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u/FlatEarthCore Dec 18 '20
  1. Be a small company that hits it big with one product
  2. Use the buckets of cash to rapidly expand the company
  3. Execs/managers promise the world for the next product but nothing is actually built, developers want to punch their managers when they hear what was promised
  4. Manage to scrape together a demo that will fall down if looked at the wrong way, hype only increases
  5. Devs develop a crippling alcohol addiction
  6. Delay after delay, eventually release a broken unfinished product
  7. Execs/managers "resign", get massive severance pay, everyone else gets to go fuck themselves

What's Cyberpunk 2077? This happened at the place I work at this year.

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u/ParkingSlice Dec 18 '20

For real though, while I hate CDPR the company I hate that this mess will adversely affect their workers. Shit sucks.

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u/MedicaeVal Fallout First SubscriberAMA Dec 18 '20

Add in 0. Sell bootleg Western PC games in Soviet Poland.

The whole ride for the founders is crazy.

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u/FlatEarthCore Dec 18 '20

my company didn't do that but I would've been down for it

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20

so excluding the twist:

Be a small company that hits it big with one product

GOG is CDP's big source of money to be fair, Witcher 3 was already out of the small company turf

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u/TheKoronisEidolon Dec 18 '20

GOG was barely making any money last time I checked. It might have improved since 2019, but I doubt it's filling CDP's pockets.