The only game other than Cyberpunk 2077 I've played from CDPR is The Witcher 3, which was incredible, obviously, so yeah, my opinion of them has gone down considerably.
They were always a company, and never worth the blind loyalty a lot of terminally online fans seem to follow them with, but at least from a distance, they seemed like a feel-good studio for a while. Indie Polish devs go from bootleg CDs to making some of the largest, most impressive story-driven RPGs of the generation? All while giving the finger to DRM on GOG? It was easy to feel good about them, even as the crunch stories started coming out from The Witcher 3.
Then those same stories, but worse, and more frequently, came out of Cyberpunk. And their social media presence more and more actively courted its most toxic fans. I can forgive a lot, but I just do not fuck with transphobia these days, so that was already a black mark on their record, for me. But, I was willing to swallow some pride and play the damn thing, only to find... it's disappointing in a lot of ways, straight-up fraudulent in the case of the base PS4 and XB1 versions, and just broken in general.
I'm so done with CDPR. The next game they make, they have a lot of convincing to do, not just about the general quality of what they're making, but their studio culture as a whole.
I'm sure this general sentiment will make all the difference in the world as they sob into their piles and piles of money from Cyberpunk pre-orders. /s
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