Author writes: "Outriders has been delayed by a couple of months and a free demo is on the way, and I can't help but shake the feeling Cyberpunk played a part."
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From Xbox Wire: "Fight to survive on a hostile planet, a massive fantasy world, or to qualify for retirement care this weekend during Free Play Days. Just Die Already and Outriders are available this weekend for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from Thursday, August 18 at 12:01 a.m. PDT until Sunday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. In addition, The Elder Scrolls Online is available for an extended time from now until Monday, August 29 at 6:59 a.m. PDT."
SQUARE ENIX® today announced that OUTRIDERS™ will be available to play for free on Steam from Monday June 20th to Thursday June 23rd.
I played through the entire campaign. It was very generic. The story was mediocre and the technical issues on PC were pretty bad. They patched it up quite a bit. It plays better now. I can say the only reason why I enjoyed it was because I missed Division 2-type gameplay but was was tired of running around the same areas in New York. The endgame is just an enemy hitpoint multiplier where a tiny creature has 20,000 HP. It's too bullet-spongy.
I think it was a wake up call for whole industry.
Sure an incoming demo of Outriders is & will be welcome but can we please stop bashing this Cyberpunk game now.
This game needs time to heal & repair.
Sure, it wasn't what we were expecting but it will be patched to look much better in the coming months and dare say the true next gen versions will shine in the end. If we cripple these devs for much longer it'll only further damage the company instead of allowing them to rebuild the gamers trust over time.
Enough is enough surely.
Im sure the fact that Avengers flopped is the #1 reason behind this. SE cant afford another flop like that right now. And I'm sure seeing what happened to Cyberpunk was the cherry on top.
Halo/Destiny (Outriders) is a different kind of game, but hopefully the delay is because of the CP2077 blow back. Hopefully every one gets the message.
It’s the first fu** up I have personally seen from CDPR and it was a doozy. I can understand people being upset but this whole”unprecedented tragedy, a lesson to be learned” or “destroy them” attitude isn’t fair imo. What they did was shitty but they are not irredeemable and they can still make it right. I bought cyberpunk day 1. I made a character played a few missions and turned it off. I was playing on ps5 but the “word of mouth” convinced me to wait for the actual ps5 upgrade. I have backlog hell, it’s not a big deal. I’m not spitting venom at them on Twitter or demanding a refund.
This is just strike one for me but they are on my radar now. I stopped counting strikes for some companies a long time ago so that alone makes strike one far more forgivable. Like EA, I will never forget EA closing visceral and black box because of their own incompetence. But no matter how badly I can’t stand EA, I would buy a dead space remaster tomorrow. The super fancy edition filled with China plastic lol.
This “lesson” of demos was a reality in the past. Every smaller game had to have a demo on the 360. I bought many games because of this common sense feature. It’s just good business. And the outrage is manufactured. Unmet hypes. You got weaseled out of 60 bucks, cry more. The media didn’t break NDA because they didn’t care about you either. Business is business. People’s emotional rides are just wild these days. Rationality is losing, big time.