Rumour: PS5 Disaster MindsEye Wants 'Redemption Arc' Despite Hundreds of Jobs Being 'At Risk'

I'm sorry but why should 300 people have their jobs "be at risk", Build a rocket boy are a brand new studio, therefore should have a all in attitude, if one goes everyone goes (I don't say that lightly) because I just can't see them having a redemption arc like Hellogames.

Edit: Benzies really needs to keep his mouth shut as he is not helping his case at all.

The difference between this and Cyberpunk is that Cyberpunk had potential and had loads of hype attached to it where people wanted it to be good. Mindseye was doomed from the beginning.

Lol redemption arc cyberpunk never was a bad game in the beginning this is one is different they created a temu version of gta

"Internal and external saboteurs"
If this guy is the CEO, didn't he even play it himself before release?
We aren't talking about a big manufacturing company that releases a new product every week or so...

There's going be no redemption arc with this game I'm afraid

@Anya-chan "Cyberpunk never was a bad game in the beginning"

Umm yes it was, did you not see how it performed on PS4??

@Rich33 its just another way to shift blame lets blame the public instead for this epic failure alot of companies do that

@Oram77 performance yes im saying in terms of story and gameplay

@Oram77 it was unplayable yes but the potential was there from the beginning this game have none of that

headdesk

Dude is incentivizing me more and more to never play this dumpster fire of a game with every comment he makes.

I don’t care if their company lays people off. I will not be guilted into playing a crappy game.

@Oram77 In fairness Cyberpunk 2077 the game ITSELF was good, it just sucked on consoles. On PC it was perfectly fine if a bit glitchy. Or so my PC gaming friend tells me was the case when they got it.

CDPR also didn’t go around saying that all the negativity about their game was some sort of concerted negativity campaign, either. They owned it and polished that seeming turd into an actual diamond.

THIS game will not polish anywhere close to that.

@Anya-chan You shouldn't be ok with a game coming out being unplayable regardless if the story/gameplay is good, Cyberpunk and Mindseye are in the same boat on this.

@dskatter That's why I said the guy needs to keep his mouth closed, but no one can deny CDPR lost a lot good will with CP launch, I only played Cyber Punk for the first time year and I given it a 10/10.

This game and studio won't have any kind of redemption arc whilst peddling nonsense about saboteurs. Simple fact is they built a broken game and took people's money for it knowing full well it wasn't fit for purpose

@Oram77 Think about difference between bad game and good game forced to be sliced to run on weak machine.

I always wonder why developers don't use QA anymore...

@djlard You are missing the point, both games came out in unacceptable states, doesn't matter if one is a good game and was is bad, all games need to come out in a polished state (which has been struggle for most games in recent times)

Wasnt this just bad and a broken mess though? You can potentially come back from a broken mess of a launch but if it's also bad, fixing the broken parts still leaves you with bad. There's no redemption there.

@Anya-chan
Yes, but he also states "Internal" (Saboteurs), which is even weirder imo.

@Oram77 Yes I know. And that is the problem of every new game. Maybe it is crazyness but world really needs some stand-alone agency that would certificate digital product for release guarantying product is working smoothly without major bugs.

@carlos82 All the money went directly into Benzies’ face. He looks like Neo Cortex.

Not even an article about the most recent, 8GB patch?! I'm disappointed.

I mean if the scumbags at an established long-standing studio like CDPR got such grace, it's only fair to give it to a debut studio's first outing.

@RawnDawn its not. It is all rushed, common sense is thrown out in first minutes already. Arrive to new job first day and straight away get a gun, go and shoot some bad robots for car manufacturing company...

The difference was Cyberpunk was actually a good game, just riddled with issues. MindsEye is just a bad game and riddles with issues...

Benzies (and Gerhard) both need to shut up. The publisher, IO Interactive, flatly denied Gerhard's allegations and they'll probably deny these too if they're asked.

Ultimately, the major reason this game hasn't a chance at a "redemption arc" comes down to $$. Cyberpunk was profitable the day it released because the wild hype and lengthy development time led to an incredible amount of preorders. Not to mention the fact CDPR had built up goodwill among gamers.

This game, the studio's new, very few people preordered it, and even fewer are purchasing it now because the game's trash. On Steam, Mindseye hit a 24-hour peak of 46 players. As of 10 am this morning, only 26 people were playing. I doubt the console numbers are much, if any, better.

So the CEOs are going to have to convince investors to foot the cost of fixing this broken mess. All while Gebhard is apparently working on another game titled Ascendant, which was originally scheduled to be released this year. I'll be stunned if that game's ever released.

This is why delays and sometimes cancellations are ultimately less costly than releasing a rushed or poorly done game. A bad/broken attempt at a AAA game usually will take a new studio down with it.

What is this *****? Sending emails stating " your job is at risk" what a bunch of dill holes, sure its nice to know if your gonna get axed bit also living with the stress of this could be your last day today....tomorrow...next week

I’m convinced the second you put CEO next to your name, it rots a hole in your brain.

You'd be out of your Mind(sEye) to play this Temu version of Saints Row Reboot (yes it's that bad).

No chance. I think seeing how delusional and paranoid Leslie is may be one of the reasons it flopped. Even now he won't accept responsibility,

For something to redeemed it needs something to be redeemed. Mindseye has nothing, remove the issues and its still a boring generic mess. NMS always had the appeal of unlimited freedom in a massive universe, its why i and many stuck with it as we saw what it could be not what it was at the time. Cyberpunk had a great hook and it already had a great world and story its just it was broken and was missing basic features. Mindseye though has nothing but pretty cutscenes.

I'm thoroughly enjoying the game. The patches definitely corrected some annoying issues but I've experienced nothing gamebreaking.

I want a pony, but that doesn’t mean I just get to have one.

Stuff like this is what prevents me from even considering getting the game, even on a discount. No matter how many try to tell me that the game isn't even bad, I just refuse to give my money to a studio that has a CEO who's this incompetent and arrogant.

@Oram77 no im not ok with the performance and the bug fest the crashing well everything i paid 60 bucks I want my money worth it but i can deny that the story,character and gameplay were good they should never had release on PS4 first place and clearly needed more Time in development but you can see the potential Right of the bat

@Rich33 yeah definitely strange but not surprising maybe the internal saboteurs were real probably the game was already so bad in the internal testing they knew the game will fail the moment it release they decide to "help" bringing the game down 🧐🧐 how knows

Even if they fixed it up perfectly, isn't it just another shooter in a heavily saturated market? Who's to say it would have performed well even in the best of circumstances?

@Fazermint

I've checked most places and it's not saturated with new third person nor first person shooter games, it's a very poor show so far this year. Playstation is boring, imho.

I mean lack of decent games I'd like to play 🤣