More Cyberpunk 2077 Outrage as Dev-Made Montage Videos of Bugs and Glitches Leak Online

At this point u gotta feel a little bad for CDPR

@ZeroOverOne Yeah, I feel terrible for the devs who spent god knows how long trying to make this game work. Ultimately it's not their fault that the project was horribly mismanaged, and even now, many of them are having to pick up the pieces.

It's just been a ridiculous situation from day one.

As someone pointed out on Twittter - it's worth noting that the video is a montage of funny bugs from various stages of development and doesn't necessarily reflect the game's state on release (as in "they knew the game was unplayable and lied about it").
Not saying the game wasn't/isn't broken but this will probably bring even more hate towards people who don't necessarily deserve it.

Someday they’re going to teach people about Cyberpunk in business classes as an example of what not to do.

@ZeroOverOne no you don’t, it’s deserved

Can't wait to finally play this when the complete edition arrives on Ps5 in 2023. 😇

@ZeroOverOne I definitely feel for the devs who worked there asses off to try and get this ready and take the brunt of peoples abuse. Not so much the company or folks at the top who insisted it should be released but get to hide behind said devs.

@ElMarko No, it's not on the devs, it's on the higher-ups.

Just more proof of the obvious, that they knew the shocking state the game was in before release.
And yes, people say these are bugs found during development, but they obviously weren’t all fixed. Not even close.

Were these videos taken from the recent hack or were they leaked by a CDPR employee?

Difficult to know the context i guess. If it wasn't for the music, you could argue its a useful showreel to show the higher ups that the game was not ready for release.

Never known a game release quite like this. Mind boggling.

The video is hilarious. It may tell us how much they knew and when they knew it....but darned if it's not funny.

Still waiting until this game is $20. And "next gen" only.

You gotta feel for the devs but man, I don't think anything is gonna save this game. I don't even think a NMS resurrection is possible for it now.

I mean at this point I would buy it physical as a collectors thing but just to say I own a copy of the game that had the worst launch in history of game launches.

At least bug videos have been fun to watch

@RubyCarbuncle I dont think it can. I think the problems run deeper than bugs and are hard coded into the core of the game itself.

I think if CDPR had a choice, they'd wash their hands of it entirely. Only reason they are persisting with it is because their reputation depends on it - and their shareholders probably demand it.

Take No Man's Sky. I'm sure people will have largely forgiven Hello Games following the initial launch of that game by the time they release their next big project. And that is entirely down to their post launch support. CDPR NEED to see something similar in order to salvage even a flicker of trust out of this mess before they start marketing their next project

Feel sorry for the devs on this one, they've took a whole load of stick for issues only the higher up's themselves brought about.

The clips were no doubt made early on in development and nothing to suggest its from code near, or as it went "gold"

The leak however suggests that its came from someone disgruntled. Management are the only ones to blame here and you can see with the amount of staff leaving that the company is in a bad way.

Sorry? Can't hear you over the awesome MassEffect sound.
😂
I mean, cyberpunk 2077 feels like it happened eons ago. They had their window. It's closed now.

@HotGoomba CDPR is the higher ups. The devs are just usually sub contractors

I’m genuinely curious as to how many people hating on the game actually played it? 50%? 25%?

I say this because I played it to 100%. Were the crashes annoying? Absolutely. However, the writing is superb and the game is overall fun.

What is unfortunate is that the internet becomes a mob very quickly and people just hop on board.

Additionally, I don’t know why people would have hate towards the developers, they’ve continued to make fixes since launch which tells me given the appropriate amount of time they would have cleaned it up. If you want to be mad, be mad at the corporate higher ups who forced them into releasing the game in the state it did.

The video definitely reminds me of those glitch montage videos you see on YouTube.

I don't really know what to say about the game and CDPR.

As usual, it's important to remember that the people who developed the game are not the same people who make publishing decisions. I'm sure the people who developed the game were as annoyed about it being released in an incomplete state as anyone.

Unfortunately, life in a capitalist society usually means the people doing the actual work are often the not the same as the people calling the shots, and there's really not much you can do as a developer if corporate suits are seeing dollar signs and trying to cash in early on explosive pre-order numbers.

It is a little funny to see a company like CDPR that has carefully built up the facade of being "consumer friendly" and "for the gamers" over many years decide to cash in on that good will at once.

You get what you deserve in this buisness. Maybe if they'd have spent less time ******* about and more time fixing the bug's, they might not have been getting laughed out of the industry right now?

Atleast we know why there is no thirdperson view in the game and i cant wait to hear people still defend it. 😅

5:43 "Don't be Dramatic". A message to everybody.

@ShogunRok Isnt it easier or maybe even cheaper to license a engine and start over because the damage they have caused to their brand is unfixable now.

Who am i kidding the next game will sell like hotcakes what celeb will they use this time. 😅

@FatalBubbles Keep defending dumbster fires that will show them.

The cdp top management really fu** up this game huh, to think this could be their gta or at least their red dead 2, now it become the laughing stock of gaming industry, a tell tale of how to not do AAA games launch.

The video is funny though 😂

Ok, but controversy aside, these are hilarious.

DOTY!!
(Disappointment of the year)

@RubyCarbuncle That doesn’t address my question of how many trashing it have actually played it.

I also didn’t say I’m OK with how it plays. All I said was I had fun with it despite the issues. I also didn’t say that it’s completely fixed. I said they’ve continued to fix the game, and as far as I know they still are.

And for the record, the internet absolutely is a breeding grounds for mobs. My original question if answered would speak to that.

I have no problem with people who played the game and don’t like it/enjoy it because of the issues. What I have a major issue with is the amount of people who haven’t played the game and hop on board the trash train.

@Flaming_Kaiser What are you trying to say? That I shouldn’t defend developers who worked hard and are still working hard on the game?

I don’t defend the top brass who pushed out the game with issues.

So much fuss over a game that was pretty darn average even without all the bugs.

It may be just me but I can't wait till I get a very cheap copy and play it completely unpatched, that's something that physical has over digital.

@RubyCarbuncle Excuses for what? I have no vested interest in this?

Yes they do need to play because not everyone gets the issues from all the videos going around. Multiple people I know have played it and none of us had all the issues that are making the rounds. Some bugs are more common than others. Just watching a video doesn’t give you the same experience as playing a games, which I thought would go without question but I guess not.

I'd guess the video was put together by devs at some stage in production to try and help their cause of telling the execs, who clearly weren't listening to them, that the game needed to be delayed (again). Obviously didn't work.

That said, I'm very much in the 'got it, played it, really enjoyed it' camp

@AchievingGamer correct. Devs make the game, management are responsible for ensuring what’s released is up to standard

"And let's not forget that after Cyberpunk's release, CDPR boss Marcin Iwinski stated that internal testing did not show many of the technical issues that players were experiencing."

As if that couldn't be more false.

2:54 - made me spit my coffee.

This vídeo is hillarious.

Jokes aside, I did play & platinum'd the game. Bugs and crashes were annoying (well, if I'm being honest, some bugs were kinda funny), but underneath all that lies a really really good game. Cyberpunk's sin was greed... Released waaay before it was ready. This whole hate campaign reminds me of Mass Effect Andromeda, where a large part of the people spewing out hate didn't even play the game. That's like complaining about the government but not voting.

I believe CDPR will deliver.

@Voltan Thank you, people jumping on the hate train again not knowing that these kind of videos are common within dev teams

I just don't understand this small minded idea that the actual developers involved in the day to day construction and progress of the game are free from blame on the way this trash was released.

That notion is absurd. It is expected that financially motivated corporate shills will lie and make decisions in the interest of greed. However, when those on the front lines of action and knowledge remain silent or complicit in a willful deceit they are equally to blame. Take for example criminality, withholding evidence, or aiding and abetting criminal activity. Or Perhaps a squad of soldiers whom take it upon themselves to slaughter innocent civilians.
In those cases, those front line individuals are absolutely responsible and bear consequences.

There are times when you act, even if it must be done through anonymous leaks. When not doing so will defraud millions, but also destroy your reputation as well. NDA or not, we live in an age where information is leaked constantly and is easily shared globally, and in this case would have absolutely lead to the game being delayed to quiet down public outcry.

Now I understand that most will protect their employment rather than do the right thing. However, to say that they were powerless and had no other choice is nonsense. They absolutely share fault.

Continuing to give these crooks money will only continue the behavior company wide.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L good plan, trust me, even bug free its an unfinished mediocre game.

The whole budget was spent on Keanu Reeves
CONFIRMED😉

@FatalBubbles Im sorry but the game was a crime how it was released and no i believe you should have to defend a company like that.

I dont blame the workers but i do blame the company that knew what trainwreck to pushed out. And they damn well knew in what state the game was when they released it.

So we should be stay silent because of the workers no no no that wont work for me and why should people reward these practices. And i totally can see where they are coming from.

Look at puddlegate from Spiderman what a nonsense outrage that was that was nonsense not this. When they release the finished next gen version i will look at it again after some reviews.

This entire saga reminds me of Parks and rec.
Ice town costs ice clown his town crown 😂😂😂

@MarcurShaw Wouldn't not buying it because of the issues be voting with your wallet, and be like voting to get someone better in office? I don't think your analogy quite works in this case.

@ZeroOverOne a little, but I've heard some bad stories about this studio as a whole. Either way, you just can't release crap, a bad game is forever bad once you ship it.

As someone who waited on the PushSquare review before deciding I wasn't going anywhere near it, I found the video funny. There was also the realisation that some of these bugs remain in the game and felt a little bit shocked for the people who did pay full price for this broken product. I mean, they obviously thought they were going to get most of these fixed, but I also wonder if the montage was made during work hours... Ah, well. Either way, it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

from one of my FAV developers to ***** zero... now even making fun of their own game and also kind a makes fun of us that spend and gave them money... STUFYOU CDPR...

So is the game playable yet?

I don't think I've ever seen such a huge disparity in quality between two back to back titles from the same developer. One is a much-loved piece of interactive fiction which rightly won countless awards, and the other is Cyberpunk.

Not only do I feel bad for the developers who have this travesty on their CV, I also feel bad for Mike Pondsmith, who created the IP. It's sad that the first taste of his fiction will come to many in the form of a buggy, ruined potential video game. CDPR have kinda tarnished his reputation into the bargain, not just their own.

Still, this failure might inspire CDPR to go back to the well and make a stunning Witcher prequel that can ascend to the same heights as Wild Hunt. Maybe they can get transport right this time too - it's hard to believe they made a traffic system worse than Roach ever was, but they did!

I suppose I can understand being a bit miffed, but “outrage” is a strong word. As someone who bought this completely broken game on day one, I found this to be hilarious. There are legitimate things to be outraged about…this isn’t one of them.

The 1.22 patch fixed most of the bugs and glitches but I still experienced occasional crashes. Overall. it was a great game when it comes to characters and storyline but everything else is mediocre. The FPS is decent but the melee combat and stealth mechanic is laughable.

Considering the awful work conditions those developers must have had, as well as the awful management hanging above them, poking fun at the game's failings was probably one of the healthier ways to cope.

Plus, ridiculous bugs and glitches during the production of a large project are pretty much unavoidable, and there's no harm in having a laugh at it. It's another story if the game ships with those bugs and glitches, but again, if you want to blame someone for that you should point at the higher-ups.

@JechtUltima actually we all can attribute all of , if not many, of the problems in the gaming industry to GREEDINESS. The push to make MONEY over quality finished products. Games, from a long ago era, were made finished, all ironed out tested extensively BEFORE release. Now that gaming is a multibillion dollar industry with companies all vying for the top position, its lost most, if not all, of the qualities that made it a beautiful community of developers, fans and media outlets that supported the cause....

@sketchturner HA. this was very funny, but probably true... "Take the money and run!"

@TeapotBuddha They’re calling the cops, put the piece away.

They crunched on the game and it wasn't the Devs who launched it early but the ones at the top. So they probably did this to have a laugh and have some form of fun while making the game. Anyone who finds this a joke or something else needs to relax and stop taken it to heart it wasn't made to take the mic out of the consumer

I sort of feel for the Devs as I imagine a few were outspoken about the issues but the higher ups wanted those banknotes rolling in at Christmas.
Either way their reputation has been pretty much destroyed and I hope that their best talent leaves to form a new studio that appreciates releasing a great game no matter how long it takes to make.

I laughed. Oh and I felt zero outrage. We allready know the management made some bad decisions. Not the devs fault. Move on with your life allready.

I think those are videos from internal bug reports which were stolen when CDPR's network was breached.

@ZeroOverOne why, please explain

@TheDudeElDuderino Obviously you’re not a golfer.

@Sarcasmatwork hey, at least I am housebroken.

CDPR should stop trying to market this game as a “serios narrative experience” and start marketing as “future goat simulator” I am playing it on PS4 (manage to get mu hands on the steelbook edition for 30 USD )and is not thaaat awful.

I enjoyed my time in Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5. Still they could have waited another year and gave everyone a completely different experience in the game. Lets not forget the backlash they got every time they delayed the game. I would still buy it again just as I would for Drive Club and No Mans Sky.