Darkedone02 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 1:49 am
You have yet to absorb the immersion of the game (if you get into that). Enjoy the experience of the game, and pretend the hype didn't exist in the first place.
Not to go off topic but the problem with overhyping it is a chunk of founds go into marketing and I, and many others, have followed this game for 7 years on development. There is marketing in forums, there is marketing in featured magazines etc. etc.. I as investor in financial sector and a gamer, look it both sides of the perspectives. I cautioned in the steam forums, in the thread regarding investing in CDPR stock, that people who don't know to invest and are "pop and moms investors", should stay out because they missing how technicalities work in order to value a company properly for this product and how they will sustain it, because by now the value of stock has been overhyped, but what when the sales slow the question that should have been asked and what I did is how will produce further value that is the most basic question to support this price of the stock? Their answer was unassuring to say the least. Day traders know fundamentals of investing thus is different story, this is why they where looking for mom and pop investors and writing articles everywhere also on seeking alpha.
Plainly said those who they wanted to appeal and market the stock, are what we day traders call "another sucker being born".
This is what is called "buy high and sell low and that's how you lose money" or sort of pump and dump marketing in regard to stock price. Guess what? The mods in steam forums deleted it, immediately.
Second I look as a gamer also and they done tremendous work to appeal to beginner investors rather than gamers that they have taken for "granted" due to overype of the forums. They have incorporated own studio and financial sector as well a party's politics in the game, which at minimum is conflict of interest.
They have put mediocre music choice ,most of Cyberpunk era, during 80s, 90s where was the high point of cyberpunk themes, most of fans use and still do listen to synthwave, trance and industrial metal, because those music where in core linked to cyberpunk and futuristic themes, the lack of those choices is a miss for me, the music in game is to blatant and we are overexposed with those genres to tell the truth and those type of music genres on their own have little to do with cyberpunk in general, in my perspective choices of music along with soundtrack of music don't fit.
They have been using this "eastern European" theme of company to generalize the notion that they care of the gamers and also appeal or market to the eastern European gamers. In contrast when looking to Iron horse, the company that
made kingdom come deliverance, made a great game political free, focused on historic event rather than bs, was more a medieval simulator in many aspect from fighting to the gear, the story followed a historical theme, and really appealed to the gamers of that niche rather than than the rest who had nothing to do with that niche, and also even games.
They appealed to IP owners in creation of the game disregarding much of the fans and gamers feedback. The gameplay also is nothing special, they
had promised a lot, but delivered what is an average game. They used clever marketing to tell gamers that they care more of the gamers, which you have to watch it closely to realize that is marketing.
They have this "anti corporate" theme going on game, when they have been employing endless threads to appeal to corporation and financial sector in reality, which hypocrisy at the max
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[spoiler= "and kind of take the gamer for idiots" by generalizing corporates, while leaving the culpit out and collaborating in reality. Games also influence the young minds as all entertainment does so in sort of way they do shape some ideas. This is why politics has no place in games because they are usually conflict of interest and they can show whatever the CEO and angels investors want like in the case of breexit with the director of Watch Dogs Legion that theme or message that is masked propaganda in essence is that Brexit is wrong, when millions of English people voted for Brexit, here is an article in regard that also:
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Going in deep analysis :
Financial sector and mostly wall street firms and their shill economist employed to make polices, are the main point in why the economy has been here and why middle class have lost their jobs and continue
[Link]. Wall street Investment fearlessrevolution are the definition of anti middle class, yet the totally disregarded and they have collaborated and appealed to them. If the future looks bleak is because this guys have taken over the economy.
Here is why they are the culpit and there are endless articles covering it how they shape and have lobbied on economic polices :
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They say one thing and the opposite. Second beside collaborating in real with IB's and wall street they praise a pseudo democratic system as Communism in many themes in game, which is the definition of anti direct democracy system where middle class and majority loses.
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In communism the people on top live lifes of excess while the middle class lives the life's subjected to their system. Is the same BS that Capitalisms is where connected people on top have everything, just cleverly market itself as part of the average guy.
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There are plenty of other points but the post will be to long and will lead to hijackings the thread to the point that will be entirely off topic, I purchased already and will play it because I'm fan of the genre and no point on arguing on spilled milk.
So anyway back on the thread, and let's leave it to the Pros on cheat table programming, and reverse engineering to help the community rather than taking the thread further OT
Good work, devs!
