Cyberpunk 2077 "Game as a Service"

>An interview with Adam Kiciński, CEO of CD Project Red on Polish website Strefa Inwestorow revealed that Cyberpunk 2077 will launch as a "Game as a Service".

>Original interview.
strefainwestorow.pl/artykuly/wywiady/20171108/adam-kicinski-cdprojekt

makes sense considering the subject matter

If it’s worth it people will pay, mmo or whatever they make

*stands up*
*adjusts tie*
*fastens fedora*
*pulls shirt down*
*brushes off shoulders*
*straighten eyebrows*
*clears throat*
*breathes in*

AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

(inhale)

HAHAH

(inhales)

HAHAHAHA

So much for another great single player experience.

Fuuuuuck this TW4 when.
The adventure must never end! GERALT SAVE US!

Fucking end it bros

I'm glad Poland is becoming a Russia tier shithole and will probably get kicked out of the EU and single market within the decade.

People will defend this because it's CDPR

underrated

Name three things CDPR has done wrong PR wise. They've always been good to their fans.

>Cut a bunch of content out of Witcher 3
>Give it all back to your fans as "free DLC"
>Complete it with a cheesy thank-you that your twitter guy probably wrote up while eating lunch
Now I'm not saying this was bad PR, it was amazing genius-level PR. It's created so many cult-like fanboys to this day who think CDPR are their friends.

What does PR have to do with the quality of the games?

Fucking done.

Regardless of what they actually do with it, it's absolutely fucking stupid to describe it with that term with the current stigma of bullshit associated with it.

>games can't have both multiplayer and single player
If there's any company left in this god forsaken industry I have even the slightest amount of faith in it's CD, I'm hoping it'll just be a GTA online sort of thing on top of the single player.

>I'm hoping it'll just be a GTA online sort of thing

Are you some kind of sadist or idiot?

God I hope Cyberpunk is fucking amazing, but if it's subscription-based I'm not playing it.

>quality of games
The story is alright but in case of depth of game play it's literally normie tier repetitive

This. We achieved dystopia a decade ago, we just haven't embraced the shittiness of it.

By "games as a service" they mean "support it with regular updates and expansions". They consider Witcher 3 a "games as a service" title for example.

Yeah because it'll be fucking identical to GTA online, obviously.
I just meant a multiplayer world separate from single player with a custom character, which seems the most likely for a game like this.

Is gaming dying guys?

I really hope it's just some sort of "Hey there's free multiplayer and if that's really your thing you can buy a premium subscription." or something.

its better if they just leave the marketing talk shit to EA and Ubisoft and keep pretending to the small team of plucky polish rebels

>Poland
>Becoming a shithole

It's been shit since its inception

>multiplayer

yeah nah im not buying it. unless the single player is good and the focus of the game

Yeah, like Dark Souls kind of multiplayer and connectivity is great but if it thinks it's an MMO I'm out

Aaaaaand dropped.

Video games aren't dying. They're changing into something you won't recognize and will grow out of, kind of like everything else.

Aren't the devs Antifa supporters now too or something?

>Inhaline after just "HAHAH"
Don't hyperventilate user.

Will they fall for the lootbox meme?

Trick question, they already did with Gwent

only the japs are left to save gaming

True they have me for now. But the above interview is worrying me. The cracks are beginning to form. This sounds awfully similar to so many pr bullshit speak asshole companies.

If CDpr goes aaa pc gaming is fucked.

>Game as a Service
No thank you.

I know right hehe xD

Nono no no nonononon non non on onn ono nono nono

Weren't they meaning to do some kind of drop-in online coop thing? That's probably what they're talking about.

this right here, the first update fancucks were jizzing over "new game + with clothes" lmfao. Can't wait for what they do for this game "omg cyberpunk is amazing!! so fresh and new, who cares about the micros, no one has made a game like this!"

>I-It's ok if CDPR does it.

This Companies are staring to figure out that the vast majority of the average population that doesn't play videogames can be coaxed into playing them and spending money on them by cutting out the middleman and distilling the game down as close as they can to a pure reward mechanism. That's why mobile shit is getting so huge and why we're seeing such a rise of that kind of shit (lootboxes, special in-game currency etc.) in normal gaming. Eventually games are just going to be a button that you press and it tells you "Congratulations, you earned 3 click points! Would you like to pay $5.99 to double your earned click points for 15 minutes!" and most people (normies) will lap that shit up. Why sink the dev costs into AAA games when you can mass-produce shit reward-mechanism abusing mobile shit and recoup your costs 1000x over for every single whale that buys your game and pays to make "progress" go by quicker. Honestly I'd prefer if they were dying because what they're turning into is fucking horrible.

So are we going to have this shitposts daily now every few hours?
2+ years before the game is even released?

Somebody so dedicated to shitpost he starts 2+ fucking years before the game is even released? How autistic can this one person be?

With games as a service they mean support it with regular updates and large DLCs like Witcher 3. Calm down guys.
Also, the multiplayer will probably just be Dark Souls esque where people of certain roles can attack people of different roles or something. Calm the fuck down until we know more.

But it's not like everything else. Cars changed the way they look but a mechanic from the 80's could still work on a car from today. There are still books that emulate 2500 year old Greek tragedy. There's shit modern art but also real art.

>most awaited Cyberpunk game of all time
>released in a megacorp-tier oppressive model
Kek... not even Cyberpunk writers could have predicted irony of this magnitude.

t. fedoraman
I actually agree though.

the articles from today you triggered dumb fuck. whatd you want him to do, archive the link and post it again 6 months before release?

>the fate of our company depends on these 2 games selling well

sure sign that the games have some intolerable bullshit they want you to put up with

Sause

Sounds like Sup Forums tin foil bullshit. Someone expresses a quasi-liberal view and they become communists, socialists, cucks and antifa all at once.

LITERALLY IN THE PICTURE

Idle games are the fucking devil. Even I can't resist them even though I hate them. They really figured out the brain's reward system

No. They're pretty much anti all that, they had a book in TW3 making fun of the people who sperged out over gamergate. I wish Sup Forums would trust CDProjectRed again, because they've proven themselves time and time again.

Sorry, it's 3 in the morning here

yeah who cares if the game is good as long as the PR is

didn't they say TW3 was the end to geralt's story?

>With games as a service they mean they release it unfinished and put shit post launch
FTFY

Go to bed, babby

I'm not disagreeing with that at all but I could have sworn there was something on Twitter they posted

>They've always been good to their fans.
If only they were as good to their employees.

We have literally no information other than a buzzword and you people are already hyperventilating the idea of it crashing and burning. Calm down.

>Wake up to pee
>Can't fall asleep again
That's life

I'm out

You're just proving the point

That's incredibly vague and I can't really base anything off that statement.

There is no game to judge. There is, however, dev information to take into consideration Mr. CDPRdrone

Honest question: are you retarded?
What about idle "games" is rewarding?

>CDPR says a certain word
>Sup Forums shits the bed

God some of you are propper fucking girls, you're all wet behind the ears, your voices are all high-pitched, you're full of spots, bumfluff on your chins, no hairs on your bollocks and they havn't even dropped yet

fucky nancy boys

Maybe it was Antifa Jaworzno, which is a meme in Poland.
But do bear in mind that European and Polish conceptions of Antifa are way older and very different from this American nu-culture wars shit.

Now that they've "acknowledged" it, we get to wait to see if they go full retard or not.

Is this from something?

NYOOOO NYOOOO DELETE DIS BASED SLAVS CAN DO NOTHING WRONG

yeah, it's from the fucking title you read right smack dab in the middle you retard

It's from Appleseed Alpha, dipshit.

Control you emotions, you're easily excited, ADHD i'd wager

>says cyberpunk 2077

>HUURRRRR IT'S THIS THING INSTEAD
no, you lost the argument now go away

It's funny the company that runs GOG is the one that is always fucking it up with broken promises of what GOG will never do.

Man it's actually more painful the more details you see in it.
>Underdog with less than half the opponent's money
>1v1 showdown
>Bored pokerface, still calm as fuck
>Less than 10% chance he'll win

>Suddenly DESPAIR.

>being this new
You need to lurk for 300 years before posting you filthy scrub.

It was pretty great for a while at the start of the last century.

Nothing but the psychology behind it is proven

>My favorite game company will never convert into micro-transactions and loot boxes.

I know, it's much much worse there. They won't exist once Islam becomes the majority religion though.

When will you all learn? Join the Nintendo Switch gang to avoid all these lootboxes, pay-to-win, and pay-or-wait mechanics.

>Eventually games are just going to be a button that you press and it tells you "Congratulations, you earned 3 click points! Would you like to pay $5.99 to double your earned click points for 15 minutes!" and most people (normies) will lap that shit up.
>Literally just describing Cookie Clicker with microtransactions.

you're the one getting buttmad your favorite corporation is being criticized, sweetie pie

ur mums into micro-transactions and lootboxes m8 and by that I mean $5 tug-jobs and drug-balloons

And with GTAO they stopped bothering making single player expansions because the money that manpower makes pales to shark cards.

this. AAA cucks btfo again desu.

>>sweetie pie

>that passive agressivness
>he's actually seething mad

Did you miss the 2 gigantic expansions for $20? Fuck off with your retarded "they lel cut content and sold errr I mean gave it back to us for free" bullshit.

Its the cum dumpster of Europe, its bound to be std-ridden.

>mistaking smug satisfaction for passive aggressiveness

oh i'm sorry sweetie, i didn't know you were a brainlet :3

ur a big gay bender u m8

user.. pls say you're just trolling

>Is gaming dying guys?

No, just changing in a way that exploits thr consumer to spend more. As opposed to succeeding in excellence.

>Witcher 3 blows everything out of the water
>they have great press
>great sales
>free dlc
>”(insert large game company here) shoiuld be like projekt red!”
>then about a year later, out of the blue, stocks plummet
>next couple days
>”W-w-we’re l-looking into g-games as a service...please dont hurt us...”

Really gets my noggin joggin

Polandfag here. Everyone knows this shit already. They wanted to go 100% into AAA since Witcher 3 got them so much money.
They are dead, jim. Soon no one will play their games because consumers will feel betrayed.
Gwent standalone is already pure shit made by total hacks that have no idea how gamedev works, it's already dying and it's not even out.
What they should have done is divide into smaller teams like other companies their size (Atlus for example) and make AA sized games/RPGs that are Witcher spin-offs, new IPs etc.
They never made a game with great gameplay, the best was Witcher 1, but they often were capable of making a good story with good characters.
Making an AAA sized game won't make gameplay suddenly good but IT WILL make the story shit. That's because they would have to pander to the lower denominator so the game will sell.
Their pinnacle of storytelling was HoS, a SMALLER expansion for the Witcher 3 that was 20 hours total at most. BaW on the other hand had a shit main story.
If they are trying to make big games they have to pander to all the AAA trends and memes like always online, microtransactions and other cancer. They simply want to be Blizzard 2.0. but that will never happen. It's not what people want from them.
Witcher 3 was successful because after years of nu-Bioware and Ubisoft shit people wanted a GOOD, SINGLEPLAYER RPG/GAME experience. And CDPR gave them that. And people loved it. If they suddenly will change their way of making games, people will simply leave them because games like that are finally back so there are simply other options:
>Persona 5
>Original Sin 2
>Elex (i know it's a meme but still)
>Cuphead
>Hollow Knight
>Nier: Automata (requires connection in one section but it's still doable without it)
If Witcher 3 came after those games, it would probably fail. It had no original bone to it but it was exactly what players needed at the time.

They wanna be the next GTA online.
Also i wonder if Destiny 2, cod WW2, etc. despite the low amount of players did a lot of money because of mtx.

Idgaf about multiplayer, but don't tell me because of this they'll skimp out on single player right? I'm sure most people wanting to play cyberpunk expect and want a single player experience like tw3