I pre-ordered this game a long time ago, and was very much looking forward to it. Five years after its release, Witcher 3 is still one of my favorite games ever, so I couldn't wait to get my hands on the new Cyberpunk. Even when the release date kept changing, I was happy, because I believed I'd be getting a better, more polished product. How naïve of me! It just keeps crashing. All. The. Time. It crashed for the first time just after I finished painstakingly designing my MC, so I decided to wait a bit for a patch and see if it's fixed. I'm a patient person, waiting some more to play a game I like isn't that big of a deal. Now I cannot even launch it anymore, it consistently crashes 2 seconds into launch. My hardware is fairly good, I bought a new gaming rig less than a year ago, and splurged on the best components I could get my hands on at the time. Other AAA titles run smoothly on ultra settings. I've followed all troubleshooting recommendations: updated Windows, updated drivers, performed a clean boot, started from the .exe file... I reinstalled the game twice. What else should the lowly me do, to deserve the privilege of playing a game I've spent money on? Sing? Dance? Juggle? Every single one of my friends who play the game can list a bunch of bugs they've encountered. Quest items won't spawn, so if you cannot close a task, instead of enjoying the (potential) challenge, you keep wondering if it's just another bug. If you go back to a quest a few days later and it turns out that some key item didn't spawn somewhere when you started it? Too bad, feel free to replay everything. For me it's serious enough that I can't even try playing something I've legitimately purchased from the producer, and that is after you guys pushed the release date thrice. It seems that CDP decided to follow the industry standard of hyping a product up, releasing a half-baked, steaming piece of you-know-what and treating their paying customers as free testers. Shame on you.
