I bet many of the engineers did and then their management told them that they have to do it anyway.

It would have saved an absolute mountain of bad press. And upset customers.

It was quite literally the reason why it hit 70k players, NVIDIA. cdpr, allegedly, got wads of money to become the tech demo for the green team, which made the red engine require an overhaul that killed its performance on old gen consoles. Nowadays it's used as a benchmark. If you look at the player chart it peaked during CES and cratered back down to almost half of the 70k Tassi (aka mouthpiece) is touting. What really is a team worth exploring is how CDPR knowingly deceived millions of people, and thanks to the short memory of the Internet and (likely paid) puff pieces like this, has regenerated its image (and stock price) to a point that quite literally they got away with what they did and saw no consequences. It's appalling that companies no longer pay when they cheat customers.

This is also a strong message on media literacy. There's two main types of bait, rage and circlejerk, Tassi enacted the second with this puff piece. A real journalist, would have looked at the average player count of the last few months and used that, but no, "journalist" Paul Tassi chose to make a point from a blip caused by an event that EVERYONE could be aware of and, "journalist" Paul Tassi, should be aware of. This is so disingenuous that it becomes a master class on how media influences people with distorting information.

Edit: As another point, "journalist" Paul Tassi purposefully omits the genial Stardew Valley which usually clocks in close to double the playerbase of Cyberpunk (among over 10 single player games that overtake or compare, like FM, Don't Starve, Terraria, RDR2, HoIIV, et al).

Have to disagree on the GPU part -- I first played it with a 970, mostly on medium. It can be nearly maxxed out (no RT) on a 6600XT, which I used for my second playthrough (on Linux).

That is... not the lesson CDProjektRed learnt

it was (mostly) fine for PC. it was only absolutely abysmal if you were a console player.

For PC, although there were bugs, it wasn't as buggy when comparing it to like a bethesda title. It just got a lot of vitrol because its of the very rare moments in time where the console version of a title was unplayable(as when something is usually unplayable, its usually the oppisite)

Cyberpunk was basically an unfinished alpha when it was released.

I played it the day it was released on pc, the only issue was how shitty the cars drove. But you could change the setting so bikes were usable

Consoles were different, but PC I never really had issues.

They didn't release it as early access. It was the full release. Then they finished it last year. That's the issue.

And if nvidia doesn't do it, modders likely will. Been running framegen on my 2060 since long before patch 2.13, and the mod version is better than the official one in my opinion.

Yeah, probably but my PC is also for me what for other people is their car or instrument. I just want to keep upgrading and fiddling with it.

I'm still using my old 1060 and it runs like a charm on medium! And it looks great as well. Can't believe how well they've managed to optimize this game.