hope they retain their core vision and integrity as they grow. IMO Bethesda has, largely due to being headed by Howard for so long, and it seems to also be the case with whats his name at CDPR
I realized I always say gog while he said g-o-g. Guess I'm an idiot.
GreatestHits
Member
johnnydrama
Banned
I think it used to stand for Good Old Games or something. I still say gog.
EGOMON
Member
Yet they were more than happy to stand in Microsoft stage and support Xbone when it was a DRM machine before the 180s and even defend it during the backlash people seems to forget that for some reason.
johnnydrama
Banned
Well, every thread has to go to shit eventually. There goes this one.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
considering how things turned out in the future with their consumer friendly practices via the witcher 3, i don't see how this is really relevant. of course they're not going to be out front loud and bashing business partners
johnnydrama
Banned
Get out of here with that logic and reason. Everyone should be bashing Microsoft publicly because reasons.
There is no way to support consoles without supporting DRM.
Hamster Plugin
Member
Based on what? Origin was never bad and Uplay was fixed in their overhaul on September 2015.
The problem now is that we're getting a ridiculous amount of extra clients for every publisher. We now have Steam, Origin, Uplay, Battle.net, Bethesda.net, Rockstar Social Club... and GOG Galaxy. Every single one of them with its own account and password to remember.
This is the people's fault that even let Origin and uPlay being a thing back in the day.
All this dumbery is well deserved because "oh noes! how could i skip this bad yearly AAA franchise for 1-2 years! it will kill me!".
EGOMON
Member
It is the truth but CDPR can do no wrong right
I was specifically talking about CDPR hypocrisy regarding their stand on DRM don't try to spin to something else
johnnydrama
Banned
There is no hypocrisy here. You're simply seeing things you want to and projecting. CDPR make massive, big budget games, and to be able to make those games they need consoles, and you can't support consoles by rejecting their policies. They try their best where they can. They run a DRM-free store (gog.com) and release DRM free games on PC. They do regional pricing on Steam for different regions, create some of the most high quality and value for money content. Their business practices are simply the best in the AAA industry at the moment.
I don't know how it works in delusion land, but in the real world, you can't be badmouthing one of your major business partners without consequences. End of the day, they are a business, and they need to support the platforms they release their games on. If you expect them to go on record and say Microsoft is ruining the industy, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. They're not suicidal.
And for the record, this is what CDPR had to say about Microsoft's DRM policies. I don't know what about this is so offensive.
KonradLaw
Member
Most of biggest F2P games aren't even on Steam at all. So obviously at least for this genre people who whine about separate clients are meaningless minority.
Majority of gamers won't miss on the fricking biggest games around solely because they can't be assed to use non- Steam client.
They didn't have to miss it just delay playing them. If people didn't subscribe to those clients time 1-2 years and everyone would have eventually gone back to Steam.
And logistics isn't the only problem with these services but also the fact that these shady companies could do whatever the fuck they want to your library instead of a well trusted one that already has promised that if anything is going to happen to them they'll make sure to make sure nothing happens to the games you've bought.
"Gamers" have a self control of a 5 y/o baby and this will bite them in the ass eventually, and for what then? for a couple of copypaste games of the passed year but with a new coat of paint on top.
And just to be clear, i have nothing against GoG Galaxy as it is essentially a metadata library for drm free games but people complaining about having to many clients or having one game tied only for that client is laughable since you have made this thing possible.