I don't care much about the bugs because they can be fixed later on after the game has been released. And afaik, none of the bugs are actually game breaking. So, I can accept that the game was rushed and there are a lot of bugs. What I can't accept is the fact that the story is lackluster at best. Just when I thought the story was getting interesting... it ended abruptly. Wtf? Here I was expecting a game similar to The Witcher 3 in terms of the content (story, characters, dialogue, quests, monster equivalent etc.) and what I got was not even 25% of that. And to top it all off, some of the side quests end abruptly (like the Peralez quest line). Let's compare. Witcher 3 has in total 200+ quests out of which 57 are main story quests. This game has around 50 quests IN TOTAL. The reason players loved Witcher 3 so much is not because of the graphics, not because of the gameplay, not because of the sandbox environment created by the game, not because of the mechanics etc. The one and only reason people still play The Witcher 3 today is to experience the story and side quests. The Witcher 3's story and side quests are long, very long. But that's what separated CDPR from the rest. The Witcher 3 is so massive that if you have played it once, you can literally forget 95% of the quests and play it fresh from memory a few years later on. They created this huge dense map which is honestly one of the best city maps if not the best city map in any game ever. But they themselves didn't utilize this map to its fullest. Around 50% of the map is not explored by any quest ever. So what's the appeal of playing it other than playing the quest then? One can only explore and be awed by a map so much. If I had to break it down where their funds went, it would be: 50% for the map, 20% for the mechanics, story and overall content and 30% for marketing. I am not even kidding. This might actually be correct. Its such a shame. I will never look at CDPR the same way again.
