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It's still nothing like what it was promised to be, in fact. Sure, they added a lot of free content, a lot of updates, I'm sure fans are enjoying them... but it's not what was promised as already in the game before launch.
Another fake redemption story is Cyberpunk. They fixed some of the bugs to make it playable, revamped the skill tree, and added paid DLC... cool? That doesn't change the fact the game is missing half of the promised content, including some that was on the trailers.
That's just a flat out lie or a delusion.
The most famous example is how "the game was supposed to be like GTA" some people cry over. Source for that? A interview they did where they stated "we want to be more like Rockstar". The interview was about development cycles, had nothing to do with the game itself, but one YouTuber saw it and made a video about how "Cyberpunk is going to be GTA in the future, expect bowling", shit like that.
It was never supposed to be anything than it isn't.
I heard that argument bunch of times, someone even showed me a trailer that supposedly showed these "missing features". The stuff missing? Wall-running and ripping off turrets. That's it. That's literally it. They gave a really good explanation as to why wall running is missing, it's also a flavour feature, not like adding it back in would change the gameplay significantly, so people crying over that is just... weird to me.
The fact is that Cyberpunk was a victim of some of the most ridiculously over-the-top hype in gaming history. And when the game released in the state it did (which - to anyone who's ever followed anything released by CDPR - was the most benign and obvious thing in the world), people lost their minds, because they were expecting The Gaming Messiah to show up and End All Gaming Suffering. Just stupid from the top down.
They hyped it themselves in endless promo dev videos leading up to launch. I watched all of them anticipating a very different game than what we ever got.
All I know about CP2077 was that the CEO actually admitted reputational damage to CDPR, which is already a class above Hello Games' silence about their willingness to lie during initial launch.
I don't think Hello Games lied as much as you may think. Sony lied, and others layered their own expectations on top.
HG turned to Sony for publishing and marketing help. Sony, like any game publisher, wants to get as many sales as possible, preferrably on release day to look the best (for further marketing when sales slow down: "X million dollars on release day"/"Y copies sold on release day" kind of stuff). So Sony had a huge hand in promoting the game, and undoubtedly crunched time on HG, reducing their ability to get what they wanted to out the door.
Plus, people hear what they want to hear and read what they want to read sometimes. Game journalists and streamers and influencers and such layered their expectation on each other, chalking up the game to more than was promised by HG, only to be disappointed when it wasn't. Murray even said the day before its release that it "maybe isn't the game you imagined".
And sure, not to absolve HG of all the blame here, there was underdelivery and bugs. They got swept up in a storm of shit larger than they were ready for. They probably could have said more at the bungled release, but I wonder how much (if any) they couldn't because of Sony's hands in the PR. Iirc they were allowing returns of the game past normal return timelines? Given all of that, though, they committed to their game, even when Sony left, and even if players left and didn't come back. That's why people talk about it's comeback story.
For Cyberpunk, though, I'm less supportive of that comeback story because CDPR had other majorly-known games (Witcher). They knew how game-dev-crunching and publisher pressure reduces their ability to deliver. They understood how marketing grows hype and expectations of their games. They even saw how NMS's release went, and they still fumbled their release horribly. I'm happy for those that play CP2077 and enjoy it today, but I'm less on-board for that one.
So I was apparently one of the lucky ones. I bought cyberpunk day one, never had a single glitch. I saw all the chaos that went on and expected there to be a couple but I played through the entire game without a problem. Over the years ive played it a few more times after major updates or DLC and had fun each time.
It’s a very good game, but also very different than what we were lead to believe it would be pre launch.
Heh, I got Google Stadia's launch bundle for CP2077, it was heavily rebated next to all other console options, ran on high end hardware, came with a controller and a Chromecast. In the end it cost me nothing because all of it was refunded when Google shuttered Stadia.
Overall, I enjoyed the game at launch. The city was dead, glitches were everywhere, Game streaming was hit and miss, but the side quests and story missions were very good. Its biggest fault was looking like GTA while being nothing like it.
Curious what they said would be in No Man's Sky that isn't now in it.
I fully get what you mean, but i also find it very rigid way of looking things.
At release no mans sky was basically a tech demo and cyperpunk was borderline unplayable game. Now if i would go to steam and bought either one of those games at full price i would get good ratio of fun/price and to me that is the important part of the game. How many hours of fun i get/ the amount of money i spend.
Both of those games could very well been abandoned after first few updates and left to be forever bad, like so many other games, but instead somebody high enough made the decition to keep working on it.
Yes its a shame the games dont have all the marketing promised to us and its even bigger shame the games were published in the shape they were, but now at year 2026 both of those games are worth of their price.
So in my mind the games have had a real redemption story.
I think they finally fulfilled all the initial promises and then some at this point. Still wish it were deeper but it is pretty well fleshed out now.